I am Indonesian and ever since I taught myself English, I always love mountain talk. Visiting Appalachian region and your countryside is my life-long dream, I hope one day I will be able to do so. Thank you for this video, God bless y'all good people.

@danamichelle1290

3 жыл бұрын

Bless you as well! Congratulations on teaching yourself.. honestly, there is so much slang and so many dialects, it can be confusing for native speakers. Often, people who learned English as an additional language actually speak it properly. Much love! Hope you get to visit some day! It's a very different culture depending on where you go. I've always wanted to hike the Appalachian Trail which goes from southern Appalachia to New England. ❤❤

@modeladenny1218

3 жыл бұрын

@@danamichelle1290 My wife and I hiked just little parts of the trail as we RV camped along the Blue Ridge Parkway and Skyline Drive a few times on vacations. Some of the RV parks along the trail have a pantry to store and donate food and supplies for hikers.

@justintyree6242

3 жыл бұрын

The Appalachian region is one of the most welcoming regions you can ever visit as a foreigner. Because while you are on vacation, here, people will want to know about you and where you're from. We have some of the best scenery so I would definitely recommend coming in the summer. Visit the lakes and rivers

@ConanObrien22

3 жыл бұрын

Sama kita bro, gw tau org redneck sm Appalachian cm dr film2 Hollywood. Unik bgt logat mereka ya, kayak santai2 gmn gtu dialeknya lol

@taco2947

3 жыл бұрын

I'm from Cincinnati, which in right on the edge of Appalachia. Many of the people here are descendents of Appalachia. Which is descendent of Scots Irish. German too.

As a Scotsman myself this video is brillliant to see how my own local words have an influence in your language, so many words we use here .

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Love that!

@meghoughton562

Жыл бұрын

Wow, what an interesting connection!

@gordonsmith1845

Жыл бұрын

@@CelebratingAppalachia it’s so similar , a poke of chips in Scotland is a bag of chips from the fish and chip shop . 😂👍

@gordonsmith1845

Жыл бұрын

@@meghoughton562 Meg it’s brilliant to hear all the words I love it , to think of all the people in that region are from good Scottish stock , hardy and honest people with a great humour ❤️

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

@@gordonsmith1845 😀

I seriously want some sort of app that reads me bedtime stories narrated by these guys. I love this. Hands down, best American accent.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Check out my Mountain Path playlist-I'm reading the book so it would sort a be like a bedtime story 🙂

@surfingonmars8979

Жыл бұрын

Such a beautiful accent, and such beautiful language. Like all local vernacular, just wonderful to learn.

I could honestly listen to these Appalachian ladies rattle on all day. A beautiful, musical accent.

@bubbadano1508

3 жыл бұрын

Been told that because of Irish, Scots, Welch and the like settling the region a few centuries ago; with the isolation the accent/dialect has remained pretty close to the original.

@robowenmikels

3 жыл бұрын

That makes sense as my father's parents, were ancestors of Scottish and Welsh settlers to America back in the 1700s and they both lived in WV and Virginia. My last name comes from Scots who migrated from Surrey way back in the 12th century - It's pronounced like "Michaels" not "Mick-els" and was often anglicized to "Mitchell" and not "Michaels".

@bubbadano1508

3 жыл бұрын

@@robowenmikels Sorry to ramble. Not so much myself but my Grandmother was from that region. She married and moved away. (Not too far) She had the accent. She died not 5 years ago at almost 104. The family has been in those hills since the 1700s. Some family used to joke that ancestors pointed the way to Daniel Boone; and newcomers. 45-50 yrs ago she was contacted by someone tracing the family. He could trace us back so far but we faded into the hills. Her name kept coming up. Her attitude was "Why didn't you call me sooner?" She had the family Bible but also knew the names of many previous generations. With that knowledge he traced us back to the 1300 or 1400s to the UK. Two years ago, my mom did a DNA test that was a gift. It came back almost all Scotland, Wales, Irish; the UK. She was like what did we expected? (She's 91 and in good shape too; like her mom was at that age.) I'm retired military, been in most states; traveled halfway around the world and back but I drive home through VA and WV and I just love it. Beautiful!

@samiam3297

3 жыл бұрын

How 'bout just plain beautiful. 😉 (themselves physically)

@aidanbarrett9313

4 ай бұрын

Remarkably folksy for the 21st Century.

I grew up with most of these phrases. My husband is Scottish and the Scots use a lot of these same words. The biggest one being kilt. "If you call a kilt a skirt, you might get yourself kilt."

@sprachschlampe353

3 жыл бұрын

Generally is used the same way as "killed".

I find it totally fascinating that millions of us live in this one country and yet we all have different and beautiful ways of using a common language to express our thoughts and ideas.

@CelebratingAppalachia

3 жыл бұрын

Me too! Well said Andrew 😀 Thank you for watching!

@JM-nt5ex

3 жыл бұрын

Some places even have their own regional languages, I hope America can keep hold of the wonderful linguistic diversity

@JSTNtheWZRD

2 жыл бұрын

Yes but in places like Chicago it's pretty devoid of colorful language, and pretty cold. So I find these playful expressions from Appalachia just what the doctor ordered.

Daddy would say I'm gonna fetch a switch. He wasn't talking about no lectric lights either!

@Frothenbath1

3 жыл бұрын

Or worse, having to go and fetch your own and learn a lesson the hard way! :O

@acustomer7216

2 жыл бұрын

@@Frothenbath1 or cut your own and have to go back a 2nd time if you cut a wimpy one

@roserollins9800

2 жыл бұрын

@@Frothenbath1 My husband used to send the kids out to fetch their own switch and my daughter brought in a rock and said that she couldn't find a switch so maybe you can just throw this at me That's my Georgia girl

@billthehat6973

2 жыл бұрын

"go cut me a switch" that's what my grandmother would say.....and she knew how to use it!

