[SunkenCiv]

• White House Has 'No Idea' About Kamala Harris's Use of Southern-Fried Drawl [09/04/2024]
• Kamala Harris Deploys Fake Southern-Fried Twang with Michigan Auto Workers [08/09/2024]
• Why do Southerners have a drawl? [09/18/2015]
• Hillary is in a South Carolina 'chicken and waffles' joint -- and sounding like it -- [05/28/2015]
• Hillary Brings Back Southern Twang for South Carolina Visit [05/27/2015]
• Hey y'all, what's wrong with a drawl? [08/02/2014]
• Curfew considered after massive brawl in downtown Greensboro [07/02/2013]
• Country music gets its day at the White House; Obamas to showcase legends, contemporary stars [11/20/2011]
• The Southern drawl -- is it spreading? [09/19/2007]
• US In Thrall To Southern Drawl (Fred Thompson) [06/10/2007]
• Cows also 'Have Regional Accents' [08/24/2006]
• Grand Ole Opry pre Christmas Show was EXCELLENT (repeats today) [12/18/2005]
• Top Five Country & Western Songs of All Time (Shamelessly Shameless Vanity) [08/25/2005]

[Salamander]

Highland Southern Dialect = Hillbilly.

We’re not the same as Southern southern.

[Salamander]

Reckon we got renamed.

And we’re all rhotic af.
We’ll stick an extraneous R in something just because.

:D

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The Appalachian accent is characterized by a Scotch Irish influence. It preserves certain aspects of Elizabethan English through distinctive pronunciations — for example, “like” sounds like “lack.” A musical quality comes from initial syllable stress, which is when the emphasis is shifted to the first syllable of a word.