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["Robert Walton" <waltonrp AT gmail.com>]

> As to it being a "country" accent, recall Fred Thompson's accent.  That's a
> normal businessman's accent here in Tennessee.  Here in the South those 
> aren't
> 'country' accents, they are the normal common mode of speech.   </HTML>

In this part of Virginia, and in central Florida, there are two native
local accents you either talk normally or you talk country.

To the outside ear, we all talk with an accent. Locally, we say, "She
talks country". That's the norm here.

Rob - Va