[TalBlack]

Nobody mentioned "yuns" Ohio-midwest, contraction of you-un's as in "yuns gonna meet us there, or what?"

Listen to upperclass British accents. There are words that don't seem to differ in accent from the American South: "War" springs to mind.

While the southern accents are often endearing, and, when spoken by, respectivly, men or woman are the eptoime of masculinity and feminity (Go figure), New Yorks phrases and accents seem to either baffle ("I could care less!") or amuse ("fuhgedabboudit" or"whaddayadointameovahheah").

[lavrenti]

I know people from the Tidewater who sound English.

[mylife]

Nobody mentioned "yuns" Ohio-midwest, contraction of you-un's as in "yuns gonna meet us there, or what?"

I always considered "yuns" to be a West Virginia import and pretty rarely spoken in Ohio.

[OldPossum]

This has nothing to do with speech as such but note one section in your post: While the southern accents are often endearing, and, when spoken by, respectivly, men or woman are the eptoime of masculinity and feminity (Go figure), New Yorks phrases and accents seem to either baffle ("I could care less!") or amuse ("fuhgedabboudit" or"whaddayadointameovahheah").

I have always been puzzled by "I could care less" since it is illogical. What the speaker is actually trying to say is "I could NOT care less" to indicate that he or she is so indifferent to your plight that it is impossible for them to care anything at all.