(November 29, 2019 at 9:09 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Yep. A New Englander talking to a Alabama swamper, that's fun to watch. The telly is gradually leveling the play field, but it won't eliminate regionally distinction dictions.
My uncle (dad's brother) grew up in Iowa and has spent most of the rest of his life in a suburb of Minneapolis...doncha know. When he was with us in BFE, North Carolina during my dad's last days I had to translate for him. He couldn't understand the waitress when we went out for supper.
But there are lots and lots of southern accents too. My husband speaks SC country while my grandparents and aunts and uncles speak/spoke with a weird southern brogue that's found on the Outer Banks of NC.
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