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That’s enough convo for a month...

Lol

Lmfao

That’s how it is bubba. Straight and to the point.

This is the most underappreciated comment in modern history.

This is my entire family.

I was gonna say, this video reminded me so much of my grandma, I'm from & still live in Lexington North Carolina which is close to the NC Foothills, so I still do hear some of this dialect, but it really is dying out as the world becomes more modernized

So accurate. My West Virginian grandfather has a THICK Appalachian accent.

too funny and true!

Sounds 100% like Hanks father

Hahaha I know, as soon as it showed him I was like wait isn't that that moonshiners popcorn Sutton?

I was looking for this comment 👌

I didn't realize he wasn't actually well known.

Which guy is it

Yeah...like hot dog sammy in Chicago? Or more like shit eating Benny in Stateville??

kodak green his name is Jim tom lol

I didn't understand the point of that scene lol. The sentence he said is the same as standard English. Are they trying to say mopeds are an Appalachian thing?

美丹瑠衣 don’t take everything literal ❤️

i used to live in western nc. i worked with a guy who rode a moped to work because he had gotten so many dui's

@@stussels a lot of states require full licenses to ride them, but the stereotype still lives on. Love my moped, gets great gas mileage! lol

I feel the same listening to Irish accents, and I'm from Appalachia. Just feels familiar!

Well a lot of Irish folk wound up settling in Appalachia few hundred years ago. It’s actually why there’s so much overlap between Bluegrass and older Celtic folk music. I’d assume that the accents haven’t changed too much since they don’t tend to leave their towns/region.

@@Red0991 Scots-Irish, Scottish, Irish Protestant and some German and Dutch immigrants settled Appalachia in the first half of the 18th century. The particular articulation of the mountain folk was a result of the mixing of different dialects, with some Gaelic and a touch of German and Dutch, coupled with local developments.

That’s awesome. I’m from Appalachia and I have an Irish last name.

Same, you can definitely hear the Ulster in this

That is too sweet ❤️ I’m a native of the Appalachian region in NC and I agree anybodyll do anything for ya ❤️

Adam Bruce...you make an important point, from a historical perspective. The reason we have West Virginia is because the mountain folk rebelled against the racial excesses of eastern Virginians and remained loyal to the Union. They were not defenders of slavery.

What the Bible refers to as the love of God shed abroad in our hearts.

Yup. That's cause everybody was poor together. Same with a bunch of other rural areas in Tennessee. Poor don't see no skin color. My mom would tell of an old black woman that would holler at her and my aunt when they walked home from school to come see "black Mammy" so she could feed 'em cookies or a little bit of cake; that was about the only sweets they ever got because my grandma was a widow trying to raise 5 kids and living out of an old sheep shed.

I believe sugar was expensive then, and few care to remember life before Walk Mart, nor what true poverty is. My parents was raised without electricity, more so on my mother's side of the family. Just because it had been invented didn't mean everyone had it. Cleveland TN back then was so far out, that there were few stores, and everyone worked their selves to death, canning vvfood that they raised. If hard times were to come again, there are only a few of us that know how to pull through. These young kids know nothing of how to raise a garden, home can food, nor any real life skills. And yes, skin color was not a factor, indeed everyone was poor. Like all towns, a very few was the rich, but very, very few. I remember the early 1970's in east TN, where an out house was still seen, as it was in my life time.

I found this while searching for different American accents a year or two ago and was just thinking about it a couple of days ago. I wonder why it's suddenly getting recommended to everyone, too.

Same

@@TiberianFiend people on the inside of the algorithm trying to do good work I guess.

People will not understand mountain people of the great smoky mountains. Even americans dont know mountain talk.

@@TiberianFiend sees awe wa

*Prejudiced People

@@ethandollarhide7943 You sound pretty prejudice yourself...

@@ethandollarhide7943found the clown ! How you doing bud? How’s your wife’s boyfriend doing ?

@@muskateer12345 How's your Sister that's also your wife doing ya H*ck.

Well I got news for you: Your Culture and Language is rapidly dying. More and more people including the Young'ns are rejecting it because of how Prejudiced it is towards minority groups and how Theocratic it is. As someone that grew up in Appalachia, I have zero issues with the pathetic culture dying. Good Riddance.

Black mountain?

Nope, Burnsville. Evan smaller than Black Mnt! 😂

​@@charlieautrey2854shit. Small... Shiiiiiit I Grew up around Lake Toxaway, North Carolina. Burnsville might as well be Asheville.

