Speak Like an Appalachian - Mountain Talk Examples

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[@cathyrider9650]

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[@jettabartholomew1118]

Soooo much if this is familiar to me 💗💗💗

[@walterlang151]

I once asked students to use the word "best" in a sentence. One boy wrote, "You best do what your mom tells you to."

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

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[@roserollins9800]

Truer words were never spoken and you can take that to the bank

[@papawnanasaveslovesnlife9530]

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[@apiecemaker1163]

My grandson when he was about two, would do so something he was proud of and say, “look-a-hear, look-a-hear.” It was so cute.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

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[@mamamode1312]

Lookie here lookie here wudya

[@denisew.3447]

We still use so many of those sayings here in Northwest Georgia too. My daddy especially used a lot of these old sayings. He would have just turned 94 on Dec 21st. Been gone a few years now. He was country as cornbread and was proud of it.

[@SherylPaulFTP]

I was raised in FL every single one of these phrases I grew up hearing and saying.

[@annetteberry5415]

Louisiana too

[@pamskinner9490]

Definitely true in SW Michigan where I grew up.

[@annetteberry5415]

True in Louisiana. I have said this several times

[@dothatch5147]

We had all these sayings in South Carolina.

[@Clfike]

I knew every one of these. Reckon I qualify as an Appalachian! I have spent much of my life there! ❤

[@joycewilson3787]

When I hear the sweet old language of Appalachia I feel at home. Thank you all for posting this un. I just love you'uns to pieces!

[@mitchmatthews6713]

Music to my ears! Stay safe, y'all!

[@angelawalker1075]

I grew up in the rural south, a little place called Wyatt, LA. I have used and I have heard others use these words and phrases on a regular basis, most of my life, all of which were common in our daily conversations. I've always been a bit of a logophile, and just love when you do these.

[@dianad4633]

I’m definitely Appalachian, through and through. Still use so many of these. My grandma would always say “scat there” after a sneeze; “I’ll be John Brown” meaning well what about that. When I was little I suddenly started whistling all the time and she told me that “A whistling girl and a crowing hen, both will come to the same bad end.” 😂

[@sherrybaird570]

My Granny use to say the same thing about the whistling woman and a crowing hen. And she use to say if you laugh to much you would be sick the next day. I married into a laughing family. I have never laughed so much in my life. When my father in law passed away I did his eulogy and I mention my Granny's saying and if that was true the whole Baird clan would have dropped over dead because of the laughter in the house. They were known for having so much clean fun.

[@annierambo5606]

I'm from Alabama and we use a lot of those sayings. I love it. Wish y'all would do it more. God bless. 🙏❤🙏❤

[@sandramcgough5100]

Have you ever heard the term ,“ Ole black Bart.“ or referring to children as ,“ Hungries,“

[@Mr._Anderpson]

These sound like normal conversation to me, but I'm a West Virginian. Here's a few more. Powerful - (pronounced parr-ful) -- it means great or extreme. I've got a powerful hankering for deer jerky. Poke - A bag. We dug up the taters & put 'em in a poke. Had two of 'em slap full. This last one is a phrase. My grandmother called my oldest sister a bad cook by saying, "That girl could scorch water."

[@holliesheet3182]

There is so much pride and delight with sharing these! ☺

[@collins5038]

I have to admit I use many of these words. Loved the Bloopers!

[@hillbilly03richardson61]

Much obliged for this channel! What'cher hurry, I'm frazzled, I'm give out, I'm done tuckered out! I really enjoy your channel!!!!

[@gb1914]

I live about as far away from the Appalachian mountains as possible and I use a few of these, especially how come and heaps. 🇦🇺

[@rad7965]

I'm76 and have talked like that my whole life. I knew everyone of the phrases and use them in my everyday talking. Never knowed it was something special talking like that.

[@SuzieQ-lw2kp]

I love hearing these sayings because i use every one of them still. growing up this is what I was use to hearing my momma say daily most in my county still talk like this here in KY. Love the bloopers ❤

[@joeeverett9775]

Grew up with most of these expressions down in the piedmont in Davie county. We’re country here too.

