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  Member 601 Level 52.11 Mar 2006 
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People are actually surprised to learn I grew up in North Carolina, because I don't have a southern accent. Sure, there are a few southern idioms in my speech (like "I'm fixin' to do something"), but for the most part I have a neutral accent. Sometimes when I'm visiting family in NC, and I'm out in public, I find myself slipping a bit of an accent into what I say, just to blend in I guess. Growing up I conciously tried to avoid getting an accent because I didn't like how southerners sound. Listening to the local politicians and used car dealers on TV, not to mention most of my redneck classmates, I didn't want to sound like them.
I've had a couple of people ask if I'm Canadian, and the rest usually can't place where I'm from on first meeting. Edit: Dullenplain, y'all isn't really a southern thing anymore. I've heard plenty of people say it here in MD, and they don't have southern accents. Just don't be like my high school Latin teacher, who taught us that verbs are conjugated as such: I am You are He/She/It is We are Y'all are They are If we didn't write "y'all" on the test, it was counted wrong. Jam it back in, in the dark. 
Last edited by nuttyturnip; Jan 2, 2007 at 08:22 PM.
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