Posted on 03/26/2010 7:00:19 AM PDT by jay1949
An order of the Virginia Colonial Council dated May 4, 1725, concerned an allegation that "divers Indians plundered the Quarters of Mr. John Taliaferro near the great mountains [i.e., the Blue Ridge] . . .[and carried off] some of the Guns belonging to and marked with the name of Spottsylvania County . . . ." The Council concluded: "It is ordered that it be referred to Colo. Harrison to make inquiry which of the Nottoway Indians or other Tributaries have been out ahunting about that time . . . ."
Now, the Colonial Council was an august body and its proceedings were formal, so we can be sure that "ahunting" was not common slang. It was, on the contrary, an accepted usage which is now obsolete except in Appalachia and the Ozarks, where folks still go "out a-huntin'."
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English folks speak the language almost as good as we do in East Tennessee.
Ain’t tat da gospul, Marc???
My husband is from Michigan and his whole family says "crick" for creek. In fact, there's a crick that runs along the western boundary line of their property.
Yeah, but you gotta watch those uppity ones. They’re just a bunch of knot-headed peckerwoods.
He also pronounces his home state with a hard "a".....Ioway.
PS to Jay.....love your blog.
Would that be “Acadian”, Joe????
Sho' nuff.
If you haven’t visited Blind Pig & The Acorn, I recommend you to go there for Tipper Pressley’s educational and entertaining series on speaking the language of Southern Appalachia. Start with Speak Like An Appalachian, http://www.blindpigandtheacorn.com/blind_pig_the_acorn/2008/04/speak-like-an-a.html then go to Speak Like An Appalachian II, http://www.blindpigandtheacorn.com/blind_pig_the_acorn/2008/08/speak-like-an-a.html and then work your way through the tests, starting with Appalachian Vocabulary Test http://www.blindpigandtheacorn.com/blind_pig_the_acorn/2008/11/appalachian-vocabulary-test.html and running to the most recent post, Appalachian Vocabulary Test 17 http://www.blindpigandtheacorn.com/blind_pig_the_acorn/2010/03/appalachian-vocabulary-test-17.html Music to my Backcountry-loving ears.
Also, I have two previous FR posts on this topic — http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2469507/posts and http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2470833/posts
Everyone seems to say I feel when they mean I think (and it bugs me) but I’ve only heard the extraneous “that” put in by people with southern accents.
I up and read this whole thing!
If he said that, he robbed it from Lewis Grizzard
Never heard that growing up in east Tenn. I did hear it when I exiled myself to Georgia, from a native of North Georgia,
crick....
Yeah...I wonder why Hollywood and some others try to pan that off as “southern mountains hillbilly speak”??
We’ve never said it... :o)
You are so correct...my fault...I got the two humorists mixed up...BTW, I really miss Lewis Grizzard...
“Don’t Bend Over in the Garden, Granny...Them Taters Got Eyes...”
I have often heard “carry” so used in the NC Piedmont — years ago, when I was a young’un — and have heard old-timers use it in Southwest Virginia where I live now. “I carried Lizzy to trade at the K-mark.” “Carried” meaning drove and “to trade” meaning to shop.
I’ve heard it some...not a lot...
I’ve heard “I got to haul my folks to church..” more....
crik
My mother had a couple of brothers who moved to Indianapolis. When they came back home, their young’uns, my cousins, called it a crik. We laughed at them.
Also, Mama told of neighbors back in the late 40’s / early 50’s who would move up north, Cleveland, Detroit for jobs, coming back in a couple of months and already adopting Yankee-speak and trying to correct their friends and family for the way they spoke.
Were you guys offended by Jed Clampett or did you find him amusing?
A lot of early Michigan settlers came from New England and upstate New York. Lots of available land for young farmers who weren’t going to inherit the family place.
Around here it’s pronounced “branch” ;>)
Hollywood Appalachian and Hollywood Southern provide me with a source of amusement. Especially considering that they come from people who go, like, uh, Southerners, uh, like, y’know, talk funny.
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