Question for Texans

[Cheswick2.0]

I was born in TX but I do not remember it. I was the only one in my family born there (my father was getting masters in Music). So no one in my family has a tx accent,

My question is, does anyone in Tx actually talk like Bush? Is that accent real? It seems like a terrible put on to me, kind of like Madonna's new brittish accent.

[elfwitch]

1. Some do some don't...

If I'd pin a Texas accent down to one type, I'd have to go for a Spanish laced accent. I come from South Texas, it is what you hear more than anything else.

I think he puts that "accent" on really thick on purpose. There are a few East and West Texans that sounds like that. But people who live in the bigger cities (D/FW, Austin, San Antonio, Houston) one the whole do not sound like that. Texas has a lot of rural areas, but it also has some of the largest cities in the United States.

[XNASA]

6. I lived in Texas for a few years......

6 to be exact. And since I didn't grow up there, the accents were probably more noticable to me than to people who did....grow up there.

I'd say that most native East Texans sound kinda like Billy Bob Thornton. A drawl, but still most of the pronounciations are correct. For example, "Fire" is pronounced...."Fire".

In central Texas, people start to sound like w*. Like Boomhauer on Kind of the Hill. Fire is pronounced...."Far".

Out in west Texas? Not sure. Never got out there much.

[datasuspect]

9. funny thing

i live in southeast texas, small town and they only have one beer joint.

anyway, these regulars i know were drinking whiskey yesterday and were quite boisterous.

i go around enough now and am somewhat accepted, to the point where i was given a nickname, "chicago."

they went into the yankee bit and one guy said how back in '63 he worked for GM in michigan, he said how all the people he worked with were from north carolina, virginia, mississippi, and other points in the south.

he remarked how he worked there for quite some time and had not run across one yankee on the production floor.

i told him they were all in the managment office.

they got a laugh out of that and conceded that many of them got the hillbilly and redneck treatment 10 times worse up north than what they were giving me.

not one person i talked to there likes bush, in fact, i brought voter registration forms one day and had them register. one guy wanted me to beat him at nine ball before he'd register, still working on that guy.

i think we should all evangelize to ANYONE WHO WILL LISTEN to get the message out, ANYWHERE, ANYTIME

[TX-RAT]

2. Don't know what your talking about.

We all speak wit a British acksent. Y'all da ones talk funny.

[Estel]

3. I live in Dallas area

He puts it on thick sometimes... Pickles, though, is west Texas through and through.

[displacedtexan]

4. Not really.

No native born Texan KEEPS the accent and STILL rhymes rather with father. Just George W.

The fact that George W. dissed his family's speech pattern and adopted a Texas Twang is telling (IMHO). Listen to the parents and the one sibling allowed to speak in public (JEB): not Texas by a mile.

[Fleshdancer]

5. I don't see how Bush's accent could be that thick naturally

Bush's parents aren't Texans so unless he had a redneck nanny, I don't see how he could have picked it up. Besides, his own damn brothers don't sound like that so who is he trying to fool?

He gives people what he thinks they want to hear. My guess is that he worked on the accent when he decided to get into the Texas oil business and kept it when entering into politics.

[NoPasaran]

7. Bush* talks like

A drunken yankee carpetbagger cokehead trying to sound like a Texan.

[Trailrider1951]

8. If you want REAL Texas accents

Listen to Jim Hightower or one of Ann Richard's speeches. They're as authentic as a field of Bluebonnets in April.

[Fleshdancer]

11. I looove the way Ann Richard speaks

Now that's the way a Texan accent is suppose to sound.

[GOPisEvil]

10. He's got kind of a west Texas twang that he turns on and off.

I used to have a boss from San Angelo who sounded similar to W, but this guy was a native.