Georgia's classic Southern accent may be quickly fading into history, A new study from the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech's linguistics departments has identified what professors call a "rapid ...

Growing up in Atlanta in the 1940s and 1950s, Susan Levine's visits to New York City relatives included being the star of an impromptu novelty show: Her cousin invited over friends and charged 25 ...

By the end of my life, there may be no one left who speaks like my father outside the hollers and the one-horse towns.

Let's talk about accents for a moment. RALPH BRABHAM: OK. I'm Ralph Brabham, and I'm talking with my mom. JANE BRABHAM: I'm Jane Brabham, and I was born in Greensboro, N.C. R BRABHAM: So I grew up in ...

If you thought Reese Witherspoon’s Tennessee accent was spot-on as June Carter Cash in “Walk the Line,” you were right – she grew up in Nashville. Actors often work hard to lose Southern accents – ...

Doesn’t it just jar your preserves when Hollywood thinks we all sound like Scarlett O’Hara? I’d also like to let them know we’ve had air-conditioning for about seven decades (what was with all those ...

Nashville's part of a region called the southern dialect zone. While Tennessee has seen an influx of new residents from states like California and New York, that's not all it takes to shift an area's ...

Growing up in Atlanta in the 1940s and 1950s, Susan Levine’s visits to New York City relatives included being the star of an impromptu novelty show: Her cousin invited over friends and charged 25 ...

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