What is you accent?

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  • cmeade20
    cmeade20 Posts: 1,238 Member
    I live about 30 min from Boston and I've been told my accent is really thick.
  • Ariana_75
    Ariana_75 Posts: 224
    Colombian, but not quite as annoying as Gloria's!!
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    Im from Newfoundland we speak newfienese....lol (english) apparently we have a unique slang.

    Um, yeah, that would be fair to say. :happy: That and you speak so fast, it can be a little hard to understand. Of course, that also depends on which part your from. I :heart: newfies. Best kind.

    Me, I have an East coast Canadian accent as well, not NFLD though. There are some pretty thick accents around here, but mine is pretty mild, when I travel people dont pick up on it very often. I was on a course in Manitoba and the Americans on the course thought the Manitobans (?) had a stranger accent than I did.


    My favorite - hard to narrow down, British, Irish, Australian to name a few.
  • cmeade20
    cmeade20 Posts: 1,238 Member
    Im from Newfoundland we speak newfienese....lol (english) apparently we have a unique slang.

    Um, yeah, that would be fair to say. :happy: That and you speak so fast, it can be a little hard to understand. Of course, that also depends on which part your from. I :heart: newfies. Best kind.

    Me, I have an East coast Canadian accent as well, not NFLD though. There are some pretty thick accents around here, but mine is pretty mild, when I travel people dont pick up on it very often. I was on a course in Manitoba and the Americans on the course thought the Manitobans (?) had a stranger accent than I did.


    My favorite - hard to narrow down, British, Irish, Australian to name a few.

    My great uncle was a newfie. I loved his accent.
  • TheChangingMan
    TheChangingMan Posts: 73 Member
    I'm from Glasgow so have a Scottish accent.
  • Thaelvyn
    Thaelvyn Posts: 67
    Trying as hard as I can to sound South East British, but people often spot my French origin :/
  • kyle4jem
    kyle4jem Posts: 1,400 Member
    East English with a hint of Danish.

    Is that East-Anglian English or SE aka Esturian English?

    As Danish uses the glottal stop you'd think the Esturian English would be able to master Danish, but alas the struggle enough with their mother tongue :laugh:

    I actually love the way Danes speak English ... so distinct from Swedes or Norwegians... in fact it almost sounds a bit like Afrikaans.

    I also love the way the Dutch speak English and their over-use of the gerund :bigsmile:
  • misslou7
    misslou7 Posts: 42 Member
    My accent I would describe as generic English. I was born in the South East but brought up just outside Liverpool. The broader Southern tones I appear to have dropped but even after 20 odd years I don't sound like a Scouser (they just think I'm posh!)
  • warmachinejt
    warmachinejt Posts: 2,162 Member
    I don't use accent, i use adobo goya :)
  • I don't use accent, i use adobo goya :)

    ^ LOL to that, I don't think I really have an accent even though I am from NJ
  • 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 live in RI and and everyone laughs at me having no R when I talk apparently..lol And when Im mad the Italian comes out. My husbands makes fun of me when we are arguing saying I sound like I belong on the Sopranos. Makes for a very hard argument...lol
  • jella74
    jella74 Posts: 106 Member
    Mais I talk like dat cajun down da by-yoo!

    IF ANY OF YOU HAS SEEN CAJUN JUSTICE, please we're not all dumb *kitten* down here and more than half of our community doesn't even like the show! It's not all voodoo and travel by boat everywhere.

    Though the further south west you go from New Orleans the more authentic the cajun accent and food really is!
  • ARDuBaie
    ARDuBaie Posts: 378 Member
    I was raised in a family where English was not the first language. Yes, I am from PA. My mother spoke French and German and my father Scottish Gaelic. I paid over $2,000 to soften that Scottish accent, but once in a while, especially when I am angry, it crops up.
  • ptak1sm
    ptak1sm Posts: 172
    I'm from Michigan so apparently I have a mid-western accent. I'm not sure, though...I don't hear it :P

    I think Mexican accents are incredibly sexy. Also, British. And Australian. And Irish. Scottish. Spanish. You know what, just throw in almost every country in western Europe and Central/South America. Yeah, that'll about do it.
  • RiaLucia
    RiaLucia Posts: 121
    Non-descript U.S. accent. I spent the first 9 years of my life in Washington State, where no known accent prevails. Grew up on the East Coast. However, I can pick up and mimic accents pretty well.
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  • cowgirlashlee
    cowgirlashlee Posts: 301 Member
    I guess you could say I have a "redneck" accent, being from northeast Indiana. However, I spent a lot of my childhood on the UP of Michigan, and when I would come home, people would comment on my "Yooper" accent.
  • AussieNikki
    AussieNikki Posts: 168 Member
    I'm an Aussie. So Australian.

