Accents of Yankees and Dixies?

[thedaffodils]

Here's a man from North Carolina with a distinctive Southern accent.

Ouisch, thanks a bunch!

[RonBee]

Here's a man from North Carolina with a distinctive Southern accent.

Kellie Pickler has more of a Southern accent. I've never met her, but she's from Albemarle, not far from here (Charlotte). BTW, in the South they say "a hour".

[thedaffodils]

BTW, in the South they say "a hour".

Oy, gevalt. When I was a student, we often did such a fill-in exercise of an hour or a hour.

Native speakers always beat learners who learn English by rote.


Thank you, RonBee.

[RonBee]

Oy, gevalt. When I was a student, we often did such a fill-in exercise of an hour or a hour.

Native speakers always beat learners who learn English by rote.


Thank you, RonBee.

You're welcome.


On a personal note, I'm not from the South, so I don't have a Southern accent. (My wife, who is from Alabama, just this morning said, "Do you have a unbrella?")

[thedaffodils]

I got a website which has a test of American accents--a Yankee accent or a South accent. But I failed almost all the test. I am lost.

Yankee-Dixie

1. How do you pronounce Aunt?
Like the word want
Like the word ant
Like the word caught
I pronounce them all the same

I can't choose any of them because my pronunciations of the words are different from them.

Aunt: [a:nt], like the word pass
want: like the word O
ant: like the word pant
caught: like the word door

[Raymott]

I got a website which have a test the American accents--a Yankee accent or a South accent. But I failed almost the test. I am lost.

Yankee-Dixie

1. How do you pronounce Aunt?
Like the word want
Like the word ant
Like the word caught
I pronounce them all the same

I can't choose any of them because my pronunciations of the words are different from each other.

Aunt: [a:nt], like the word pass
want: like the word O
ant: like the word pant
caught: like the word door

That site helps you decide what type of American accent you have.
Since you seem to pronounce those vowels in a British RP accent, the test isn't suitable for you.
AusE uses the same vowels for these words/a:, ɒ, æ, ɔ/respectively,
but our diphthongs are different.

[thedaffodils]

That site helps you decide what type of American accent you have.
Since you seem to pronounce those vowels in a British RP accent, the test isn't suitable for you.
AusE uses the same vowels for these words/a:, ɒ, æ, ɔ/respectively,
but our diphthongs are different.

Hi Raymott,

Thank you for your comment.