[Charles]

It's not Hunts-vill.

It's Hunts-vul.

[Keeper]

LOL.. so true Charles.

I remember hearing some ppl on national TV calling Mobile.. Mobil

[southernnaturelover]

Originally Posted by AllenKarber

I hope the accent doesn't disappear! I can't stand people trying not to sound southern! Don't be ashamed of who you are and where you come from!

If I go north I may try to sound a little less southern, but when I'm on my turf I'm not going to change my accent to please anyone.

[Southlander]

Originally Posted by Keeper

LOL.. so true Charles.

I remember hearing some ppl on national TV calling Mobile.. Mobil

*GAK* I've heard that too.
I've also heard Moulton ("molton) called "Moolton."

Here's a good one...small community in Lawrence County named "Chaleybeate." Any guesses on how to pronounce it?

[harry chickpea]

Slightly off topic, but in Vermont, the old Carbur's restaurant had sandwiches named for local towns. One of them was called the "Bellows Falls" and had the instructions not to mispronounce it, as it made the waitresses giggle.

Of course I have to wonder what goes on in the mind of a fellow from Arab who goes to the middle east to fight Arabs and gets asked where he is from...

[RebelPhotog]

There's a difference between a genteel southern accent and a plain ol' redneck language. I think a true southern accent may be a prerequisite for holding any elected office in Alabama. A genteel southerner takes a one syllabled word and makes it two. Rednecks, on the other hand, cannot and will not enunciate. I would not be sad to see the redneck language eradicated, but I do enjoy hearing my husband's little southern grandmother talk about 'the wawr'

[Keeper]

Originally Posted by harry chickpea

Of course I have to wonder what goes on in the mind of a fellow from Arab who goes to the middle east to fight Arabs and gets asked where he is from...

LOL.. especially when he say AAA rab

[Southlander]

Originally Posted by RebelPhotog

There's a difference between a genteel southern accent and a plain ol' redneck language.

You do realize there are different Southern accents? Coastal Southern is more what you are describing as "genteel." "Redneck" is more influenced by the heavy influx of Scottish immigrants who arrived in the New World in the late 1700s through the mid 1800s and tended to migrant down the Appalachians from ports along the northeastern United States down to Virginia (and even Charleston and Savannah).

There is nothing "genteel" about one or "ignorant" about the other - they are simply different. I've heard your above-described "Redneck" from college professors and CEOs in casual, everyday conversation with close friends. They do tend to tone it down in more formal situations.

That redneck you just mentally downgraded may own 500 acres and several half-million-dollar pieces of equipment with which to cultivate it!

[33458]

Originally Posted by Charles

It's not Hunts-vill.

It's Hunts-vul.

That's what my husband keeps telling me...

The Yankee, however, wants to say HuntsVILLE.

[WanderingImport]

Born in Mobile, lived there for 6 years, raised in Savannah, GA. Lived here for going on 18 years. Family in Mobile, Montgomery & Hoover. I notice it EVERYTIME I go back. I somehow lost my accent when my voice changed. I say HuntsVILLE.