Texan is a bit different than Southern. In Texan, the drawl is longer, but clearer, than in southern.

Of course Southern is also subject to local interpretation: i.e. there is mountain speak, there is plantation speak, there is cajun speak, and there is backwoods speak. Sorta have similarities, but with local color.

All true, Texan or Southern, lol

I sure as heck don't. I adore my Southern friends and feel kinda bad to interupt them when they're excited about something saying, "Who did what with Adam's best ox???Who's Adam...?" LOL.PJ

I speak Gulf Coast, it's kinda like Texan. Ya gotta ask for sweet tea, usually ya gotta choice.
Distance is referred to as "over the causeway" or "out west".
Three southern ladies were swingin' on the veranda one afternoon. They were a fannin, and a sippin when the first one drawled out "Well, mah husband finally bought me that jag-u-r I've been a wantin'."
"Ain't that nice" replied the third.
"Well, MAH husband just put in a new pool for me" drawled out the third.
"Ain't that nice" replied the third.
They sipped and fanned for a while and the first leaned on over to the third and asked "well, honey what has YOUR husband done for ya'll lately?"
"Why he sent me to that fancy charm school just last month. I learned to say 'ain't that nice' instead of F#%@ ya'll". Politely replied the third.
Ain't that nice?
Tally HO!

ROTFL
Beachplant - that's hilarious!!!

Tally, that is a real ROFLMAO Love it.

Here are some old Texan drawl:

Window = Wind-der

Amarillo = Amarill-ah

Colorado = Cod-ah-ray-duh

Yellow = Yell-ah = Yeller

Wash = Warsh

Thanks Linda and Tally, great stuff for big laughs!

Do any of y'all know who I mean by Mattress Mac? I have never in my life heard anyone with a Texas accent who talked so fast. I can't hear that fast! A couple of the professors in Waco and Dallas on north to Wichita Falls, I've heard talk something like that, but never close to Mac's speed.

My favorite Texas talker is a grand white lady I know up north in the Piney Woods. I don't want to say exactly where because if I do, every professional photographer is gonna go to her directly and offer her lots of money for her help. She's more pro than they could ever be, I guarantee!

Since the days of Polaroids - heckfire, maybe since the days of Tin Type! - she's never been one to get smiles by exhorting: "Say Cheese!" She always got right to business and still today, 90 something years old, lines up with us for family photos and gets a smile on every face, every time, with a perfectly timed alternative: "All right now, ever-body...saaaay f#%@!"

Anyone that has ever lived in Houston has to know good old "Mattress Mac". I don't live in Houston anymore, but I assume that he is still doing TV commercials up there. And when we lived in Houston, I sometimes would purchase furniture from his store. It was not unusual for him to make personal follow-up telephone calls to see if we were satisfied. I'm sure he is too busy for that today.

Down here in Rockport, we get the Corpus Christi stations. One commercial is for a local furniture store which is owned by an older couple. It's so funny to watch the man do his own impersonation of "Mattress Mac". HA!

Mattress Mac is from up north somewhere. And Texans talk faster than the rest of the south.
If you buy Aqua net by the case you might be a Texan.
If your favorite cologne is OFF you might be a Texan.
If you've ever gotten up, put on a coat over your shorts & bikini top you might be a Texan.
If the only spanish words you know are curse words, cerveza and banos you might be a Texan.
Tally HO!