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Originally posted by AOIIsilver
Tn has regional accents as well. Someone raised in, for example, Shelbyville (Middle Tennessee) has a VERY different accent from someone raised on the mountains of East Tennessee. Tennessee accents can sound as smooth as a pat of warm, melted butter or as thick as a lump of sourdough bread.
I have always been told that I have a rather strong Tennessee accent; however, recently, many people have been asking me if I am from Canada .
I just don't understand how I went from having a strong regional Tennessee accent to having what some Tennesseans perceive to be a Canadian accent.
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Being a born and bred East Tennessean *Johnson City* I can attest to that. When I moved to Wyoming/Colorado, my friends here make fun of the way I pronounce words....I'm like Hey, that's they way they talk 'down there'. They don't believe me. It amazes them that people can just pick up an accent and where a person is from. I can pick up Carolinas, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. It's just how words are pronounced and how fast they talk. *haha* But then again.. I can go to North Eastern Ireland or North Western Scotland and can do pretty well on understanding people since the Southern dialect is Scot-Irish.
ETA: When I moved to Wyoming I called everything Coke. I moved to Worland, Wyoming and they have the Pepsi plant there...man, did those people get pissed that I called it Coke. They would go off...It's not Coke..IT'S PEPSI! Talk about a touchy subject. One would be outcasted for drinking Coke products instead of Pepsi there!
