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Why Southern accents fade
Clayton Collins
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Flying a Piper Cherokee down to Florida, probably 40 years ago, my father and I landed at a small airport near Greensboro, N.C., for fuel. As he topped up the wing tanks for us yankees, the operator asked how we were fixed for 鈥渁ll.鈥� It wasn鈥檛 a question about solidarity or laundry detergent. He was asking about oil.聽
Might that happen today? Maybe, maybe not. Georgia-based Patrik Jonsson takes a look at what鈥檚 behind accent erosion in the American South. We include a short audio sample of two North Carolina speakers, two generations apart, from producer Jingnan Peng.
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