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I have to assume most people try to lose their southern accent when they get out into the wider world. They are not as common as they ought to be. Which is to say, they're nearly non-existent, in my experience.

In 1996 my father refused to believe Clinton won because literally everybody he knew voted for Dole.

Horace

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@Horace said in Backwards...:

I have to assume most people try to lose their southern accent when they get out into the wider world. They are not as common as they ought to be. Which is to say, they're nearly non-existent, in my experience.

In 1996 my father refused to believe Clinton won because literally everybody he knew voted for Dole.

I'm sure I could be overgeneralizing based on my personal experience. Maybe a more interesting response from you, would be whether you agree or disagree with my guess that most people try to lose their southern accent when they get out into the wider world.

Jolly

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@Jolly said in Backwards...:

Lad, I've got a Southern redneck accent you can't cut with a knife.

You got a problem with that, boy?

Southern redneck or Loosianan?

Pert near nigh onto redneck.

Jolly

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Sorry. All you yanks sound the same to me.

I'm sure you know that the closest accent to the American Southern accent, is the upper crust English accent of the late 1700's to mid-1800's.

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@Jolly said in Backwards...:

I'm sure you know that the closest accent to the American Southern accent, is the upper crust English accent of the late 1700's to mid-1800's.

I thought the southern accent came more from rural areas of Britain, where we still pronounced our 'r''s, and use words such as 'yonder' and 'howdy'.

Listen to this guy - he's from a town in Lancashire called Garstang. I grew up just off the Garstang Road. I don't really speak like this, but growing up I knew a lot of people who did. I'd say there are some similarities with the southern way of speaking.

Link to video

Mik

I love a woman's southern accent. Like honey.

Aqua Letifer

@Jolly said in Backwards...:

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@Jolly said in Backwards...:

Lad, I've got a Southern redneck accent you can't cut with a knife.

You got a problem with that, boy?

Southern redneck or Loosianan?

Pert near nigh onto redneck.

Jolly

@Mik said in Backwards...:

I love a woman's southern accent. Like honey.

They're different, as you know. Mississippi does not sound like Tennessee. Alabama and East Texas are two different worlds.

And Louisiana? Jay-zuz! Multiples...Prairie cajun, Gulf Coast cajun (my DIL is from between Des Allemonds and Raceland), West Bank (sounds like New Yawk), Avoyelles Parish (a cajun accent all its own), NE Lousiana, Central and West Louisiana and the urban accent of Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

My daughter was in Ireland a few years ago, riding on a bus, when she overheard two young women talking. She asked the dark-haired girl how things were going in Monroe...And the young lady almost wet her jeans.

Turned out, she was from Rayville (Tim McGraw's home town) which is about twenty minutes east of Monroe.

As they were talking, a male voice from back in the bus hollered, "Who dat?"

My daughter hollered back, "You from the West Bank?"

Indeed, he was.

Renauda

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Mik

Yeah, and I particularly like North Carolina, Georgia and Texas. But they're all lovely and alluring.

Jolly

South Carolina. It's slower than North Carolina.

My BIL 's wife is an endangered species - a native Floridian. I tell her she has a Cracker accent. She rolls her eyes at me.

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