He thinks West Virginians are the lowest form of life he’s ever met. I wanted to whip App-uh-lay-cha; to take a switch to its legs until it yelled “Ap-uh-LATCH-uh! I can’t LOVE your comment enough, Elisabeth! No, I grew up in Appalachia and never heard anyone say the ch with a hard K. Never, not once. Caleb. In college in Topeka, Kansas I sang as a soloist with and member of every vocal ensemble and choir in my college. He taught me they forgot to add another “s” to Kansas. and live in Tallahassee- we have Apalachee (A-puh-LATCH-ee) Parkway in Tallahassee – and I grew up in the a-puh-LATCH-uhn mountains. I dont care where you’re from, you are pronouncing it incorrectly. Many early American Southerners were Irish and Scottish. I’m from southern Appalachia. Now, this does not mean I do not like Oatmeal. You’re wrong – nobody cares how you learned in your grade school … they were wrong too. There you have it. My sister lived in Adams, Clarksville and in the extreme northeast corner of Tennessee for a total of about twenty years. Author of Appalachian Trials and Pacific Crest Trials, resources focused on mentally preparing people for a thru-hike. The Dunkards are tee-totalers, or abstinent. Thanks. The Trail of Tears passes within five miles of my sister’s house. Imagine if you pronounce a man’s name John as Joan. The Appalachian mountains are no different. Out of 6,028,151 records in the U.S. Social Security Administration public data, the first name Appalachian was not present. Show me the "t" in Appalachian and I may start saying that way too. Are you trolling us or is this your actual opinion? P.S. I’m just a Southern hillbilly who talks funny, I guess. Lots of regions are losing their distinct sound because of of media. From Georgia to Maine, from “Ap-uh-latch-uh” to “Ap-uh-lay-chuh” and every variation in-between, each is our unique way of speaking which says “This is my history. Ap-uh-LATCH-uh!” in defeat and agreed to take its boots off at the front door from then on. Why is there an "imgflip.com" watermark on my memes? MAMAW ALWAYS TO BE AN APPALACHIAN OU GOTTA LOOK GIRL ACT LIKE a LIKE a LAD THINK LIKE AMAN AND WORK LIKE a DOG Im Gflipcom ~~Banjo~~ | Meme on ME.ME MAMAW ALWAYS TO BE AN APPALACHIAN OU GOTTA LOOK GIRL, ACT LIKE A LIKE A LAD THINK LIKE AMAN AND WORK LIKE A DOG im gflip.com ~~banjo~~ from Facebook tagged as Meme Women are known to lug around heavy purses with unnecessary items inside. For three months, a co-intern and I gathered oral histories from the townspeople of Appalachia, Virginia, a town whose namesake was a result of being built in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains. My father’s family were German, probably named Bonn, changed to Boone in the New World. Many of my friends here in Kansas who have never lived anywhere near the Appalachians use the lay pronunciation, and it doesn’t bother me unless they adamantly believe that they are correct and everyone else is wrong. Everyone's been here. And yes it’s a massive pet peeve when people mispronounce APPALACHIAN & APPALACHIA (a-puh-LATCH-uh). When I say phone people think i say Foone. During the Colombian revolution, the occupiers could never quite figure out the correct way to say the word “Francisco” no matter how hard they tried to blend in as spies and land-takers. Post something positive in the comments! Now, relax, folks…this is ONLY in response to the woman who INSISTED that the “latch” version is the ONLY one. My eldest son walked from Georgia to Washington up the Appalachian trail, and he didn’t see or hear any latches!! The Appalachian Region particularly in North Carolina and Tennessee are consider to be the closest to the original pronunciations even more so then in England. Latch, people, AppaLATCHa, Look up chian pronunciation. We say Appalaycha. Videos. Appalachian English is a variant of American English native to the Appalachian mountain region of the Eastern United States. As the article explains, Colonial era maps referred to the mountain chain as the Apalache, Apalatsy or Apalachen. A young woman on a skateboard in the Appalachia, by photographer Meg Wilson. Although we can all agree that the Appalachian Trail is a beautiful, wondrous footpath that extends nearly 2,200 miles from Georgia to Maine, when it comes to something as basic as to how it’s pronounced, the room is split. I suggest you study and research your topic before you blast your thoughts on the internet in the future. banjo. Celeb, you’re an uneducated moron. Wrong. I love the hillbillies and wish them well, but I also do understand the truth behind their customs and I have offered my opinion here to correct the erroneous impression left by the above article. In other words, the pronunciation has become a modern-day shibboleth (for the origin of this term, see the Old Testament book Judges, chapter 12, verse 6). And, humorously, of course, Daniel Boone was not a Methodist. I studied neuropsychology there and I’m about as far from an uneducated hick or hillbilly as one can