The Girl With The South Carolina Accent

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The Southern Accent

I must have gotten most of it back though because a coworker and I were in Seattle on business she's a retaarrd English teacher, and we were both legal editors at the tahm. We went shopping, and I heard a clerk say "I just love to hear Southerners talk. It sounds so country. I wasn't too happy eether. We never say eyether. But change is coming with the constant moving around the country.

I notice that many of our young people are losing their accents or never developing one. Now these folks 'tawk real funny'.

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An attorney does not specialize in 'elder law', but instead it's 'eldah lar'. No one sells car parts, but they do have plenty of cah pahts. It's not pictures, it's pitchas, and the ladies keep those pitchas in their pockabooks, rather than their pocketbooks. I live in Minnesota and we say, "You get what you get and you don't throw a fit. Yep, accents down here come in many shades.

You hear it one way in Nashville and 20 minutes out one way hear it with a different twang in Charlotte or White Bluff. This is definitely describing a south Carolinian accent because in Georgia we don't say "dress" with two syllables, nor do we say "river" as "riv-ah" Just like it's spelled. Although you will come across some that do pronounce it that way. For instance, my husband has family from south florida and from north alabama who pronounce "there" as "thar" and "tire" as "tar".

Most everyone from my neck of the woods though pronounces tire with two syllables, but dress with one syllable. I really think it's all according to how you're brought up and what family you were brought up in. Being from Southern Louisiana, our accents are all pretty different than that of other southern regions. And there's a stark contrast between Cajuns and New Orleans and Thibedeaux and every other parish.

People from Chalmette tend to sound like Thibedeaux mixed with Boston, which is quite strange.

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I am a writer from Kansas and I don't think most of us born and raised in Kansas have much of an accent. However, all of my family are from Arkansas. My story is about Southerners and usually I can close my eyes and imagine my father saying the word I need. But, I was puzzled as to how to write it. You have solved my problems. Thank you so much. I'm from central Virginia and the Charleston accent is similar to our accent. It's the smallest dialect in the South, known as the Tidewater accent. It has localized spots around early settlements. It's dying out too.

Experts say it will be obsolete soon. It is based on the earliest colonial days and is the old plantation accent of the upper class. I think public schools and outsiders are killing it. My grandchildren don't have much of it left.


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This year Virginia passed a line. We have more residents from elsewhere than native Virginians. It's kind of sad. All these people move here because they like this culture. Then they set about to change all our ways. My family has lived right here for years and I'm thinking about moving deeper South to retire. I don't recognize my home anymore. Usually the term "You get what you get and you don't throw a fit. Growing up in Georgia, I never thought about the way I or other people talked. It wasn't until my family moved to Maryland that I noticed people didnt talk very much like I do.

I have seldom heard people up here use "gonna" and "lemme" like I always have. My brother and I have an argument about whether my older brother has a southern accent. Reading this I can say he can, but not really. The southern accent basically shortens words a lot, sorta like what Shakespeare used in his play. I was born and raised here in North Carolina, and we don't talk like that here.

Those pronunciations seem to be a bit exaggerated. And West Virginia is not a southern state. It was a union state during the civil war. I have a friend who is a Southern lady, and she pronounces 'teriyaki' and 'teriyaka'. You say "you get what you get and you don't throw a fit" is a more Southern term? That's all I've ever heard from my family, and I live in California.

Albeit, most of my family is from Oklahoma and Tennessee and places around there, but still. I have the weirdest "accent. While I will agree with most of your usages, I can't help but notice that you seem to be following more of a Plantation English - or, old time rich Southern.

I am from Georgia - been here all my life. I am accustomed to y'all, git, fixin-to and aaaa-ite awlright or alright , but I aint never said "be-fo-wah" If I am saying "climb over", I pronounce it "over". If I am meaning its "over there", I say, "O-vair".. I have also found that we have moved away from "taar" tar to a point where we overly annunciate the "i" I get the point, and the humor, but stressing the pronunciations like this just makes us sound dumber and civil war era-ish.

