• Southern Accents is the sixth studio album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released on March 26, 1985, through MCA Records. The album's lead single...
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  • attitudes about accents published in 2012, Tennessee children from five to six were indifferent about the qualities of persons with different accents, but children...
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  • A Southern accent term usually refers to either: Southern American English English in Southern England Southern Accent (newspaper), the weekly student-run...
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  • "Southern Accents" is the fourth track from the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album of the same name. The song was also released as the B-side to "Rebels"...
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  • different Southern accents had developed, namely: eastern Virginia accents (including the Tidewater accent), Lowcountry (or Charleston) accents, Appalachian...
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  • rhotic accents, the sound of the historical English rhotic consonant, /r/, is preserved in all pronunciation contexts. In non-rhotic accents, speakers...
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    American accent. The sound of American English continues to evolve, with some local accents disappearing, but several larger regional accents having emerged...
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    Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (category Southern rock musical groups from Florida)
    successful if "Keeping Me Alive" had been included. On the sixth album, Southern Accents (1985), the Heartbreakers picked up where they had left off.[clarification...
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    The southern drawl is of an unknown American origin, although some of its characteristics suggest a relationship with the drawl of Ulster accents. Native...
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  • (RP), Cockney and Estuary English; in some other accents, including Australian and New Zealand accents, it is a more fronted vowel ([ɐː] or [aː] ) and...
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    Republic of Ireland. Like Scottish and most North American accents, almost all Irish accents preserve the rhoticity which has been lost in the dialects...
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  • Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York metropolitan accents, plus inland accents of the Northern and Southern U.S., all strongly resist this merger, keeping...
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  • Southern English accents have three main historical influences: London accent, Cockney in particular Received Pronunciation Southern rural accents (such as West...
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  • LOT vowel, matching the cot-caught merger of White Pittsburgh accents, though AAVE accents traditionally do not have the cot-caught merger. Memphis, Atlanta...
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  • Yorkshire accents sound similar, accents in areas around Hull and Middlesbrough are markedly different. Due to this, the Middlesbrough accent is sometimes...
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    AllMusic. Retrieved January 11, 2018. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Southern Accents – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers". AllMusic. Retrieved January 11, 2018...
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    twist". The "twist" refers to inland Southern U.S., older coastal Southern U.S., and South Midland U.S. accents mixing together, due to Texas's settlement...
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    A po' boy (also po-boy, po boy derived from the non-rhotic southern accents often heard in the region, or poor boy) is a sandwich originally from Louisiana...
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  • Drawl (redirect from Southern Drawl)
    attribute Southern accents with friendliness and humility. However, the drawl is also perceived as slow and (mistakenly) attributed to the hot Southern climate...
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  • by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. It appeared on the 1985 album Southern Accents and was released as a single in the same year. Although it only reached...
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    Southern rural accents, the voiceless fricatives /s/, /f/, /θ/, /ʃ/ always remain voiceless, which is the main difference from West Country accents....
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    instead was included on the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album Southern Accents. Robertson also worked on the horn arrangements for the track, and...
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    Certain areas of the West Midlands are stereotyped as having stronger accents than others, Dudley in the Black Country being an example. There are some...
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  • "The Apartment Song" (demo from "Southern Accents" 1984 sessions) [Petty] – 2:37 "Big Boss Man" ("Southern Accents" 1984 sessions) [Al Smith, Luther...
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    Tennessee, Southern Indiana, and Missouri). The people speak with similar southern accents throughout this area. The earliest inhabitants of Illinois are thought...
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    Honorary Degrees". University of Southern California. Retrieved May 28, 2014. "2013 Commencement Speaker". University of Southern California. Archived from the...
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  • Erlewine felt the album was a logical follow-up to the band's album Southern Accents, "criticized from many corners for being too slick," but relied too...
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    County in Southern Maryland and Dorchester County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, and Worcester County in the Eastern Shore have southern accents. Western...
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    in Philadelphia before a crowd of 89,484 people. The band's album, Southern Accents, was also released in 1985. It included the hit single "Don't Come...
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  • February 1985 as the lead single from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Southern Accents album. The original inspiration was a romantic encounter that producer...
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