@AmericanGal_69

2 жыл бұрын

@@Frothenbath1 and better pick one they would or holy cow.

I’m not from Appalachia. I’m from Arkansas and have heard of, and still use, may of these words and phrases. I’m now 68 years old and still call a refrigerator an “ice box”. Plus I still say “yonder”, “anybody ta home”, and “little old”. May we never forget the way we speak. It connects us to our past, which we must never forget. Love your videos. 🙂💕

@agoogleuser4443

3 жыл бұрын

My mama is from Dallas and says icebox too. We say over yonder all the time.

@lizzettorres1111

Ай бұрын

I was born in Ga and hv a lot of relatives there that use these words. A lot are just the way southerners talk.

@Michael-ti1gn

24 күн бұрын

well said!!

"Like too" --I like too broke my leg when I fell.

@CelebratingAppalachia

3 жыл бұрын

That's a great one 😀 Thank you for watching!

@rubynelson1164

3 жыл бұрын

I liked to have broken.....

@transformersrule09

3 жыл бұрын

We use that one alot

I could quite happily spend a few days with these folks, salt of the earth. from Scotland

A very country friend if mine was staying at a rather nice hotel while traveling. The bath towels had not been completely restocked in his room. He called the front desk asking for some "warsh rags". He couldn't believe that lady didn't understand what he was asking for.

@absolutetruthgirl

Жыл бұрын

I'm from canada and my mother used that expression a lot.

I used to deliver cars for people wintering in Florida from Ontario, Canada. One of the most pleasant detours I had was when I gave a older guy a ride to his ural home when he broke down on the interstate (I-77 or I-79). I'll never forget the cammeradaire and friendlyness between us during the drive.

My Momma used the word britches the same way. AND she'd often say- "Boy, you're get getting too big for your own britches" when I was acting up.

@carollizc

3 жыл бұрын

In Ontario, we were threatened with getting our britches tanned if we didn't behave.

@Bella-fz9fy

Жыл бұрын

In England we use that phrase too.’Getting too big for your britches’!😅

A stob......." Cut that sapplin closer to the ground and don't leave that stob stickin up...." A stob is a short stick or a short small stump...... Umpteen or umpteenth......a lot of times...." I've told you for the umpteenth time , close the door when you come in"

@woodchuck3759

3 жыл бұрын

My Dad called a stob A metal pole driven into the ground to mark the property line (NC)

@pterafirma

3 жыл бұрын

Staub. It's sometimes said here in TX too. The older meaning is a stick with tapered end, for plugging a hole or pipe. Later it was generalized to mean any short stick, including a small tree stump.

I am Ulster Scots / Scots Irish, from Carrickfergus , when we get startled we say that mad me jump and we say kilt as well and keep yer britches on , love how our sayings travel to Apalachia

@marybrowning5657

2 жыл бұрын

Harry Williamson my great grandmothers maiden name was Williamson. Like a lot of my kin she was from the Southwestern part of West Virginia. She is of the Scots Irish bloodline

@harry9392

2 жыл бұрын

@@marybrowning5657 recently had my DnA Test, 71 % Scots south west Scotland 24% Irish 2% England and North west Europe, I am Ulster Scots trying to find out when my family came to Ulster , You never know we might be kin

@9983sp

Ай бұрын

How do you think we came to be, and how we got the name redneck?

I was born and raised just outside NYC. I moved to SC 30 years ago. My biggest regret is not being born here. I love country.

@maddog8274

3 жыл бұрын

I was a truck driver for 30 years , all the big cities they can have it , give me the country any day , born and raised in the country , love it every day

@daviddedominici1705

3 жыл бұрын

NYC is pretty much exactly the same as West Virginia. The biggest difference I noticed is that the city has more yellow cabs, and WV has more gypsy cabs. I'm guessing it's just because NY is more stringent with their medallions.

@georgeohwell7428

3 жыл бұрын

I grew up some in NC and moved to NY. I am still made fun when I say certain words because my brain tries to go back and forth in accents and it turns out kinda British or like Arnold Schwartzenegger. One thing I don't miss is the heat.

I love these people. I was born and raised in the deep south, but it seems Appalachia is the last remains of it. Good people, honest, moral, friendly, and right. What's left of America.

@sunshinesunflowerz1647

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. I love having such a beautiful background: Alabama and Kentucky

Yankee neighbor couldn’t stop laughing when I told her that I was “fixin’ta go over yonder”.

@modeladenny1218

3 жыл бұрын

My mother in law was from Minnesota and moved here to Illinois. I'd swear they came from way down yonder. My stars they sure-nuf talked funny.

@lorriemiller6750

3 жыл бұрын

I have heard the fixin to go over yonder actually said by somebody in person. I have known a few people originally from Appalachia.

@lasvegasnmspotlight2127

3 жыл бұрын

I often get the urge to go yondering, to drive the dirt roads and explore places that aren't terribly far away but which I never explored.

@fred306801

3 жыл бұрын

I told a Yankee that I bought a, Pig in a Poke, he was totally clueless.

@LesterMoore

3 жыл бұрын

I served with the Marines in Vietnam and in our platoon we had a young man ( slim as a willow and resilient as hickory) from the borderlands of Kentucky/Virginia and a Lance Corporal from Brooklyn or some neighborhood near there. Hearing them try to talk to one another was classic. At one time or another each one said of the other something akin to, "how'd he get in the Corps? Can't even speak English." Wish I could write in their vernacular. It's great. Both very dependable and courageous. Eventually they began to understand each other. Only in America.

