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Is the Atlanta accent vanishing? Not exactly.
It is easy to spot, the old Atlanta accent. Bird becomes bud in a drawl as unhurried as Sunday brunch at the Colonnade. Because of several factors here—the Olympics, the tech boom, the rise of the entertainment industry—Atlanta’s population has exploded, bringing a heady mix of other languages and dialects to the civic conversation. Has this influx, by process of dilution, killed that identifiable accent? Not yet. Here's why.
Is There an Atlanta Accent?
Newcomers to the city who expect to hear Hollywood’s idea of the Southern drawl will be disappointed.
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