come out like that like we had some wood
out in the yard instead of saying carry
it in the house you'd say towed it in
the house and I had something that you
wanted to put in a paper bag you put in
the paper poke you know instead of a
paper bag
well the way people talk around here I
guess it'd be what more like you call
hillbilly style or something like that I
don't know there's a mountain talk most
your local people have your mountain top
that's the way you can tell the mountain
people from your outsiders by their
language they use say I'll see you over
yonder it means I'll see like in
Waynesville that's a mountain top
telling never nothing stops it's like a
saying you know we're kind of like we're
signing leader said we're saying you not
oh yeah
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everybody hears about Greyhound County
don't do how good the people is how
they'll hippies I run into people I
don't know never seen them in my life
and I help them any way I can
somebody said one day he'll get locked
in the head I said well today on this
lock is good hardy everybody you meet
just 99% if I didn't leave here I move
when you where you want to go on
vacation I was gonna go on the vacation
I just stay right on you yeah we are 20
years behind the whole country when I
would swap places with nobody I feel
much more comfortable here being 20
years behind everybody then I would be a
setting in a lot of places and being so
unbearable you don't like your neighbor
you don't speak to your neighbor you're
you're bitter over the world and Latin
is a good example Rowley you drive down
the street and everybody's wide open her
horns and don't know nobody and don't
want to know nobody and don't care about
nobody it's quite a bit different up
there I lived in Washington they say
about four and a half years and I just
see them being hell with my back broke
his liver people are so good to each
other here many of the words and
expressions in Mountain speech are
unfamiliar to outsiders scots-irish
settlers brought much of the vocabulary
from Europe but many new words and
expressions were invented here by their
descendants there's just somebody coming
up with a strange word is what it means
I mean let's say you're trying to get
something done you're building something
and you'll take a look at it like the
words I gargling you're looking at and
it's all out of line and you just might
come up with the word sigh si gargling I
do that myself I can't think of anything
right off but
I come up with a lot of new words myself
and so you get somebody stand around to
hear that okay it's I got Glenn say a
carpenter has done a real poor job and
then you think that's all sigh gargling
you know it didn't have his walls
straight or something like I think
signed ugly they say I want you to look
say what idiot if you're building some
kind of a shed that's sighs I've claimed
that younger and said that a road to
going up the under said thanks a godly
my grandmother she's always talking
about people being styled or gained she
used words like peckerwood if somebody
she didn't like she'd call him a
peckerwood if there's somebody she
didn't she didn't know but he's probably
all right she didn't have many animosity
for him she'd say he is a Jasper there's
this Jasper come by here this morning I
knocked on the door you know but if it's
a Salesman as this peckerwood after on
the porch it's not people used to know
like you go in the stores they put it in
the bank
old people says you put it in the boat
that's a bag I used to go to the store
walk two miles the store and when I was
a kid and carry a 25 pound polka flower
home that's fly by the way not flour and
me and my two sisters and one brother
we'd be awaiting on him at the house to
get our candy saw like the older man I
was talking about had a little poker
candy he said well I I forgot to get
anything well we'd scream oh here it is
plum was a common word when I was
growing plum this and plum that Union
plum over there well he was just plumb
wore out in that copper mine that vine
they tunneled under the ground from out
though here just Snowbird
like the wind was blowing you know a lot
of iron they would say it's very Irish
that's all right means it's a
little bit chilly outside
means it's alright that means it's
chilly today it's RH today right now so
we speak the air he's blowing and breezy
they gonna go with no store buy a coke
I call them dopes back in I don't know
if you ever heard anybody say that or
not that's what we drink when I was a
kid and it was called they had me high
tea at Pepsi Cola royal crown Cola a lot
of them that was dope Oh a dope you're
talking about like a soda pop soda water
yeah
yes pretty well yeah dope that's all
they ever call them around here as a kid
I mean this now if you go up toward
earnest think place up fire stop along
there about or you turn up to Tony's
earn Empire Ezra and along with that log
house you probably see a Boomer right
there the lady come through she said oh
I said that's a pretty boomer she said a
boom or what's the boomer you know what
a Boomer is don't you
they make a lot of Chapman noises
they're about the size of a warframe
hair warp riot big already a Boomer is
like a little squirrel it's not a
squirrel it's just a mix between a gray
squirrel and a chipmunk you chip it's
red can you eat him yeah she said that's
a red coral I said well to me it's a
bummer we always called it boomers
there's no skull I mean that's old
Atlanta don't bro nothing yellow colored
skull one little few you have here daddy
I know you have colors go Orland that's
like a carburetor in my van all gone a
little dirty stuff gone mean like now
cluttered up Garnett
yeah that mean it's in a mess that's
well that's what I'm with they didn't
know their towns such educated folks did
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instead of saying yonder you know over
yonder you
that's your yen you hear that word you
mean yeah I said way over yonder yeah
yeah mama used to come up to us and
we've led on she say goose your gander
people each year say go she's a poet you
glaze and say yonder she said put it way
over here and equipment they say yonder
comes him a ride near Harland Davis they
thank you to hurry
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