Accent Tag! You're It.

[thesummerqueen]

That reminds me, Summer. I will be down your neck of the woods in September!!

Awesome - still hot but hopefully not sweltering. Let me know what your schedule is and where you'll be and I'll do the rest.

lol, even going as far north as Maryland and laying it on gets a peachy reaction.

Differences in accents can be extremely local: I can clearly hear a difference between my town's inhabitants and those of the next village, not 5 miles away!

Yeah, after living here I can tell the difference between a Charlotte native, a piedmont backwoodsman, and a mountain-dweller. Sometimes it's just a matter of how strong the drawl is, but there's a difference in inflection and the way certain things get stressed. It's pretty interesting.

Something interesting I learned in high school was that if you wanted to get as close as possible to the type of English in Shakespeare's time, you had to drag out a real bumpkin from the upper middle Appalachians. The English accent as we know it developed I think when the Hanovarians took over.