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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/30/2008 1:57:12 AM
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Mrs.X
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A Scottish accent is actually called a brogue. A Swedish accent is called a lilt. A southern accent is a draw.
unless you are in TN then it's a "twang"....lol. Believe me, there is a big difference between the twang and the draw....I have both in my accent because of my parents being from TN and me being mostly raised in TX.
LOL, I forgot about twang!
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/30/2008 1:57:49 AM
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A southern accent is a draw.
I thought it was a drawl.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/30/2008 8:23:26 AM
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A southern accent is a draw.
I thought it was a drawl.
So did I
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/31/2008 5:53:40 AM
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I've never had a problem understanding which gas we're talking about, either.
Are you old enough to remember "Classical Gas?"
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/31/2008 8:53:46 AM
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Do you mean like the choice between regular and unleaded?
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/31/2008 9:36:28 AM
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Classical Gas
Anyone else remember
Banapple Gas?
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/31/2008 9:40:37 AM
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I LOVED Cat Stevens when I was a young teen! Was so sad when he "converted" to Islam. I'd actually never heard Banapple Gas before!
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/31/2008 10:54:20 AM
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Texans have a drawl (think Matthew McConaghy)
NC, TN, VA and parts of WVA have twangs.
Other southerners just add syllables to stretch out their words, which is why people think we're slow. 
Here, true Charlestonians speak with a colonial southern accent. Leftover from it's founding, real Charlestonians pronounce most words funny. Nobody understands them.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/31/2008 12:15:44 PM
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Texans have a drawl (think Matthew McConaghy)
NC, TN, VA and parts of WVA have twangs.
Other southerners just add syllables to stretch out their words, which is why people think we're slow.
Here, true Charlestonians speak with a colonial southern accent. Leftover from it's founding, real Charlestonians pronounce most words funny. Nobody understands them.
yup...exactly
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/31/2008 12:33:47 PM
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Other southerners just add syllables to stretch out their words, which is why people think we're slow.
I fall in this group.
Mine changes...depending on if'n I'm around family. I actually get more of a deep twinge (instead of a twang).
When I'm around my husband's family, I tend to talk slower cause they all talk so fast! Boston accents and really really fast. They make my heart race with all the fast talking, so I talk slower just to keep my heartbeat down. 
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/31/2008 12:52:35 PM
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A southern accent is a draw.
I thought it was a drawl.
So did I
I thought so too until I asked my hubby. He's from GA, and he said, "nope. that's just how a person with a drawl says drawl, it don't have no L...It's spelled D R A Dubya." LOL
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/31/2008 8:08:13 PM
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I've never had a problem understanding which gas we're talking about, either.
Are you old enough to remember "Classical Gas?"
Classical Gas was released in 1968. I graduated high school in 1969 so YEP.
I'm from Georgia and I say Drawl and white and roof correctly.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/31/2008 8:36:48 PM
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Squash is a fruit-based liquid concentrate, sold in bottles, which you dilute with water to make a soft drink. It contains colour and flavouring (might be natural or synthetic) and preservative(s) plus either sugar or artificial sweeteners.
The amount of actual juice content varies from product to product, the dearer ones containing the most actual juice.
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