{"id":190,"date":"2010-08-30T19:02:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T19:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmdc.wcu.edu\/?p=190"},"modified":"2023-06-20T13:20:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T13:20:55","slug":"appalachian-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/2010\/08\/30\/appalachian-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Appalachian English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2445\" title=\"Appalachian Dialects\" src=\"http:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Appalachian-Dialects.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"291\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Dialect Map of the US, Creative Commons image from globalarchitectsguide.com<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Languages are spoken in a variety of dialects. Appalachian English is the name given to the dialect spoken in the Southern Mountains. It differs from Standard English, the version taught in schools and spoken by network television announcers, in several ways. Some Appalachian English words are pronounced differently&#8211;fire comes out \u201cfar.\u201d Other words have different meanings&#8211;\u201cpoke\u201d means paper bag, \u201ctoboggan\u201d means knit hat, and \u201ccackleberry\u201d means egg. Some verbs begin with the letter \u201ca\u201d, such as \u201ca-going\u201d and \u201ca-running.\u201d And \u201cyou-uns\u201d and \u201cwe-uns\u201d are used to address a group of people. This colorful dialect is considered by many to be uneducated, but it is in fact the remains of 18th-century English and Irish speech patterns that still survive in Appalachia.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Multimedia:<\/h3>\n<h2>Below is the Digital Heritage Moment as broadcast on the radio:<\/h2>\n[audio:http:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/AppEnglish60Mx.mp3|titles=AppEnglish60Mx]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Languages are spoken in a variety of dialects. Appalachian English is the name given to the dialect spoken in the Southern Mountains. It differs from Standard English, the version taught in schools and spoken by network television announcers, in several ways. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[170,187],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-dialect","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8831,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/8831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}