In London, England, we say "keep your shirt on" for "don't lose your temper". I think this is because men who were going to have a fist fight would take their shirts off.

@TheRuthParsons

3 жыл бұрын

Or, "Keep your hair on!"

@billjackson4703

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheRuthParsons Or, 'Don't get your knickers in a knot'.

@tonym2513

2 жыл бұрын

In Canada it’s the pants. When they take their pants off, a fight is definitely happening. Trailer Park Boys taught me this important lesson so I don’t mess around and get my oil checked. Which is a whole other thing.

@TitansManiac755

2 жыл бұрын

There are so many in the U.S. but don`t get your panties in a wad is common.. usually referring to angry males.

I grew up and lived in McDowell County West Virginia for 33 years. You're speakin my language! Appalachia has the finest people on earth!

@neneg4340

3 жыл бұрын

my dad was born and raised in McDowell county. Family names Stacy/Stacey, Vance, Fleming, Riffe/Rife.

YOU TALK MY LANGUAGE, 😄Born and live in Kentucky ,I’m a 65 year old great granny,, I love all of yuns

@CelebratingAppalachia

3 жыл бұрын

😀 So glad you enjoy the videos and that we speak the same!

@downrighthorizontal9931

3 жыл бұрын

"yuns!" i often hear variations of that phrase, here in pittsburgh (which is appalachia but obviously very urban, not quite the same community but a lot of us have more rural appalachia family like i've got folks in WV) some people say "yinz" it's part of "pittsburghese" :)

@KENTUCKY-MAMA

3 жыл бұрын

Mama & siblings all now gone 2 be with God were from the south east part in Pike, KY beautiful State.

@modeladenny1218

3 жыл бұрын

@@KENTUCKY-MAMA Well, Mama. we dun ustta camp at Pike County. I think I member it's down yonder.

@phillipkirby502

3 жыл бұрын

And we all love our southern blue grass ol' ladies. Thank you ma'am for giving Kentucky such love.

I grew up with many of these phrases in Akron, Ohio. Many of the folks living here have parents that came from Appalachia to work in the tire factories in Akron and steel mills in Cleveland and Youngstown. Hard working folks with a great sense of humor. I enjoyed working with them....retired now.

@mchrysogelos7623

2 жыл бұрын

it appears many of them spread out across the whole country - or at least their lingo has.

fun fact: many southerners use the word "reckon". So do English (British) from Birmingham.

@ferociousgumby

3 жыл бұрын

Stuart Ashens uses it all the time!

@stephottey9535

2 жыл бұрын

Reckon is super common in Australia too!

@BritneyStinson

2 жыл бұрын

Southerners stole a lot of our accent and phrases from English (and Irish too bc we have a pretty strong Irish heritage) but during the revolution, a lot of folks in the south weren't as upset as folks in the north were about england, and besides that, we thought english folks were fancy and all that so we tried to emulate them. Another reason we kept drinking tea, and we made sweet tea to be able to show off how fancy we were bc back in the day, sugar and later ice, were expensive. So if u were slingin sweet iced tea to folks, they knew you had it. Plus its hotter than hades down here

@egrogan6482

2 жыл бұрын

@@BritneyStinson I don't think Southerners stole them - Southerners originally came from England, Scotland and Ireland so they already were using those phrases an accents. It was passed on down thru the family when they came here to America to settle in the South.

@BritneyStinson

2 жыл бұрын

@@egrogan6482 I think we're saying the same things. In the south we have a lot of our words and the way we say our words from Ireland and england and things like that. But we , as opposed to the Yankees up north, were more pro English, especially at the onset of the revolution and as a whole, ofc there were parts that were for independence but for the most part, folks in the south made a lot of money with england in charge and their armada of ships. One state that is often left out of revolution talk, but was populated at the time, is my home state of la Florida, which remained loyal to the crown. At any rate, their is probably a billion ways we got our accents and we could talk until we turned blue about it

Don't anyone else beside people in my family say the word "pretty" as like it is a measurement? As like "That is a pretty ugly thing to say", I am pretty sure you are right" or "they live pretty close to you to you".

@CelebratingAppalachia

3 жыл бұрын

Gary-we use pretty just like that! Thank you for watching 😀

@ourtubesocks

3 жыл бұрын

I think that’s pretty common everywhere (born and raised in Southern California).

@jeremiahboolfrawg2274

3 жыл бұрын

@@ourtubesocks well it is said that when the Great Depression hit then almost 1/4th of the Oklahomans and Arkansans moved to California. I am from Tulsa and we all say it that way here. So I guess when the Okies and the Arkies moved west then they took that kind of talk with them to California. Even though I say it then it still sound oxymoronic to say "that is a pretty ugly dog". Are you saying it is pretty or ugly?

@paulpowell7424

3 жыл бұрын

Its very common in Australia.

@altitudeiseverything3163

3 жыл бұрын

It’s common *pretty* much everywhere. The Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of ‘pretty’ includes its use as an informal adverb: “to a moderately high degree; fairly.”

“Fixin to”- preparing for, taking the necessary steps, just before doing (something). I’m fixin to break your nose!

@Gizziiusa

3 жыл бұрын

or "im fixin to doctor up that frozen pizza, because it tastes so bland".

@fayeshores9883

3 жыл бұрын

Being from SC, I say “gettin’ ready to fix some supper”

@grassshadow1

3 жыл бұрын

That's and "over to the"

@agoogleuser4443

3 жыл бұрын

We say fixin to so much that my daughter got me a decorative plate that says it.

Y’all are refreshing and down to earth. Wish more people had the same values

“Little old” is also a common phrase used in Northern Ireland to this day. Also ‘kilt’ is very Ulster Scots , ‘killed” would be pronounced “kilt”.

