Specially if ya’ll gots a crik runnin through it.
This is my first time hearing (reading) it.
Fabulous song. And till now I had no idea what a holler was.
Me neither. It took a long time for me to understand that “crick” is really spelled creek too, though. The pronunciations of both are just so off from the spelling it never occurred to me that they were saying those words instead of entirely separate ones.
We should be grateful Washington Irving was a Yankee–“The Legend of Sleepy Holler” really stinks as a title.
I am very familiar with the word “holler,” living here in the other hillbilly place with a remarkably similar accent among the old folks. However, I never made the connection to “hollow” until you mentioned it. I always assumed it was connected to the other word “holler” which means to yell. A holler is usually a place that has a nice echo.
Yes, but then, my in-laws are all “Mountain People” so I’ve been hearing the dialect for nearly 30 years now.
Figuring out that “flares” (which as they say it has 1.5 to 2 syllables) meant “flowers” took me a bit longer.
My father said “flars.” It rhymes with “cars.”
Other words that rhyme with cars: showers, tires, hours.
I’m familiar with the word holler. But always thought it was a different word from hollow
Country people do sometimes create the er sound
Old Yeller. Instead of old yellow.
Yep.
Holler as a verb = to yell
Holler as a noun = low land spot usually between hills/mountains