Ahma fixin to call it a crick
I just love this story on the evolution of Texas twang. But what most impresses me is how little talk there is of its disappearance.
For decades now folks have been lamenting that thanks to TV and other leveling winds, regional accents are disappearing. But it never quite seems to happen.
I suspect it's part of the acclimatizing process, especially in rural areas. For example, after moving to Montana many years ago from Boston, I noticed that lots of old-timers called a small river a "crick." So I made a conscious effort to do the same. Even though my fiancee, who grew up in Montana, has no problem calling it a "creek." The accents will self-perpetuate, I believe, because people who choose to abandon the fast-food monoculture of suburbia want to wear badges showing their honor.
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For decades now folks have been lamenting that thanks to TV and other leveling winds, regional accents are disappearing. But it never quite seems to happen.
I suspect it's part of the acclimatizing process, especially in rural areas. For example, after moving to Montana many years ago from Boston, I noticed that lots of old-timers called a small river a "crick." So I made a conscious effort to do the same. Even though my fiancee, who grew up in Montana, has no problem calling it a "creek." The accents will self-perpetuate, I believe, because people who choose to abandon the fast-food monoculture of suburbia want to wear badges showing their honor.
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