[@Needlewich]

Grew up hearing…and using…most of these Words and phrases. God bless and much love! 💕🤗🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@EllieBeee]

😂😂 I'm just plum foolish about this family!! ❤ this was wonderful! 👍

[@dougrichardson5275]

Thanks for sharingTipper. So almost all of this (with the exception of goodest) is just normal every day language that I say and have said all my life. What seems strange to me is that anyone would find it unusual or noteworthy. But it's all just a matter of where you grow up and what you're used to.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you for watching 😊

[@HobnobWithBob]

I feel blessed to have grown up around family who used most of those phrases. I still use a lot them myself. The only two I hadn't heard before are "gadding around" and "lit." One more that I used to hear a lot was "Well, I'll be dogged," which basically means "I never would have believed it if I hadn't seen it." Hope y'all had a good Christmas, and can't wait to see what next year brings for y'all!

[@user-ef2se7hs2b]

It was so hot... I like to've fell out!... I'm just adding another. In our family we literally use all these words and phrases... 👍🏻😊

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Love it!

[@TracyfromNC]

I say most of these phrases but it really tickles folks when I say, I ain't done a blessed ( bless-ed) thing today. And gob is a real description of measurement!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

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[@jeremyholland1993]

A lot of this talk is very comparable to Mississippi talk! Lol Mississippians just draw everything out, but still have the same sayings! I love it, and I love your channel.

[@KennyP88]

What’s interesting is, I grew up in a coastal town north of Boston and a few of these phrases or words were everyday use in our family too. I been living here in the Appalachian south now, near on 25 years and I love the language and it’s roots going back to those hardy Scottish families. ❤

[@rebeccas5024]

I love how you used one idiom "powerful dare" to define another idiom "double dog dare". Perfect!

[@lelathompson5989]

Always enjoy your videos.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I appreciate that!

[@lynnhutto7671]

The Bloopers are priceless! Got me laughing already this morning 😊

[@eileenmayberry2731]

My mother was born in Southern Illinois and so was her mother...so it is amazing to me how many of these expressions I grew up using.

[@bluebird218bn]

I say all but a couple of these. I’ve always wondered how come we say “how come” instead of just “why.” 😊

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

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[@mamamode1312]

@@CelebratingAppalachia i figure its short for how did that come to be How come A deeper why Like Looking for the cause of it Often why get just 'cause. Or Maybe why but not the process that brought it forth. So, how come

[@Dee-743]

I have used at least two thirds of these.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

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[@charlottehetherington8720]

That was so fun and the bloopers made it extra special

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Glad you enjoyed it 😊

[@kimberlylyerly2207]

I just love ya'll explaining country-talk. ❤

[@soulfoodsmama2980]

My husband just brought home a kitten and the lil thing is growing into an absolute heathern.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

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[@tecora7419]

So many of these sayins reminds me of my Daddy

[@osmadchlo]

The only one I haven't heard or said is "help my time". That was a new one for me. ❤

[@Corinnajudd]

Yall are absolutely wonderful!! Love yalls videos.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you!

[@jamiedolen]

This is my everyday way i talk. I loved this short lil video of y'all.❤️ Y'all feel like distant family to me, our lifestyles and talk are so similar. 💓🙏

[@paulws58]

I always enjoy the bloopers.

[@robinhaupt9119]

This was fun, thank you Tipper and everyone. I use some of those!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Glad you enjoyed it 😊

[@Corinnajudd]

Growing up in the ozark mountains of Arkansas, i thought we were the only ones who said these things!! Lol

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

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[@debluetailfly]

Lots of folks migrated from Appalachia to the Ozarks and Ouachitas. Looked more like home than anywhere else they would ever find.

[@Jean-ko4xv]

I sure enjoy those old time sayings, thanks for keeping them alive.God bless.💕 &🙏🙏 For Granny. Jean

[@brendaschenck859]

Funny, it felt good to laugh 😂😂 I use almost all of these…but…I’ve heard heard of a hog sucker fish, until your video earlier in the summer when you told about working in the fish market!

[@livvyweimar7362]

Some of these I would have no idea what you were saying. Thanks for sharing your idioms with us ❤

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

My pleasure 😊

[@phyllispitts6656]

I’m familiar with a lot of these sayings!

[@garybrunet6346]

Thanks Tipper, I love the language videos. They are so rich!❤️🇨🇦🙏

[@nurseamber4180]

These are great! I know most of them since I’m from NC….but fall out is a pretty universal term in the medical field. It’s mostly used in the past tense….for example, a patient done fell out, or DFO’d. 😂

[@littlebird585]

I remember my Grandma, Papa, and family using most of these terms. I find that I still do. My grandchildren get a giggle out of some of my 'terms'.

[@debbieepperly3821]

I loved these! I still say so many of these! Y'all had me grinning from ear to ear!! I haven't felt well since Christmas so haven't been able to visit hubby last 2 days!! Y'all just don't know how much better I feel now!! Thanks to all the family! I especially got tickled at the bloopers! God bless y'all! Love from VA!

