Drawl?
What drawl?
Everyone here noted that the idiot didn’t answer his own question.
What has been said is that Southern English is more representative of the English spoken 300-400 years ago then what we hear now in England, which is Victorian.
The affected accents of the 19th century came from people copying the upper classes. This of course never made it to the South, so the way they speak is supposedly the way the English and Scots/Irish sounded 3 centuries ago.
Well, ya see, it’s pretty simple.
Southerners keep their awls in a drawer and instead of
saying “Get the awl from the drawer”
they just say “drawl”.
I was born in Texas but spent 7 school years in northern New Mexico. They said i sounded like a yankee when i returned to Texas. Took quite a while to get my Texican back.
Here is a short but interesting explanation; and it has nothing to do with African influences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwwffKlvfOY
I repaired my enunciation on the spot.
“Louisiana: “banquette” – sidewalk. “
I’ve seen this word in writing once in the 25 years I’ve lived here, and have never actually heard it said. This must be isolated to the roughly 17,000 people who still know how to speak Cajun French.
Why do New Yorkers literally talk out of the side of their mouth??
“Tump” — now that’s one I haven’t heard for a while. We had some transplanted Arkansans where I grew up in southern Illinois, and I used to hear it all the time.
When “This Old House” was first broadcast nationally, the rest of the country couldn’t understand the heavy Boston accents of Norm and the rest of the crew. “Cut the board with a saw” sounded like “Caughd da bauhd widda sawyr”.
I’m from Louisiana. I was attracted to my husband because of his weird accent. (He is from New Hampshire). Of course, I speak without accent, like all of my friends and family in Louisiana. But that Yankee accent takes some getting used to.
I live in Minnesota and the strangest thing is I never hear a Southern bastardization of the spoken word of English. I hear Somali, Hmong, Mexican, Eastern European, and Chinese versions but never a Southern accent. Put that in your pipe and think about it.
From the article in Slate referred to by the author:
Washington, D.C.
bama (noun): a loser or chump
It’s only 9:30 and these bamas are already in their pajamas.
CAUSE THEY ALL TOOK DELIVERANCE BANJO LESSONS....
“...where residents whistle long range conversations when their shouts won’t carry...”
I worked with a couple of older carpenters during the summer back in high school. Bob would carry on a conversation with me. Butch maybe said (yelled?) four words to me each summer. They barely talked with each other.
One time framing-in a second story with Bob helping him with something. After a couple of hours he lets out a loud whistle. A few minutes later Butch comes up with an armful of tools, sets them down but keeping one and starts helping Bob with something else. No words between the two of them!
It is because they eat their grits, in an improper fashion.
Largely because they “consider all forms of human discourse other than their own to be laughably inferior,
...
Just like cats.