    But I have lived in NC USA for almost 4 years and I pick up a southern accent here and there sometimes. It's weird.
  • ive got a south wales valleys accent and tend to talk really fast x
  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    A mix of South East London and Devon, with a slight touch of Australian :p
  • NYChick84
    NYChick84 Posts: 331 Member
    New Yorker at its finest. lol I don't hear it, others do though lol
  • CountryMom03
    CountryMom03 Posts: 258 Member
    Southern Twang all the way here!!:) Have grown up all my life in Tennessee & Georgia:) My husband grew up in Chicago until he was about 13, then he moved down here to GA where he has been ever since. Now neither place will claim him. When he goes up North they tell him he has a Southern accent, down here they tell him he still has a Northern accent so he cant win lol

    My two all time fav accents to listen to is the Australian accent and the Irish accent:)

    ~Carrie~
  • jcstanton
    jcstanton Posts: 1,849 Member
    Mostly Michigan, with a little South Carolina mixed in. From time to time I've had people ask me if I'm from California, although, I have no idea why as I've never been west of Minnesota. I guess because I've moved around so much since I was a kid, I tend to pick up the accent of whomever I'm talking to or spending alot of time with. It's weird, because I don't even realize I'm doing it.
  • mom2teebee
    mom2teebee Posts: 76 Member
    I grew up in Pittsburgh although I don't use the "yinz" which normally depicts someone from Pittsburgh. "Pop" has also become soda which is from living in the Philly/southern NJ area for the last 15 years.

    Some words are a dead give away though. To my ears Don and Dawn are said the same way. It would drive my coworkers crazy. And when I'm excited or not paying attention any word that ends in -eel comes out as -ill instead like steel or heel end up being still and hill.

    There are other small things like using to be with verbs. My husband would bug me about that all of the time. I'd say something needs + verb instead of something needs to be + verb.

    And I'm sure there are words that I use that are typical of Pittsburgh.
  • KBjimAZ
    KBjimAZ Posts: 369 Member
    I guess you could say I have a "redneck" accent, being from northeast Indiana. However, I spent a lot of my childhood on the UP of Michigan, and when I would come home, people would comment on my "Yooper" accent.

    I call it "Indiana Hillbilly"...that's what I have. Everyone in Arizona guesses that I am from Texas. hahaha
  • eireannyoung
    eireannyoung Posts: 154 Member
    I grew up in Connecticut around people with thick Yankee and Yiddish accents, and then part of the time in Manhattan, NY. I think I picked up the New York accent most of all, to the point where when I first moved to Oregon people would ask me to say the word "coffee" (it's KAW-FEE, of course :)) Well I've lived in Oregon almost ten years, so my accent is rather non-specific now :( I still have a mildly broad way of speaking though.
  • Selma10001984
    Selma10001984 Posts: 206 Member
    Hmm. Well, my mothertongue is French and Danish. When I came to Canada at the age of 11 and stayed for an entire school year, it was mostly a Danish accent. (God knows how much I hate it, allthough French accents aren't that much better either)So I worked and is still working hard on getting completely rid of it. I must say that Ive been quite successfull.

    When I was working at the bakers shop in a little spare of a fart town in Denmark and handed over the goods to what turned out to be a Canadian customer, he suddenly asked me if I've ever been to Prince Edward Island. And that was simply after uttering "which type of bread would you like?" (No "eh's"):tongue:
    I was happily surprised to know that some of it had rubbed off. :smile:
  • stephc0711
    stephc0711 Posts: 1,022 Member
    Mine is a mix of farmer and southern. I live in Missouri, my mom grew up in the southern part of the state, so I say things like "Missourah", "crick" (creek), & "Sant" (saint).
  • BSummers321
    BSummers321 Posts: 94 Member
    North Eastern Scottish, tends to come out even worse when I'm angry. I'll go into full slang mode, none of my English relatives would understand me lol

    edit: cough, Scottish and welsh accents are British accents too guys, I think you mean English :)
  • Selma10001984
    Selma10001984 Posts: 206 Member
    I love the scottish accent...especially in males : G-RRRard Butler:))