By the end of my life, there may be no one left who speaks like my father outside the hollers and the one-horse towns.
A collaborative study between the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech has found the classic Southern accent is undergoing rapid change in Georgia. The instigator? Generation X. “We found that, here ...
Linguists Margaret Renwick and Jon Forrest from the University of Georgia turned heads in 2023 after publishing a study about Georgia’s fading Southern accent. The Southern drawl − extending and ...
In the American South, a linguistic transformation is quietly unfolding. The iconic Southern drawl is gradually fading among ...