Posted on 05/15/2019 3:49:23 AM PDT by C19fan
From a southern drawl to a Boston twang, there is no shortage of accents in the United States of America. But no accent is alike - and neither is their sex appeal. Now a new survey has ranked the sexiest and least sexiest accents in America, revealing whether the country prefers the sounds of Mark Wahlberg or the Jersey Shore cast. While Texas and Boston reigned supreme, the likes of Snooki and The Situation would be sad to learn that New Jersey accents ranked almost dead last in the survey by Big 7 Travel.
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I think just listening a lot from West Virginia to Roanoke to Roan mountain North Carolina to northeast Alabama and blue ridge Georgia
It’s Elizabethan origin throughout Appalachia
The tones and whatnot
Compare Irish Scots and English Midlands traditional music to what we used to call county music 1950s and 60s
My folks are east Mississippi piney woods who speak country with double negatives and all that entails
My dad’s people were black belt land owners and merchants Columbus Miss area folks and they speak more Deep South Southern like Diane Ladd or Andie McDowell
114 is a good post
You hear country accent what you refer to as inland southern also even in southern Indiana Ilinois and Ohio a bit
And southeast Kansas some
He nailed a Gretna or Algiers accent
Uptown and high Metairie is more southern
Harry Connick jr has an uptown New Orleans accent when he’s not getting down talking brother speak
I wonder how Amy Barrett speaks .....
I’ve got kinfolks two blocks from Commanders Palace
They speak like I do except that New Orleans Bronx sounding brogue sneaks in some
And to go from that to playing Freddie Mercury, now that’s range!
I am more of a plantation drawl but I think the mountain speech I was talking about must be the Appalachian twang. My ancestry is mostly Scottish with some Welsh, Dane, and Irish. My Scottish ancestor came here to NC in the 1700’s after the Scottish clearances and settled in the mountains of NC before moving South. I read somewhere that the Southern speech originated with immigrants from Scotland.
“We moved to Tennessee when we fled California.”
Ditto.
“I find the accent quite pleasant.”
Ditto.
Back in the sixties, we dealt with long distance telephone operators. It was always a treat to call from our Dallas headquarters to the plant in Atlanta and get to converse with the ATT operator with her slow southern draw.
Thanks Knarf with jimmies on top, I do need to update it though.
I forget if the Rialto is still there.
Not me.....
S’ok. I’m sure they couldn’t ingest enough alcohol to be interested in you anyway.
I grew up in Texas then went into the Navy where I was stationed with guys from the northeast. I picked up on their accents. When I’d go back home on leave, people would tell me I talked like a Yankee. When I visited the northeast, people would say, “You’re from the south, aren’t you?”
I went on to live in Georgia, Canada, back to Texas, then to SoCal and NoCal. No idea what kind of accent I have, but someone once thought we had gone to high school together in San Francisco. Call me a mongrel.
I spent 2 years working in your state and will Never set foot there again.
I did not get along with your state troopers either.
Your sore spot I hit is telling.
“When you’re taking flak, you’re over target.”
Used to work with a guy from Tennessee. He was a little short guy with coke bottle glasses, but his accent was enough to make you melt. Women would fall in love with him just talking with him over the phone.
LOL - my dear departed mother was once told by someone that they loved her Massachusetts (Kennedy) accent. She chuckled at that, as her accent was definitely NOT Kennedyesque. She was born in Quebec, spoke mostly French at home, and THAT was her eclectic accent.
Keep telling yourself that.....
Not really. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
I find your comments, well, strange....
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