Not to intrude, but my dad was a marine, later in the National Guard, in the Iraq War from WV haha

Thank you for your service.

Can you tell us some stories of what he'd get up to? :)

What was his favorite flavor crayon?

how many people you killed?

Plumb si-gogglin

Paper bag done plumb si goggllin

Youll forget midterms but remember this

That's the best joke I've heard in weeks

In Scotland we say shooglin for something wobbly or not straight and also say poke. Thinks these may come from the Scots.

Yep nowadays you only hear that kind of talking from people 50 years old and up. I grew up in Dalton where are you from?

I grew up in the foothills of North Carolina and my family was from the mountains. I moved away 40 years ago and go back for visits. This sounds like home.

​@solarflair2605 I'm from Dalton too lmao. Well, tunnel hill. Moved to Seattle this summer. It's currently 345 am, and watching this feels like listening to my grandparents talk

They are the most Prejudiced people in the United States

@@ethandollarhide7943 i think you are just trying to get a rise out of people

@@SpoonsOG Yeah, by telling the Truth about how this place really is.

​@@SpoonsOG Doesn't take much to make people of the South Mad: Just don't follow Christianity and they'll treat you like a monster.

Maybe is because I am the guy who brings Internet to them. Everybody loves that guy. I met more rude people inside Raleigh, than in those plains. Just my experience.

And you can still hear that 'twang' today wherever they later made their way across the country , thru Missouri and the Ozarks, to Oklahoma and Texarkana, and out west along Route 66 to Arizona, Central Cali and Bakersfield, following the Great Depression.

Everyone got knocked in my hometown. They got knocked up.

@@mingonmongo1 I'm from Missouri and I can definitely get that accent

@@jamesthefisherman1060 😂😂😂🤰🤰🤰🤱🤱

All the Latinos I’ve met passin through or moved for work, have been great as well! As a West Virginian I appreciate that comment! People think just cause ya have a talk, it makes ya stupid. That’s just not the case. Some of the best innovators I’ve ever known!

My husband is also Latino and was very surprised by the culture and kindness of appalachia 💕 I'm glad you had a good experience and enjoyed your time!!

Exactly. Them being represented as racist is just a media stereotype.

It's a hard thing man, you guys get scapegoated by the media. It's easy to hate an idea, but the people in the south don't hate anyone if they aren't fake. I've known people growing up who would hate latinos and black people, but their best friends would be black and latino. Ignorance isn't an excuse, and you shouldn't have to do this, but anyone who comes to the south, just talk to them. Show them who you really are and their minds will change in a heartbeat. Just know we all don't hate you, but the false idea the media portrays, we're all people at the end of it.

I would think that Hispanics should be the very image of Spanish courtly gentility. English and other British Isles medieval chivalry -- and lower classes' attempt to rise to that standard -- is from where Appalachian courtesy derives.

But Southerners aren't Serbian. You won't feel comfortable around them. Remember?

​@Ethan Dollarhide Alot of Serbians fought during the Civil War in the Confederacy. Serbian culture and people have a big footprint in the south

​@@DrazCo88 😅😅😅😅 koja si ti budaletina

Appalachians arent really "southerners", yeah they technically start in Tennessee (some people would even say as far south as alabama) but it ends all the way up in the Adirondacks in NY through the PA Alleghany mountains, these mountain people are culturally different from southerners, northereasterners, and midwesterners. Culturally the people from Appalachia have a lot more in common with each other (even if the weather in west virginia and PA is different than the smoky mountains) than they would with their surrounding neighbors. They all shared being the "losers" in the eastern states that got stuck with shitty unfarmable land.

c’mon down, you’ll be welcomed

That sounds incredible

That is fantastic. So "real" with a genuine feel it seems. You are blessed to have come from that lineage.

I grew up saying that... got it from my grandma. She was from North Dakota but lived in California from early 1920s to late '80s.

I bet he was a great character :)

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Very interesting. The word "poke" is most likely related to the Icelandic word "poki" which means a small or medium sized bag, plastic bag for example.

Most of these Appalachian mountain folks can trace their heritage to Scotland and Northern England.

