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Originally Posted by clemsongirl
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.
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YES! We lived in Texas for quite a while and the regional accents are very distinct. As well as the Middle, East and West Tennessee accents. You are right, sometimes we do stand out!