[78-L] Pronounciations and Odd Label Misspellings: Deep Ellum Blues

[Royal Pemberton]

Do those FFV folk sound rather like Scottish people?   One notable
mutation that comes to mind is the kind of traditional Scottish dance
that was originally known as 'contra' dance, but by way of the typical
pronunciation it became known as 'country' dance.

(That quirk of the Texan accent has thrown me too; I remember one time
someone telling me about a group whose name sounded like 'promise'
when he spoke of it.  Primus was their name.)

On 1/2/09, Gregg Kimball <gdkimball at cox.net> wrote:
>> What did people get water out of:  tap, spout or spigot?
>
> I got mine from the faucet.
>
> Being a New Englander, I had to re-learn many words the Virginia way.
> Staunton is STAN-ton here.  Buchanan is BUCK-an-on, and Buena Vista . . .
> well, I'm not even sure how to write that out. There is also a really
> interesting Richmond-Tidewater accent, especially among the FFVs, that
> pronounces words like house something like: HOOS.
>
> This also reminds me of some of the famous mis-hearings = misspellings on
> labels: "Far In the Mountain" for "Fire on the Mountain" and "Green
> Mountain Poker" for "Green Mountain Polka," which is not a polka, but that's
> another story.  Clearly on "Fire" someone couldn't quite figure out what a
> Texas boy was saying!
>
> Gregg
>
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