southern accents

[hdwell]

Originally Posted by IBrakeforTailgaters

"I dun..." is used all over the South. I'm an educated Southerner with a Masters, and when I get around my folks from back home, I even slip up and use it every now and then. I've only lived in the Carolinas and have heard this phrase among people of various backgrounds, races, etc.

If you have only lived in the Carolinas, then how can you speak for the entire south?

[David Alleyne]

IDEA. I sort of hate doing this because a bunch of idiots in this country will associate being 'illiterate & slow with being Southern but this can give you a better idea of what you're looking for.

[graterdaze]

that phrase is used often in inland and rural Fl

[graterdaze]

I done used it a time or two myself, come to think of it !

[LeopoldButtersStotch]

Originally Posted by ab1472

would an uneducated, poor southerner in any state use the word "done," as in: "I done fell in the mud!" If so, what state would most likely produce such a person?

I have friends/family in West Virginia/SW Virginia that say "done" all the time. Its not that they are uneducated/poor either its just something that stuck as a young-in growing up there. I hear it all the time "I done told you" LOL.

[doctorjef]

The above post illustrates the difficulty trasliterating dialect, since "young-in" should actually be "young-'n'", being a derivative of "young one". What the above posts correctly testify to is that done+main verb is a regular grammatical construction and not simply some completely stupid error. It is, however, very regional, not standard English, and confined to certain socio-economic situations and cultural contexts.