Dialect Quote by Patricia H. Graham

“Being Southern isn't talking with an accent...or rocking on a porch while drinking sweet tea, or knowing how to tell a good story. It's…

— Jan Norris

“I'll be certain to feel superior as they hurl insults and rocks in my direction." "I thought southern people were supposed to be warm…

— Andrea Laurence

“But we southerners know that you can insult someone as much as you want so long as you add that "bless her heart" to…

— Katherine Allred

“While Dixieland men may have struggled with a language inferiority complex, the opposite is true of Southern women. We’ve always known our accent is…

— Deborah Ford

“Out here we speak Malspeak, a mangle of English and old languages like Spanish, Mandarin, and Russian. Dialects from a time when the land…

— Georgia Clark

“To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.”

— Greg Carlson

“The first thing outsiders notice about Southerners is the way we talk. In fact, if it wasn’t for our speech, some people wouldn’t know…

— Deborah Ford

“We southerners worship our ancestors.”

— Amanda Stevens

“… a Southerner is BORN into the lifestyle, there just ain’t no choice about it. Yer either a Southerner or ya ain’t.”

— Chad B Hanson

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

— Reynolds Price

I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.

— Frances Mayes

It's like a puzzle, putting together your individual accent and what you grew up with or what you heard. It must be insane to…

— Emma Stone