What is you accent?

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  • AnnyaSB
    AnnyaSB Posts: 233 Member
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    My accent is wicked Boston! :)
  • paint_it_black
    paint_it_black Posts: 208 Member
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    I have an extremely thick Scottish accent, and i LOVE a southern accent, particularly Tennessee based
  • kyle4jem
    kyle4jem Posts: 1,400 Member
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    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
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    I'm from Northern California. The only accent I have is saying "hella" all the time.
  • nicescent
    nicescent Posts: 44
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    Mine izzz very French. Tried to get rid of it but it does not work......
  • anels449
    anels449 Posts: 3,187 Member
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    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
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    Apparently I sound like Kate Middleton...boarding school for 10 years did this!
  • Fat_2_Fit_Mommy
    Fat_2_Fit_Mommy Posts: 569 Member
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    Southern country accent I'm from TX.
  • kayleesays
    kayleesays Posts: 564 Member
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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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