Funny story, when my Mother heard her voice on a tape recording, back when they were new, she didn’t like her Southern accent.She went to great lengths to make sure my older sister and I didn’t have that accent, because she didn’t want it to hold back opportunities. Those who have met me and talked with me, ask where I am from, because I don’t have a Southern accent, even though I grew up just a few miles from the birthplace of Southern Rock. During a family vacation, to Cherokee, North Carolina, while out riding my bike from the campground, I met some locals. One asked me where I was from,, because, and I don’t think that I can truly describe the thick accent and draw “yawll Tawlks funnny”, and after that, I made a point to not have those traits
don’t come out when I speak. I’ve been all over this country, and a few others, and people don’t believe me when I tell them that I was born and raised in the South. My sister, on the other hand (God Rest her Soul) went full blown “Country” accent and language. I remember one time at a family gathering, someone asked her where someplace was from her parents property and she started off with
, in her thick Southern accent (but, at this point, had lived in the “Couuntry” for a long time). Me being me, asking her what a “Yonder” was, she slipped back into proper English, minus the accent, and, well, I can’t say what she said without going to ban island.