@dennistrull1475

2 жыл бұрын

Not to mention, that they wear em too

@sefMashall2181

2 жыл бұрын

Scots-Irish most everybody I grew up with In Central Kentucky always said they were Irish, yet hardly any of them were Catholic. I always had to explain to them that they were Orange and not the Green.

@caketinfairy

2 жыл бұрын

We say it in Australia too ☺️

@TheAwesomes2104

2 жыл бұрын

There are a ton of Irish roots in our language here. It's so amazing to see my last name wasn't the only thing that got carried over from across the pond.

@michaelharrison2948

2 жыл бұрын

I always took kilt as past tense of kill.

This is great! I'm old, originally from California, and grew up multilingual. I've lived in various parts of the world and the USA. I love language and languages come easily to me. In ever place I've lived, I strove and succeeded to learn both the history and the local language, with no accent, and all the idioms, enabling me to completely blend in. My first exposure to the Appalachian accent came 25 years ago when I was living in Guatemala(!). I met someone there, a traveler, who was originally from Western North Carolina. I was fascinated by the accent that came and went. I'd never heard anything like it. I loved listening to it. Now, I've been living in West Virginia for the past 15 years and I can say that the Appalachian accent is easily the most difficult to master of all. I've succeeded, and could write several chapters of a book about all the subtleties of it that I've learned. For years, I could not understand why it was so difficult. The basic answer is that it's full of subtleties and the intensity of the accent is itself variable, depending on emotional state. I've never run into this with any other language anywhere in the world. Anyway, I have a blast with it today. It's fun. Mah car ain't workin' raht. It caynt pool the heel. Hahahaha. Wut? Rule 1 of the accent is short "i" becomes long "ee". So you didn't kill it. You didn't killt it. You keelt it. Then ye poot the feesh in the skeelit and cook it. After dinner, ye wash the deeshes. But all of this is predicated on emotional state or desire for emphasis. Most West Virginians, when in a relaxed state, sound very much like Middle Americans or Californians -- plain American English. But when emotions rise, the accent appears. The accent adds to the richness of communication. There's a lot more, of course.

These sayings, I use and are familiar to me except for Jim-Jams and Juberous.Its nice seeing the Family joining in on CELEBRATING APPALACHIA, another good one Tipper.

@CelebratingAppalachia

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Donald!!

@mchrysogelos7623

2 жыл бұрын

ditto for me. I have never lived there, but was raised in several places overseas, and in the West (CO). most of the words are normal to me.

“Skeered” (Afraid) “I ain’t skeered (or skeer’t)...”

@CelebratingAppalachia

3 жыл бұрын

😀

@duaneholcomb8408

3 жыл бұрын

Yea its how you say it more than how its written,, another is I'm, a feared. Of that meaning your afraid. Of it,,,,

@papaw5405

3 жыл бұрын

Well, I ain't askeered an I ain't afreared of you ner nobody else!

@dr.froghopper6711

3 жыл бұрын

You sound like my grandpa! He was skeert he’d kilt a deer with his truck!

@modeladenny1218

3 жыл бұрын

@@duaneholcomb8408 I'm from Illinoiz and I worked with a bunch a guys from Albertville, Ala. The all done talked kinda funny. Bless their hearts.

Can't forget "Raising Cain," to cause a fuss or stir. "He was raising Cain 'cause some dipstick runt over his dog with a truck!"

@caradocapcunobelin2875

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome info. What a great name for that chicken place, it's so true.

@johnw2026

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, you brought up another good one. "Dipstick." Definition: a stupid or inept person. The word dipstick is used a lot in the South. I can think of a lot of people in Washington DC who are dipsticks...

@caradocapcunobelin2875

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnw2026 that word was used when I lived in Minnesota. Not so much here in California.

@joycemeadows1821

3 жыл бұрын

To get a whipping: Im gonna stripe those legs...

@markcockerham646

3 жыл бұрын

My grandmother used that one all the time.

I love the way you mention "kilt" without it even occurring to you that the phrase "It liked to've" is regional as well, and that everybody doesn't just say that. What a delightful channel, and gracious family. I can't stop watching, makes me nostalgic for my Grandmother.

Reminds me of my younger years in Boone County, WV. My Dad was the principal of a local elementary school. Often at school I'd hear that some student wouldn't be at school today because they had a "head code", or a head cold. Often you'd hear that someone didn't "have a lick of sense" meaning they had no common sense. In my community there was a small grocery store where many coal mining families had an account where they could buy groceries on credit. The store owner kept track of our purchases on a tablet. Although Mr. Waller owned the store, everyone called his store "the jotem down" because he would jot down (write) everything you bought on the tablet. Many times I would run across the road to the jotem down to get a loaf of "lite bread". Sometimes when we kids would play baseball in the yard, we would throw or hit a ball through a window and that was known as breaking a "winder light". We had many other words coined locally that most outsiders never understood.. Sometimes you'd get invited to go somewhere with a group of people. Someone would say, "We're going swimmin', yonto?" That meant would you like to go too. We had some interesting personal pronouns such as We'uns, you'uns and they'uns. If someone was a really bad person, they "waren't no good". In those years, you either worked for the coal mines or the government. There wasn't much in between. Sorry, didn't mean to write a book, but maybe I should. Today, I tutor English online. What a transition from my youth.

@CelebratingAppalachia

3 жыл бұрын

Gary-thank you for sharing!! And YES you should write a book 😀

@modeladenny1218

3 жыл бұрын

Gary all that stuff sounded normal to this Illinoiz guy.

@jerryshepherd1645

3 жыл бұрын

You should please let me know if you do

@jerryshepherd1645

3 жыл бұрын

In Monroe Ga

@SeeTheWholeTruth

2 жыл бұрын

I have fond memories of "yontu?", good times.

