Charleston English

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Charleston English or the Charleston accent is a sub-variety of Southern American English spoken by typically spoken by older natives of Charleston, South Carolina. It is one of the older aristocratic Southern accents with the following features

• R-dropping

• Canadian raising of ou, making words like house and about more like hoose and aboat.

• Vowels in cheer and chair can be pronounced the same. This is the cheer-chair merger.

• Intrusive y onto the ar sound so garden and car come out as gyahden and kyah.

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