We are a hill people...

Hey, I promised you some dialect and I don't want to disappoint. These are examples of the dialect spoken where I grew up. Geographically, the region is known as "Upper Appalachia." Its denizens affectionately call it "coal minin' country." The dialect is a variant of the Midland or North Midland dialect region.

Jesco White "Outlaw Dancer"

phonological (sound) variants:  

• warsh     "wash"
• crik         "creek"
•  simular   "similar"
• 'at           "that"
• 'ere          "there"
• 'At 'ere... "That there..."
  

lexical (word/vocabulary) variants:

• press      "closet"
• redd out "clean out" (note: redd up is "to clear the table")
• dinner    "lunch" (Really; it's so confusing.)
• mango    "green pepper" (Talk about confusing! Even says it at the grocery store.)
• commode "toilet"
• poke        "brown paper bag" 
  
                                       syntactic (grammar/usage) variants:
  

Mamie White

• We wuz at BINGO when we seen 'im.  
Conjugation of "to be" and wider use of the past participle differ greatly from standard English.
• We's been rentin' lots a' movies anymore.  
  This is referred to as "positive anymore" and is not regularly found in any other dialect.
• We had pork chops and applesauce, an'at. 
  Sociolinguists refer to this catch-all phrase, suffixed to any list in a sentence, as "the an'at."
• The baby needs fed; that cat wants put out; the dog likes his haid petted.
  Honest to god, we talk like this.
• You'ins is comin', ain't yinz?
  These second person plural pronouns correspond to the better-known y'all of the South. There's also we'z but I don't think it's as noticeable in connected speech.

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