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    In most bigger countries, different areas have different accents, what is the American equivalent between the German Berlin accents and Swabian accent?

    Question #61222. Asked by pjotr.

    my_baby_love

    Southern drawl is one common accent found mostly in the South East in which vowel sounds are stretched out as in "Aaalaabaamaa".

    In New England there is another common accent that makes the "a" vowel sound in words like "park", "car", and "Harvard yard" long.

    Dec 26 05, 11:33 AM
    charlee0216

    Also, westerners (texas, kansas, etc.) sound remarkably different than people from the south, and even more so from places like north dakota or wisconsin.

    Dec 30 05, 5:07 PM

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