Southern drawl

English

Alternative forms
  • southern drawl
  • Southern brawl, southern brawl (eggcorn)

Noun

Southern drawl (plural Southern drawls)

  1. (phonetics) The diphthongisation or triphthongisation of the vowels /æ/, /ɛ/ and /ɪ/ into [æj(ə)], [ɛj(ə)] and [ɪj(ə)], occurring in English spoken in the Southern United States.
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