Keep scrolling to see 25 Southern words and expressions you probably won't hear anywhere else. (2012) Northern = smart and Southern = nice: The development of accent attitudes in the United States. The southern accent is actually the easiest to adopt over time as it does not require one’s lips to move very much. Again, I am smiling. So I might have had a harder time than most when it came to deciphering a heavy accent. There are many little things that make up the different Southern dialects. The Quarterly Journal of … Southern society, southern culture, is … Now, I can’t think of anyone off hand that does a great one - so maybe it’s just the coaches in Hollywood All of the southern accents in movies I’m thinking of suck, but they were Americans We like to read this as one of the greatest Southern encouragements, but, like most of these phrases, you can use it however you’d like. This does not, however, explain where the whites who were not raised by slaves and who did not own plantations got their accents. I would listen at full speed once or twice, and then I would slow down the audio to about 60 percent and start transcribing. If you think you can’t, you won’t be able to accomplish something, but if you think you can, you’ll succeed. However, accent related biases appear to be more acceptable and less opposed than racial, religious or gender discrimination, even though globally accent-bias … Estuary English before Rosewarne Some 25 years ago I was confronted with an enigmatic comment "You do this new… Bc a lot of linguistic experts believe that a southern accent is a British accent slowed down. I went to high school and college in the south, and my high school U.S. history teacher once exclaimed that a southern accent is essentially an English accent slowed down. There are both southern U.S. and English accents that can sound grating to me. For instance, down south, "madder than a wet hen" means being angry, "over yonder" is a more poetic way of saying "over there," and "bless your heart" can be both an insult and a way to show empathy. For example, here she is on a visit to my birthplace, Birkenhead (full speed, then slowed down): The BBC-type British accent is non-rhotic, and speakers don't pronounce the r, leaving hard sounding more like hahd. Related pages: Regional accents This page: Southern British English RP and Home Counties SBE MOUTH and GOAT diphthongs RP SBE vowel formants Home Counties SBE vowel formants Nineteenth century sound change in Kent Received Pronunciation 1. The thing that people notice most often is the southern drawl. Positive thinking, Southern style. There are indeed some signs in video clips that she occasionally shows British influence. Also, not everyone is descended from the old artistocractic gentry and, besides which, I have yet to hear a Southern accent that sounds like a slowed-down English accent, as I have heard claimed by various persons. I would listen to the speaker a say a couple of sentences to try and acclimate myself to their accent. Kinzler, K.D., and DeJames, J.M. The BBC recently asked me and other phoneticians to comment on the idea, expressed in social media, that Meghan, Duchess of Sussex has started to acquire a British accent. Though this is not a southern accent in its entirety, it is as close to correct as I have heard an actor portray it.