NC-Mountain Talk

government like that like we had some wood out in the yard instead of saying carry it in the house you'd say towed it in the house like we had something that you wanted to put in a paper bag you put in the paper poke you know instead of a paper bag well the way people talk around here I guess it'd be what more like you called hillbilly style or something like that I don't know there's a mountain talk most your local people have your Mountain tile that's why you can tell the mountain people from your outsiders by their language they use say I'll see you over yonder it means I'll see like in Waynesville it's a mountain top coming never nothing stops it's like saying you know we're kind of like we're signing leader said we're saying you know oh everybody hears about Greyhound County Dumpty how good the people is how they'll hippies I run into people I don't know never seen them in my life and I help them any way I can somebody to Monday you'll get luck in the head I said well no I'm this month they just good hearty everybody you meet just nineteen I'm Senate if I didn't know you're a move when you where you want to go on vacation I was gonna go on vacation I just stay right on you we are 20 years behind the whole country when I would swap places with nobody I feel much more comfortable here being 20 years behind everybody then I would be a setting a lot of places and being so unkind Mirabal you don't like your neighbor you don't speak to your neighbor you're you're bitter over the world and Latin is a good example Rowley you drive down the street and everybody's wide open our homes and no no nobody and don't wanna know about it and don't care about nobody it's quite a bit different up there well we have been wash them they say about four and a half year something I just seen been hell with my back broke his liver people are so good to each other here many of the words and expressions in Mountain speech are unfamiliar to outsiders scots-irish settlers brought much of the vocabulary from Europe but many new words and expressions were invented here by their descendants there's just somebody coming up with a strange word what it means I mean let's say you're trying to get something done you're building something and you'll take a look at it like the words I gargling you're looking at and it's all out of line and you just might come up with the words I si gargling I do that myself I can't think of anything right off but I come up with a lot of new words myself and so you get somebody stand around to hear that okay it's I got Glenn say a carpenter has done a real poor job and then you think that's all sigh gargling you know it didn't have his walls straight or something like I think signed on Glee they say I want you to look say what is it if you're building some couple of it so that's I gleam that under and said that a road to going up the under set up thanks darling my grandmother she's always talking about people being styled or gained she used words like peckerwood if somebody she didn't like she'd called him a peckerwood if there's somebody she didn't she didn't know but he's probably alright she didn't have many animosity for him she'd say he is a Jasper there's this Jasper come by here this morning I knocked on the door you know but if it's a Salesman as this peckerwood after on the porch it's not people used to know my can you go on the stores they put it in the bank old people says you put it oh that's a bag I used to go to the store walk two miles the store and when I was a kid and carry a 25 pound polka flower home that's flyer by the way not flower and me and my two sisters and one brother we'd be a waiting on him at the house to get our candy so I like the older man I was talking about had a little polka candy he said well I I forgot to get anything but we'd scream Oh Harry there plum was a common word when I was growing plum this and plum that Nene and plum over there well he was just plumb wore out that copper mine that vine they tunneled under the ground plumb out though here to Snowbird like the wind was blowing you know a lot of iron they would say it's very Irish that's alright it means it's a little bit chilly outside it means it's alright that means it's chilly today it's a race today right now as we speak there he's blowing and breezy they go where you don't go with no storm buy a coke I call them dopes back in I know if you ever heard anybody say that or not that's what we drink when I was a kid and it was called they had me hide Pepsi Cola royal crown Cola a lot of them that was dope Oh a dope you're talking about like a soda pop soda water yeah yes so do you water yeah no that's all they ever call them around here as a kid I mean nothing now if you go up toward ernestine place up fire stop along there about or you turn up to Tony's urn Empire extra and along with that log house you probably see a Boomer right there a lady come from she said oh I said that's a pretty boomer she said a Boomer what's the Boomer you know what a Boomer is don't you yes she will they make a lot of chatting noises they're about the size of a warframe yeah war pride big already a Boomer is like a little squirrel it's not a squirrel it's just a mix between a grey squirrel and a chipmunk each appear to read can he eat him yeah she said that's a red squirrel I said well to me it's a bummer we're always told it boomers there's no skull I mean that's old dead land won't grow nothing you know the coach skull one little few you hear daddy I know you have colors go Orlin that's like a carburetor in my van all gone net with a little dirty stuff gum mean like no clutter good gone nuts yeah that mean it's in a mess that's well that's what I was they didn't know their town such educated folks did instead of saying yonder you know over yonder you that's Jovian you hear that word again yeah I say way over yonder yeah their mama used to come up to us and we've led on she said juice or Gander tickle each year we say go she's a poet you close and say yonder she said put it way over yonder fitment they say yonder comes him arriving at Harlan Davis exact into hurry

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Length: 8min 11sec (491 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 10 2015