Why is it hard for Southerners to say certain words without an accent? I’m from the South and I would say most of the time my accent sounds generically American, with my drawl going in and out depending on who I’m talking to. However, I notice some words I will constantly say with a Southern accent no matter what. This includes iron (eirn), rural (rurrrrl) and crayon (crahn). I know that these 3 words a lot of people with a whisper of a Southen accent have trouble with, even if they have a basic American accent otherwise. Why is it these 3 words? Why is it hard to for me to say it “normally” as well?