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

[David Lennick]

Hoots mon (vodever dat means), we dinna say "oot and aboot"! Nor "Rrrrrrrroll 
up the rrrrrrim to win." Nor "G'day, eh?"

D. MacLennick

Marie Lamb wrote:
> 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