What a koinky dink....one of my sisters was in the Navy and was in Washington state. By the time she got out of the Navy (11 years active duty) she didn't have a Southern accent. She spoke w/o any discernable accent. While in the Navy, she was teased for her Southern accent and when she got out we teased her for not having a Southern accent anymore!
Thank you for your service.
Ever wonder if only Southerners are aware of the different accents and dialects in the South?
When was your sister there and where was she stationed?
When was your sister there and where was she stationed? I was also teased for my southern accent and then teased for my lack of one when I got out. When I went in my accent was so bad that I pronounced “lions” the same way you pronounce “lines”.
P.S. When I was 8 I had never been around Yankees and some people moved to my hometown from Chicago. I literally could not understand half of what they said for the first few weeks. It is an acquired art. In college because so many of my engineering professors were Indian (dot, not feather), I learned to listen with an Indian accent.