Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:04:47 -0500

From: Mark Mandel Mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DRAGONSYS.COM

Subject: Re: Southern accent -Reply



Mary B. Ziegler assures us that the "Southern accent" is not dying out

and will not. Maybe so -- I'll grant it for the sake of argument -- but... Here

we have the same question being asked by different people in the same

time frame. Evidently the IMPRESSION exists, at least for some, that the

Southern accent is melting into a generalized American speech pattern.

This prompts me to ask a metaquestion: What is causing this impression?



Mark A. Mandel : mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]dragonsys.com

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