It’s more drunk hick than southern accent. Of course an accurate vin diagram would show lots of overlap there.
Darryl from New Shannon on KXNO shows
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Yeah good point. The best was spending a week in SW Kentucky for work. All the locals asked if I was from New York.
One my favorite accent days was when I had to work at one of the dock warehouses in New Orleans. Strange mix of English, Creole, and something else. The supervisor there looked like the huge dude from the Green Mile. Only understood the last two words of every sentence which was-- "MotherF*****!"
To my ears, most rural Iowans from south of I-80 have a southern accent.
That being said, I know I sound like an extra from the set of Fargo to them.
That being said, I know I sound like an extra from the set of Fargo to them.
I worked around Centerville for a few months last year and occasionally heard the weird southern accents. My wife’s uncle lives in the middle of Illinois and inexplicably has a southern accent when no one else in his family from the same town does. I don’t understand it.
When he "retired" from calling in a while back, I thought for sure he was going to start calling in normally and show it was all an act.
Although I still think it might be an act, I'll say I'm less convinced the longer it goes on.
Although I still think it might be an act, I'll say I'm less convinced the longer it goes on.
Can someone post a clip of one of his calls so those of us from outside the area can have an idea?
Not only did he have a drawl but sometimes in interviews he'd get to stuttering pretty bad, which I always felt bad about.
It made me less judgemental when it came to stuttering because Paul is a very, very bright guy (just not a good HC).
Early in my professional career I was at a seminar with young engineers from all over the country. There was one kid from Mississippi. He had the thickest accent I'd ever heard. About 3-4 days into the class he'd evidently been called on it one too many times. He spoke up in the class quite loudly, "I don't talk any different from y'all!" It was quite funny.
That said, I love to listen to different accents and different word usages that are regional. One I've noticed from southern Iowa is they pronounced 'fish' FEESH. And the dog leash is a LISH.
Odd deal. All of my relatives who live out west - Arizona, Seattle, etc. - tell me I have a southern accent. A twang, if you will. But my relatives who live in the south - who have REAL southern accents - don't notice a thing. Where you live probably has a lot to do with what you hear.
If you have a southern accent......the southerners would not notice because to them you sound just like them.....wouldn't that be correct?
I'm not picking up any twang from your posts though.
I tend to think you’re an alien because I am always floored at you (insert: haven’t seen this movie, heard this song, haven’t heard of this person).
