Timeline for Why do some folk songs from 1930s Appalachia pronounce the word 'Jordan' as 'Jerdon'?
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| Mar 5, 2023 at 21:45 | vote | accept | user438383 | ||
| Mar 5, 2023 at 6:43 | comment | added | alphabet | Never mind, I finally tracked it down! See my answer below. | |
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| Mar 5, 2023 at 2:57 | comment | added | alphabet | (On the other hand, in the second example, the "more" after 0:52 is pronounced the standard way. Hrm...) | |
| Mar 5, 2023 at 2:52 | comment | added | alphabet | In the first of those two examples, there's a similar shift in the pronunciation of "choir" after 1:27; I suspect this is one of those odd vowel mergers before r. | |
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| Feb 2, 2023 at 17:04 | answer | added | Ronnie Justice | timeline score: -2 | |
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| Aug 13, 2022 at 0:13 | comment | added | livresque | Yer, fer, these pronunciations last in lots of places for your purposes. Are there any good related Qs here not just about eye dialect from Harry Potter? +1 for novelty. Appalachia was influenced by Scots (e.g. laird). Not as standard now since the Internet leap years. | |
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| Aug 12, 2022 at 17:26 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | In the era of President Jimmy Carter and his contingent of advisors from Georgia, one prominent figure was Hamilton Jordan. It was widely reported in contemporaneous news sources that he and those around him pronounced his last name "Jerdon." This lends circumstantial force to Barmar's comment above that the pronunciation may be standard in some regions (such as Appalachia or the U.S. South). | |
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| Aug 12, 2022 at 16:15 | comment | added | Barmar | This sounds like a regional accent. | |
| Aug 12, 2022 at 14:50 | comment | added | Stuart F | Do they mispronounce other words? I wonder if it was common to use a distinctive pronunciation for Biblical terms, maybe to indicate the often-unusual diction of preachers (or maybe of African American spirituals or some other forms of speech or singing). I certainly can't find any evidence of changed pronunciation of Jordan (e.g. there are no alternative spellings). | |
| Aug 12, 2022 at 13:03 | comment | added | user438383 | @KillingTime yes, the word 'Jordan' isn't rhyming with anything and in modern versions of Wayfaring Stranger, like Johnny Cash's version from 2000, he pronounces 'Jordan' in the 'modern' conventional way. | |
| Aug 12, 2022 at 11:29 | comment | added | KillingTime | Pronounciation in songs is often influenced by trying to fit the tune. Did you try using what you consider the "modern" Jordan pronounciation with the songs? | |
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