On Speaking Southern

If this keeps up, I’m going to start feeling sorry for her.

Seriously, she may not be faking it. My accent is pretty neutral for the most part (comes from marrying a Missouri “Show Me”), but I’ve been told that when I’m around my uncles and cousins back home, that I lapse back into a Southwest Virginia lilt.

Yes Vah-GIN-ya, it is possible for an accent to change depending on the circumstances and it not be a campaign trick.

2 Comments

  1. Carolinagirl

    Me: Funny how accents can be noted – or not. Being on the East Coast for so long, I know I’ve lost my Mid-Western accent. I think I noticed this in its entirity when speaking to my sister on the phone the other night. Boy, could I hear that Oklahoma draw in every word she spoke.

  2. Mike the Eyeguy

    Midwesterners have accents? 🙂

    One of the chief entertainments at my wife’s 20th HS reunion in St. Louis was her adopted Southern “drawl.” It doesn’t sound like one to me, but the liltless Midwesterners were convinced that she was a regular Daisy Mae Scragg.

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