Do you have a strong regional accent?

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Originally Posted by TruTexan

I didn't used to have anything but a city accent which is lack of an accent in TX. lmao However, I live in East TX, and hour from Dallas and 2.5 hrs West of Louisiana, and the Tx accent here is a bit of a drawl for sure. I do have that now, and when I'm around other family members that are just outside of Austin, the accent isn't the same there as mine here, so it kinda rubs off on me when I'm in a different area of TX. Texas has a few different drawls or some lack there of in the larger cities like Dallas and Houston. It's interesting to me how many of my family members talk with a different accent. lol
But if you talk to me, you know I'm from the south and have a Texas drawl in my lingo. I say yes ma'am and no ma'am in my mannerisms and stuff. When I lived just outside Detroit MI and worked in that area, peeps knew I was from Tx cause of the yes ma'am no ma'am lingo and the drawl. If they didn't think it was Texan they knew it was from the south.

I have that Houston accent! When I used to attempt LDRs, people I would talk to from the Northeast or PNW were always disappointed that I didn't sound more Southern.

However, if you get me around my country cousins (Grimes Co., DeWitt Co.) i do have a twang that will come out real quick. And "ma'am," "sir," and "ya'll" are standard in my speech