From Paula Deen to Julia Roberts, the Georgia drawl is fading, y'all
In Athens, Ga., a mystery was brewing inside the classrooms of the state's flagship university: If over 84 percent of undergraduates at the University of Georgia are Peach State residents, how is it that most of them don't have a traditional Southern drawl? "As somebody who teaches phonetics, I would go into the classroom and say, 'Okay, so maybe you've heard this Southern pronunciation at home or that Southern pronunciation at home,'" said Margaret Renwick, an associate professor of linguistics
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