Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1887 — Georgia Dialects. [ARTICLE]

Georgia Dialects.

In former days is the great crackerdom of Georgia—was settled from little colonies of other States and countries. Thus, each section preserved traces of the local dialect spoken in the, region whence the settlers emigrated. In the mountain countries people say “we'uns” and “you’tins,” “kin you’uns tell we’uns the way,” etc. In wiregrass Georgia these expressions are not used except in rare instances. In the moimtams they call it a “hunko’ bread,” meatmig a piece. In the wiregrass it is a “chunk o’ bread.” So it goes. What is common in one section is strange in another. What is said of the whites is especially true of the negroes. The negroes

of th: northern and" middle counties speak a dialect that‘is in many ways different from the outlandish gibberish jabbered by the salt-water darkies, whose gabble is just about as intelligible as the chatter of rice birds that infest their own tidewater plantations. And yet the guileless author will hear a conversation between two city hackmen and retire to his study and evolve a dialect sketch that is % cross between the tarwlieel twaddle and the talk of the typical dude minstrel with formidable shirt front and burnt cork accompaniments.—Atlanta Constitution.