The Southern accent is as much a part of our region as sweet tea. But studies find that distinctive sound is starting to ...

Growing up in Atlanta in the 1940s and 1950s, Susan Levine's visits to New York ... as Southern. The hurricane was a “catastrophic” language change event for New Orleans since it displaced ...

It has been replaced among the youngest speakers in the 21st century with a dialect that was first noticed in California ... when it comes to the Southern drawl.” New Orleans ‘yat’ accent ...