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07-25-2012, 10:04 PM
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Strangely, my nieces who have spent their entire lives in Cary, N. Carolina don't have a trace of an accent. They sound like news anchors.
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Hardly anybody in Cary (aka "Containment Area for Relocated Yankess") has an accent unless they're at least 50+. But go just a few miles to Garner, Knightdale or parts of "Rawleigh" and it's a whole 'nother story.
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07-25-2012, 10:41 PM
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Hardly anybody in Cary (aka "Containment Area for Relocated Yankess") has an accent unless they're at least 50+. But go just a few miles to Garner, Knightdale or parts of "Rawleigh" and it's a whole 'nother story.
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Charlotte's not necessarily thick with southern accents, but most of my.coworkers are native South Carolinians, so I blame them for my accent.
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07-25-2012, 10:43 PM
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Charlotte's not necessarily thick with southern accents . . . .
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Well, there is Myers Park.
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07-25-2012, 10:47 PM
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Well, there is Myers Park.
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Well, yeah...if you're into that old money Southern Belle thing. 
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07-25-2012, 11:02 PM
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Originally Posted by MysticCat
Hardly anybody in Cary (aka "Containment Area for Relocated Yankess") has an accent unless they're at least 50+. But go just a few miles to Garner, Knightdale or parts of "Rawleigh" and it's a whole 'nother story.
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Yeah, I asked my BIL and SIL (who both have WVa accents) about it (BIL teaches at Cary High) and that was what they told me - very few people in Cary are actually from N Carolina or the South for that matter, so they didn't really hear many southern accents.
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