you pronounce it like "app uh latch uh" not "app uh laysh uh" and that's not a regionalism. that's not a quaint southern way of saying it. Appalachia is named after the Apalachee people who sought refuge in this region during the indigenous genocide waged by our colonizing founders in Florida. i'm done having this conversation with y'all. i know you think you're dunking on hillbillies but surprise! it was actually anti-indigenous racism! again!
As Steve Shell said at the very beginning of Old Gods of Appalachia:
"Appalachia. A word stolen from more than one language, it conjures images of the beauty of God’s creation, and the darkness of man’s various poverties."
