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OT again - Southern accents

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Brent in IA

07-13-2007 04:42:09




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One of the replys to the "Southern Staets" posts below got me thinking. My brother has 6 kids, 3 born in FL and 3 in TX. The ones who lived in Florida never seemed to have a Southern accent at all, but after they moved to TX fora few years all 3 of them and the 3 new ones all had a drawl.

Now I have relatives in NC who have a drawl as well and know others from states between NC & TX who do as well.

Is it just me, or does FL somehow not produce a drawl with their regional dialect?

When I moved "South" from MN/ND to IA 15 years ago to go to vet school it took about 5 years before people stopped telling me I talked like a "Minnesotan". By the way, the IA climate was so much better than "up north" that I stayed put after finishing school! Nice to live in the South - relatively speaking.

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Bob Tedford

07-13-2007 18:06:20




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 Re: OT again - Southern accents in reply to Brent in IA, 07-13-2007 04:42:09  
i love the way weman in Missouri talk, when i go there to visit family. The people down there tel ME! i have an accent!!



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Joe(TX)

07-13-2007 14:08:39




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 Re: OT again - Southern accents in reply to Brent in IA, 07-13-2007 04:42:09  
For one thing, people in Texas do not have a southern accent. The people from the southeast have a very differant accent. The differance is easy to detect to me.
I don't think we have an accent anyway, everyone else does.



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NawlensGator

07-13-2007 09:44:03




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 Re: OT again - Southern accents in reply to Brent in IA, 07-13-2007 04:42:09  

People are surprised when I tell them I was born and raised in FL because I have no southern accent. That's because FL for the most part wasn't populated appreciably until the 30's/40's/50's by northerners. The northesters (PA/NY/MA) populated the east coast (US1/I95), and the midwest (Ohio/Mich/Ill) populated the west coast (301/I-75).



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IH2444

07-13-2007 08:00:47




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 Re: OT again - Southern accents in reply to Brent in IA, 07-13-2007 04:42:09  
the southern part of FL is not asoutherners, it is relocated northerners and furriners.



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Loren in Florida

07-13-2007 07:32:31




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 Re: OT again - Southern accents in reply to Brent in IA, 07-13-2007 04:42:09  
I too am originally from southern Minnesota. In the 70's I drove truck over-the-road. No matter where I went, I got the same response "You're from Minnesota, aren't you?" Don't know what it is ??? Moved to Florida 3 years ago. Same response here. You are right, not drawl here. My wife is originally from Philadelphia, but has lived in Florida for over 30 years. Most people still pick up on her Philly accent. My step-daughter grew up in Florida, but moved to North Carolina a couple years ago. She has definitely picked up the drawl. Also, my son grew up in Minnesota, but would visit his mother (my x) in Texas every summer. He would come back home with the Texas accent, but only lasted a couple weeks, and was gone.

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Sid

07-13-2007 05:22:55




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 Re: OT again - Southern accents in reply to Brent in IA, 07-13-2007 04:42:09  
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Brent in IA

07-13-2007 05:42:10




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 Re: OT again - Southern accents in reply to Sid, 07-13-2007 05:22:55  
Thanks for the link. Never thought of that as I was just kind of continuing the thread below without "hijacking" the topic from the origianl poster. Interesting site, I may visit there more often.



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Sid

07-13-2007 05:22:33




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 Re: OT again - Southern accents in reply to Brent in IA, 07-13-2007 04:42:09  
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Brent in IA

07-13-2007 04:43:03




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 Sorry - Hit Back button and it reposted in reply to Brent in IA, 07-13-2007 04:42:09  
Sorry - Hit Back button and it reposted



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