@@hugsun5918 vikings I assume

I'm from Tennessee and we have rich Scottish heritage. Till this day very similar cultures

poke (n.1) "small sack," early 13c., probably from a merger of Old English pohha (Northumbrian poha, pocca) "bag, pocket" and Old Norse poki "bag, pouch, pocket," influenced by Old North French poque (12c., Old French poche) "purse, poke, purse-net," which is probably from Germanic. All of them probably are from Proto-Germanic *puk- (source also of Middle Dutch poke, dialectal German Pfoch), from PIE root *beu-, an imitative root associated with words for "to swell" (see bull (n.2)). Compare pocket.

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​@chainsoar It's not "salting the earth", it's salt of the earth. Salt, back in the day, was so valuable it was used as currency. That's where that phrase comes from.

Dass juss Gawd turnin' it te the right page

He doesn't read he just likes to look like he can

😂👍

Hahahahaha good one!!!!

@@mitchconner2021 🤭

That is HILAAARIOOOUSSS

funniest comment

Best comment 😂

Same here, Garrett County/Preston County area. The accents took me back. I could hear the southern sounds in the "ah"s, but remarkably close.

We want to be left alone, trust me. However, the rest of the country wont let us be. Somehow we became the country's worst enemy.

@@tieneeddoawestruck2036 Thats truly awful to hear :(

@@tieneeddoawestruck2036 what? Never heard of that I don't hate any Appalachian people I've never met any and that'd make no sense to hate someone like that

@concernedamerican no money down there anymore, if you are retired and have plenty of money, sure its great, but I will never want to raise my kid in that sheltered hateful area ever again. I grew up deep in a holler, and there is so much discrimination and hatred, too many drugs and too many drunks

Ashley Hall well you knew some bad people

I was always told that having an accent makes you sound “uneducated”. To anyone reading this, accents are something so unique and special. Never change how you speak for anyone, you are NOT stupid for talking differently than per say someone in Los Angeles. From, someone who has almost lost their accent from rude people. Now I just stick to code switching haha

Don’t go changing now

@@amyjeslynn6825 Hello Amy in my view everybody has an accent it just depends where you come from , I suppose. It is also the choice of words and how many of these one uses in everyday speech. Cheers Amy!

I’m at fort benning and they rest of my platoon pokes fun at me for my accent WNC Cherokee county

Same

therainman777 My dad’s from Indiana, highly educated, and he says warsh

@therainman777 Well, Pittsburgh is the biggest city in the Appalachian range. “Yinz” (=‘“you’uns”) is heard not only in the Steel City, but also in Boone and Linville, NC.

Joyce Ridner My mother grew up in Canton, OH, but she passed on to her kids the “warsh rag” and “torlet”. From what I’ve been told, some of her people were from Marietta. It wasn’t easy kicking that habit when I grew up and left home; finding out the hard way that those pronunciations were wrong! 😁

@@theresareineke6753 We warsh our clothes in warter in Cincinnati. We're also Appalachia-adjacent.

@therainman777 My grandmother who was born and raised here in Texas says it too. My grandfather who was from Arkansas would say "Wrasslin" for Wrestling, which he watched until his death in 2012. Another saying he would have is "I have no earthly idee". Idee is how a lot of UK people say "Idea".

Amazing place. Very nice

If i'm remembering right, I think it's transatlantic, the dialect and accent together that they'd use on radio and television then. I'm about 20, grew up right outside PA Appalachia depending on which way you drive, and I grew up with a lot of these, just with a broad US accent. Interesting and nice to see languages travel and are preserved across so many years.

Man said milk tongue, I can read his accent

Oconnee native myself and I feel this as well.

Spartanburg Native here, still miss home. But at least Ten. aint too bad. But im stuck in suburban heck. So i still miss the woods and pines. Makes me itchy under the skin.

Nothing Kind Hearted about these H*cks. They are some of the most Prejudiced people to ever exist.

@@ethandollarhide7943 🧌

I can hear English West Country accent!

@@Bella-fz9fy That's still Celtic, from the Welsh peoples.

@@PiracyandDumbbells It's closest to older English dialects, before RP became the accepted standard, I believe. On that, Scots is derived from the Northumbrian dialect of Old English.

@@teausvult4791 Interesting, thanks for the correction.

@@PiracyandDumbbells Many people from Cumberland went to Appalachia as they were miners by trade, there are similarities in the words used, and I believe Cumbrian clog dancing also made the move with them.

@@tbs625 Like hell we didn't. We've got a long way to go, but we're not getting assassinated by companies for organizing strikes and unions anymore.

