03/19/2013 05:33:00 PMI was intrigued by the item on the work of linguistics professor Patricia Cukor-Avila regarding the differences in Texas English throughout the state. story I was intrigued by the item on the work of linguistics professor Patricia Cukor-Avila regarding the differences in Texas English throughout the state ("Do all Texans drawl and twang the same?," winter 2012). In 1974, as an art student at North Texas, I can remember maintaining to members of one art class that there were at least five different Texas "accents" that I could identify, probably more. The most extreme? "Ah liyuv in Dellis. It's grite!" James Gatewood Corpus Christi