My Southern Accent, Lost and Found

As Becca Andrews confirms (September), a voice is more than just how we speak. I grew up in North Carolina and was later hired to broadcast the weather in Elko, Nevada. But I never learned to say cloudy or

fifty without my drawl. It came out “Claowdy with a fiuffty percent chance of rain.” The South will never quite disappear from my voice. And that suits me just fine.

—carole modlin Lawrenceburg, TN