Terri, with a hint of a Tennessee back-country accent, sighed.

"The polls keep us on the radar for recruiting and swells the chests of our alumni," he said in his honey-smoked Tennessee accent.

After introductory remarks and some humorous and sad eulogies, the minister spoke in his beautiful Tennessee accent.

"I didn't want to have nothing to do with nobody," he said in a soft Tennessee accent.

"To go upstairs," Butters said, in his soft Tennessee accent.

She has a Tennessee accent, he thinks.

On radio, he spoke without a trace of his native Tennessee accent, or indeed, any kind of Southern accent.

She has the sort of easy Tennessee accent that seems to keep your coffee warm.

"No, ma'am," the corporal said in a heavy Tennessee accent made tinny by his suit's speakers.

Mr. Cullum said, his voice sweetened by a Tennessee accent.