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Jan. 29th, 2006 | 03:11 pm

Looking through some Charleston sites...trying to do some family tree work. Well, I came across a Gullah tours site and thought it was interesting. Here's the site for a Gullah dictionary: http://www.gullahtours.com/gullah_dictionary.html. Now, if you've ever been to the Charleston area, you'll know that ALOT of people really do talk like this (STILL)...black and white. Sometimes it's hard to understand what's being said. I guess those yankees can say the same about all southerners! lol! But of course, I can't understand a lot of yankees either. haha! Anyway, people in Charleston have their own accent, different from anywhere else in the south.

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oldhorseman

From: [info]oldhorseman
Date: Jan. 29th, 2006 08:36 pm (UTC)
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Lord Ashley Cooper (a Charleston columnist) published a little dictionary of Charleston dialect decades ago. Very funny to see the words on paper that way.

Some years ago I went back to Charleston with my wife (who is a Southerner, but not from that area)... We were looking for someone out beyond Hollywood, and got way off the beaten path. I stopped and got some info and directions from an older black fellow on a dirt road, then turned to my wife and asked if she'd got the directions... She told me she hadn't understood a word of what either of us had said.

Some of us were quite glad that Gable didn't attempt a "Southern Accent" in Gone With the Wind... Butler was from Charleston, and Charlestonians don't speak with a drawl. (The old Charleston accent is not the same as the dialects used by country folk out on the islands either.)

Heck, folks up here in the hills don't even know what a marshtacky is.


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Mary Ann

From: [info]masellers74
Date: Jan. 29th, 2006 09:39 pm (UTC)
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Oh yea, city talk and country talk are different...and that's just in Charleston County! lol! Now when you're intown you'll catch people who speak a little mixture, but in the country they all still talk like that. It'll leave ya wondering what the hell they're talking about. And you're right, Chalestonians don't speak with a drawl...as a matter of fact, they snicker at fellow South Carolinians sometimes for their drawl.

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From: [info]hollowpointslug
Date: Jan. 30th, 2006 12:38 am (UTC)
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Intresting bit of trivia even though the Yankees outnumbered the Southerners 2/1 during the war the Southereners killed 2 and 1/2 times the number of Yankees.

Them Yankee boys cant shoot! Small wonder if they cant speak either.

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oldhorseman

From: [info]oldhorseman
Date: Jan. 30th, 2006 04:39 am (UTC)
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Ever hear about the old Southerner who announced he was moving to New York to become a Yankee?

Seems his doctor told him he hadn't long to live, so he figured it was better for one of them to die then for one of our'n.


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north and south

From: [info]supremediva27
Date: Jan. 30th, 2006 03:16 am (UTC)
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oooh, to be caught in the middle. *sighs*

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