Personal Narrative: Hillbilly Definitions

As a child, I grew up in a small town in West Virginia. Because of this, I was often surrounded by individuals who had the average “hillbilly” accent. Though I do not carry the West Virginian accent, I have picked up a few different pronunciations or words used to describe certain objects. I did not have this revelation until I moved to a larger city in Virginia. One night as I was walking through Walmart with my friends, I asked one of them to grab a buggy. It seemed as though the world had ended. Apparently, those wheeled contraptions that contain groceries at the store are referred to as “shopping carts” in other parts of the country. To this day, I continue to refer to these objects as buggies though I now know it is uncommon. This word