[Ads-l] Conversation about accents with Valerie Fridland

[Jonathan Lighter]

Fridland says that "the" Southern accent  .*..* " did not come around until
after the Civil War. [The war] brought together people towards a common
enemy and also a common cultural experience that bonded their speech in
ways that we find are really conducive to new accent formation."

How is this even conceivable? Most Americans during the Civil War didn't
mingle with other accents any more than usual. And what of those
antebellum, Southern dialect humorists?

JL







On Sat, Apr 4, 2026 at 2:49 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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