This brings up a topic closely related to your hollow/holler remarks.  If you have the opportunity to see many of the old records you'll come across many given names which were changed from the original to end in -"er".  Priscilla/Prisciller, Ella/Eller, Alma/Almer, etc. The names almost always originally end with an 'uh' sound. Of course, hollow doesn't end in an 'uh' unless you pronounce it as hollah. 

My question is, can we possibly trace this speech pattern to a particular old-world region? Wouldn't it be great if we could use it to narrow our search for ancestor origins to something more precise than the name of the country?

I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this for us.

Thanks.
Janice


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I am glad they use the word  Hollow.  I grew up in the Shensndoah Valley and 
the word was Hollow, but where I live now,  in East Tennessee, they say and 
spell it Hollar.  Which I say means yell.   One local woman told me that 
they were called Hollars because people had to yell to each other.  I told 
her where I grew up, a hollow was a small valley.  We did not communicate 
well.

Kitty


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