
I was happy to hear that we speak it more in the style of the common accent at the time of the invasion of the Americas than you blokes do :)
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Sun 20 Nov 2011, 4:44,
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The suthu'n drawl is surely just decay. Folks got cut off from civilization and culture fermented. Of course that's America in a nutshell.
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Sun 20 Nov 2011, 5:00,
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-- the NPR thing was pretty clear on it being more like the Hollywood accent that we tend to think of as no accent, I think. I wanted to say Northern but then there is Minnesota, also Massachusetts. I really don't know, I'm from northern California myself duuuude, whoa.
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