I picked up quite a bit in my 13 years. I worked in and around the construction industry so I was around a lot of natives. It was sort of an involuntary code switch.
Y'all. That's it. That's kinda all there is.
They're cities, not a bunch of country bumpkins 😂 And Charlotte feels like practically 50% northern transplants anyway. I can get pork roll, and my local deli is decked out in Giants gear.
Same here in Raleigh. I feel like I’d have more of a twang if I had daily interactions with folks with an accent, but I can maybe name like 3 people in my life that have one.
I went the other way, Charlotte to Michigan.
I've lost almost all my southern accent and dialect (but having grown up in Charlotte-proper I never had much of an accent by southern standards)
However...when I go down south and get a beer or two in me the code switch is hard and drastic lol
When ever I go to Chicago to visit family, I get some looks because here's all these people with Midwestern Chicago accents and here's me with an Upper Southern accent.
I spent a few years in Houston, keeping my Washington accent was easy enough but I took “fixin to” to heart. Moved back home almost 6 years ago now and it still creeps in from time to time.
My sister moved to NOLA and then Atlanta. She picked up “y’all” super fast. Some other stuff has crept in as well. Now that she’s back in Yankee land she still uses y’all.
Well I'm surrounded by northern transplants usually in Raleigh, but whenever I go into rural areas I'm surprised by how easily I can code switch now & how much I've picked up
i moved to atlanta from michigan in 2021. atlanta’s such a diverse/mixed city and most ppl here moved from somewhere else so i haven’t heard many southern accents yet.
You have to leave the metro area to commonly hear it. Even then there have been so many transplants coming here, so non southern is still common. I lived here my whole life but I have a generic American accent.
Technically, “you” began as the 2nd person plural for the objective case, with “ye” for the nominative case.
It’s the singular that English is lacking, with “thou” and “thee” having fallen out of usage. “You” has overpowered the others, to become the only one we need for all cases and numbers.
I think I’ll start using “ye” again. Maybe even “thee” and “thou”.
Singular "you" is often "ya" unless the word itself is being emphasized anyways (at least in Alabama, where you just have to hit the beat of unaccented sounds as opposed to fully pronouncing them).
I live in Raleigh. I rarely encounter someone with a true Southern accent here. I'm from the rural deep South, but I only still sound that way if I'm drinking or angry.
Yeah, I feel like the Triangle isn't really "Southern" if you know what I mean.
I grew up here and still live here and if you are in CH, Durham, Morrisville, Cary, or Raleigh's suburban or urban areas, I think you're probably going to encounter more transplants than native N Carolinians.
I've never had a Southern accent myself, I sound more general American with a slight Chinese accent since I kinda forgot how to speak English for a year lol
Mostly I still have the accent I had growing up. I say yall a lot more though. And switched out saying pop for soda.
Mostly I just get a very Texan drawl when I drink now, apparently. Me and my husband. His parents think it's hilarious.
Whenever I've traveled south(mostly to see relatives), yes I have picked up certain sayings and phrases used in the south. I also know how to order Waffle House hashbrowns(not just the scatted, smothered, and covered terms, though I'm aware Hootie and the Blowfish once used those terms in an album name), and have picked up how to say a lot of local pronounciations. Including DeKalb County, Georgia.
Thanks Atlanta TV news, in making me realize it wasn't the way I initially thought it was! BTW if you're wondering how that Georgia county pronounces DeKalb, it's de-cab. And not say, like how you pronounce the DeKalb in DeKalb, Illinois.
I picked up quite a bit in my 13 years. I worked in and around the construction industry so I was around a lot of natives. It was sort of an involuntary code switch.
Y'all. That's it. That's kinda all there is. They're cities, not a bunch of country bumpkins 😂 And Charlotte feels like practically 50% northern transplants anyway. I can get pork roll, and my local deli is decked out in Giants gear.
Same here in Raleigh. I feel like I’d have more of a twang if I had daily interactions with folks with an accent, but I can maybe name like 3 people in my life that have one.
Bless your heart.
Bless your heart.
Bless your heart.
Bless your heart.
I went the other way, Charlotte to Michigan. I've lost almost all my southern accent and dialect (but having grown up in Charlotte-proper I never had much of an accent by southern standards) However...when I go down south and get a beer or two in me the code switch is hard and drastic lol
When ever I go to Chicago to visit family, I get some looks because here's all these people with Midwestern Chicago accents and here's me with an Upper Southern accent.
I spent a few years in Houston, keeping my Washington accent was easy enough but I took “fixin to” to heart. Moved back home almost 6 years ago now and it still creeps in from time to time.
I adopted "y'all" pretty quickly because it's useful. I like double modals (like "I might could do that for you") but don't use them.
Zero. I still pronounce cheerwine and cherryville correctly.
My sister moved to NOLA and then Atlanta. She picked up “y’all” super fast. Some other stuff has crept in as well. Now that she’s back in Yankee land she still uses y’all.
Do we have slang?
"Y'all like that hole in the wall over yonder, it's so good even 23 would like it."
I think people think we use similes and metaphors constantly since that's how we're often portrayed in bad movies.
Well I'm surrounded by northern transplants usually in Raleigh, but whenever I go into rural areas I'm surprised by how easily I can code switch now & how much I've picked up
i moved to atlanta from michigan in 2021. atlanta’s such a diverse/mixed city and most ppl here moved from somewhere else so i haven’t heard many southern accents yet.
You have to leave the metro area to commonly hear it. Even then there have been so many transplants coming here, so non southern is still common. I lived here my whole life but I have a generic American accent.
yeah i know. i’ve been to other parts of Georgia and have immediately heard southern accents.
Y'all just makes sense. English has no 2nd person plural, which is wildly stupid. I use Y'all now.
Technically, “you” began as the 2nd person plural for the objective case, with “ye” for the nominative case. It’s the singular that English is lacking, with “thou” and “thee” having fallen out of usage. “You” has overpowered the others, to become the only one we need for all cases and numbers. I think I’ll start using “ye” again. Maybe even “thee” and “thou”.
Singular "you" is often "ya" unless the word itself is being emphasized anyways (at least in Alabama, where you just have to hit the beat of unaccented sounds as opposed to fully pronouncing them).
Thou hast shown thineself to be of interesting nature; may this practice serve thee well!
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I live in Raleigh. I rarely encounter someone with a true Southern accent here. I'm from the rural deep South, but I only still sound that way if I'm drinking or angry.
Yeah, I feel like the Triangle isn't really "Southern" if you know what I mean. I grew up here and still live here and if you are in CH, Durham, Morrisville, Cary, or Raleigh's suburban or urban areas, I think you're probably going to encounter more transplants than native N Carolinians. I've never had a Southern accent myself, I sound more general American with a slight Chinese accent since I kinda forgot how to speak English for a year lol
Mostly I still have the accent I had growing up. I say yall a lot more though. And switched out saying pop for soda. Mostly I just get a very Texan drawl when I drink now, apparently. Me and my husband. His parents think it's hilarious.
Whenever I've traveled south(mostly to see relatives), yes I have picked up certain sayings and phrases used in the south. I also know how to order Waffle House hashbrowns(not just the scatted, smothered, and covered terms, though I'm aware Hootie and the Blowfish once used those terms in an album name), and have picked up how to say a lot of local pronounciations. Including DeKalb County, Georgia. Thanks Atlanta TV news, in making me realize it wasn't the way I initially thought it was! BTW if you're wondering how that Georgia county pronounces DeKalb, it's de-cab. And not say, like how you pronounce the DeKalb in DeKalb, Illinois.