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00:00Well, I'm located about a hundred miles west of Asheville and about a hundred miles south
00:07of Knoxville, Tennessee, right here in the corner of North Carolina, joining Tennessee
00:13and Georgia.
00:14To outsiders, the accents and pronunciations in mountain speech may sound quaint, uneducated,
00:22or worse.
00:23Well, the way people talk around here, I guess it'd be what, more like you'd call hillbilly
00:26style or something, I guess.
00:27I don't know.
00:28Just mountain talk.
00:29Nothing stops.
00:30It's like a singing, you know.
00:31We're kind of like we're singing.
00:32Lita said, we're singing, not talking, you know.
00:36But they often resemble the English dialect spoken in Scotland and Ireland.
00:42Instead of calling a tire on a car a tire, you call it a tar.
00:46You call it tars, I call them tars, and they used to call them caissons years ago.
00:51You ever hear anybody say, hook them caissons on that vehicle?
00:56Every region of Appalachia, there's usually, if you come there, even from another county,
01:01people use expressions you don't understand.
01:04It's something that means something only to them, and that's one of the delights of mountain
01:10culture.