LOL! Go take a nap and come back to a discussion of dialects.
Not that I mind.
For the record, I am from East Tennessee, and we can generally tell when someone "ain't from around these parts." Middle and West Tennessee actually sound different to me. Writers here often get into discussions of "voice" and say that you can tell the difference in the writer's voice and it varies from location to location.
One of my favorite local columnists does a whole speech on the way we speak. If someone offers you a "cheer," it's so you can sit down. Or "he blowed a tar," generally means his tires need replacing.
"To glom" is actually suspected to be similar to the Scottish "to glam" and since East Tennessee was settled by a lot of "Scots-Irish," it sorta makes sense. And yes, I suspect using the word shows my age. I still say tin foil on occasion and they haven't made aluminum foil from tin since I was a child.
But yeah, you do have to go a little more than 40 miles to hear a difference in dialects here. And there are more distinct dialects in the eastern seaboard of the US. I am often accused by my fellow East Tennesseans of being a midwesterner because I speak more clearly than my kinfolk do.
Of course, when I hear a recording of my own voice, I hear the East Tennessee Nasal clearly.
Laura J. Underwood