Probably the most famous single pronunciation convention in the South. Used with great consistency. Dropped middle consonant . Southern speech sometimes drops the middle consonant of a word. Dropped initial unstressed syllable .
Many English words have an initial unstressed syllable followed by a second stressed syllable.
Southern speech sometimes drops the initial soft syllable. In some cases, this has led to new, established word forms. Stressed initial syllable . Southern English also commonly transfers the stress from the second syllable of a word to the first. As a consequence of the previous two pronunciation conventions, one might conjecture that Southern English often prefers to stress the first syllable of a word.