I grew up with many if not most of these in the Ozark Mountains

@nikimoss8675

3 жыл бұрын

Me too 👍🏻😊

@Fire_And_Iron

3 жыл бұрын

@@nikimoss8675 ♥️

This is just wonderful... My first visit... I just love THE WAY PEOPLE JUST TURN A WORD/PHRASE ...I call it...and you doing this is a TREAT for me. Back in the Pittsburgh area of Pennsylvania... growing up... Mom would tell us to " red up "our room...(red up = clean up, order, make presentable) "I red up that side yard, the broken tree limbs were removed." More...More...MORE 🙋🌹8-12-22 GA USA

Oh my gosh LOVE this 💖💖 Haven’t heard “JUBEROUS” since my mother passed. Thank you

How about "pertneer"? Jimmy was mindlessly swinging his baseball bat and pertneer took my head off!

@OgamiItto70

3 жыл бұрын

"Ding nigh" is pretty much the same. "Reckon I'll head on home, it's ding nigh midnight already." Sort of an alternate to "dang near."

@SlipKnotRicky

3 жыл бұрын

Slang for "Pretty Near", yep that's in my Brogue...

@modeladenny1218

3 жыл бұрын

@@OgamiItto70 Purnt near is, I'd figure.

@littlet-rex8839

3 жыл бұрын

"right nearly" which is degeneratin into "rat nearly" 🤔

@LB-eh5fz

3 жыл бұрын

YES YES ,,YOU GOT IT,,, I PERTNEER RUNED OVER THAT DANGED OLE CAT

I grew up with every one of these except "juberous".

@Fannin7

3 жыл бұрын

Could juberous come from dubious?

@unclematty56

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@AutumnLocks

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if its a long removed derivative of the word "Jew". I remember my late grandmother from the Midwest talking about when she moved to DC in 1940 she told a story at a party about "jewing down" a businessman that was trying to overcharge her. It caused a scandal and she was deeply embarrassed when she realized what was considered an innocuous phrase in the little town she was from was actually an ethnic slur. She had no idea.

@mfree80286

2 жыл бұрын

@@AutumnLocks It's a very old bit of a comedic script that corrupted 'dubious'.

You ladies are so honest and sweet... I just melt. Bless your hearts..♥️

I live in Northern California now (since 1978), but my mother was from Whitesville, Kentucky. I recognize a lot of these expressions from her. Sure brings back memories. Thank you for these videos!

Jim jams is in Huxley's Brave New World, "A doctor a day keeps the jim jams away." My daddy was from central TX but he said all those things. He claimed his people came to TX from Appalachia.

@dalepeto9620

3 жыл бұрын

My dad claimed we emigrated here from Hungary because his grandpa knocked up some girl

I’m proud to be here! Thank you for sharing this lesson to help us expand our Appalachian vocabulary! Blessings...

@CelebratingAppalachia

3 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome 😀

I am a Northerner (MinnesOda) and I think it's great that you keep your culture & dialect alive! Keep your britches on, My dad used to say that. He was from Iowa.

It’s amazing to learn some of these words and terms I learned from my father were likely passed down to him over the generations from our Appalachian ancestors. I’ll eventually pass them on to my children, and Appalachian dialect will be alive and well in the Pacific Northwest.

@crochet9100

2 жыл бұрын

I'm 65 years old, born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, by grandparents from the Appalachian country. I grew up with this language and know (and use) them all. So do my children and to a lesser extent, my grandchildren.

I'm from Ky, but I live in MN, and I miss hearing a lot of these sayings. My buddies at work like to poke fun at me for some of the things I grew up saying, that ain't right or whatever. It's all in good fun though😆

@CelebratingAppalachia

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching Daniel!

@xxdrewxx6

3 жыл бұрын

@@CelebratingAppalachia your videos take me home. Thank you!

@gidget8717

3 жыл бұрын

They take me home too, Daniel. I'm down in Florida, and as homesick as I can be. 😭

@xxdrewxx6

3 жыл бұрын

@@gidget8717 well, you're not alone. I'm up in Minnesota in the same boat.😉

@gidget8717

3 жыл бұрын

@@xxdrewxx6 where were you from in ky? I'm from southwest va. That little point where ky/va/wva meet. I was born and raised just a few miles from the va/ky line.

I’m from KY and in my 30’s and I remember spelling tests in elementary school would usually be something to laugh about when a “t” is added so many words. I remember one year it was supposed to be “found.” The teacher gave her sentence to us as, “ I lost my dog but I fount him at the river.” 😂

@guppy0536

Жыл бұрын

Ohio bit older gets funny younger one's looks at me like got 3 heads some days

Love it!! Seems like y'all are finally starting to get appreciated more in Appalachia. Glad to see it. God bless.

mom from NC mountains, Dad from Wv mountains...I just stepped back into my childhood...THANK YOU :)

I never got jobbed in the eye by a limb but manys the time I got sworped acrost the face with one.

@CelebratingAppalachia

3 жыл бұрын

I've been sworped too 😀

@kathya739

3 жыл бұрын

Me too! Lol But I was more worried about getting my eye jobbed out;)

@DavidWhite

3 жыл бұрын

@@CelebratingAppalachia I got my butt sworped more n onect

@brutusmaximumus

3 жыл бұрын

lol yea but if you go sworping then you might get sworped

I was born and raised in Ypsilanti Michigan, during ww2 tens of thousands of Appalachian folks moved here to work in the willow run bomber plant. So many stayed after the war that the whole area had a southern accent, including myself.

More good stuff. Learning something every time I watch this channel.

