Southern American English

Southern American English (aka Southern U.S. English or Southern drawl) is a group of American English dialects used in the Southern United States. Southern English is usually used in Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Georgia and parts of Florida. Modern day Southern English dialects have been used in states including Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, southern Iowa, south central Indiana, southern Ohio and Kansas.

The dialects are also used in some parts of the Mid-Atlantic States.

In Southern English, people use terms like ain't, you was,fixin to (rather than going to), been (rather than have been) and that there.

Features of most southern accents include

• glide-deletion- the conversion of the ai dipthong into a monothong

• drawling and\or vowel breaking

• pen\pin merger

Varieties include

• The Tidewater Accent

• Charleston English

• Appalachian English

• Texan English

• New Orleans English

• High Tider

• Boontling English

Southern American English Media

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  The approximate extent of Southern American English, based upon The Atlas of North American English

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  The merger of pin and pen in Southern American English. In the purple areas, the merger is complete for most speakers.

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  Frequency of either "Y'all" or "You all" to address multiple people, according to an Internet survey of American dialect variation

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  Frequency of just "Y'all" to address multiple people, according to an Internet survey of American dialect variation