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Originally Posted by AnchorAlum
I've lived in several Southern states from Kentucky to north Florida (newsflash: south Florida ain't the South) and if you have a practiced ear, you can tell which Southern state someone is from by their accent.
I also lived in Texas for almost twenty years and can tell someone from east Texas versus west Texas.
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It's definitely possible to tell them apart. My boyfriend's suitemate from Tennessee sounded completely different from all the South Carolinians, North Carolinians, and Georgians floating around on campus. For a while I only knew him as the nice boy with the funny accent because it just stood out so much to my ears.
When I was at freshman orientation last year I used the word "wicked" in a conversation and the guy I was talking with stopped and said, "Wait, do people from New England really say that? I though that was just something Jimmy Fallon did in SNL skits!" I could not stop cracking up about it! I was the first real-life New Englander he had met, apparently.