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How to do a Southern accent

So, how do Southerners speak? Let’s look at four key parts of a Southern accent.

Southern lilt

Southern accents will slow down and elongate the vowel sounds. Short, simple vowels turn into diphthongs.

Bill → /bee yill/

Pet → /pe yut/

Cat → /ca yut/

The tone of the vowel will rise then fall to make a classic Southern accent.

R dropping

Most Southern accents will drop the r’s on most words.

Mother → /mu thuh/

Father → /fa thuh/

Tired → /tay yud/

Southern slang

American Slang is highly regional, but here are some words and phrases that are common across the South.

Slang Meaning Example

Howdy Hello Howdy, y’all.

Y’all You (plural); you all How y’all doin’?

Fixin’ to Going to I’m fixin’ to eat lunch.

Over yonder Over there The shop is over yonder.

I reckon I think I reckon it’s gon’ rain.

As all get out Very; a lot He’s funny as all get out.

Non-standard verb forms

The Southern accents also use non-standard verb forms. These are grammatically incorrect but often used in daily speech.

Verb Past (Non-standard Southern) Past (standard American English)

be We was, they was, you was We were, they were, you were

bring brung brought

catch catched caught

do done did

go gone went

see seen saw