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[ErinaceousOutrageous]

I'm from bama and no one talks like that...

[myamoebafriend]

Well now you just sound like Foghorn Leghorn.

[garydunncolumbus]

I've lived in the South all my life, and I've never heard anyone speak with this particular speech impediment. I'm sure this nice lady was an "A" student in acting school during dialect classes. But those dialect coaches aren't from the local regions they teach about. The accents they invent are totally phony in acting school. This is the mythical Hollywood Southern Accent started in the 1930's by Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara. But she's from England.

[b1naryd1g1t5]

Also, let me add something. If you want a good example of someone who speaks with the accent she is trying to mimic, go listen to Coach Pat Dye, who coached Auburn's football team in the 80's. He is from GAWGA and is the closest person I have heard to this accent in modern times. I am from Bama and this accent is NOT known around here. Maybe in Montgomery circa the 1800's, but not today.

[b1naryd1g1t5]

As others have said, the accent she is doing here is the OLD coastal accent, which sadly is mostly extinct today. My great-grandmother was from Georgia and she sounded like this and did not pronounce her R's (think Gone With the Wind).  None of us descendants sound that way. We moved onto TN and AL and most of us speak with a Appalachian accent (more hillbilly sounding than this) and we do pronounce our R's.

I always got a kick out of listening to my great-grandmother speak.

[DBHEcho]

this is a flat lands southern accent from older upper middle class type families, more of a charleston if you will. you might catch this in the old cotton producing areas of alabama but on the whole youre gonna get something different

[sherashenaWO]

my family lives in alabama and they actually say r. how bout that

[ivonotei]

tall glass of lemonade, anyone? xD

[elisebianconi]

"remember: deep south; hang." No pun intended, of course, right?

[gabriii3]

Coach Washington glee ???

[AdamTAnders]

Cathy Bates?