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It “doesn’t necessarily mean having a country accent. Rather, it’s when someone adjusts their airway to be narrow in the back and wide in the front, so it makes a trumpet or megaphone shape, which increases the loudness of sounds at higher pitches in one’s voice. Singers use it to be heard over music. Children adopt it to taunt each other through the playground fray.” Want to Be Heard? Speak With Some Twang.

+ Paris has a lottery going for burial plots near Jim Morrison and Oscar Wilde.