Appalachian Vocabulary Test - See if You Know the Words!

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These girls are a riot. “Some people eat gizzards. There’s lotsa meat on a chicken and that’s what you choose to eat?” 😂🤣😂

As a young man from a small WV town I never took pride in my heritage because I didn’t think there was anything prideful about it. But as I’ve gotten older, I see the strength and resourcefulness and wit of the mountain people who now I am proud to call my fellow men and women. Keep this channel going!!! Absolutely love it!! ❤️

So many of these expressions feel like they've been taken straight out of Northern Ireland, and used in exactly the same context. It's wonderful.

I am a 70 year old black female leaving in the south. I did a DNA test and have lots of white DNA. I listened to spoken words by the Appalachian people and some of those words I grew up with. I think it came from slaves from Africa being taught English and it was Scottish and Irish together language they were taught. I have both countries DNA. When I first listened to your area I said oh they sound a lot like my family lol. I'm glad I came across your channel. Thank you be bless.

I’m from Avoca in Ireland 🇮🇪 and so many of these words are part of our vocabulary. Update 23/07/23 Speaking to my nanny(grandmother 94) some of granddads side of the family emigrated to Kentucky to work in the coal mines due to there experience of mining in the Avoca copper mines here in Wicklow Ireland. So any Moores from Kentucky we are probably related 😂

As an amateur linguist, I say that your work should be considered national treasure. Thank you!

Your daughters are adorable…they make this twice as much fun.❤

Katie is hilarious. I could listen to these girls talk all day. Love their accents.

A lot of these words have roots in Gaelic and the Scottish settlers that settled all along that area and there verbage from their native tongue over to English and has this morphed into the unique and beautiful language that is Appalachian 🤗🙏🏻🥰😇

I'm 67 years old and this brought up so many precious memories of my parents and grandparents. Thank you so much!!!

My family was in Appalachia before the American Revolution and then emigrated to Oregon Territory in 1852. The language, customs, superstitions, and recipes have survived and come down to us 7 or more generations later. Amazingly, I knew quite a few of these words. Thank you for posting this!

I’m from the Bluegrass area of Kentucky. Despite a heavy influence of the Midwest on my culture , our language is straight out of the hills. I’m proud to say I am familiar with 99 percent of the words and phrases in this test. My mamas peoples is out of West Virginia so that might be a heap of help for sure! Some words I didn’t hear was “ fixing” as in “ I’m fixing to leave y’all!”, and my favorite phrase that ever was, I remember Granny saying it like it was yesterday,God bless her, she’s been gone now, going on 20 years. She would say , “ Honey , fore yewings go, git the poke from the boot!” She had to walk across a creek to get to the house ,from where they parked it was a pretty good ways, so she was always needing help in fetching the groceries and what-knot! Thanks for the kind reminder!

'There's lots of good things on a chicken to eat & you choose that?!" She is 😆 hilarious. Love your girls.

My great-grandparents moved from Ireland to Tennessee. I'm proud to say I knew most of these. I'm glad there are people keeping Appalachian history/language alive!

Thank you, very entertaining. My parents were Highland Scots, and a lot of the words you used are very similar to their speech and consequentially my own . I was born in Australia and similar words can often be heard in Australian slang. Thanks again. John.

It really hits me, just how much my Appalachian ancestors carried this vocabulary through the generations! I knew most of them!

As a British lady almost 60 years old I recognised pretty much all the words which I was really happy about. And of course, the accent for me made it a little harder, I figured I got about half. 😆😆😆 very cool video.

I’m glad to see some Appalachians on YouTube. Our people need more positive representation, out there.

My mother's family is from rural Georgia, she's half native (t'saligi) and white. And i grew up hearing almost all of those words from them, i just didn't remember all of the meanings for them. Some of the meanings i do remember though! This video is giving me serious nostalgia. The accent is just like theirs and visiting the south has always been so pleasant,southern foods,hospitality,cultures and wilflife just can't be beat for me. It's good for the soul.