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The people from west Texas have kind of a twang and tend 
to shorten words. Pliers becomes Plars. In east Texas 
there's a drawl and words tend to get longer. Rest area 
becomes Ray-est A-ah-ree-a. Most of the people in south 
Texas speak Spanish.


On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 09:09:34 -0600
 "Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:00 AM, 
> <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:
>
> > Our pattern of speech in Appalachia is from the Cherokee 
> > influence.  Texas
> > speech is closely related to Tennessee speech.  Sam 
> > Houston spent a great deal
> > of time among the Cherokee and his wife was Cherokee.
>
> Have you ever talked to people from south or west Texas?
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