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I guess I would qualify at Coastal Southern having been raised in Florida. Florida is such a melting pot that no one dialect comes to dominate. I've been told by a number of people that I have no 'accent' at all... or that I sound like a Nightly News anchor.
I now live in Kentucky, and my wife says that she'll notice that I will put on a bit of Kentuckiana pronunciation in my speech. I'm not surprised that that might happen as I've noticed adopting certain phrases and tones from areas that I visit for a week or less. Traveling to Australia or England, I'll catch myself using vernacular speech after just a few days there. I usually try to stop myself from doing it, as I figure it might be offensive... like I was mocking their language. It's not meant that way at all. It is nearly involuntary.
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