Southern drawl
English
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[edit]Southern drawl (plural Southern drawls)
- (phonetics) The diphthongization or triphthongization of the vowels /æ/, /ɛ/ and /ɪ/ into [æj(ə)], [ɛj(ə)] and [ɪj(ə)], occurring in English spoken in the Southern United States.