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View Poll Results: Do you think Houstonians have a thick southern accent?
Yes 23 22.12%
No 81 77.88%
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Old 12-25-2010, 12:35 AM
 
Location: Austin, Texas
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IKR! Beyonce and Letoya are country as I don't know what. It's so thick to point they have moved to other places where people speak no Southern language at yet these two ladies still can't get rid of their Southern accents.
LeToya's accent is no joke.


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Old 12-25-2010, 12:46 AM
 
Location: Austin, Texas
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By the way, Houstonians definately DO have accents! It's just that Houstonians, and a lot of other Texans don't realize it. A few years ago, I flew to NYC from Hobby for the holidays, and when I came back I noticed it right off the plane when I had a discussion with a woman at the airport. It was actually a nice welcome home gift hearing a warm feminine southern accent after a couple of weeks in NYC.
 
Old 12-25-2010, 08:11 AM
 
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I don't know why some Houstonians and Texas like denying that! A southern accent is the best accent in the world!
 
Old 12-25-2010, 08:52 AM
 
Location: Austin, Texas
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I don't know why some Houstonians and Texas like denying that! A southern accent is the best accent in the world!
We've been brainwashed by the media to be ashamed by anything remotely southern. It's quite sad, really.
 
Old 12-25-2010, 09:02 AM
 
Location: Underneath the Pecan Tree
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We've been brainwashed by the media to be ashamed by anything remotely southern. It's quite sad, really.
It's true. It kills me when people on here be like "I don't here many southern accents in Dallas and Houston". I hear differently, because I hear lots of them.
 
Old 12-25-2010, 07:04 PM
 
Location: Clear Lake, Houston TX
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We've been brainwashed by the media to be ashamed by anything remotely southern. It's quite sad, really.
Yeah, that's especially true in Austin.
 
Old 12-26-2010, 03:15 PM
 
Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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Am I to understand that a country accent is a Southern accent?
 
Old 12-27-2010, 09:46 AM
 
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They are interchangeable, if you will.
 
Old 12-28-2010, 11:25 AM
 
Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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They are. But I think they are interchangeable everywhere. There are midwestern people that have "country" accents. There are Northeastern people that have "country" accents. There are interior West people that have "country" accents. Houstonians do not have country accents unless those people can from the country. Now Tyler......they have country accents.
 
Old 12-28-2010, 07:52 PM
 
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Don't know why any Houstonian would think they haven't got a 'southern' US sounding accent.

I hear phrases like ''idden it'', "y'all" and "hmph" from middle class, so called 'received' pronouncing people every day. Sure it sounds a little dumb but so what? It's what you are, be proud of it.

Likewise I can't help sounding better educated and more intelligent than any American simply by dint of my ''BBC'' accent, excellent diction and correct use of English. That doesn't mean any of that's true (but it is) .
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