Chris Holbrook

“was making fun, making a joke on the place he'd come from. “I'm marrying a hillbilly,” she'd said. He'd laughed with her, though for the rest of the trip he'd acted so nervous he'd hardly spoken, and when he did he was so careful to speak properly, to sound out his -ing’s and correct himself whenever he said ain't instead of aren't that it had been almost painful to listen to himself.”
― Chris Holbrook, Upheaval: Stories