eeeeegads......some kentucky people have such an accent that I just sit there & can't figure out a word they are saying....like listening to a foreign language that I don't even know a little of. At times I can't even pick up a word.

Other KY people have very little accent, but most of them do have a very thick accent.

I grew up a native Californian.....absolutely no accent's there a mixture of every state in the US it seems.....but I spent my summers in in Kansas from the time I was 5 until I was 15. We always went out fishing & would go to the small creeks that ran through the farms. The way everyone there pronounced creek was like "crick".......so that's how I always pronounced it.....many people have laughed at the way I pronounce it as so very different from how it's pronounced in California.

I have always tried to pronounce my words they way the letters are put together & sounded rather than any specific accent......always focused on that way of speaking. It doesn't surprise me that there are such horrible spellers here in Ky, if they spell according to how they say the words, it's amazing that anyone can read their writing either.