Hillary spoke today before Al Sharpton's National Action Network in Harlem, and during her speech she apparently adjusted her accent slightly. So reports The New York Times's political blog, The Caucus, in its rundown of the speech today, which offered an examination of her accent that was detailed enough to please a professor of linguistics:

At times today, Mrs. Clinton’s slight, flat Midwestern accent dissolved in a cadence-laden speaking style that is more associated with a Southern Baptist minister (or her husband) than with her. Sometimes it was the “g” at the end of a gerund that disappeared, like “runnin’” instead of running.

Does this mean that Hillary was pandering again, just as she did when she was trying to fool all those boobs in Selma, Alabama? Not according to Sharpton. Asked that question by The Times, he parried it rather deftly:

“No,” he said, “people kind of relate to audiences."

Why yes, they do, don't they. Yes, indeedy -- people speak differently to different people, and for some reason they try to make themselves appealing to their listeners, rather than off-putting to them. People are like that. Go figure.