Jim, my Grandfather spoke the same way..."there's seven-aught crows a-sitting on yon Chestnut tree!" He was of Scotch-Irish stock from the Appalachian and PIedmont areas of KY, VA and SC, and it's said that many of the settlers who came there in the 16 and 1700s brought the speech of that era in Britain, and that it is still close to its origins.