What is you accent?

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  • thescrumisfun
    thescrumisfun Posts: 355
    I'm from NE Ohio; something or other about a northern vowel drift and a Great Lakes accent. My a's are really sharp and drawn out, and I say gosh like "gAAsh." Hahaha.
  • sexygenius
    sexygenius Posts: 1,078 Member
    mines pretty boring, basically the standard american accent in movies/tv
  • Justacoffeenut
    Justacoffeenut Posts: 3,749 Member
    Depends on my mood. Ive traveled alot and spent alot of time in differnet areas. People say they can figure out my mood by my tone but mostly my accent. And when I get really mad I have been know to talk in differnet languages, sometime more then one in the same sentence. :laugh:
  • determinedbutlazy
    determinedbutlazy Posts: 1,941 Member
    Southern English. Pretty "posh" but not quite "BBC" English.
    I went to America when I was a teenager and had everyone begging me to say things, it was pretty embarrassing.

    For me? Probably a cajun accent.. DAMN.
  • caraiselite
    caraiselite Posts: 2,631 Member
    boston accent.

    i love french canadian ones!
    and british.. and welsh.. and aussie.. mmm anything but southern!
  • angievaughn
    angievaughn Posts: 655 Member
    Is southern country mixed with some hillbilly an accent??? :wink:
  • Elle_45
    Elle_45 Posts: 43 Member
    Southern y'all. I'm from Tennessee.

    We were at the Zoo in Chicago and a lady told me "I can't understand a thing you are saying, but I love to hear you talk."
  • cheerforsteelers
    cheerforsteelers Posts: 686 Member
    I lived in Texas for a little bit, but have spent most of my years in California. Sometimes people in CA will ask me if I'm from Texas (surprisingly) because they say they hear some southern in me. Odd. Sometimes I say ya'll too.
  • pinthin87
    pinthin87 Posts: 296 Member
    Valley...I'm from so cal. It's thick.

    Me too girlfriend! I am in Dallas, TX but am a total transplant. I am from Santa Ana, California in Orange County and I am told I talk "just like them girls from LA-guna Beach!" The longer that I live here the sexier a deep south accent sounds...lol. For instance I love the way Maci and her boyfriend Kyle on Teen Mom talk. I think they are so damn cute with their Tennessee accents. I don't know how I ended up a valley girl because I grew up around my grandma and she is from Arkansas and has a thick accent.
  • RhonndaJ
    RhonndaJ Posts: 1,615 Member
    Sort of a mild, non-specific British accent, I think might be the best way to describe it.
  • AnnyaSB
    AnnyaSB Posts: 233 Member
    Mine is mix of southern English and northern English. I originate from the north, but I lived and worked in London for many years before I moved to Wales 2 years ago (no sign of Welsh accent yet, but it will get there if I live here long enough I am sure!) so I am a bit "cockney" now with a definite northern twang that gets much stronger if I am with other northerners or I have had a few sherbets :wink: :drinker:

    My favourite accent is a soft Southern Irish brogue :heart: :heart: :heart:
  • cannotfailunlessyoustoptrying
    cannotfailunlessyoustoptrying Posts: 90
    Um I am from Michigan so I don't know if I have an accent but when I travel people do ask where I am from lol.
    I love Australian accents
  • Afrikangirl
    Afrikangirl Posts: 54 Member
    Well I was born in Uganda (East Africa).....and grew up in California....I now live in South Carolina! Most of the time when I first start talking to people...I always get ....where are you from?....like I just landed from the moon. Be it London, Dubai, Kampala or Los Angeles...whatever my accent is...it always marks me as a foreigner. The funniest thing is...I don't think I have an accent....although I might be picking up a southern twang :)...that twang is super contagious y'all.
  • dward2011
    dward2011 Posts: 416 Member
    I'm from Birmingham, Alabama (born and raised for 29 years) and have lived in Michigan for 3 years (one more year to go....). People up here ask me if I am Canadian or Australian. Weird, right?
  • MizSaz
    MizSaz Posts: 445 Member
    Boston. And it gets really bad when I'm excited. Or drunk. Or mad. Or any combination of those things.


