True Gullah is dead. Gone. You can find a few very old

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May 23, 2023, 1:12 PM [ in reply to When she really gets going I almost need a translator. ]

folks on the sea islands mainly, who still carry a thick Gullah accent, but the true Gullah dialect is gone. You would need a translator for true Gullah. I watched Gullah die as a kid hunting. The cooks who cooked the meals at the hunting club are a good example. As a young boy we had a cook named Mary Frazier. She spoke true Gullah. You could literally not understand her if she was talking to her daughter, Bernice. But she could slow the accent some when she spoke to me and I could understand her, barely. Mary passed away and Bernice kept cooking for us. She had a thick Gullah accent, but I could understand her pretty well. As she aged, her daughter, Mary's granddaughter Madeline, started helping. She had a faint Gullah accent. I could understand her perfectly and one would guess she was from Jamaica or the Caribbean with her accent.

Now Aw-thuh Rav-uh-nell had a thick Charleston accent, but his accent is also nearly dead. My father had a slight Charleston accent, and my FIL has a thicker one. He sleeps with his head on a pull-uh, which always cracks me up. He was from Manning. Now Charleston is the prototypical "southern accent" everyone in Hollywood butchers. But in reality, it's far more localized than people realize. It's so famous though, people assign the accent to the entire American South, when in fact it's only found in a portion of SC. Nowhere was this more apparent than in Australia. We threw those blokes for a loop when we visited. Literally no one there could place us. We weren't from Whales, Scotland, Ireland, America, they were absolutely shocked when we said we were from the US. My dad's southern accent also threw them for a loop because all they hear of southern accents in the US are in movies, and Hollywood butchers the Chawstun accent.

Is what it is I guess.

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Chawstun peeps......the boom

Chawstun. That’s exactly how my aunt whose from there says it.***

Thass the prop-uh way to say it.***

When she really gets going I almost need a translator.

Not many of either.

The Geechie accent is also interesting. And it too is dying

Dufuskie

*hear***

pronounced: hare***

This guy is what my grandfather would have called geechie

True Gullah is dead. Gone. You can find a few very old

I saw the marine warning earlier

We dont get booms in I'on...***

only from the wife swapping neighbors

Here's a good recording of the boom

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