Southern English

[Bird]

How about bob ware

That's what we called it when I was a kid.

Who knows where the term "Hillbilly" came from or originated??

I don't know, but my West Virginia mother-in-law didn't like to be called a hillbilly.:laughing:

 

[bcp]

OK!!! Who knows where the term "Hillbilly" came from or originated??

Informal form of "HillWilliam"

Bruce

 

[IslandTractor]

OK!!! Who knows where the term "Hillbilly" came from or originated??

From wikipedia:

Origins of the term "hillbilly" are obscure. According to Anthony Harkins in Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon, the term first appeared in print in a 1900 New York Journal article, with the definition: "a Hill-Billie is a free and untrammeled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the hills, has no means to speak of, dresses as he can, talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it, and fires off his revolver as the fancy takes him."

 

[Lou66]

OK!!! Who knows where the term "Hillbilly" came from or originated??

I always took it as people that live and walked the hills,, like mountain goats.. or hill billy,, Hill being mountain,, goat being billy.. Lou

 

[TGeorge]

Actually down South we say "killed" and pronounce other words correctly when with another Southerner. It's just when folks from up or out yonder (notice I didn't say Yankees) are around that we lay it on thick and heavy so as to fool y'all.

Amen!

 

[IslandTractor]

Actually down South we say "killed" and pronounce other words correctly when with another Southerner. It's just when folks from up or out yonder (notice I didn't say Yankees) are around that we lay it on thick and heavy so as to fool y'all.

I can believe that. Most of us don't pahk ah cahs in Haavad yahd either except when the tourists are around.

 

[farmer2009]

My wife is from Kentucky and she pronounces wash like warsh. Told her there is no r in wash.

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And exit is eggsit or egxit. And the letter s is some times called "crooked letter". How I was taught to spell Mississippi M-I-crooked letter-crooked letter-I-crooked letter-crooked letter-I-humpback-humpback-I.

 

[1bush2hog]

That's not Southern, that's non college black.

Yep Ebonics

 

[1bush2hog]

Mash is one of my favorites. You can mash your finger or mash the elevator button. You can also mash potatoes . Or just drank sum mash

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Mash is one of my favorites. You can mash your finger or mash the elevator button. You can also mash potatoes

We smash our fingers, mash our 'taters and push the elevator button.