My parents grew up in Arkansas so maybe I heard them speak this way....not sure...

I have heard them all my life.

When something smelled really bad, it smelt like kairn.

Much of it was passed down from the Scotch Irish.

...or should say "Heerd that talk" in rural Illinois growing up.

Overheard two fishermen conversing about carp feeshin' in the Hennepin canal:

"Kitch a big nanny?"

"Ain't bin yit."

She also called the sink a 'zink'. She was born in Sand Patch, Pennsylvania and then moved to Frostburg, MD.

My grandfather, who died before I was born, was a coal miner until he was trapped in a mine collapse. He moved the family to Flint, MI and started working at 'the' Buick. I never heard anyone say they worked at Buick. It was always the Buick.

I could speak the dialect pretty well myself. My Mom said "warsh." A treasure trove of local culture for a young soc/anth major (me). I had to be careful not to come off as a "Smart-ass colletch kid." I worked my way thru school delivering home appliances and was often in rural and farm homes. Speaking the language was sort of oral camouflage.

It brought a smile just thinking about it.

Some others:

Window-Winder
paper bag-poke
Over there-over yonder
Narrow valley-holler

Go to the hill communities in Pa.

You can just come into Philly and hear it too. I know I say "warsh" clothes.

"Wooder" for "water"
"Lie-berry" for "library"
"Payment" for "pavement"
"Aka-mee" for "Acme"

ever officially called Little Washington at one time?

My car could drive itself there and back.

I remember years ago when I had direct-reports in "Baldamore" and going down there and realizing that the dialect was close to that of a number of neighborhoods here in "Fluffia". Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi has some of that old accent - despite being in California for decades (although she was born and raised in Baltimore).

Then I found an article that actually described that dialect and noted what regions it existed in and sure enough!

You hear the "older" versions of if with some former MSNBC folks like Tweety and Smerconish (and there was a South Philly vs NE Philly accent too). You even hear it from Andrea Mitchell who although from NY, went to school here in Philly and was a local reporter (and she says "Warshington" along with Philly native Kristen Welker).

South Jersey folks too.

I was surrounded by people who used many of those expressions/pronunciations. Here, "redd it up" means "get it ready," but I haven't heard that phrase used in many years.

..and his friend went up to ask the price of motel room?

He said, "How much would a room like'at run a feller"?

The lady look puzzled? What did he say?

also uses most of those pronunciations, including 'chimney = chimbley'

My strait laced aunt was visibly shocked how the docent pronounced Norfolk to our group of visitors touring the site.

My aunt also didn't approve of my Western NC spouse's and best friend's "improper" grammar as they both use present tense instead of past tense at times with certain verbs for example saying "He run down the trail" instead of "He ran down the trail"

that came in often that I had a hard time understanding. I asked one of the other drivers from the
company where that guy was from. He was born and raised right here but worked in North Carolina for
8 years.

Was called dope
BTW poke comes from Scottish garlic
Holler for hollow
Lots of others from my SW Virginia family

I'm from SW Va, I hear this all the time when I go home to visit. Still have to purposely keep myself from saying "warsh" my clothes.

Then she yells the spelling D E E AH P A AH K. I am still laughing decades latah.

He said warsh. Window sills were window seels. He could never say Toyota properly - Toyauto. Our family ended up in Rochester NY when I was 8, and he always pronounced it "Rockchester."

My husband's dad grew up on Long Island. He had a earl boiner (oil burner) in the basement of their home as their source of heat.

When we settled in Rochester, my new friends laughed at my pronunciation of the word "on," which I say as awn, like in lawn or awning. In Rochester, everyone say "aahn," which sounds like the first syllable of honest.

I'm loving this thread.

I wonder how that happened.

Adding to the list, my mom called the door step a stoop. Cleaning up the house was called redding up the house.

That was my relative in W. Va. asking us if we had already had our lunch! My friend's parents were from western PA and they always said "earl" for oil and "flars" for flowers.

mum and aunt , native ca born as i was.