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Word: accentless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voice that results in an almost singsong effect. Another Gulf coastal plain element: he drops what linguists call postvocalic rs in such words as go-phuh (gopher) and Cot-tuh. According to Pederson, however, the younger generation of Gulf coastal plains people, who have been exposed to accentless network television and modern speech courses, pronounce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LANGUAGE: Sounds of the South | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

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