QUOTE(Ross @ Nov 25 2007, 03:05 PM) [snapback]452396[/snapback]
Are you telling me the redneck accent isn't a result of constant inbreeding?
If so, you're a liar.
It actually stems from a Southern drawl popular with higher class southerners back in the 1800's (odds are they were following the trend started by high class brits and frenchies, a sophisticated boredom emphasized through there speech patterns).
After the fall of the confederacy, and the South being under Marshal law for many years, the wealth that once flourished in the south, due to multiple cash crops tilled by slaves, was now dormant as there was less free labor to work with.
The accent through time became filled with abbreviations, as well as more rural turns of phrase. This was due to the lack of emphasis the Southerners had put on education. The South being more an agricultural community didn't focus on actual eloquence in speech as much as they did when the white children could be privately educated instead of working vast plantations as they had to do when the free labor evaporated.
Should probably check your facts.
Now Australian dialect stems directly from the vast amount of insects flying around. "Good day" becomes "G'day" to prevent the mouth from being open long enough to catch a fly.
/pwn (I didn't have to research shit either you queer.)