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The Savannah accent is similiar to the Alabama and Mississippi coastal accent...Even Alabama has different dialects especially the blacks in Alabama.African Americans in Mobile have a different dialect than those from Birmingham,Huntsville and Montgomery.
Blacks in Mobile have like a Florida accent mixed with an Alabama Black Belt accent. However, it is very very Southern.
I know some people would find the rural Eastern Kentucky accent annoying, but I find it kind of charming, as long as the grammar is reasonably good. I think I feel this way because accents in so many urban areas in the South have become more homogenous. There was some television show with people from Eastern Kentucky and subtitles were included at the bottom of the screen (although I could understand exactly what was said). I thought that was a little funny. Perhaps someone on the west coast would have some more difficulty understanding?
When I hear those clips from different areas of the South, they sound like accents that I hear in Memphis all the time. I don't hear one and think "oh, that's Atlanta" or "that's Nashville" Only cities like New Orleans have that distinction. Memphis doesn't have a huge transplant population, in fact, it's really small.
interesting, i could hear drastic differences between them. i thought they were all excellent examples of local accents.
the Atlanta one was new to me. i never realized Atlanta whites have their own accent... but when I heard that video clip, it was exactly like my late great uncle, who lived most of his life in Atlanta.
when i heard that Kentucky one, that's just like a fellow I know from West Virginia.
when i heard the east Tennessee mattress salesman, that's a dead-on example of anyone i've ever met from the mountains of western North Carolina.
when i listened to the garden district NOLA accents, they sounded like a guy i know who grew up in the garden district.
i might not be able to peg exactly where a speak is from without knowing beforehand, but to me it is crazy to say that it is all the same.
No offense taken at all. You live in Missouri, so I take it that your state would have more people from KY, TN, AR, MS, and OK. In my opinion, TN and KY (outside of Louisville) have some of the twangiest accents ever, especially East TN.
When I think of "Southern accent" the coastal areas come to mind first. I don't really care for the other ones though.
Not really. St. Louis pulls nationally and internationally. Lots of ethnic groups in StL. The new wave is the tens of thousands of bosnians. I don't think there are many people in St. Louis from KY, TN, OK nor MS.
St. Louis pulls a lot from Chicago and Charlotte because StL is such a banking/investing mecca (2nd most brokers to only NYC).
Most young transplants seem to be coming from cities like Atlanta, Pittsburg, Omaha, Chicago, Charlotte, KC and Dallas. The low cost of living and top notch historic architecture/urban landscape is very attractive to northeastern transplants too.
My comment about accents comes from my years attending Baylor University and my time spent training in Shreveport/Bossier. Both LA and rural TX accents are strong though my city friends from the larger TX metros ironicaly don't have much of an accent.
St. Louis has almost no accent however ther is a section of south city where you'll hear a lot of waRsh (wash) and fEr (for) and fArty (forty).
The 'word' Ya'll should be banished from everyone's vocabulary. YUCK.
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That's all I have, I could not find any clips of a full-blown Charleston accent but I've heard it described as Savannah meets Hampton Roads meets Canada.
Fritz is not the most "pure" Charleston accent, although he is from Charleston, he sounds more like my grandparents (who are from eastern SC, but not Charleston). He's a fairly good example of a white upper-class Charleston accent.
I have had a difficult time finding black Charleston accents on youtube.. this is the best i could find. If you fast forward to 3 minutes, or 5:30, you get some great examples of older people.
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