....ok smashup it just caught me a bit off guard hearing her talk after hearing her sing.

You should hear people in North Carolina talk....on the outter banks you have the "hiogh tioders" who supposedly are the closest dialect to the Queen's English or something like that....then you have the mountain folk who say "l-ight", "n-ight", "f-[b]ight[b]" with a very drawn out 'I' sound.....don't even get me started about South Carolina....

The following sentences illustrate the basic verb tense and aspect system in Gullah (a dialect with roots in Africa):

Uh h'ep dem -- "I help them/I helped them" (Present/Past Tense)
Uh bin he'p dem -- "I helped them" (Past Tense)
Uh gwine he'p dem -- "I will help them" (Future Tense)
Uh done he'p dem -- "I have helped them" (Perfect Tense)
Uh duh he'p dem -- "I am helping them" (Present Progressive)
Uh binnuh he'p dem -- "I was helping them" (Past Progressive)

I can hear people in South Carolina talk, especially where my Uncle lives (the southeast part close to Savanah, GA) and only understand a word here and there