    Also, I had no idea there were so many Brits floating around here till I read this thread.
  • k8blujay2
    k8blujay2 Posts: 4,941 Member
    Well I was born in Uganda (East Africa).....and grew up in California....I now live in South Carolina! Most of the time when I first start talking to people...I always get ....where are you from?....like I just landed from the moon. Be it London, Dubai, Kampala or Los Angeles...whatever my accent is...it always marks me as a foreigner. The funniest thing is...I don't think I have an accent....although I might be picking up a southern twang :)...that twang is super contagious y'all.

    Isn't it though? That's the twang I get when I'm super excited about something... I start sounding like Scarlett O'Hara from Gone with the Wind.
  • tugers2
    tugers2 Posts: 139
    born and raised in central jersey.... but i don't have a north jersey accent i would more consider mine like a "Philly accent"
  • terrappyn
    terrappyn Posts: 324 Member
    My accent is wicked Boston! :)
  • paint_it_black
    paint_it_black Posts: 208 Member
    I have an extremely thick Scottish accent, and i LOVE a southern accent, particularly Tennessee based
  • kyle4jem
    kyle4jem Posts: 1,400 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
    I love these threads...:laugh:

    Everybody who speaks has an accent. It is true that some accents are getting harder to place regionally than others, but usually there will be a vowel pitch or length, a fricative, a plausative or some variation to the speech pattern that will give some hint to where you were brought up.

    I'm a Scot from the Clyde Coast, but I lived in Yorkshire and I'm a natural linguist who now lives in East Anglia. Depending on who I'm talking with/to, my accent will change noticeably (especially if I also change language :happy:)
  • pastryari
    pastryari Posts: 8,646 Member
    I'm from Northern California. The only accent I have is saying "hella" all the time.
  • nicescent
    nicescent Posts: 44
    Mine izzz very French. Tried to get rid of it but it does not work......
  • anels449
    anels449 Posts: 3,187 Member
    Wisconsin.

    So um...none? :p I'm not north enough to have a "Uper" accent, so...Midwestern? Hahah.

    I have been known to throw out an "oh geez" every now and then, though. :p
  • Wimbledongal
    Wimbledongal Posts: 64 Member
    Apparently I sound like Kate Middleton...boarding school for 10 years did this!
  • Fat_2_Fit_Mommy
    Fat_2_Fit_Mommy Posts: 569 Member
    Southern country accent I'm from TX.
  • kayleesays
    kayleesays Posts: 564 Member
    I don't really have one, but I definitely catch myself speaking a Mainer dialect... it's very noticeable when you refer to someone's lawn as their "dooryard" or say "wicked" a lot.
  • kmel2479
    kmel2479 Posts: 102 Member
    An American non-accent... No one can really place me unless I am really excited.

    Me too, unless I am in NYC they can tell the Boston accent!
  • Nillia2
    Nillia2 Posts: 36 Member
    I have a Bajan (barbadian) accent. If you've heard of Cover Drive or Rihanna...thats how i talk :). And the title in Bajan would read 'wa is u accent?' lol or 'part u from?'
    I have been told I sound different though, mix of other Caribbean countries, Dominica mostly (mother's origin).
    My uncle from America, says it sounds like we are singing a song..with the high and lows lol

    But I LOVE LOVE LOVE an irish accent, if it wasn't so far I would move there! lol
  • chivalryder
    chivalryder Posts: 4,391 Member
    I love people who say "euoprean."

    As far as I'm aware, there's at least one accent from each country over there!
  • auroranflash
    auroranflash Posts: 3,569 Member
    Texan, y'all :P

    *but I have a tendency to call people 'love'. Dunno where I got it from, been doing it for years.

    "Hello, love..."

    "Thank you, love..." etc

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