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

[Marie Lamb]

To get an idea of the FFV accent, listen to recordings by singer Keely
Smith, who is from the Tidewater region.
Her accent is especially evident in her more recent recordings, where she
doesn't try to conceal it as she did when she was younger.  Some of Keely's
Tidewater accent makes me think of my mom's Canadian relatives from southern
Ontario, the place of "oot and aboot in a boot" (out and about in a boat)
fame.  I believe that both regions had a lot of Scottish and Irish
immigration, which would account for the similarities in the accents.  I
remember once when I was working in retail that one of the other clerks
could not understand a customer's accent and asked me for help.  Sure
enough, he was from Richmond, VA and sounded a lot like Mom's family, so I
understood him enough to help him out!

Marie Lamb

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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