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Communication is why you marry someone from the same mountain you are on, preferably the same holler.

I live in the middle of the mountains of North Carolina, Marshall. This county is notorious for having the most hillbillies of any county in the state.
And I lived in central Georgia for 22 years before I came up here. Both places, Deep South. But different.
Down in central Georgia, the word for second person plural is, of course, "Y'all."

But up here in hillbillyland, the expression is "you'uns." Also they have a nasal twang to the speech up here in the mountains.

Anyone else see something listed here,
That they thought was normal,

Only to find out,
others have a limited vocabulary?

"He shore do like the sound of his own voice."

"He's educated beyond his intelligence."

"He aint too smart but he tries hard."

"Up the window."

"That boy could break an anvil with a rubber hammer."

"Look here" or "Say" to get someone's attention.

And of course, "Bless his heart." Polite way to say that someone is an idiot.

All in SC.

Yins around here.

I got an uncle Stringer. He 71 and that’s his given name. He might hear “Hey String” once in awhile. Never really got a nickname though. Many think that’s it.

“I’ll take an tell yin’s this, aftin he spoke I skinned er back and took 3 fingers”

Translation, Hearing the news he opened a bottle of whiskey and drank about half a pint.

Now imagine the fellow saying what I quoted without a tooth in his head😁

no "g" in strength, either I would guess, sounds like strenth?

Fargo North Dakota

"You betcha!"

My maternal grandfather, born in 1899, referred to side meat as just any meat that might compliment an abundance of fresh vegetables at a certain time of year. The meat was not the main course, nearly irrelevant, the vegetables were the important & preferred dish. The meat? Just an add on if you were so lucky to have it. Side meat.

Middle meat? thinking that's another subject as to the quality or cut of meat you happened to be getting off the animal at the time. Eating high on the hog was getting ham, chops, loin, etc. Middle meat was everyday meat, the upper cuts saved for company, Sunday dinner(that's about noon to 1PM BTW, supper is the evening meal) or special occasions.



A sayin? Again my maternal grandfather. As a youngin, I asked him why he had a gun. He looked me in the eye with a very serious expression that I've not forgotten, & said;

"You never know when a bad man might come in off the pike"

Chester drawers: chest of drawers
Ill dog: mean dog
He ain't right: he is fughed up
Let me spell you: let me take over and give you a break
He ain't no count: he ain't worth a damn
They worked me like a rented mule
No shoulders: a snake
A staub: a stake

LOL, yes but it begins with "Yah shhuurrre..."

Moonshiners and alien lights in the sky.

Yonder ..............is how far?

"Borrow me a couple dollars"

lol, I think yonder is both a distance and a direction all at once!

we used to say "tump it over" as in she tumped over the laundry basket and had to have a do-over on the warshing!

I referred to a mess of firewood once and someone asked me how much a mess was.
Told him it is actually a specific amount, more than a bunch but less than a schitload. Duh

My grandma used to call a sink a zink. A car trunk was a turtle hull. A coat was a “sleeve” and socks were anklets.

I have heard and used them all.

For us yonder became yander, or over yan way. After while is aa'ter whaal.

Or even the same family.