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Neither of these women sound Southern at all to me, that is 100% evening-news-announcer Mid Atlantic, desirable on broadcast TV because everyone so clearly understands it. IMO she's emphasizing 'sister' for dramatic effect, not part of an accent. Maybe there's a tinge in 'example' and 'five'.
The accent I at least associate with 'Georgia' practically doesn't pronounce the 'r' in 'Georgia' at all, with Ray Charles's traditional being an exceedingly mild example. I googled this link and this lady sounds a lot like the accents I grew up around in South Carolina, except she's obviously from a bigger city.
When people generally consumed local media (or before that, no audio media at all) you had very strong local accents. Now we spend most of the day consuming often international media and that smears the language quirks all around.
Thanks, interesting. Yeah, in that link I definitely recognize that accent. A lot of siblance in that recording ("sss, sssss"), or maybe that's my headphones.
The accents are all being smeared away into some kinda global hive mind, I guess.
Wait, "fire" isn't two syllables? Fye-yer. Fiii yerr.. Fire. Fy yar. Yer. It's yer. Fi, yer. There. That is correct.