All areas have regional accent. In the same way you learn language, you learn accent.
The short answer: Because their parents did.
The short answer: Because their parents did.
Pretty much world wide i would think.
I would have to add that my sister and brother in law have heavy southern accents....their kids...not so much....many Southerners are shamed if they go to college and have a Southern accent...just my observation...One is an attorney and the other is an engineer...College beat the accent out of them.
I’m Georgia born and raised(Macon)with a Tennessee family history. I speak Georgissean.
When I was in the Middle East, I worked with a Texan that had grown in up Scotland and had a thick Scottish accent.
He had previously spent 8 years in Saudi and was fluent Arabic.
The contractor had mostly Lebanese and Palestinian Foreman and leaders. They were making fun of his accent. When I asked about if the Scottish was bleeding into his Arabic, he said no, they think I sound like a Saudi.
“”Resist modernity.” Translation: remain bone-in-the-nose, grass-hut-dwelling barbarians. Not exactly a noble goal.
And their minimalist language is nothing compared to the Tralfamidorians, who communicate by farting and tap-dancing.
As they say in Southern Germany, "Dawnker-Shane!"
I am from E. Ky and went into a small store with my grandfather to get something to drink. Grandpa was born in 1900 and asked for a ‘dope’. The owner got mad and ordered us out saying ‘We don’t sell that stuff here.’ I explained what grandpa meant and we got our drinks. Probably goes back to when Cokes actually had coke in them.
Another word you don’t hear anymore is ‘poke’, it means a grocery bag. Proper usage is ‘Reckon you could put that in a poke fer me?’