[@lindamcgee3651]

Praying and Blessed! 🤗🙏💕

[@robinchanteusedylan8326]

Heard most of these growing up, thanks for using them in sentences like you did in this video. The bloopers are so funny! 😃

[@jeanmooreboykin4250]

Love it, Love it, Love it!!!!! Sounds like home sweet home!!!!! ❤❤❤ I've heard most of these in eastern NC, growing up. Only we didn't say, "Help my time." We said, "Help my life."

[@debluetailfly]

A guy I knew in the Ozarks said "Well, slap my jaw!"

[@RickandPenny]

Alot of those sayings is southern says in Mississippi. But Dad was from around Clinton TN and he said we ens and you ens. Here we say Yall. After living in Canada for 3 or 4 years I actually told guests leaving yall coke back now, eeh. Lol didn't know I said it they hugged me and said I was Canadian now. Lol

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

😊 Thank you for watching!

[@saner6888]

This was fun🙂 I guess I speak like an Appalachian sometimes based on those words 👏👏

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

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[@sherrieburgess7494]

I'm glad to know I've been speaking like an Appalachian all my life here in North Texas. Guess I'd fit right in!

[@karensweet6530]

That's the way I talk all the time! I reckon it's how I was reared to talk! It's normal to me to hear people speak using these words! Thank you Tipper, Matt, Corie and Katie! Did you hear its posed to Snow a lil? Tipper, I shore hope you do see some even if it's a lil bit... Happy New Year to Y'all... God Bless 🙏🙏❤❤🎄🎄🍭🍭

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I hope it does 😊 Thank you!

[@lindareinking5326]

Love these mountain talk videos❤❤

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Glad you like them!

[@cathyking8013]

oh my, this was so much fun. i can't believe how many of your sayin's were mine too growing up in Wake County, NC. amazing.

[@homesteadingpastor]

Enjoyed watching! We probably use or have heard 95% of these. Thanks for sharing with us. 😇🙌🏻❤️🙏🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thanks for watching! 😊

[@jackieellenbarnes1268]

A lot of these I know but not all. Love your Bloopers 😅

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I'm so glad!

[@HHoughton]

I just love listening to these, y'alls voices it remind me of the cadences of my youth. I've heard and still use most of these. Things like, "he's as crazy as an outhouse rat" and "he was grinning like a possum eatin' manure" Every time I hear you rehearsing these I remember more...wonderful. Thank You

[@christinej2358]

I love the bloopers, not just because they’re funny, but it also show the finished video took a lot of work trying to get it how you wanted it. Plus it shows how much fun y’all have while making them. I know the editing part, can’t be fun, but very rewarding once it’s finished. Thank y’all for all to provide great content!

[@cds1848]

So many of these terms migrated to southern Ohio and Indiana! I grew up in East Central Indiana...but, familiar with so many of these!

[@sunandthamoon]

We speak this way in NC.

[@ablelock]

I think I have as much fun watching the bloopers as I do watching the words that you guys are saying it really makes me laugh you put a big smile on my face 😂😂😂😂😂

[@sharonshelton8494]

Just enjoy gaddying about with y'all. Happy New Year 🙋🏻❤️🌠

[@elissalee3057]

I say all those thing's. ❤

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Love that 😊

[@KathysTube]

I knew them all but hog sucker, but I'm guessing it's a carp 🤔 Thanks for the vocabulary review ☺️👍

[@DWeezy62]

Northern Hog Sucker en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_hogsucker We use these as live or cutbait to catch Flathead and Channel Catfish here in Ohio.

[@ringokidd387]

Ya See , This is basically how I talk, Further Proving I was obstructed by da Cajun people"s Who took me away from my Appalachian Hills Family...they came into the Mountains in a Pirogue ( pee row) (a small flat bottom, canoe type boat) stuck me in a oyster sack brung me here to a Crawfish boil where all we had to eat was boiled crawfish taters and corn garlic and onions and ice Cold Beer! Been trying to get back home for Years!

[@2Old2Care]

Parts of this reminded me of "Hee Haw", when they would pop up outta the cornfield and tell a joke. 😂

[@paulaestes567]

Haha I loved this.. still say so many of these around these here parts

[@CassidyMcGathey]

I’m originally from the city of Richmond VA. I married my husband while we were stationed in AZ. He’s from Kingsport TN. I had to have him translate a lot of what was said when we visited his family because I had never heard people talk like that 😂🤷‍♀️ watching this video helped me. I love the bloopers ! Thank you.

