Southern Twang vs. Southern Drawl (compare, places, America, difference . . . KE, here is a good link on the subject: Southern American English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I am not sure if this answers your question, but broadly speaking, a "drawl" is more common in the Deep or Lower South while a "twang" dominates in the Upper (Mountain) and Western South (i e western Texas and Oklahoma)
Southern Twang vs. Southern Drawl (rates, comparison, America . . . The twang is associated with southern hill country, influenced mostly by the Scots-Irish YouTube - Announcing the DVD release of Still Making Moonshine ^ Here's a great example of the twang The drawl is associated with the coastal plain, which is influenced by English and African speech YouTube - 1988 Frank Howard Clemson Recruiting Story
Southern Twang vs. Southern Drawl - City vs. City - Page 6 - City-Data . . . A twang is quite distinctive from a drawl The drawl , which is more common in the Deep South, tends to drop the "R" sound and sounds softer to the ear as syllables are drawn out The twang , which is more common as you head further north and west, is more faster and sharper to the ear
Southern Accents in KS? (Wichita, Salina: university, living in, moving . . . Parts of Kansas have a more noticeable twang or rural flavored accent that is a bit southern, but not like the states further to the south However, Kansans sound a bit more southern lingusitically compared to rest of the northern tier states
Distinction between different accents in the Western U. S (areas, cities . . . While most people in Boston and Chicago talk about the same with strong distinctive regional accents, in the West you'll find some people who sound somewhat southern, some who could pass for Canadian, some with a bit of that Minnesota type twang, depending on their social circles and where their families came from
Do (assilimated) Hispanic Americans have detectable accents? (school . . . A good point What is more "native US" than the Noo Yawk accent? -- which is the old working-class-white accent of Jewish, Sicilian Italian, and Irish immigrants (and their descendants) who arrived in the city in the 19th and early 20th centuries The "Hispanic twang" is still American English, and I think only a minority of US Hispanics have it
Why do so many people all across Indiana speak with mild Southern . . . It certainly does still exist across rural parts and small towns even in the northern half of Indiana I have family that lived their entire lives in a small town about halfway between Indianapolis and South Bend and some of them have a southern kind of twang to their speech