Yankee Girl Survives First Year at Southern University

[AnchorAlum]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

And if you have a really practiced ear, you can pin down the part of the state. I knew someone once who could peg where in North Carolina someone was from to within about 30 miles. Even today, with more mobility and the neutralizing effects of television, a western NC accent sounds nothing like an eastern NC one.

My Mother, who is from Pitt County NC, calls eastern NC coastal a "tidewater" accent, and she says it goes on up to Virginia.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlum

My Mother, who is from Pitt County NC, calls eastern NC coastal a "tidewater" accent, and she says it goes on up to Virginia.

Yep. Tidewater would be southeastern Virginia and northeastern NC.

[MaryPoppins]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Yep. Tidewater would be southeastern Virginia and northeastern NC.

And it sounds very English like the counties south of London and on westwards. Not a hard accent like Londoners have.