I have to say I've heard all of those in movies or on TV.

Not going to lie- I’ve used more than a few of these

My parents originated from northern and extreme eastern edge of the PA Allegheny plateau and I have heard of about 1/6 of those expressions in usage growing up. Mostly from persons equal in age or older than my grandparents were at that time.

Growing up in the 50s in the hill country of northern Arkansas long before Walmart I heard this language spoken often by the older less educated people of the region and often dabbled in those words and many others myself. While attending the University in the 60s I learned how to speak in the more acceptable midwestern dialect of the educated class and suppress my southern accent. During the next few decades as a career military officer I would confuse daylights out of my friends when under the influence of a few spirit imbibed drinks I would slip back into my old southern drawl and sprinkle my dialogue with a few of these choice phrases. Imagine their surprise when they found out the language I spoke everyday was the put on not the alcohol inspired one they were hearing. Now I live in rural Alabama where nobody care how you speak like it was when I was raising up down in Arkansas.

I'm not from Appalachia but I am from a family of rural country people and I've heard many of those words all of my life.

I'm from Louisiana and a lot of those sayings are used around here . Or variations of them . We have a lot of our own as well .

We’re country people, we speak this way.

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Originally posted by selogic:
I'm from Louisiana and a lot of those sayings are used around here . Or variations of them . We have a lot of our own as well .

Yup, remember a fair bit of that from my childhood in SE TX.

I grew up hearing most all of those sayings in Central Oklahoma. I don't need for anyone to interpret for me.

My relatives in Missouri and Arkansas used many of those sayings, back in the 1940s and 50s.

flashguy

I handle claims in West Virginia and one I've heard there and nowhere else is "Fruity Drink." As in, "We was drinkin' fruity drink when I ran over my other friend's legs." Apparently, fruity drink is homemade alcohol with chunks of fruit fermenting in it.

I grew up in a small Iowa town of predominately German ancestry, probably 95%, and am familiar with about 1/3 - 1/2 of those words.

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Originally posted by Micropterus:
I handle claims in West Virginia and one I've heard there and nowhere else is "Fruity Drink." As in, "We was drinkin' fruity drink when I ran over my other friend's legs." Apparently, fruity drink is homemade alcohol with chunks of fruit fermenting in it.

Or went away to college.. Beer was expensive.

My wife is always asking me to translate what my family is saying. She also still tries to stop me from saying words and phrases the "Wrong way" like Pocket Book for a handbag, Buggy for a shopping cart, Sweeper for a vacuum cleaner, holler, yonder, "cooking a mess of beans" Greazy for greasy. I could go on for ever