Southern accent

I do not have one at all, but I never thought that I had one at all, and onetime at "Subway" in WA someone asked me where I was from. I was perplexed, and said, "uh, Michigan, I guess." then they said that I had a southern drawl. Weird.

But then when I heard my sister on the radio, I thought she sounded like such a hick. And when I heard Brandall and my Kids on the phone from TN, I couldn't believe that I hadn't even noticed the accent. I always focused so much on not saying "Yous guyses" or other things that Michiganders say. all of my vowels were way too flat.

I studied diction in Mississippi, and had a german professor from Arkansas, so, I suppose to me, that was the base. My best friend who claims Memphis and Sheffield/florence was really born in Texarkana, Arkansas. I used to tease her about sharing a birthplace with Bill Clinton. lol

Seriously though, I wondered at the differences in English and wondered how it happened. I mean we had alot of french influence being so close to Quebec, but it was nothing like La. Creole influence, strangely enough.

I decided that southern language was just the least evolved of the Old World speech. Cause I did Brandall's geneology and it was mostly aristocracy and such. Opposed to my assumptions after living in GA which was a penal colony, TN and much of the south was aristocratic plantation owners, who came to America to use the Land and crops for easy profit, hence communication wasn't something they needed to replace. But with the internet it is finally fading, but I still think it was an aristocratic thing, and the speakers need not be ashamed or think of it as a scar or branding of stupidity. then again, maybe that is exactly what they hope to do.

Mississippi is so different than the was it is portrayed intentionally. It is done to frighten the outsiders away.