- Feb 22, 2012
- 03:46 PM
Is the Texas twang history? (video)
Brenda Bell / Austin American-Statesman
Heard any real good Texas accents lately? Among younger Texans, likely not. In Austin and other big cities in the state — Houston, Fort Worth, Dallas, San Antonio — the Texas twang is being infiltrated by what linguists call General American English, a more-or-less Midwestern accent, the standard heard on TV and other spoken media.
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