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I'm from East Tennessee.

Just curious: Is there a reason for specifying "East" Tennessee?
Different accents in the east, versus the rest of the state?

I ask because that's very true in Iowa. You get south of Ottumwa, and a
significant portion of the population has a pronounced southern accent,
albeit quite different from the "y'all" chick in Alabama.

In the rest of the state, everyone sounds like Dan Rather.
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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I'm from East Tennessee.

Just curious: Is there a reason for specifying "East" Tennessee?

I work with a guy who used to live in North Georgia. Not just regular
Georgia, but North Georgia. As if it makes a difference to the 99.9% of us
not from there. People from the South are weird this way, in addition to
talking funny.

Jay Honeck wrote:

Just curious: Is there a reason for specifying "East" Tennessee?

There are sufficient reasons that the "welcome" signs at the Tennessee borders used
to say "Welcome to the Three Great States of Tennessee". I am in central New Jersey
at the moment. If I drove to the point in Tennessee which is closest to me, I would
not be even halfway to Memphis. When you have an area that long, you can expect a lot
of differences in the residents.

George Patterson
If you don't tell lies, you never have to remember what you said.

In article VnBnc.60216$Ik.4694829@attbi_s53, Jay Honeck
wrote:

I'm from East Tennessee.

Just curious: Is there a reason for specifying "East" Tennessee?
Different accents in the east, versus the rest of the state?

Jay, think Mississippi and North Carolina.
Do they sound the same when they talk?