I watched the creek rock video and was completely enrapt in your story. I have a tremendous love of rocks too. How beautiful your jewelry stones turned out. Thank you for taking me through your process!! I was most impressed with your philosophy of appreciation for your land and your family connection. You are so sweet, Katie! ❤

My dad says "I'll paint your back porch red" jokingly 😂

You ladys have the prettiest smiles.

This was a fun video to watch! My family came from Appalachia prior to settling in middle Tennessee and a lot of these expressions have persisted through our speech and I even still use some today!

Loved this, thank you for sharing!

I bet that will take the starch out of his britches. Meaning settle or calm down.

Another one from SW VA: "I've got a mind to..." means I'm considering something. "I've got a mind to cook some dinner later on"

@acustomer7216

3 жыл бұрын

and " I reckon I'm gonna..." means you've made a decision

@sassygrammy1258

3 жыл бұрын

We use the same expression in Alabama.

@crochet9100

2 жыл бұрын

Or, "I'ma fixin' to..." (do something) and If you'll be there soon, "I'll be there directly"

@bcaye

2 жыл бұрын

@@crochet9100, I'm from the US Midwest and we use "be there shortly", which many tease me about since I'm 4'11".

@patriciakeats1621

2 жыл бұрын

We say that one as well in Newfoundland…as well as you had a like to…

Love your videos on Appalachia thanks for sharing

This blows my mind. I'm a 33yo Black dude from Indiana and so much of this I hear from older relatives and had no idea it had Appalachian roots. Language and culture is so precious, love this channel

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

So glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching 😀

Here's one I remember. "I believe I'll cogitate." Means I'm going to think it over.

@johnw2026

3 жыл бұрын

My dad used to "sit on the throne and contemplate the universe." For sitting on the toilet.

We from the rivers of Western Kentucky (the Tennessee, the Cumberland, the Ohio, and the Mississippi) have a dialect inherited from North Carolina (by way of West Tennessee: many North Carolinians first migrated to West Tennessee in 1818, then migrated northward into West Kentucky in the following 40 years). The Kentucky dialect where my people are from has some in common with Appalachia (North Carolina, is, after all, in the Appalachian mountain range), but the tuneful nature of pure Appalachian intonation is somewhat depressed in West Kentucky: there is still tone, but it is closer to a monotone than the beautiful melodic up and down tonalities of speakers like the ones in the video. Not to say that the West Kentucky voice is devoid of tonal inflection, it is not, but the West Kentucky speaker hears the voice of an Eastern Kentucky speaker as if it were the voice of a beautifully singing choir member. Look at the success of Loretta Lynn, and her voice. One of the speakers in this video sounds just like her. Love to Appalachia from Central Kentucky and the Mississippi Valley. Your voices are ones we love to hear, and always will.

Youns don’t know how much I enjoy these they remind me of home so much Thanks for Lil old video ❤

My mom was from the Virginia/Kentucky border up yonder near PIKEville Kentucky and we grew up using the language. Your videos made me realize how much my momma influenced us young’ ins especially since living in a northern city and everyone looks at me when I talk.

Whenever Uncle Joe didn’t wanna do something and was pressed to give an answer, he’d say slowly,” I prolly might “. Lol

"Come go with us!" which usually means, "we are fixin' to leave to go home."

Thank you for posting this video. Love hearing your expressions in how you talk! ~Laura

Just want to say how much I enjoy yalls videos. They remind me of my papaw and the hours he used to spend just talking, all the while teaching us grandboys how to be men of honor and integrity, us hanging on every word non the wiser the important lessons and old time skills he was teaching us. Thanks for bringing up these great memories for me.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you enjoy them 🙂

I've heard and used a lot of these words here in Pa. farm country.

Aww these videos are so fun keepem coming!😂

@CelebratingAppalachia

3 жыл бұрын

So glad you enjoyed the video!

This channel is bringing my childhood back.

Y'all kilt this video! 👍 much love from Pennsylvania!

I remember my daddy coming home liquored up and mama would holler he's high as a Georgia Pine! Haha

@CelebratingAppalachia

3 жыл бұрын

😀

@kathya739

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, I remember both of them sayings.

@johnw2026

3 жыл бұрын

Or "Drunker than Cooter Brown!" Shame I don't know exactly who Cooter Brown is....

@kathya739

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnw2026 I use to say that!! Haven't heard it in years.

Every time I hear the word "kilt" I think of my Granddad who used to tell the dumbest but funniest joke to me as a kid: A boy and his grandfather were sitting on the porch talking. The Grandpa shouts, "Did you see that, boy? A cat done run up that dog's ass." The boy corrected his Grandpa saying, "You mean rectum." Grandpa answered back, "Wrecked 'em hell! Damn near kilt 'em both!" 🤣 I dunno why that is still so funny to me. Probably just from remembering my Granddad. He was quite a character and a real rascal lol...

@CelebratingAppalachia

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you had a great Grandpa 😀 Thank you for watching!

@kathya739

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@jwo1923

3 жыл бұрын

😆😆😆

@skorupajp

3 жыл бұрын

@@CelebratingAppalachia I got to enjoy my grandparents for many years and I miss them dearly now.

@modeladenny1218

3 жыл бұрын

@@CelebratingAppalachia Now I'm a grandpa tellin my grandkids how we didn't have TV, internet, Game boards, and stuff. We'd sit listenin to the radio and playinn with sticks n rocks. So my six year old granddaughter went out and played with sticks n rocks. She looked happy as a pig in mud.

im from the kentucky side of appalachia and its great to hear words from home. this is great keep it up.

It's really interesting hearing all of these common phrases in Alaska. Not so much the Juneau area but I hear all these frequently around Anchorage and especially further North.

