What is you accent?

britcurl
britcurl Posts: 110 Member
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I am from Alabama, and I KNOW I have a southern twang to my voice. When I recently went to Washington State to visit family, all of their friends kept asking me to "Say Something" lol. I thought they were crazy becuase I didn't realize how southern my accent really is. So where are you from? Or what is your accent? And which one's do you think are sexy??

I love and European accent!!!
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  • britcurl
    britcurl Posts: 110 Member
    No one wants to play :(
  • jennifer52484
    jennifer52484 Posts: 888 Member
    I don't really have one.. but a small Boston accent probably. My husband has a strong Boston accent. No "R"s ... not sure how he got one.. we grew up in the same town in Northern Mass
  • k8blujay2
    k8blujay2 Posts: 4,941 Member
    An American non-accent... No one can really place me unless I am really excited.
  • mtaylor33557
    mtaylor33557 Posts: 542 Member
    I'm from Alabama too. I grew up in a very rural area of Alabama, and obviously I sound very "Southern".

    I was visiting family in Northern California last summer and everywhere I went people would smile and ask "So, where are you from, because you are not from around here!"

    Most people said they thought it was "cute" or "charming" , however, my husband and SIL didn't get asked this. And they grew up in Alabama too!
  • Jipples
    Jipples Posts: 650 Member
    Mais, it's cajun sha
  • FuneralDiner
    FuneralDiner Posts: 438 Member
    I have a British accent. More specifically, southern. A little west country, a little cockney and because I've been living in the north a few years now, a hint of Yorkshire.

    I love all accents, but I have a thing for Americans. I don't even know why. My first boyfriend was American, so I guess it links back to that.
  • jennynewbury
    jennynewbury Posts: 48 Member
    Welsh :)
  • thebigcb
    thebigcb Posts: 2,210 Member
    I have a Dublin accent
  • JenAiMarres
    JenAiMarres Posts: 743 Member
    Valley...I'm from so cal. It's thick.
  • melann1974
    melann1974 Posts: 84
    I am from KY and have a southern/country accent. Even people from KY sometimes ask where I am from. I don't like it so I try to cover it up, but it comes out when I am drunk or extremely tired. Most people think it's cute, but I think it's annoying.
  • chivalryder
    chivalryder Posts: 4,391 Member
    Toronto-Canadian, eh!
  • sdavis448
    sdavis448 Posts: 193 Member
    I'm from Mn, but I don't think I have the stereotypical Minnesota accent "Dont'ch know"
  • tiarapants
    tiarapants Posts: 1,015 Member
    Mine is British. I speak the Queen's English (but not QUITE like the queen)
  • faefaith
    faefaith Posts: 433 Member
    I from Alabama too! When I leave the state I can definitely tell that I have one, but sometimes people that live in AL don't think that I am from here. :huh:
  • jdploki70
    jdploki70 Posts: 343
    Californian, so none. I can't even pretend to have an accent.
  • MaraDiaz
    MaraDiaz Posts: 4,604 Member
    Mostly southern USA, unfortunately. But put me in a room for five minutes with anyone with a different accent (or speech impediment) and I will automatically start picking up bits and pieces of it. A very embarrassing trait!
  • LinaBo
    LinaBo Posts: 342 Member
    West Coast Canadian. Probably very similar to people from Washington State, in the USA.
  • fitpilatesqueen
    fitpilatesqueen Posts: 337
    Since I´m from Iceland I would say european accent. I have never thought about this.
  • wareagle8706
    wareagle8706 Posts: 1,090 Member
    haha I'm from Alabama too! So I know what you mean!! In Alabama I got called a yankee a lot because they didn't think I had a bad southern accent but now that I live in Oklahoma I get made fun of ALL the time!!
  • TaintedVampyre
    TaintedVampyre Posts: 1,428 Member
    I'm a Canadian. But some people have said I have an accent but they've yet to identify which one. But I have a few American friends who used to ask me to speak French which was always funny.
  • laulyn
    laulyn Posts: 70
    I have a bit of a southern accent. Oddly, my nine year old has taken to speaking in a British accent in the past couple of weeks on and off. Hoping that is a phase, we live in Texas.....
  • KatKatatrophic
    KatKatatrophic Posts: 448 Member
    I am from KS, living in New York. I am British/American, my mom's mom is from England, my mom was also born in Kansas. So we carried the accent down the line. And in school, my English teacher never liked how I said words.
  • Dani_wants_to_be_fit
    Dani_wants_to_be_fit Posts: 550 Member
    I'm English and my accent really depends on who I'm with =/ If I am hanging out with my friends it's very much a northern accent if it's with strangers I get this standard English accent and no idea where it comes from.
  • AgentWalker008
    AgentWalker008 Posts: 26
    It's a mix of Ramsgate (south east Kent), Norfolk (UK) and Leeds - so I'm a mix of southerner, midlander and northerner.
  • lmrw1959
    lmrw1959 Posts: 31 Member
    Minnesooooota
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    I grew up in Chemung County, NY. So whatever that accent is. :-)

    I think it's mostly that generic Midwestern US accent, but there are certain words that I say "wrong" and have it in common with others from there. For example, I say bay-gel instead of bah-gel for bagel. Drove my Jewish grandmother from Buffalo up a wall!
  • Dani_wants_to_be_fit
    Dani_wants_to_be_fit Posts: 550 Member
    Mostly southern USA, unfortunately. But put me in a room for five minutes with anyone with a different accent (or speech impediment) and I will automatically start picking up bits and pieces of it. A very embarrassing trait!

    Ditto! I studied in Korea for a while and when I came back I had a Korean twang from being around it so much XD took a while to break.
  • Luxxmundi
    Luxxmundi Posts: 52
    Mainly English, but as i've lived in wales for the past few years its slowly starting to creep in and merge.
  • BaDaSsBrUnEtTe
    BaDaSsBrUnEtTe Posts: 518 Member
    I don't really have one.. but a small Boston accent probably. My husband has a strong Boston accent. No "R"s ... not sure how he got one.. we grew up in the same town in Northern Mass
    Yup, slight boston accent here. Not nearly as heavy as some people. But people definatly still notice it.
  • stephaneb74
    stephaneb74 Posts: 151 Member
    Apparently I have a french accent :-) everybody seem to think it is sexy but I find it terribly ridiculous.....
    I love Irish accents and definitely southern accent is nice

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