I love this email exchange from 2013. You mad, bro? Yeah, she mad. From: Patricia Houtchens [phoutchens@aperity.com] Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2013 11:08 AM To: MEINERS, TERRY A Subject: Listener Email from www.whas.com I guess you’re celebrating another example of the homogenization of local dialects: LINK After you finally get everyone to stop calling the city where they were born, Louavull, then you can go to Narlens and tell those folks how stupid they sound because they don’t pronounce/enunciate their city’s name like you do. I find it so hypocritical that you never cease to tell your audience that we all should celebrate our differences – homosexuals/heterosexuals, democrats/republicans, U of L/U of K, whatever, but you have no tolerance for those of us who perpetuate
Tag: southern accent
The southern accent was overdubbed by Turtle Man
Here's Tom Hanks auditioning for the film Forrest Gump. He clearly did not have the character's charming attributes of talking at a slow cadence with a heavy southern accent. He certainly figured it out by the time they shot the film.