My mom used to use the phrase "catty wampus" but she was an Iowa farm girl. I had a friend who was going to the Scottish Games, and I ask him why he was wearing a skirt. His answer was, "It's a kilt and if you ever call it a skirt again; you are going to get kilt." The word "kilt" for kill or killed has traveled some. It got all the way to San Diego Ca.

@woodchuck3759

3 жыл бұрын

Heard the term catty wampus many times , I was taught the term whamper jawed Which meant something that was crooked or not straight (NC)

@antilogism

3 жыл бұрын

I use catty wampus today but I've no idea where I picked it up.

@grassshadow1

3 жыл бұрын

Ya, and I've heard the opposite in Tennessee...Wampus Cat

@dwdesvoigne5988

3 жыл бұрын

@@grassshadow1 I first heard that in Texas as slang for a wild cat. But I also heard a wild woman called a wampus kitty.

Love this video! Isn't 'kilt' just a different pronunciation of 'killed?' "It like to have killed (kilt) me!" That makes more sense than "kill." It sounds past-tense.

@SchiesterMalG

2 жыл бұрын

That's how we use it in Louisiana, "he kilt him a deer', or "it liked to have kilt me", but strangely enough you will not hear kilt when regarding the loss of a loved one of something really cared about.

@mchrysogelos7623

2 жыл бұрын

that was the way I take it too. Many people pronounce words different ways.

@tonym2513

2 жыл бұрын

“Ahhh, you’ve kilt meh” Draco Malfoy when Bugbeak broke his arm.

@psingerman4778

Жыл бұрын

Yep, I think it's substitute for "killed".

Thanks for sharing this y'all! 🙂👍

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it 😀

This was so fun! Thank you!

Oh, and I forgot "airish," meaning chilly. Chimney was pronounced "chimbley." Pot likker, hog waller (not wallow), banty chickens, not bantam chickens, which my grandmother raised. Ever been flogged by a rooster? We had a mean one at one time and he'd flog you in a hearbeat.

@CelebratingAppalachia

3 жыл бұрын

Yes being flogged is no fun LOL! Thank you for watching and for sharing 😀

@agoogleuser4443

3 жыл бұрын

@@CelebratingAppalachia So have I (been flogged by a rooster) because it's a daily job hazard for me, since I work in poultry research. Usually it's the hens who are more bitchy though, lol. Roosters usually leave me alone.

@patriciakeats1621

3 жыл бұрын

We used to say chimley in Newfoundland as well.

@kristinamullen4066

2 жыл бұрын

Chimbley is an Irish word for chimney.I recognize many of the words you mention because my Irish hubby uses them.Its interesting to learn that they use those expressions in Appalachia.The Irish settlers must have passed them down.

@AmericanGal_69

2 жыл бұрын

Nothing better than pot likker with a pone a cornbread in it!

My granddad was 100% Irishman that came over here from Ireland in the early 1900's. He eventually settled in the Ozarks, but seems like it should have been Appalachia, ( which he may have live there, also) dying in a freak accident, but not before he had two son. All the words, except for one, are as common to me as saying the Lord's Prayer. He always said, "Gade be dang! Bee Jeezus", sad to say, that's all I remember, but I wasn't allowed to repeat it! Thanks again, for the walk down Memory Lane.

@modeladenny1218

3 жыл бұрын

I actually live right here on Memory Lane. And that's the truth! It tian't but 1/8th mile long.

I thought I had heard( and used) most Appalachian terms, but Y'all came up with 3 I had never heard. You learnt me something.

I love how you show the true beauty of Appalachian culture and people.

Odd thing is , I was a middle Tennessee farm boy growing up in the 50’s and 60’s and we said most of these words too . And dinner was the noon meal , supper was at night . Never heard of a lunch bell . Now that’s purt nigh all I can thank of

@johndeesmith183

3 жыл бұрын

It was that damn TV that changed us , 6 miles south of chatternooga in n gawga here....

@k.b.tidwell

3 жыл бұрын

Here about sixty miles north of Birmingham, Alabama the language is virtually identical, to this day. Having been in my half century of living around people from all around our great nation, I’ll say that I love the language of the South better than any other.

@randyblackburn9765

3 жыл бұрын

@@k.b.tidwell old folks here used to ask “ how ya doin “? You’d answer “ fairly middlin “

@k.b.tidwell

3 жыл бұрын

@@randyblackburn9765 similar here, but I usually hear it “fair TO middlin”, and truthfully my back pains are on a sliding scale from day to day so I guess that’s accurate lol. And have you ever heard someone say they’re “tolerable” or “tollable” when asked how they are? An old boss of mine told me that meant “Well enough to eat but not well enough to work”. I love that and have decided that will be my retirement slogan when and if that time ever comes! 😂

@randyblackburn9765

3 жыл бұрын

@@k.b.tidwell right you are , fair (to) middling is what they said , never heard tollable tho . Daddy grew up in the hill country of north west Maury County Tennessee and he claimed that breaking a new ground was new cut woods with stumps dug up or dynamited out and the mule would pull the plow and hit roots and it was hard on man and beast. Also a single tree in front of the plow was a sangle tree , and brand new was bread new , and cousin Erma was cuddin Erma . And the Natchez Trace was Notchez Trace . I knew hill folks in Tennessee that could not read or write, had no electricity or running water , never put the old folks in nursing homes either, they’d take the back seat out of the car and put straight back kitchen chairs in the back , two strong grandsons would carry Granny’s chair and put it on the floorboard and carry her to church, funerals and the country store , walk her right up to the grave sight and she’d make her little speech about the deceased having to crawl on earth but crawling no more .

I would think gettin’ knocked-up would be worse than gettin’ liquored-up, although the latter often leads to the former.

