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Looking through some Charleston sites...trying to do some family tree work. Well, I came across a Gullah tours site and thought it was interesting. Here's the site for a Gullah dictionary: http://www.gullahtours.com/gullah_dictionary.html. Now, if you've ever been
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Lord Ashley Cooper (a Charleston columnist) published a little dictionary of Charleston dialect decades ago. Very funny to see the words on paper that way.
Some years ago I went back to Charleston with my wife (who is a Southerner, but not from that area)... We were looking for someone out beyond Hollywood, and got way off the beaten path. I stopped and got some info and directions from an older black fellow on a dirt road, then turned to my wife and asked if she'd got the directions... She told me she hadn't understood a word of what either of us had said.
Some of us were quite glad that Gable didn't attempt a "Southern Accent" in Gone With the Wind... Butler was from Charleston, and Charlestonians don't speak with a drawl. (The old Charleston accent is not the same as the dialects used by country folk out on the islands either.)
Heck, folks up here in the hills don't even know what a marshtacky is.
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Them Yankee boys cant shoot! Small wonder if they cant speak either.
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Ever hear about the old Southerner who announced he was moving to New York to become a Yankee?
Seems his doctor told him he hadn't long to live, so he figured it was better for one of them to die then for one of our'n.
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