[PJ-Comix]

I had Charleston on my mind because I have been reading a TERRIFIC Audible book, "The Demon of Unrest," in which that city plays an important part.

[PJ-Comix]

PING!

[alstewartfan]

Ah say, there’s “too much consooomin’ goin’ on.”

[Jolla]

I had a great uncle like that, born 1899 he was a teacher and had a very distinguished speaking voice like he was always making an important speech. He sounded a little British, which was odd for growing up in Texas.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[Flavious_Maximus]

Another senator with a distinct southern accent was John Warner of Virginia. Also Richard Shelby of Alabama had a huge southern drawl.

[Wallace T.]

I remember Rush Limbaugh doing a parody of Fritz Hollings in a Foghorn Leghorn type voice, saying, “I say, there's too much consumin’ going on here.”

[Albion Wilde]

Music to my ears, and authentic— “foah fouwdy yeeahhs.”

I was just thinking about Southern accents after watching "Matlock" recently. I love the actress Kathy Bates, a fantastic actress now starring in a tv legal show as a former native of Georgia, but she's got the accent more on the Alabama side of the Chattahoochee than the Georgia side, IMO. Her character relies on corny idoms ike Dan Rather (that's the writers' fault), with a sharp-edged, crackling sound. The Georgia accent I recall, at least among the civilian natives of Georgia around Fort Benning, was soft and lilting, with a gentle upturn at the end of sentences.

[chuckee]

Another crap Democrat. I like Foghorn Leghorn but not when he’s a Democrat