[Arrowhead1952]

Don't even ask me why Texans don't pronounce Pedernales, Burnet, and Manchaca the way they look here.

[Brilliant]

This is really why the journalists hate Bush. He has the Texas twang.

[deport]

I wonder if they are adapting the ....... Redneck ways

[rdb3]

I've been here in TX for 12 years. Still no "twang." Never will be one, either.

[Sam the Sham]

Robert MacNeill's 8 part "The Story of English" was superb. Why isn't it on DVD ?

In the 'Oh, Pioneers' I loved where he pointed out how many American English expressions are based on poker (anything "deal", underhanded, etc..).

[Servant of the 9]

MacNeil thinks there is "a" Texas accent?

As late as the 70s, you could tell which county a Texan was from by his accent. Things have become more regionalized, but there are still at least 20 different ones.
The same is true in the rest of the South.

So9

[grobdriver]

Don't even ask me why Texans don't pronounce Pedernales, Burnet, and Manchaca the way they look here.

Pur-da-nal-lees
Burn-et
Man-chack-ka

What's so hard about that?
:)

[naturalized]

Don't even ask me why Texans don't pronounce Pedernales, Burnet, and Manchaca the way they look here.

A couple of my favorites are Gruene, Refugio and Lometa.

[theFIRMbss]

>Y'all better get ready because the Texas drawl is the future

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Y'all bettah git ready cuz da Texas drawl
iz da future o' American English -- at least
according ta journalist Robert MacNeil,
who has spent many years studying an' chronicling
how Americans jive. don't make me shank ya!
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Well, helpful people
put up an ebonics page.
We need a drawl page . . .

[Servant of the 9]

As a result, people have learned to be bilingual in a sense, speaking a formal standard English and a more informal dialect, depending on the situation, he said.

You can speak any way you want, but if you can't speak an intelligible standard english as well, then you are economically and socially worthless outside your 'hood' and deserve the contempt you receive.

So9

[isthisnickcool]

Houston = You-ston

Humble = Umble

Damn "H's"!

[DainBramage]

Minner Wells Bump

[Arrowhead1952]

Texas twang ping.....

[Deaf Smith]

We add the letter R to words that we think need them.

I am so proud of my Yankee wife; she now calls us to supper by telling us to go warsh our hands.

Now she will tell you that she is fix'n supper or fix'n to do something and if she's doing something, she's working on it.

[hushpad]

Then he slipped into a slow Southern drawl to share some typical Texas phrases with the students. <<<

Texans do have a Twang in their speech, but they do not talk a "slow Southern drawl" like those who live in the Carolinas or Georgia.

There is nothing like a Texas Twang. Nothing.

[ladtx]

Don't forget Mexia, Bourne, Bexar, and Montague.

[MissAmericanPie]

Being a Texan I have never understood why the way we speak is called a "twang". Texans take English and short hand it. Quick minds and all that. We can get a point across to each other with a minimum of words, such as, "had enuf?".

This expression covers everything from, "Have you had enough to eat", to, "Should I stop beating you now", to, "This is boring or offensive, let's leave".

[fr_freak]

...recalling a study from the 1990s that found that 76 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds and 41 percent of people older than 65 in the United States used "y'all" on a regular basis.

I have seen a lot of younger people adopting "y'all" in their speech, but from what I've seen, it's more because they are imitating the rap/hip-hop culture than Southern culture.

[dix]

Back years ago when I was hanging out in New York, and California a little bit I was kind of embarrassed a little bit about my Texas accent.

Over time I came to appreciate it, and now I am very proud to speak the way I do. No way do I ever try to pronounce my ings or hesitate to use our colorful expressions.

[Dark Wing]

This will come as news to Californians.

[bayourod]

Bout time them yankees started assimilatin.