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Bill Kretzschmar, Director of the linguistics program at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.
He said "In the North of the United States the speech patterns are shorter pause, so conversations tend to go back and forth perceptibly faster." While Umorist Mark Twain once said that "In the South of the United States the“talks music”especially in Mason-Dixon line is a a slightly longer pause between the turns in a conversation,when one person stops talking and another starts."The southerner s converse is s-l-o-w-l-y,actually waiting until the other person has finished speaking before responding.