get. Doesn’t matter where you’re from the simple fact is it’s not Joan it’s John. In that case, I tend to favor the version used most by folks who live there. We are in the America of the Twenty-first Century. I don’t know where you got the idea that latch is for “trendy sissies” and “hillbillies” but almost anyone from the southern part of the Appalachians will tell you it is the latch pronunciation. As every southern should know, Appalachian is Cherokee. still doesn’t change the factor mispronouncing the name. I don’t agree that Southerners’ accents most closely mimic true Colonial American speech. My name is David, and I’m a so-called “hillbilly” from Tennessee who uses the “latch” pronunciation /ˈæpəˈlætʃə/ as opposed to the “laish” pronunciation /ˈæpəˈlɛɪʃə/. “Latch” is for trendy sissies. January 11th, 2021 10:30 PM. From Middle French mesme, from Old French mesme, earlier medesme or medisme and meïsme, from Vulgar Latin *metipsimus, from Latin -met + ipse + -issimus. The pronunciation of Appalachia is much more than “You aren’t from around here, are you?” or memes on our newsfeeds telling us which is the correct pronunciation and which is not. And I guarantee if you do your research, you will find that the latch pronunciation is correct, I have done my research to make sure and it has all proven that while both are ways to pronounce it, the correct one is latch. Every single person is going to look at you like you’re crazy because you’re not pronouncing it right. Outdoor Research MicroGravity AscentShell Jacket Review, Best Hiking and Camping Gear Deals from the REI End of Season Clearance Sale, Year in Review: 19 of The Trek's Top Posts from 2020, http://www.native-languages.org/apalachee_guide.htm., https://peopleofonefire.com/origin-of-the-word-appalachian.html, https://soundcloud.com/dulciferous/appalachian-shibboleth, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGCqWrsAZ_o, https://www.usu.edu/geo/geomorph/kansas.html. doesn’t matter where you’re from and doesn’t matter if it’s well that’s how we pronounce it it’s incorrect. Either one can be an insult but one can be construed to have Freudian overtones. The reason for this is It’s a native American word. I have spent many hours researching Native American Genealogy for my clients of Native American Descent. If you’d like to visit Bristol, I’ll gladly look you in the eye and tell you you’re an ignorant jackass. It’s App-a-lay-chan, with the ch like church. I know a number of fantastic people from Tennessee and would look to them for pronunciation of their local landmarks. The sound of someone saying “Ap-uh-lay-cha” instead of “App-uh-latch-uh” made me cringe. It was years before I realized that Appalachia was not exclusively mine. 02-06-2013, 13:02. All this to say that the common surname Boone is a coincidence. See more. Kind of like the pronunciation argument for “Colorado.” I’ve heard it with a short a, and with a long a. How could I, someone whose dialect was the subject of past scrutiny, make others feel poorly about how they pronounced Appalachia, a place that was just as much their home as it was mine? Hillbillies as I’ve known them all my life in Appalachia don’t have huge pastures or fields or flat horizons. HAHA that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard – a hillbilly from Kansas? He said it had to be pronounced “Appa latcha” I have a friend from Cheney, KS. Sign found along the AT near Harper's Ferry, VA. Photo Credit - David Tarasevich, Appalachian Trail Conservancy . From that border south is pronounced correctly. Named The Top Hiking and Outdoor Blogger by USA TODAY. So the correct is Appala cheeun. If the first time you hear it is one way, that’s the right way. your own Pins on Pinterest People are sharing tips and tricks about items that they use to make their life happier, healthier, or just easier. They were all depressed and they looked down at their shoes or at the floor. I know someone from the Appalachian region of PA. I grew up in a hollow southern Appalachia. So it is a phonical impossibility that Appalachian can be pronounced a-puh-LAY-chuhn pronunciation does not even exist within the native American language or dialect. I have visited that area many, many times. She told me she had experienced this personally, all her life long. Both spoken ways are “acceptable” or “should be accepted” — there is “no harm” in accepting both, it is “OK” to speak it either way (although you make the conjecture that “majority rules” and therefore it’s really “better” to go with the way you learned to speak it). I sang for the Sometime Archbishop of Canterbury in that church. Well don’t ever come to Bristol, Tennessee, then. As a kid who grew up in the 2000s, I can think of some of my favorite staple Christmas movies. Unlike other survival shows, there's a bit more to the story than what first meets the eye. This is similar to the pronunciation of Nevada, as it became anglocized as well. Time and time again, history tells of of occupations and conquerors, where