Aren't they the ones who gave us the word "redneck" for the red bandanas the workers wore around their necks? I say that as a word of pride being from Florida.

@@rondohunter8966 no

But many turned into Trump Republicans., which is the opposite of what they fought for in the past. How times change.

@@jukodebu Perhaps not. There is some confusion over the etymological origins of the word. However it is agreed that the miners of the Appalachians attempting to organize unions were involved in the use of the term if not it's origin. It is associated with the union movement regardless.

Eastern Kentucky is one of the most Prejudiced places in the country. Stop spreading lies.

The powers that be will make it so even they will have diversity foisted upon them. It’s tragic.

@@anti-ethniccleansing465 No, I'm still trapped here and these h*cks are making sure that only Christians are allowed to live here.

@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?

this!

Yeah, I'm from north of these areas, but currently live south of them. I don't have any need for the subtitles, but they's a few terms I hadn't heard.

Very true

It is a lot like Arkansas, but not quite. The drawl is a little different, maybe stronger? Here in Arkansas I’d say there’s a little more twang. Hard to put a finger on it.

Born and raised northern mountain, but moved to Canada and this is comforting to hear like an off-brand Dr. Pepper - incredibly familiar with some slight differences. These Canadian folks can't understand when I say "oil" or "roof", god forbid I start trying to give directions. I had someone rudely interrupt me mid-sentence and snap, "I can't understand you! What are you trying to say?!" All I replied with was, "Well, nothing now. Jeeze louise, no need to be *that* rude."

More like extremely prejudiced people. I hope you're a White Christian because that's pretty much the only way you're getting respect.

I grew up and went to school in Easley. Great little town but it is growing and changing a lot these days.

@@tonyfrance4100 Did you by chance know a Patty, David or Dena Jones?

My pawpaw too. He was born in a holler and everything he ever said had me giggling when I was little. He used to tell me he was gonna learn me this or that, and if we got too rowdy he would say "hash up now or im gonna learn ya how to" 😂 The last few years of his life i cared for him i picked it up A LOT i love it 🥰

Im guessing her phrases had racial undertones?

@@sugarray1378well since you're guessing, I bet cash money on your guessing my grandma was white person too.

Sending love

I too come from a long line of mountain folk.

Eastern Kentuckyian here, It’s interesting to hear people talk like

Yep I’m here in western Ky and lots speak just like this. My grandparents and their siblings ALL talked like this❤️

@watergod 83 yeah it is, I'm eastern kentuckian myself but there's a good subset of ppl in western KY with a strong appalachian accent, at least from my experience.

Now I am in no way living where everyone has this accent, but even living in Northwest Kentucky I can understand them.

I went to Harlan to visit my family once and realized even black folk talked like this down there. That kinda freaked me out

My grandpa used to slip PA Dutch into convos, I'd ask what the words were and he'd say German, thought he learned during the war or something, then I signed up for German in high school thinking I knew some stuff. That's when I found out it was all PA Dutch

They actually recon that it's the case that we (English) changed our speech, and this is more like old English, I suppose it makes sense because some of these communities were quite isolated in a huge country.

@@jaybe2908 most definitely. I wouldn’t go and say that it totally sounds like an old English, because you still do not use the old grammatical structure. and also, you will still hear some of the native Ness in native Americans if you listen to the people of the mountains.

@cheryl tunt I’m Canadian and was trying to describe with words how I completely identify with the folks in this video. You summed it up perfectly! You are correct about the connection to the southern US. “Most” Canadians (born here, like 2-3 generations) are very polite, very kind, and very community minded. We really do love and help our neighbours. The lovely people in this video remind my of my great-aunts and great-uncles, aunts, uncles, cousins - heck, even my mom and dad in many ways. If I moved there, I’d feel right at home!

Unless you are a minority or gay. But yeah if you are a straight white Christian I’m sure they’re pretty friendly.

@Timmy P well tim a quick google search quickly disproves your statement. The first 5 results provide statistics and famous recent cases. With the advent of the internet research is incredibly easy. Why do you assume people wouldn’t bother to disprove your statement. And if you know it’s not a true statement and that it can easily be disproved then why even bother making it

@@i-vlog1994 I’m a minority and the Appalachian people were just as kind to me as they were to my white companions. Nice try buddy 🗿

@@freedamerican5243 that’s cool that, that was your experience but it isn’t for everyone. Confirmation bias is not evidence. Statistics such as reported hate crimes on the fbi website are though.