We aint used some of these words in fuh-ever.

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I love these articles on Southern Sayings! Only one thing, and please don't take it as a criticism, but you left Missouri out of the South. Missouri came into the Union in as a slave state and informally seceded in Missouri has historically been a southern state and is still widely populated by folks that came from southern states, mainly TN, VA and KY.

All settled in the area known as "Little Dixie" aka Boonslick which are the counties along the Missouri River and generally in the central part of the state. With that said, I can attest to the fact that I grew up hearing lots and lots of Southern Sayings and all of my family has a nice, sweet drawl. I'm from Arkansas, and I'll tell ya one thing right now, it ain't all jis quite like how you put it on here. Most the time my folks will pernounce the "i" in "like" as a long I sound instead of using what they call a dipthong where the i sorta turns halfway through into an e.

I also heard, and this may be wrong, that the word "tump" is something unique to Arkansas. Ya use it kinda like dump, but on accident. Like you might, on purpose, dump out a bowl in the sink, but you might accidentally tump over a barrel of Papaw' s feed corn if ya ain't bein' careful. I noticed that, and it might just be me, we pernounce "of" not sp much as "uhv" but as "ahv". And it's several other things in that same vain that I could talk about, but y'all get the idea.

We were talking about the Oregon Trail and how they talked. This was very helpful. What about the implosives? Like 'g' in 'git her done', Where and when do these show up?

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I was absolutely fascinated when I joined the marine corps in the early 70's and found American Indians from the Oklahoma reservations that had the exact same dialect that I have here in nc. Were they part of the forced march trail of tears you think? This is a really helpful website for me 'cause we've got a school play that has southern American accents.

How would the word "boy" be pronounced and written? I'm writing a book and struggling for the right southern pronunciation. I just threw my wife for a loop. She called from the store and asked if we needed LIMA beans.. I said no we need Lama beans. That went on for 10 min Then she if asked we needed tomatoes I replied no we don't need no matas. Pretty obvious I married a northern lady. Dear Miss Johnson, Thank you for such an interesting article! I very much enjoy listening to the Southern accent spoken, and I will surely be returning to this site so i can learn a little "Southern" by heart.

Americans, hang on to your accents. Find out how your Great-Grandparents pronounced words and phrases, and learn them by heart so they can be taught to future generations. I try'da tawk as much Brooklyn, New York as possible. My Mother said that my Father used to say "chewn gum" for "chewing gum". He also loved Southern food. If it's light, not too severe, I don't care. I like English accents best on a woman. I'm not incredibly picky, but I'd have to put Asian accents last on the list, they annoy the living shit out of me, especially the women I have to say that i personally love the Southern accent.

I'm currently living in Alabama but i'm not originally from here and people sure do notice when i speak. You hear a lot of Southern accents when you live in Texas. I'm not from here, so I find the accents very attractive. Having a British accent is also very sexy. I'm from NY, so yes I found the southern accent sexy. When I've visited the south I've had people comment on my NY accent.

I think accents are attractive when you are not form that area, which is why we all listen to people with British accents like they were jesus. I think it's a big turn-on.

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I miss the drawl I lived in Georgia and South Carolina and it really depends. If its really strong, its kind of freaky, but if its barely noticable, its cool.

Please Log In to post. Also my accent isn't like out in the woods country, not saying that's bad though I love good country accent: KaosAngel Follow Forum Posts: Can I touch your shoulder?

Bruce Follow Forum Posts: I have a thing for hispanics I kinda like that accent myself, and i'm from the UK. If a woman with a Southern accent can say that correctly swayt tey That's the kind of shit that causes babies to be made. Bucketdeth Follow Forum Posts: Probably a fake account but whatever. Not a fan of southern accents on anybody. I don't really mind a bit of a twinge but I prefer accent-less people myself.

Straight mid-western no-nonsense English. RetroIce4 Follow Forum Posts: I personally don't like Southern Accents at all. This girl I worked with had a really thick one and it was so annoying.