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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera View Post
My "rule of thumb" is talk to a lot of the locals, people living there. That is proper way to pronounce that city or town's name.

In the deep south single syllable words become two syllable words. Bed becomes bee-yad, and different slang is used. For instance, if one's bike falls over, it "tumped over". And it can't just tump, it has to tump over.

And of course we all know "bless your heart" is not really a compliment in the south.
Everything damaged is "tore up."

You can talk to the locals all you want but that last little bit will never come to you. I hate when actors try a Southern accent.
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