`Georgia` Genealogy

Dialect Of The Mountaineers

Spoken Mainly In Eastern Tennessee, Western North Carolina, And Northern Georgia

"Still Spoken By Some Fannin County Folks Today"

Afeared	Afraid
Aginst	Against
A Heap	A Lot
Aigs	Eggs (Sound ai as in aid)
Air	Are
Allers	Always
Arn	Iron
Ax	Ask
Ast	Asked
Babtist	Baptist
Backards	Backwards
Backer	Tobacco
Baid	Bed
Bile	Boil
Bitters	Herb Tea spiked with whiskey.
Bodacious	Bodily, entirely.
Bresh	Brush
Brickle	Brittle
Brile	Boiling hot.
Brim	Rim
Bruk	Broke
Brute	Male hog or cow.
Busted	Burst
Cain't	Cannot
Catawompus	Out of square or crooked
Chaw	Chew
Cheer	Chair
Chinch	Bedbug
Chist	Chest
Churched	Discontinue membership for a cause
'Cided	Decided
Clar	Clear
Clever	Friendly
Clim	Climbed
Clobber	Clabber
Clum	Climbed
Cordroy	Corduroy
Cotch	Caught
Crap	Crop
Crivise	Crevice
'Crost	Across
Culbert	Culvert
'Cuse	Accuse
Cyard	(sound as kyard) Card
Cyore	Cure
Dast	Dare
Dawg	Dog
Deef	Deaf
Dido	A fit of anger.
Differ	Difference
Div	Dove, dived
Drap	Drop
Drapped	Dropped
Dreckly	Soon
Drempt	Dreamed
Driv	Drove
Eetch	Itch
'em	Them
'Ery	Any
Et	Ate, eaten
Fallout	Disagreement
Far	Fire
Favor	Resemble
Feller	Fellow
Fer	For
Fetch	Bring
Fit	Fought
Fitified	Fitful
Fit'n, Fitten	Fit, suitable
Flitter	Waste
Flustered	Frustrated
Foller	Follow
For'ard	Forward
Fotch	Brought
Friz	Froze
Frum	From
Fudder	Farther
Fur	Far
Furdest	Farthest
Furgit	Forget
Furriner	Foreigner
Fust	First
Garntee	Guarantee
Gaumed	Messed up, untidy.
Git	Get
Givermint	Goverment
Gredge	Grudge
Greezy	Greasy
Gyard	Guard
Gyarden	Garden