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How to speak Appalachian, a primer. Use the words quoted below to make your own sentences. Here’s my attempt:
Whar is it? Over thar. It looks tard and that critter with it for sartin’s a-goin to he-it it. This far’s hot. Drink? Name your pizen. Let’s swim nekkid only you’ll eetch if you roll in a boosh or wrassle after. Chaw your food proper, and don’t poosh and shet yer gob when yer in line. The ba-it’s wigglin and we be-in fishin this narrer stream. Look in that winder at poor widder Elsie an her young-uns.
Here are the words from Fischer’s book:
whar for where, thar for there, tard for tired, critter for creature, sartin for certain, a-goin for going, hit for it, he-it for hit, far for fire, deef for deaf, pizen for poison, nekkid for naked, eetch for itch, boosh for bush, wrassle for wrestle, chaw for chew, poosh for push, shet for shut, ba-it for bat, be-it for be, narrer for narrow, winder for window, widder for widow, and young -uns for young one.
Accent of the original settlers of Applachia, David Hacket Fischer
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