I hope nobody minds me asking a distantly related question, but please humour a Canuckian from the white hills.
Is it appulay-sha, appulat-chia, appulah-sha, or appulay-chia? I have attempted to see if there is consensus, local consensus, regional consensus, and it seems to be up to whomever's youtube video you decide to watch.
It depends on where yoou're from. I Northerner like me doesn;t say it the same as someone from West Virginia who doesn;t say it the same as someone from say Kentucky. There really is no "Southern Accent" in the US - if someone was born and raised in the same general area their entire life, the accents are very distinct, and if someone is good at it, they can tell just what state that person came from.
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my mom, from Pa, always said appa-lay-chian
when i got older i noticed that other would say appa-latch-ian (see wikipedia) and initially had no idea that they were talking about the same mountain.
greg - Philadelphia & Reading / Reading
selector I hope nobody minds me asking a distantly related question, but please humour a Canuckian from the white hills. Is it appulay-sha, appulat-chia, appulah-sha, or appulay-chia? I have attempted to see if there is consensus, local consensu, regional consensus, and it seems to be up to whomever's youtube video you decide to watch.
Is it appulay-sha, appulat-chia, appulah-sha, or appulay-chia? I have attempted to see if there is consensus, local consensu, regional consensus, and it seems to be up to whomever's youtube video you decide to watch.
As Randy and Greg have noted there is no one "correct" pronunciation, and the term Appaclacha is most comonly pronounced "Appulatch-sha", with no "i" sound before the "a" at the end.
And technically, that term refers to the unique cluture of the region, but many do refer to the region itself with that term.
The entire east cost of the US has a series of unique speach patterns which progress "gently" from Maine to Georgia among those who are long time natives of a given area.
As Randy noted, with experiance many can tell a Virginian from a those from Maryland or North Carolina, or a Bostonian from a New Yorker, or a southeastern Pennsylvannian from a those in western PA.
As Greg noted, people farther north in the region tend to pronounce the last "i", where people farther south do not.
It has a lot to do with the orginal groups who settles these areas, and who were well intrenched before lots of travel was common.
Being from Maryland, we are right in the middle of it. And having traveled the east coast extensively, I have learned most of the subtle differences.
Even locally, people native to Baltimore City speak differently than those just an hour or two away in western Maryland or Northern Virginia.
Sheldon
Thanks, fellas. I guess, like any tourista, I'll just have to go by the raised eyebrows and partly witheld smirks when I pronounce names locally.
Western PA from southeastern PA is easy. I drink (or rather don't drink) soda, my western PA GF drinks pop.
I drink 'wudder' instead. Although naturally I don't hear myself say it that way. I only lived in Philly a couple of years so I never really picked up the whole "youse" thing, I say "you guys" And I guess my GF has been away long enough, she doesn't say much different other than the pop thing, her Mom is real bad with the "youins"
I can usually tell Texas from other Southern states, but I'm not good on the more subtle differences in other areas - Tennesee, Georgia, it all sounds the same to me. Florida sounds like New York, but I've never been to the more 'rural' areas of Florida.
ATLANTIC CENTRALBeing from Maryland, we are right in the middle of it
This thread needs sound: Baltimore speak
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Funny to me, but I love how they're having fun with it as well. As the old saying goes, "It takes all kinds." But really, we alla same same.
They are really "Hills" My former girlfriend from West, Virginia says they are hills.
Out West they have Mountains.
Rich
If you ever fall over in public, pick yourself up and say “sorry it’s been a while since I inhabited a body.” And just walk away.
selector Funny to me, but I love how they're having fun with it as well. As the old saying goes, "It takes all kinds." But really, we alla same same.
Yes, we know that we talk funny........
What I meant, Sheldon, is that the video is funny. I should have made myself more clear.
selector What I meant, Sheldon, is that the video is funny. I should have made myself more clear.
Selector, yes, it is very funny, we make fun of ourselves all the time about it. No one here is offended if that's what you thought?
In Indiana, we called it Appa-LAY-sha. And culturally, the hoots and hollers of hilly and wooded Southern Indiana qualified as Appalaysha.
Here in Georgia, we pronounce it "home"
- Douglas