@gidget8717

3 жыл бұрын

🤣

@modeladenny1218

3 жыл бұрын

My wife and her family came from a farm in Minnesota to Illinoiz. I'll swear theyz from the back side of the Smokey Mountains. They talked jist like y'all. An when we moved our young un to Florida it got even wursun. My wife did get liquered up and knocked up. Thaz why she becume my wife at 17.

@robertmorency6335

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, I do 't know - getting too liquored up can be worse than almost anything.

@steveviers7436

3 жыл бұрын

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@modeladenny1218

3 жыл бұрын

@@robertmorency6335 Yabutt. It surenuff worked good fer me an my wife. I larned her to stop drinkin liquer much after thet right there. She pretty much stuck ta beer drinkin when in public. 62 years together ain't nuthin ta sneeze at.

How did i just find this channel?? Love it!!

I love my southern culture. My line goes back to Traphill NC in the foot hills. I like to read about the early settlers like the Scots-irish or English. I see where we get our words from! Love this. Beautiful.

@CelebratingAppalachia

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Scott 😀

@scott236

3 жыл бұрын

@@CelebratingAppalachia ❤

Okay, I only knew 8 of the 10 on this one. "Juberous" absolutely threw me (was one of the two!) Thanks, and I'll keep watching.

@TheRuthParsons

3 жыл бұрын

Do you think it derives from 'dubious' or doubtful?

I'm a native Floridian with ancestors who came from South Carolina and settled down in NW Florida. So, I've heard/used most of these my entire life, but must say I've learned a few new ones! Thank you! Brought back such memories of my childhood. My husband was raised in Georgia and after a few years of being married (33 years and counting now) he said something like "Yeah, you know the scuttlebutt is that they're divorcing bc he ran around on her." I was like what the heck did you just say?! 😳 😂 He said scuttlebutt. I literally had to look it up to see if it was an actual word, and yes it is. It means a gossip/rumor. (The Rumor Mill) Had NEVER hear that word before in my life, but I've heard it a lot since then. His mother has used it a few times, and I was like "THAT'S where he got it from!" 😂

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

😀

@floramaebunny4777

Жыл бұрын

Wow my grandpa was from marianna Florida… he taught me all these phrases too must be similar heritage to Appalachia

I find these phrases throughout my raising but truly never knew where they came from. Thanks for these delightful lessons.

I still hear these words used quite often here in South East Tennessee 😎😎😎 love the your channel 👍👍👍

As a child from Manchester England we used to say keep your knickers on. For calm down. Jim jams for pyjamas.

@johnw2026

3 жыл бұрын

How about "don't get your panties in a wad." 😂🤣 Same as calm down, or don't lose your cool.

@kittypop5424

3 жыл бұрын

Same here Oz, Jim jams are pjs

@agoogleuser4443

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnw2026 We say that her in NC too.

@patriciakeats1621

3 жыл бұрын

We used to call pjs jammers

@patriciakeats1621

3 жыл бұрын

We would say kealed for killed

When you visit someone at their home they might ask "geet yet?" and you might reply "no-gew?"

Many of these I use too! Grew up using.I’m from just outside Boston, Massachusetts. Love your channel. The girls are very cute & very funny. Merry Christmas y’all

I have never felt so impressed and somehow connected to a region in the USA than to Appalachia and its people. I just love the way they speak, their accent, their love for nature, culture, music, calmness, ans do many more... it just amazes me. Hope one day I'll visit this region! Stay blessed folks!

Actually it's a teamster who yells "jayhole". On skid roads they would have turnouts (jayholes) where the draft animals could get off the skid road and come disconnected from the log train they were pulling if it started sliding on its own on the steep mountainside. Draft horses, mules and steers were valuable and if the logs ran over them chances are they would die or have to be killed if they were maimed. The animals were trained to turn into a "jayhole" when the teamster yelled that word. When a log was let go on a steep mountainside in an uncontrolled slide it was called a "ballhoot". That's what the logger would yell if there was anybody below him. The best thing anyone could do if a log got away like that was to stand still and watch to see where it was going. If it came straight for you it was best to wait until the last second to dodge it because it's impossible to predict where it will go. If you're running away you can't watch it.

@CelebratingAppalachia

3 жыл бұрын

Papaw-thank you for explaining it! I was hoping you would 😀

@papaw5405

3 жыл бұрын

@@CelebratingAppalachia I lived some of that old logging stuff. I was a kid so I was more in the way than anything else but I learned a lot from just watching and listening. A log train was a line of logs in a row that were connected together by "grabs" which were driven into the logs. Grabs were made so that when they were in the log they dug in deeper if they were pulled in one direction but pulled out easier in the other. I remember trying to ride the last log on the train. Daddy let me because I couldn't fall off and get run over.

@clarencegreen3071

3 жыл бұрын

All our land was uphill from the barn which means that when you had a sled load of hay for the horses to pull to the barn, it was downhill. You had to be careful if the sled was on wet grass or something slippery or it would "ballhoot" and slide on its own. When that happened, you had to keep the horses well ahead of the sled so the sled wouldn't run up on them, which would have been a catastrophe. One of my un-fondest memories is having a huge sledload of hay ballhoot down the hill with the horses going at a full gallop. Only way I got everything stopped was to steer them out into another hayfield at the bottom of the hill where it was not so steep. Tore up some hay, but avoided a disaster. Decided right there, on the spot, that I didn't want to be a farmer when I grew up!

I'm thinking "kilt" is for "killed" (past tense of kill) .. and a T is often substituted for the "ed" on the ends of other words too such as "burnt" instead of "burned" and so on. Also, could it be that "juberous" came from "dubious?" Would make sense.

Love this! 🧡

I'm so glad I found yall! These videos are fantastic! Definitely heard some new ones but so many remind me of my granny 🥰 What a fun bunch you folks are! God bless ❤

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😀