Please read and watch the video. For some, it will be instructive. For others, it merely does a good job of saying what we have always known.
https://coalfieldstocornfields.wordpres ... n-matters/
Appalachia
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Appalachia
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Gun-crazy? Me? I'd say the gun-crazy ones are the ones that don’t HAVE one.
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Re: Appalachia
Yes, but that, too, will change. Television, the automobile, and workforce mobility have all but destroyed regional dialects.
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Re: Appalachia
Yep, on all accounts...
And carpetbaggers who correct me on my pronounciation of the "PO- WHITE" parkway can kiss my redneck keister! Just sayin', it's call "PO-WHITE" because that's where the PO WHITE PEOPLE LIVE!
And carpetbaggers who correct me on my pronounciation of the "PO- WHITE" parkway can kiss my redneck keister! Just sayin', it's call "PO-WHITE" because that's where the PO WHITE PEOPLE LIVE!
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Re: Appalachia
Heh heh heh. Actual Southerners in Williamsburg refer to the Parkway as "Po-white ", too.
I'd never given much thought to the correct pronunciation of Appalachian. Although, now I recognize another disservice of the public school system. I USED TO pronounce it correctly. Then school happened. Daddy, of course, has always pronounced it correctly, which is why I used to. And, now I will again.
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I'd never given much thought to the correct pronunciation of Appalachian. Although, now I recognize another disservice of the public school system. I USED TO pronounce it correctly. Then school happened. Daddy, of course, has always pronounced it correctly, which is why I used to. And, now I will again.
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Re: Appalachia
I always wondered about the correct pronunciation. Have heard it both ways. Now I know.
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