What is Charleston English?
{{no sources|date=May 2022}} '''Charleston English''' or the '''Charleston accent''' is a sub-variety of [[ Southern American English]] spoken by typically spoken by older natives of [[Charleston, South Carolina]]. It is one of the older ''[[aristocrat]]ic'' Southern accents with the following features *[[R-dropping]] *[[Canadian raising]] of ''ou'', making words like ''house'' and ''about'' more like ''hoose'' and ''aboat''. *Vowels in ''cheer'' and ''[[chair]]'' can be pronounced the same. This is the ''cheer-chair merger''. *Intrusive ''y'' onto the ''ar'' sound so ''[[garden]] and ''car'' come out as ''gyahden'' and ''kyah''. [[Category:American English]] {{US-stub}}