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Dutchlizzy

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 07:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Amy's accent sounds real "country" Southern to me. Is she really from Memphis, or from a small town that is nearer to Memphis than any other place recognizable?

If she's from the city of Memphis, I have to modify some of my assumptions about her, but if she is really "country" she makes a lot more sense to me.

Any ideas? Any one native to the area? Any one see a better address for Amy than Memphis?

Bmh

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 07:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Amy lives in Memphis now..but grew up in a suburb near Memphis I believe..I am not sure can someone confirm?

Curlyq

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 07:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I read this describing a conversation between Amy and Gerry on the live feeds:

"Talks again about her hometown being a very mean town. Her home town is just across the bridge from Memphis into Arkansas."

Not familiar with the area, but maybe that'll help.

Surini

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 07:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
She just said on a lf I typed, that she's from a small town in Arkansas, just across the bridge from Memphis. Didn't mention the name of the town tho.

Hillbilly

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 07:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
dutchlizzy...amy's accent/dialect is real...folks down this way really do sound this way...hard ta believe ain't it....some pick it up more'n others...it depends probably ifn yu's lived here all yourn life or ifn yus lived other places besides Arkansas....we's gets a kick out of folks faces when we travel to Florida...its like Jeff Foxworthy says...you can literally see them deductin IQ points....LOL

Hillbilly

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 07:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i think amy is talkin about West Memphis..its jest across the Mississipi river from Memphis.

i guess i'd say ma town was mean too if i got a couple of DWI and had ma name published in the town paper...she's on her own there...nobody ta blame but herself...

Dulci

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 07:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
If it's right over the bridge, it has to be West Memphis, AR, there isn't anything else lol. Her accent is authentic for that part of Arkansas, my folks are from about an hour away from Memphis, and I dated a guy from W. Memphis when I was in college...[Hi Hillbilly!] :)

Kapow

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 07:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
In my understanding, Amy is from West Memphis, AR, which is just across the Mississippi River from downtown Memphis. It is basically a suburb of Memphis, but with some more country "flair". It is a cotton farming community for the most part. She definitely has a strong country southern accent, but one I have heard many a time in Memphis. Given her college experience at Ole Miss, I don't think she is a bumpkin gone wild just yet. I do think she may be using her "southern charm" to an end that she feels will behoove her. I think her accent is real - but her using it seems fake. I have lived in memphis for five years and have seen a lot of Amys. Am still rooting for her, though!

Ark

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 07:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I live in Arkansas and Amy's accent sounds pretty dead on to me. Hillbilly's on the other hand is a bit exagerated. I was surprised when I moved here by how properly these southerner's speak. I don't think I've heard anyone say "ifn, or yourn". West Memphis & Marion, Arkansas are right across the river from Memphis. My son lived in Marion for a few years and I never noticed any difference in the accent of people living in Marion or Memphis. They all sound the same to me.

Hillbilly

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 07:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
...now Ark...don't go given away ma secrets...LOL...maybe yu's need to go up to Mountain Home or thereabouts...

Dulci

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 07:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My favorite aunt, "Ain't" Nellie Wayne, talks just like Hillbilly.

My Dad was in the AirForce, we moved all over, and when he started talking sometimes people knew exactly which county he came from. The dialects are slightly different, and if you've been around long enough, you can pick up on the differences. :)

Twiggyish

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 07:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hillbilly, Mountain Home is a great town for music!
Right Dulci, southern accents are different. Amy sounds like my family in TN. I think it's real. She does tend to thicken it, when she wants something, though.

Kapow

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 07:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
thas rite hillbilly, i done heard they talks lik dat up in those parts. Miss Amy ain't too country, just my 'pinion.

Ark

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 08:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Twiggyish, I think you're talking about Mountain View. It is the Folk Music Capitol. Mountain home is further north, almost to the Missouri border.

Hillbilly, I live near Mountain Home and I will admit that I've maybe heard a few "ifns and yus" when I've been there.

Hillbilly

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 08:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Twiggyish...does you ever get there for their yearly festival...ma aunt and uncle used ta go every year...i always wanted to go back and get me one of them thar dulcimers that some feller up thar handcrafted....

Kapow...looks like we's got alot of Arkansas folks on this board...suitsmefine'll probably be stoppin by here anytime...

Twiggyish

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 08:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
We visited Mountain Home and stayed at a Bed and Breakfast, there. We heard awesome music in the town square.

Twiggyish

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 08:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
There's a Dulcimer shop in Eureka Springs. I almost bought one.

I know off topic..

Hillbilly

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 08:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
...thanks Ark...good cover :)...

ya know ...Mountain Home...Mountain View...i's always get them mixed up

i also mix up Heber Springs and Eureka Springs...we's jest got too many towns with 'mountain' and 'springs' in thar name!...

Kapow

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 08:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I's hear't that Miss Amy likes to go fishin' in the waters near Heber Springs (aka Heeb City). There's an AK gurl iffn I ever heard of one.

Countrymeadow

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 08:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Living in Nashville and having visited Memphis several times, I can truly say that i've never heard anyone talk as "exaggerated" as she does. Her "accent" is very pronounced. Being from Illinois, believe me, my ears are sensitive to the southern drawl. Some southerners have the most beautiful soothing accent. Hers is chalk board grating. <shudder>

Hillbilly

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 08:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
..countrymeadow...i's think its more her voice pitch rather than her accent...she has a very high pitched voice....she needs to work with a speech coach on lowering it and gettin rid of the nasal quality...

Kennyb

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 08:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It's funny to me that Amy sounds like she does and I live in South Alabama just North of Mobile--where Jason is from and most people here speak and sound like Jason....not nearly as twangy and "country" as Amy sounds.

Suitsmefine

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 08:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hillbilly , Suitsmefine is here .Now I'd be from a VERY small town in Arkansas (I don't live in the country, I live in the BOONDOCKS) And before you even ask , NO IT IS NOT named after our former president, we were here long before he was...that out of the way, Amy is from West Memphis, ARKANSAS.....We have our own language here and we like it that way...now I don't make fun of yours so don't make fun of mine. I was born and reared here I'm as hillbilly as Hillbilly himself, I married a Fontana CA. native and we understand each other just fine ....but I am getting off the subject(again) Amy is country and that is that....and speaking for myself... "proud of it".

Hillbilly

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 08:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
..and if yu go to mississippi they sound totally different from Arkansans...and Louisiana has there own dialect ...especially depending on if you live close to New Orleans or near the Arkansas border....

...i think most folks don't realize that its not one big sounthern region...speech pattern, dialects, and culture vary in the south depending on where you are from...

..i've always considered Georgia, Mississippi the 'Gone with the Wind' south or 'south proper'...its what folks think of when you think of plantations....where Arkansas is more like 'dirt farmer' south...we've always been thot of as the backward state....kinda like a southern stepchild that folks hides in the closet when company comes...:)....i absolutely love my state!!!!...i'm a proud Arkansan...

Kennyb

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 08:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well said Hillbilly!