Why Southerners talk this way

[RonD1120 62]

Understanding the Southern drawl

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[BartsDaddy 7]

Well that is old news to me. Not that they are totally correct with where the accents originated from. I think it expands to more then the few they mentioned.
It's no suprise people pick up an accent from where they live. I grew up a Navy brat and lived from Hawaii to Massachusetts and many in between and north or south. I moved 13 times by 5th grade. You should have seen people trying to figure out where I was from by my accent. Now after being in southern California for 30 years I don't hear the question where are you from near as much.
But a woman with a deep southern accent will melt me in my tracks.

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[riggerrob 643]

That is a quick overview.
Accent depends upon what part of the UK your ancestors immigrated from and it depends upon which century they left the UK because UK regional dialects change over the centuries (e.g. the great vowel shift after Shakespeare's day).

[Niki1 2]

Jeff Foxworthy says, People not from the south are going be real surprised when they get to the pearly gates and St. Peter says, "Y'all git in the truck, We goin up to the big house."

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