LANGUAGE & PEOPLE

Appalachian ‘Holler’ Speech still Lingers up Yonder

Rapidly disappearing, old-time mountain dialects lose some of their stigma

An Appalachian family cabin circa 1930s. (Library of Congress photo)

Introduction

I spent my boyhood in Ohio, but since then I’ve lived and traveled all over the South and Appalachia. I spent several years in the Smoky Mountains…