[@Hi-xn5ph]

I have heard so many of these and actually said so many😂😂I’m from Georgia

[@TW1257]

Use a lot of these here in east central Alabama.

[@M2ElviSMuSic]

About the third one in, I thought "oh, I so hope they do bloopers from this!" And you did! THANK YOU!😂 Please do more of these. They lifted me up so.❤

[@jennymarshall4022]

Love your videos!! Matt tickles me in this video! Hope you and your family have a wonderful New Year!

[@PepperplacewithShawna]

Bloopers are so funny! Great video!❤

[@brendaleach-kv7if]

Well I swan bloopers are hilarious!

[@crystalshell3253]

We use a lot of those sayings in Kentucky also. Brought back so many memories of some of them as a child. Kids nowadays have no clue if you use those words now. Lol

[@kennethdean2417]

I could never believe Corie and Katie were Heathens when they were younger Both are so adorable ❤😊

[@loriwilkeson1077]

I talk like this all the time! 🤣😂

[@ginamaria2579]

That was so much fun. Recognize some a those ☺️💕

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you for watching 😊

[@joanndeland7969]

My husband always says " lf it would of been a snake, it would have bit me " When he was looking for his grasses 😊

[@barbaradavis393]

I grew up near Pittsburgh and it is amazing how many of these terms are so familiar. My dad was always using the "If it was a snake...." term, which is funny because he grew up on the New York-Canadian border. I guess great sayings are universal.

[@charlessommers7218]

Good show 👍

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

😊 Thank you

[@gloriamcbroom8251]

I live in central Oklahoma…..most of my kin are from the hills of Arkansas….I talk just like y’all….. Co-workers used to write down things I said….and laugh ! I sure love y’all….

[@ls7196]

Evening, Miss Tipper, made it on time.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Evening thanks for coming 😊

[@ls7196]

Welcome.@@CelebratingAppalachia

[@terrycheek4097]

Love y’all. Where ya from? I noticed the “Spirit of the outdoors “ shirt. I watch him too.

[@lord1557]

This is wonderful. 90% of this is common to my ear. Central KY, but eastern KY ancestors, Extreme western KY and Iowa, but somehow the language comes through. That hawk lit on that branch, How come you to do that, , natural voice for me. My wife from central Indiana, not so much, but she acquired an accent in Memphis and here folks were county Indiana.

[@sonyafox3271]

Just about anywhere you go in Kentucky! Mostly, South Eastern Indiana and,South Western Ohio, but,in South Eastern Indiana was part of the South and, back in the 30s to 40s around the time my mom was a child and growing up! There are some places out in Ohio that are pretty far out and, different regions that are still considered as part of the Appalachian Culture today!

[@Me2Lancer]

I live in north Texas and have lived here most of my life. The expressions you shared are common here as well.

[@cyndegruver6520]

Have you ever been really double dogged?? I have went to visit a friend who lived out in the country and was not home. Lucky me she left the door unlocked. One big dog came out when I got out of the car and since I had been living in the city of course by habit I locked my car door when I exited it. The big dog kept barking and barking at me which I had my eye on when suddenly I got bit on the back of my ankle by another very small dog that snuck up behind me. Both are barking like crazy and one is nipping my heels. I was closer to the house than the car so I got to the house and open the door hollering . This is before cell phones and I called my friend parents who lived near her and her dad came down and called the dogs off. He said that’s why no one locks their doors around there. Said they might get in but they won’t get out.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Oh goodness!

[@jenniferh3332]

I lived in NC for a few years in my 30’s. Moved there from the southwest. I had never before heard anyone say “might could”. I remember this phrase standing out to other people I met who weren’t from NC also. Enjoy your channel!

[@dougrichardson5275]

Yep. Might could, used to could, might Orta (might ought to) and a whole heap more☺️

[@pvjohnson52]

Y’all crack me up😊😊

[@highdesert5143]

So many made it to Oregon with my family from ages ago. ❤️

[@Alicia-pr7gr]

I grew up talking like this in Kentucky. Normal talk in my family 😂

[@ShelbyBunten]

This was great all of it ❤ Shelby

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

😊 Thank you!

[@blanton1624]

Funny stuff. These aren't just Appalachian sayings. My family talks like that in Texas! 🤣

[@CGholl]

I’m born and raised in Northern California and know these. I believe I heard them all from my grandparents who were not from California