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  • but the primary reason

  • uh... most people don't realize

  • that the american southern accent is not a sign of ignorance

  • but actually the fact that according to linguists

  • we're the only people left in the united states who generally still sound like our

  • ancestors

  • because if you listen to native-born southern speakers,

  • the average southern against sound more like this, what we call this "moonlight

  • magnolia drawl" because if you speed up that sudden drop overtime and

  • rapidly to come to the kazakhs and

  • most people don't realize that people that came here from europe were largely

  • from the united kingdom so when they got here this was not long lines of the

  • speaking tenants but that's the first and second generations coming off the

  • boat not the children

  • now the third and fourth generations to kids fit quite right mom and dad animal

  • because it's time to develop decided on gation and with a top

  • west today called the virginia tad one accent

  • it's not a complete southern drawl because that's a point area

  • but as you go farther into the southern interior and the years to raise the

  • acceptance to get baker deeper richer

  • by arkansas alabama georgia peggy a devil multilateral

  • but people don't realize that in most cases in louisiana

  • many of the native speakers

  • don't sound like that

  • victim to sound like these i guarantee spend a run by you

  • placement of their families and i came down to the accident on what time it

  • becomes all poultry

  • width of course certain exceptions in new orleans would start in the salad

  • more like new yorkers

  • because of the irish and this is c_n_n_ kalyan influence so they can decide on

  • what i did

  • and even then you get a little confused addicting

  • wanted on the left not

  • anthony collins y

  • they have been realized that at the end of the day

  • seven speakers

  • like i said we're not

  • ignorant as it's often been assumed

  • but we simply sell like the ancestors became here

  • so many years ago

but the primary reason

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