Katie Trattner
Nov 5 · 3 min read

Embracing the Oklahoma Ya’ll

Picking up Accents and Putting on Airs.

photo by Kathryn Trattner

I’m not sure why I disliked the idea of picking up an accent, particularly an Okie drawl, when I was younger. Mostly I didn’t want to sound country; the kind of country that called everyone bubba or hun while chewing tobacco and giving directions with a nod of yonder down that’a way.

I wanted to be cosmopolitan, well rounded, a woman of the world with an air of…

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