The Southern accent I knew as a small child no longer exists anywhere that I know of. It was restricted mostly to people sixty and over back then and it came mainly from old English influences, not from the black people. The black people I was around then may have used many of the same words but pronounced them differently and they had words that they used that were not used by white people and vice versa. I have to struggle to try to speak in that way now. Oddly enough, I grew up in South Carolina just South of the North Carolina line and midway on an East to West axis but I have been told many times that I sound like a Texan. I did some telephone work which involved calling a lot of people in the Eastern half of Texas and some of them would ask what part of TEXAS I am from, they assumed from my speech pattern that I was born and raised somewhere in Texas.
Do you have any idea how comical some Northern accents sound to Southerners?
Do you have any idea how comical some Northern accents sound to Southerners?
Nose to horizontal to even acknowledge your question....I would presume....and i don’t personally find them comical....been around too many good folk from the north...just gonna have the haters and elitist as usual.
And the award for ugliest American accent goes to ...
New Jersey, as spoken around Elizabeth/Newark.
It’s a degraded form of what Archie Bunker spoke.
Your post made me think of something really funny. Years ago I was in Paris and I went to the theater. I went to the ladies rest room and when I closed the stall door I noticed that the lady before had left her purse.
I said in a loud voice “ hey you left your purse” . The lady who left it shouted back at me ........
“ are you from Texas?
; )