How long will the language take to infect me if I moved there?

Nicest gang rape i ever craigslisted

@@dirkdiggler. oddly specific

Ozymandias just depends on who you hang around. I have a neutral accent but so do most of my friends and family. But even if you don’t speak Appalachian it won’t take you very long to understand it, you’ll naturally get an ear for it

@@espio30 I live in the appalachian mountain region and I don't like my southern accent. I've done a lot to remove most of the "aint nern o'er yonder" from my vocabulary. If you don't want it, you can prevent it.

Rest in peace

Don't forget Jim Tom. I haven't seen him on this season's Episode, I hope he's still with us

Yeah he said “Fuck you.”

“Popcorn says fuck you” Man was a legend. R.I.P. his legend will live on

Wouldn’t say he is the “grandfather” of shiners, been plenty before him

Miss Wilma! I love how the Southerners call women Miss (firstname) and they're so polite, 'yes sir' and 'no ma'am'. Who remembers the TV series Dallas, and how the matriarch was called Miss Elly, and the sons called her ma'am and their father Jock Ewing sir if the conversation got serious.

My mother was from Tennessee her name was Wilma.

WILMA! .Oh How adorable. I'll bet that comes from Willie Mae? Or Willie Mae comes from William and Wilma combined. I had an Aunt Mae whose name was Willie Mae.

I had a Granny Wilma in rural eastern NC and many of her sentences started with, "Naow lis'in..." 💜

Polite until they see or find out that you're a member of a minority. Then they become the most disrespectful people you'll ever meet.

Most people that settled in Appalachia were of Irish and Scott decent that's why the dialect and the music and the moonshine lol

​@@thisguys8809 Mostly it was Scot-Irish or Ulster Scots (the Scottish of northern Ireland). Other types of Scots and the Irish were a much smaller portion of the immigrant population.

@@NormieNeko the earlier scots would have taken their words and fiddle music to amerikay. words like critter/jine/lang/sang and more. a kin hear much of the english accent hear tho as they were the majority. then a 100 or so years later the the ulster scots came(although many of these scots would have lived in ireland a few years or even months then left for amerikay). your fiddle fiddle reel music would have it's origins in scotland. there are a few in amerikay.

I’m 49 and when I was a teenager, I saw a documentary about somewhere in England, where the people speak like someone from The United States in Georgia. That’s when I realized where our different “American” accents came from!

Where in Ireland?

I’m from southeast Tennessee in the mountains and I’m Irish/ Cherokee and hearing you say that makes me feel good because of my heritage lol

Because south west irish are the one who migrate first probably

Do you mean southwest Irish words, or a southwest Irish accent? Or something else?

That's because Appalachia was populated by people of Scots-Irish, English and Welsh heritage, like my family that are Scots-Irish and came to Appalachia in 1789 from County Cork, one of my grandmother's used to sing "mountain ballads" that were variations of Welsh, Irish and English ballads, she would sing them when she was washing dishes, folding clothes or just about any other of her domestic duties.

Haha, I do too. Sounds like Mikey Joe O’Shea himself!

* Prejudiced people. Not Good People.

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LOL

Let’s not forgot next year. 20 years behind...Good luck

@@freedamerican5243 youve taken the place of best comment of 2020

2041 will be worse

Yes, many as the video pointed out were Scot's Irish and living in the mountains isolated them so the language didn't change as much as it did in more populated areas. There was just less outside influence. Many of the customs and traditions have their roots with the Irish and Scots as well.

Cole Parker so true, I’m from the Appalachians and my dad always told me this.

That’s why Shakespeare makes no sense to the modern reader. Because the modern pronunciation is all wrong and all of the analogies and metaphors that Shakespeare used were not 100% poetic, but actually how a lot of people spoke, just as a lot of southern Americans and especially hillbillies do now.

It comes out the more we drink lol

Well they can't speak close to English, Irish and Scots as these are all completely different accents. And in England there are a whole load more different accents. Saying that based on this video they sound a bit like a mixture of all those with a strong US twang

Native? Someone should tell you

" Kindly Old People" more like extremely prejudiced old people.

