Tidewater accent

The Tidewater accent is a variety of 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