the locals know exactly how things are said and how to tell who is an outsider and who is an authenticlocal. Those Graphics Tho "This game will make you, like, tear-up, man." No Jenny you are wrong. Any other way goes against the language. In fact, it is *because* of my alteration via education (sophistication by definition) that I’ve come to prefer the pronunciation /ˈæpəˈlætʃə/, seeing its cultural significance and its history. I’ve always been told that people from the Appalachian, even points north, pronounce it as latch and people who aren’t from there use laytch. If they’re wrong, then they are wrong. Elisabeth Walt. The speaker was a full blooded Cherokee native. I personally typed all my letters in this discussion from scratch on this website. What they do have is the pronunciation for LATCH as in a-puh-LATCH-uhn. Well, I once heard Joe Strummer say LAY in a song, but assumed it was just his English accent. This website contains affiliate links, which means The Trek may receive a percentage of any product or service you purchase using the links in the articles or advertisements. a-puh-LAY-ken” — the latter being closer to the way our school teachers taught us to say it. Learn the language learn and.know the correct pronunciation. Our land is one of loving thy neighbor while minding your business. I feel kinda dumb now bc I’m in my 40s and consider myself well read and rather well educated in basic pronunciation. 12-27-2008, 16:50. At least pronounce it like we do: “App-uh-latch-un”. Speaking as one who grew up there, neither pronunciation you have is correct. I have heard all the agreements about how I am to stupid to pronounce where I live, and so on. Hillbillies cannot spell or properly pronounce the names of the places in which they themselves live. Listen to the audio pronunciation of Appalaches on pronouncekiwi. in or relating to Appalachia Pronunciation of Appalachian. Please continue to do your research and be kind and open minded to everyone’s opinions, In the northern Appalachians we pronounce it “Appalayshun.” Southern people don’t seem to realize that the Appalachian Mountains stretch from Maine to Georgia. Pronunciation of Appalachian trail with 2 audio pronunciations, 5 translations and more for Appalachian trail. The correct way. Thank you for helping build the largest language community on the internet. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/dec/13/harry-styles-fine-line-review-columbia, https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/amazon-s-wilds-much-more-just-gender-swapped-lord-flies-ncna1250078. Me, I’m from North Georgia but eventually moved to Florida. So let’s figure this out! I’ve been trying to get that exact same point across for years to people who mispronounce Appalachian or Appalachia. So if the “Appalachian” tribe for whom the mountains were named did not have a long a sound in their language, then Appalachian’s Mountains would not either… meaning that the correct pronunciation is “Appa-LATCH-uh”.“. It is pronounced chee-un. I have a problem with your attitude. It’s up to people who live in Appalacia how to pronounce the name of their mountains and home. was discovered last seen in the January 5 2021 at the Crosswords With Friends Crossword. Just because you feel like it should be pronounced this way or you were told it’s pronounced another way doesn’t make it right. Just to clarify, it is the region you live in, not the state. Regarding the hillbilly stereotype that our friend prefers to cling to as justification for his bigoted opinion, I am from Illinois, have lived the past 15 years in South Dakota and recently moved to Cleveland, TN. In more than likely it was because of those settlers that were in Pennsylvania or German Dutch and they could not correctly pronounce Appalachian. Most people here say it incorrectly, with the lay pronunciation, and they also say things like rut instead of root. I'm north of the Mason-Dixon line, so I pronounce it app-uh-LAY-shun. What seems clear is that the ORIGIN of the word has no bearing on your argument. Further the namesake of the mountainous region descends from the appalachee Native American tribes, and the pronunciation is “App-uh-Latch-an”. I was told that the correct pronunciation is “a-puh-LATCH-uhn”, The voice of the Appa LATCH ens… WATA Boone (North Carolina). I’m English. As a Pennsylvanian, I have fond memories of backpacking with southern friends and having friendly arguments about how to say Appalachian, grits vs. oatmeal, etc., etc. This series of 10 one-hour episodes tells the stories of eight girls who find themselves on a deserted island after their plane crashed while they are on their way to a resort. I went to Appalachian State University, in BOONE North Carolina, and not only is your comment reductionist, shallow and rude, it’s flat out wrong as the running results of the poll show clearly. …… when in Rome … many times Credit - David Tarasevich, Appalachian pronounced! 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