Tourists overseas are accused of having an American accent.
Same difference.
There are many regional accents in the US.
Since I grew up in Appalachia and moved to Brooklyn, I’ve been know to say, “I’m fixin’ to go to the terlit.”
re: “cooter”, well, a term I remember from childhood is “old coot”, synonymous with geezer. I can see where that could lead to “Cooter” as a person’s nickname.
The interwebs are listening, and they sent me this youtube video. Most of the words and phrases were familiar, one or two were new. (Peckerwood had me rolling. We used that fairly often in high school.) But what struck me most was the way people moved their hands when they talked. That’s something I haven’t seen in a long, long time.
Going by the comments on this FB post, that definition is very familiar.
My Daddy’s people immigrated from Wakes. The name is definitely English. There’s actually an English village with the same name.
There’s probably German in there but we traced back just that far.
Not Appalachian proper. I’m sure they tarried there before crossing over the Mississippi.
My Granny(Daddy’s mother) was the hickiest of hicks. We spent lots of time with her.
People use Mommy and Daddy. Mamaw and Papaw. In this bunch.
We are Ma, and Pop to the kids. To the Grandkids were Nana and Big Pop.
My Granny used:
Good googly woogly:
as an exclamation.
The warshing for laundry.
Instead of breakfast lunch and dinner.
It was breakfast, dinner and supper. Or simply “vittles” as in " fixin’ to sat down to vittles". (yes ‘sat’ she never differentiated sit, sat, set)
Kin for can.
Poke sack for tote bag
Cooter neck for a nosy person.
I could go on and on. She had a vocabulary that would shock people.
Should be “Wales” /Welsh decent
Sidetrack:
We were watching an episode of Crossing Jordan yesterday, and they found a DB on the Appalachian Trail and just hopped on over to do their thing. And twice more as the epi unfolded.
The AT is 170 miles from Boston. They must have found the NCIS wormhole.
Is “DB” some Appalachian word? What does it mean?
DB = Dead Body
(We watch too many of those type shows.)