@@ethandollarhide7943 I imagine that the only way you manage to avoid dropping dead from shameful irony is that you are actually dense enough to not realize that that comment is 100% black and white prejudice towards an entire generation and/or culture. All hatred and bigotry comes from the same place: a stupid person who can't be reasonable has a negative experience with individuals of a social group - and then decide that it's somehow "fair" to hold the entire social group accountable for it. This is a tribal warfare instinct called "the calculus of social substitutability". It's the reason why we have genocides, political mass murder, lynching, and others. In my experience, people who behave like you are very frequently shitty, argumentative, narcissistic, insecure, conflict-driven crybabies who try to cover up their terrible personality, empathy, and lack of contribution towards the public good with extreme political or ideological opinions, despite the fact you make a positive difference in the life of NO ONE and are equally as shitty and bigoted as racists, homophobes, or misogynists. Grow and change.

​@@judgeholden6761 Just my opinion. As a Free American I'm entitled to it and the fact that you made fun of me for having that opinion shows that you're a C*mmunist Sn*wflake.

That comment hit me good.

It's because most of the people up in the Appalachians were from Ulster Scot ancestry. I know my family was. But these days, they are less and less common, due to mass migration from up north and Latin America. it's a shame really.

​@@etherashe5164 I remember as a kid the only Latinos I ever saw were working maintenance in the mall way out in Knoxville, and now they're everywhere. And it doesn't matter how far in the country you go chances are the little country store is owned and operated by Indians. Don't get me wrong I love our new inhabitants because they're hard working, family oriented people, but things sure are changing around here for sure.

My grandma is from the hill country and they were welsh, miners in Wales, miners in Appalachia, so much of the talk is the same. When my friend Jane gets drunk and goes off in welsh you can hear where my grandmas town got it from.

funny you say that because Appalachian English can be traced back to Scottish and Irish who settles the Appalachian back country

@@etherashe5164 they also spread out from the Appalachians over time to the Rockies and the cascades and California. I’ve got scotch Irish on my paternal side from Southern California and on my maternal side are from south Alabama. All can be traced at one point in the appalachians. Some stayed and others ventured south and West eventually.

That's when the interviewer started to leave, then spent the next 3 days, hand on the door knob talkin his goodbyes.

Bible

Then the wind started turning the pages the other way

Wait until somebody that isn't Christian comes along. They will turn into the most angry people you've ever seen.

@@ethandollarhide7943 😭

That accent isn't bad. It's the most beautiful and uniquely American thing that the ear can hear.

I remember watching swamp people with my girlfriend and she needed the subtitles and I didn’t even realize I understood everything just fine. Lol. It made me happy.

I'm from Oneonta, Alabama initially but grew up in Texas for most of my life. Never got the accent myself but I got to visit home recently and I can't really help but feel a sense of pride in being connected to this dialect and culture. Maybe not the most glamorous lifestyle to some, but it's a part of the world that's filled with some of the nicest and most hardworking people I've ever met.

North Alabama born and raised, heard all these phrases all my life except “ boomer” haven’t heard anyone called a peckerwood since I was a kid though, made me smile. 😊

Roll tide!!!

Bouncin' Betty most of those in the SE mountain range, and the SE US in general (GA, SC, NC, TN), are from ancestors from Scotland, Ireland, and England. Some of the very, very early hymns from my religion (Protestant Baptist) sound like Gregorian chants. And have you ever noticed just how similar clogging is to Irish dance? That is no coincidence. ❤️

@@mcbeeze West Virginia as well. My ancestor, Richard Tennant, came from Glascow & fought in French & Indian War and Revolution.

High class Of England populated the South and the Scots migrated to the mountains

Bouncin' Betty these people are descended from Scots,,Irish. And Ulster scotch Irish. No surprise there. My dad is one of them, from west Virginia, and all I see in his ancestry is English, Irish, Ulster, Welsh. These people are speaking in a way that was handed down from their ancestors

Yes, poke is used through-out the English isles to mean bag. It's actual origin is the french word for 'bag'.. poque (also the origin of 'pocket', or 'poquet' meaning 'small bag') .

This tells us that your family was very proud of their Scotch-Irish roots! I have lived through the same! Greeting to a fellow Scot-Irish decedent!

@@lionheart830 mines scots-ulster, still proud!

Things that are "normal" turn invisible. That's how a specific crow in a swarm get's named "white wing" for having a white patch on one wing - all the black is too normal to even be worth mentioning. And I suppose British settlers arrived very early on (what with England not being Puritan enough for the Puritans any more) and had time to spread out, so the Irish and Scottish were a smaller number. That, and ... well, there's this really, really unhappy chapter of immigration titled "coffin ships". Think spiritual relatives to today's coyotes.

the US is full of plastic paddies

@@frej586 scotch-irish aren't true Irish

Watch the trim!

