What is Tidewater accent?
The '''Tidewater accent''' is a variety of [[English language|English]] spoken in the [[Tidewater]] [[region]] of [[Virginia]]. It's a subvariety of [[Southern American English]] and features include: *non-rhoticity/[[R-dropping]] or variable rhoticity *conversion of ''a'' to ''e'' in certain cases, making ''afraid'' and ''bake'' sound like ''afred'' and ''Beck''. *limited [[trap-bath split]]: words like ''rather'' ''bath'' and ''can't'' are pronounced with broad-a. [[Category:American English]] [[Category:Virginia]] {{-}} {{US-stub}}