They speak loudly and warmly to each other in an accent that alternates between a drawling slang and a polite and mannered form of address.

BBC: New Orleans and the 'Super Gras'

On porches, in living rooms, and in stores, ebullient women in bouffant hair and drawling, cautious men with neatly trimmed beards and mustaches explain how much they liked and admired Bernie.

NEWYORKER: Funny and Funnier

He is not a drawling toff.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot