regional twang
Area's distinctive speech
A regional twang is a distinctive quality in someone's speech—particularly a sharp, nasal tone—that marks them as coming from a particular area.
The term often describes American Southern or country accents: She spoke with a Texas twang.
Twang suggests both the sound quality and the broader accent patterns of pronunciation and rhythm.
- accentRegional speech pattern
- drawlUnhurried, elongated speech pattern
- Deep SouthSouthernmost American states
- dialectRegional language variety
- spoken wordPoetry delivered aloud
Southern · nasal · inflection · hillbilly · country · country roads · folksy · good ol' boy · lilt · speech · Appalachian · vowel · pronunciation · pidgin · slang · backwoods · back porch · rural
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