Would you eliminate your accent in order to fit into college? A recent study shows that student’s with a stronger southern accent were many times more discriminated against due to their sound.
The study called, “Dialect and Influences on the Academic Experiences of College Students” found that Southern accents many times effected the experience of college life and that educators should be cognizant of this.
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Now you are wanting to make fun of southern accents.Well you know what you can with those words. Go to H$LL
You mean we ain’t funny no more?
Get a TEXAS drawl , honey !!
Latriscia, if you can say things other than expressing confusion and general put-downs, I’d be happy to entertain any light you can shed.
Joshua Maynard if you don’t know the difference your part of the problem.
true
yes to me also i was born in ky but lved in cinti after all these years still hurts my ears
I am a Canadian from the West Coast (Vancouver) and I LOVE Southern accents! They sound so friendly and warm, not in the least slow or stupid…whatever happened to tolerance?
Yes did
And that would be someone who the good lord changed and still changing on daily basis that be me, God Bless