Zell Miller on Deliverance.

[red neck richie]

Do yall put peanuts in your Coke or do yall drink pop upair?

I like my peanuts boiled.

 

[Artfuldodger]

Do yall put peanuts in your Coke or do yall drink pop upair?

"upair" took me a minute. Maybe more like "upare."

They used to grow some perty backer upare. We used to buy rosen ears upare as well.

We also had a few pole cats come through our campsites upare. Our far didn't even keep em away.

My Dad says folks in all of South Georgia talked this way when he was a boy. He is 96. Slowly though for some reason it slowly changed.

Also if a word ended in a vowel you put a "r" on the end. If a word had a r on the end, you left it off.
Such as bananner or pizzeer. But ruler is "rulah." Sandra is Sander and Martha is Marther. It think this may be an Old English thing as well. In England ruler is pronounced rulah. My mom does this, she always drops the "r" on the end of a word. If it ends in a vowel, she add and "r."

Jonah is Joner, Cuba is Cuber. Noah is No-ee.

Whur some people in South Georgia talk like this, even more in Appalachia talk like this. I'm sure it's based on isolation.

I still pronounce the "l" in walk, talk, and chalk. My wife being from Augusta doesn't. She says wok, tok, and chok. A chok board.

 

[NOYDB]

Being a Military brat I've heard all sorts of ways to say things. I haven't used all that I've heard over the years, but I do have some favs. Some are the same words but are pronounced differently. Sit in a mess hall where all the soldiers are gathered, and listen to all the different accents.

The school I went to in Singapore had 26 different nationalities in attendance (at the time). My mates at the time were from Australia plus I hung out with a lot of British blokes. Throw in all the Ambassadors kids and we learned not to pay much attention to accents. Everyone had one (or more).

One of my friends was the Dutch Ambassador's son. They had a pet Orangutan. They are strong! Nothing like having your hair picked for nits after school.

Singapore American School, has a nice write up on Wiki.

 

[NCHillbilly]

"upair" took me a minute. Maybe more like "upare."

They used to grow some perty backer upare. We used to buy rosen ears upare as well.

We also had a few pole cats come through our campsites upare. Our far didn't even keep em away.

My Dad says folks in all of South Georgia talked this way when he was a boy. He is 96. Slowly though for some reason it slowly changed.

Also if a word ended in a vowel you put a "r" on the end. If a word had a r on the end, you left it off.
Such as bananner or pizzeer. But ruler is "rulah." Sandra is Sander and Martha is Marther. It think this may be an Old English thing as well. In England ruler is pronounced rulah. My mom does this, she always drops the "r" on the end of a word. If it ends in a vowel, she add and "r."

Jonah is Joner, Cuba is Cuber. Noah is No-ee.

Whur some people in South Georgia talk like this, even more in Appalachia talk like this. I'm sure it's based on isolation.

I still pronounce the "l" in walk, talk, and chalk. My wife being from Augusta doesn't. She says wok, tok, and chok. A chok board.

Here in the mountains, we leave the "r" on the end of a word that has one, and add an "r" to vowel endings. Anna =Anner, banana = nanner, etc. We even add "r"s to words that don't end in vowels. Those stinging insects that build open paper nests under the eaves of your house are "wawspers," for example. We also have a unique, nasa way of pronouncing the short "a", kind of like an "i" added to it. It's pretty much unspellable, but just listen to Richard Petty say the word "fast" in a Goody's Powder commercial. Kind of like "fiaist."

BTW, you are correct on the origins. The "hillbilly accent" is pretty much pure Elizabethan English from the 1600s that survived in isolation in the Appalachians. A lot of the older folks when I was a kid used "holp" for "help," and suchlike old English pronunciations.

 

[mark-7mag]

Here in the mountains, we leave the "r" on the end of a word that has one, and add an "r" to vowel endings. Anna =Anner, banana = nanner, etc. We even add "r"s to words that don't end in vowels. Those stinging insects that build open paper nests under the eaves of your house are "wawspers," for example. We also have a unique, nasa way of pronouncing the short "a", kind of like an "i" added to it. It's pretty much unspellable, but just listen to Richard Petty say the word "fast" in a Goody's Powder commercial. Kind of like "fiaist."

BTW, you are correct on the origins. The "hillbilly accent" is pretty much pure Elizabethan English from the 1600s that survived in isolation in the Appalachians. A lot of the older folks when I was a kid used "holp" for "help," and suchlike old English pronunciations.

Do you say Chicargo and Warshington ?

 

[NCHillbilly]

Do you say Chicargo and Warshington ?

No on Chicargo, yes on Warshenton.

The "g" always gets dropped off the "ing" thing, too.

 

[NCHillbilly]

We call y'all's state "Jorjee."

 

[Crakajak]

"We may talk slow but those apples are 12.00 a bag." just saying....

 

[Hillbilly stalker]

Fire =far
far=fur
tire=tar
close= pert near
drain=drean
care=keer
it=hit
poison=pizen
wasp=wasper
hard road= black top
chap=children
jasper=heathen
Theater=movie house/picture show
All holler talk

 

[Nicodemus]

Jawja, Flarder, Noth Kerliner, N`awlens, Looozianer, Missippi, Tennsee, Alerbamer.

This is mainly older generation folks from around here that uses this dialect. The younger folks for the most part tend to talk more "proper".

 

[NCHillbilly]

Fire =far
far=fur
tire=tar
close= pert near
drain=drean
care=keer
it=hit
poison=pizen
wasp=wasper
hard road= black top
chap=children
jasper=heathen
Theater=movie house/picture show
All holler talk

Same here except for "drean," "chap," and "jasper."

 

[Miguel Cervantes]

I could show you some stuff up in Wayne county, make deliverance look like a love story.

What do you mean? I thought it was!!!

 

[Artfuldodger]

"We may talk slow but those apples are 12.00 a bag." just saying....

Reminds of the quote from Deliverance; Whose playing the banjo?

I wonder how much sourwood honey is going for?

 

[NCHillbilly]

Jawja, Flarder, Noth Kerliner, N`awlens, Looozianer, Missippi, Tennsee, Alerbamer.

This is mainly older generation folks from around here that uses this dialect. The younger folks for the most part tend to talk more "proper".

Jorjee, Flahrdee, North C'liner, South C'liner, Vurjinyee here, but we pronounce Alabama and Tennessee normally. Some of the older folks used to say "Alabammer," though.

 

[Nicodemus]

Reminds of the quote from Deliverance; Whose playing the banjo?

I wonder how much sourwood honey is going for?

Tupelo honey (my favorite) has done got high. Glad I have a connection in Wewa.

 

[Hillbilly stalker]

Whole new meaning to " branch kin " lol !

 

[NCHillbilly]

Reminds of the quote from Deliverance; Whose playing the banjo?

I wonder how much sourwood honey is going for?

You mean "Whose a' pickin' banjers in hyere?"

 

[Nicodemus]

Jorjee, Flahrdee, North C'liner, South C'liner, Vurjinyee here, but we pronounce Alabama and Tennessee normally. Some of the older folks used to say "Alabammer," though.

I can understand any Southern dialect that I`ve heard, but some of those yankee gibberish I don`t have a clue what they`re saying.

 

[Artfuldodger]

Down here wasp is waulst or waulstes.

I used to hear the term parched peanuts for roasted peanuts. I haven't heared that term in awhile.

 

[Artfuldodger]

I think a chimbley is Old English as well. What about a harrow or wheel barrow?

 

[Miguel Cervantes]

"upair" took me a minute. Maybe more like "upare."

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Or as a more technically correct portmanteau it would perhaps be up'ere or simply upere...???