On Jan 25, 5:40*am, George Leppla > wrote:
> I am Tosk wrote:
> > It always amazed me when I lived in the south (Northern Alabama,
> > Tennessee) how the folks there could pretty much tell county to county
> > where someone was from after listening to them for a minute or two...
>
> > Scotty
>
> Here in Louisiana, accents from the Southern part of the state (New
> Orleans) don't sound anything like accents here in the Northern part of
> the state. *Drive a little further North into Arkansas and it changes again.
>
> I've found some of the thickest Southern accents come from states that
> are pretty far north, like Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, etc.
>
> George L

Yes, you are right George.....and in New Orleans you could listen to
someone from the 9th Ward and think you were
in Brooklyn. There are accents across the neighborhoods that tell
you where someone grew up in New Orleans, plain as can be. I
certainly loved my time living there. I miss it.