To be totally honest with you, I've never, ever liked the southern accent. Sounds almost like a total mangling of the language.
Listen to someone with a southern accent say "ice." Why does it take 3 seconds to say with an elongated "iiiice?" Same goes for "rice."
When I speak to a white person here in Texas who has a pronounced southern drawl, it sounds as if he or she is singing the language. When I listen to a black southern person talk, it's a total puree of the language!
For instance, why is an "R" sound inserted into the word "wash?" It ain't "warsh," it's "wash!" Now look at the word "usher." Again, why is an "R" sound inserted here? It ain't "ursher." But that's how it's pronounced down here.
My wife, who is from Paris, TX, laughs when I talk about this. I told her that she and her family (all from TX) just can not talk to save their lives. She disagreed, so, I tried a little experiment. I asked her to say the alphabet slowly. I waited for her to get to the letter "Q." And lo and behold! There it was! When she got to "Q," I stopped her. I asked her then if "koo" was a letter. That's how she said it. So, she said the alphabet again. When she got to the letter "Q," she had to slow down to pronounce it right!
Down here, the word "wear" or "were" is pronounced "wur." "Here" is pronounced "hur."
I don't know which is worse, a southern accent or a New York accent overflowing with slang.
LOL!! Well tell you what son. Plenty of roads going north. I'll even help you pack if you don't like it down heah. One thing I don't like is all these Chicago pizza style restaurants and sub shops opening up around here to cater to y'all. What's wrong with a square sanmmich with some ham, cheese and a little mayonnaise(and no Helman's is not mayo, it's goopy salad dressing. Duke's, now Duke's is mayonnaise)
We didn't ask y'all to come and stay. If you don't like the way we talk, too bad. Move. We all understand each other down here. It's y'all we don't understand. I'm Southern, North Carolinian, and proud of it.
How about adding “r” to the end of words that don’t have it, like saying “idea” as “eye-deer”. Or pronouncing “kiln” or “film” with two syllables (”kill-in” or “fill-im”). The first of these comes from New England, I’m not sure where the mangling of “film” and “kiln” come from, but the female narrator on “How It’s Made” would say it and it would drive me crazy.