Taint no moped, that a Harley Davis

As someone that also grew up in Appalachia, I say Good Riddance to the entire culture.

I mean alot of mountain people like to have sex with their cousins so leaving that behind ain't all bad 😂

​@@ethandollarhide7943 Bad

@@jakesuper6447 Good

@@armandonobrega5282 Very well said. Hello from Ashe County, NC.

Ann Elliot lol I use cattywampus and I’m from near St. Louis

Same here. I always heard it as "cattywumpus."

Yer from a different holler then. :)

瑞轲 this is true. I am as well. Little farther south and you get into a new language. I love it.

@Anjelica Snorcket banana puddin'. Nobody in my family ever said "pudding". It just doesn't sound right.

you kickin' back on that lawn is adorable

That’s Jim Tom lol- he’s from the show Moonshiners

That Bias against them is perfectly valid and I say this as someone originally from this area.

A lot of scottish and irish settlers settled in Appalachia

A bag in Icelandic is poki/poka

I was wondering where poke would come from to mean bag. V interesting. I instantly could figure out why they call sodas "dope" though lol

Shakespearean English also used "poke" for "bag".

A “póca” is a pocket in Irish Gaelic. (pronounced po-ka)

Okay, i tried. It didn't work.

@@richardportman8912 As long as you tried your hardest. It's the effort that counts!😛

My mom still uses that as a slur for white people lol.

@@MariNate1016 Ain't racism wonderful?

@@MariNate1016 envy isn’t very flattering

the ultimate deja vu

Fact? :)

Its fascinating. I looked it up. So cool.

Which is why we still say ‘poke’ for paper bag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@thomas Prior Americans make it sound like there are 0 English (or Welsh) people in the US, either everyone is Scottish or Irish it seems.

A common mashup of the terms in the region is sody dope.

*Extremely prejudiced people. Coming from somebody that also grew up in Appalachia.

"You won't be successful with that accent." = "If you're not like us, we won't let you survive in this world." Some people are very entitled to their own selves, especially if they are a majority, they can't imagine people existing in any other way. They can't comprehend that the world is vast and diversity is inevitable, and beautiful.

Ain't nothin like Sylva Nc

lividlumm 21 Franklin ain’t so bad either 😀

@Jim Taylor There are quite a few Taylors in North East Georgia. Wonder if we had common relatives? My ancestors came over around 1740-ish. Who knows?

Most of my family on both sides are from Sylva and Cullowhee. When my daughter was a toddler she called the Tucaseegee the Tuckulseegee.

Cooter is also slang for vagina. lol

LOL A cooter is a river turtle here in North Carolina. They have webbed feet for swimming and usually a yellow line on each side of the face.

The only cooter I've heard of is what's between a ladies legs. Lol

I bet he was a good soldier. They don't raise cowards there, and I bet he would have taken a bullet for you or anyone else

I think I'm more of a peckerwood

my cocks sigogglin'

that thungs siglogglin right yonder

Banjaxed!

Peckerhead or peckerwood are also a thing in the plains states, usually head but sometimes wood.

Peckerhead is in our vocabulary too and I'm Australian of Scottish and Irish background. And yeah, it needs no explaining...

Black Americans use the word "Peckerwood" for a unpleasant/racist white person.

Peckerwood is quite used though. Heard it alot in American films/tv series.

I'd imagine she didn't mean anything other than 'wood that's been compromised by a woodpecker.' Raunchiness is a more recent thing

well, that,s how it,s always been spoken in scotland.

@@brucecollins4729 Really? Man y'all some cool folk!

@@shanchan8247 if u came to scotland u would never understand us lol we would say......er yi aw gawn, are you all going.

And the phone greeting common in the South particularly in Texas.. Yea-ello? lol Y'all have a nice day now, come back soon y'hear.

@@paullangton-rogers2390 people in the apallachians forget the earlier scots who started arriving in the 1500s. there are some words i recognise as scottish.also, many many of the later ulster scots would still have been full scots having lived in ireland a few years or even months then leaving for amerikay (due to the tensions in ireland at the time) the scots were not welcome there. they never sat in ireland for a couple o centuries then went over in a bulk load.