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SMC22307

(8,090 posts)
10. Well, as a kid I had mild Yinzer accent...
Mon Jan 25, 2021, 09:08 PM
Jan 2021

but lost it when we moved to the DC area. I don't have much of an accent at all. Especially not one in which I sound like a dumb hick.

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crimsonandclover

(58 posts)
7. I'm from Alabama. That sounds like a Tennesee Accent.
Mon Jan 25, 2021, 07:11 PM
Jan 2021

Lord knows some of my states accents are bad but I have come to recognize different Southern States accents. That is a very rural accent.

SMC22307

(8,090 posts)
11. I spend a lot of time in NC...
Mon Jan 25, 2021, 09:12 PM
Jan 2021

but still don't have the accents straight. I remember TV ads for a car dealership and I was kind of in shock at the way the guy spoke. I think it was some sort of mountain accent and after MANY listens, I finally got it!

tblue37

(65,408 posts)
12. I lived in NC for 2 years as a girl. I had a Southern accent back then, but not an NC accent. I
Mon Jan 25, 2021, 09:39 PM
Jan 2021

was fascinated by the fact that there was no apparent difference between "all" and "oil" when pronounced by my friends there in NC.

SMC22307

(8,090 posts)
14. LOL, a neighbor from Raleigh does the all/oil thing.
Mon Jan 25, 2021, 09:54 PM
Jan 2021

I still have to ask her to repeat certain words but after 15 years, I mostly get her!

LizBeth

(9,952 posts)
2. Interesting. I said to my father, you raised me better. When having a conversation about the
Mon Jan 25, 2021, 05:44 PM
Jan 2021

immorality racist positions of the right and fighting against Trump. Father what happened to you. You taught me better.

Just found that funny that young man saying the same, all the way 180.

ShazzieB

(16,426 posts)
4. Oooh, MAGAt says he has integrity! 🙄
Mon Jan 25, 2021, 05:52 PM
Jan 2021

Yeah, he'd be more convincing if he showed any signs of knowing what that word actually means.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
8. If I thought this clown had a dollar to his sorry name
Mon Jan 25, 2021, 08:00 PM
Jan 2021

I'd bet him a dollar that Trump isn't coming back, that his hero had utterly abandoned and forsaken him. Just to keep it from being open-ended, let's say by June 1 chump.

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