Okay... who here has a funny accent?

[CanuckAmok]

I think you all do, but that's just me, eh.

[XemaSab]

1. I was told once

that I have the WORST. BAY AREA. ACCENT. EVER.

I shit you not.

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[Gildor Inglorion]

5. Nothin' wrong with that...

I'm most particularly FOND of southern BAWY accents!

:9

[Kathleen04]

13. since

when does the Bay Area have an accent??

[Gormy Cuss]

36. There is a Bay Area accent

although it's more accurately a cadence, heavily influenced by the cadences of Midwestern American and Asian languages. I have become very good at discerning Bay Area natives vs. the rest of us based on the speech pattern. It's subtle at first but if you have an ear for such things there is a distinct Bay Area pattern. It's also to early in my daily caffeine uptake for me to come up with concrete examples.

[Gildor Inglorion]

3. I probably do...naturally, I think everyone else does!

I have a southern Appalachian accent. Unlike some southerners (and others) we fully pronounce the "r" in car, park, heart, etc. We don't pronounce "cot" and "caught" the same, and the "a" in "cash" and "flash" has a slight "ai" sound. We retain the "ew" sound in "news" (NEVER "noos"), and almost always drop the "g" in words ending in "ing" (endin' for ending, etc.) Because our accent was established before the "Germanization" of British English, we say "neether" and "eether," not "nyther" and "eyther." To me, it's a very pleasant accent, but then I'm prejudiced: my parents and grandparents had it!

:toast:

[Droopy]

4. I have a slight southern accent

I'm from southwest Ohio. My cousins who are from Maine said that I sounded like I was from Alabama, though. But I've traveled extensively in the southeast and I know my accent isn't that pronounced.

[WindRavenX]

6. I have a weird Jersey/Boston accent

It's really bizzare.
I say "wicked" (Boston) all the time, but say everything else with a Jersey drawl :wtf:

[Whoa_Nelly]

7. My Okie accent comes through loud and clear

Can you believe that at one time, trying to remove the stigmatism of OKIE, as in reference to the Dust Bowl era and the mass migration to CA, Oklahoma business people decided OKIE stood for Oklahoma Key to Intelligence and Enterprise...and there were lapel pins you could buy that had OKIE under a gold key...sheesh!

[rug]

8. I don't

but your sign does.

[spacelady]

9. Nebraskan--TRY to discern it!

[steely]

10. I'm from fluffya, PA myself

so I guess I don't notice it.

on edit: yaknow, home of da iggles

[6000eliot]

23. Me too

But I've lost the accent. How do you say the days of the week? Mondee, Tuesdee, Wednesdee, etc.?

[BroadwayBrat]

38. E-A-G-L-E-S!!!

Sorry...I am also from philly! home of "wooder ice"
I was also born in Jersey, so I have a weird Jersey/Philly accent...

[rockymountaindem]

11. I'm from Colorado

where one of those "you know you're a Coloradan when..." jokes is "You know you're a Coloradan when you have absolutely no perceptable accent".

Fortunately, I can fake the following pretty well:

Scottish
Russian
Indian/Pakistani
French-Canadian

I'm not lyin', my friends get a lot of laughs from those.

[Writer]

19. It's because hardly anyone who lives in Colorado...

is from Colorado!

Including me - a transplant from a few years ago!

[progmom]

12. i don't know what i sound like

but dammit, if you tell me i sound like i am from michigan, i am going to hurt you. :)

[jonnyblitz]

15. do they all talk like the people in the movie "Fargo"?

I guess i shouldn't assume you saw the movie..:hi:

[progmom]

28. no - that's a very different accent

oooooooooooh - and if you're insinuating.... :grr:


;)

[no name no slogan]

31. No, dat wood be us Minne-soh-tans

ya, we sure got dat won down good, hah? so you goin fishin this weekend? its sposedta warm up, pritneer 40 i herd on the teevee, dontcha know.

yah, sure, yooobetcha. :D

[Luna_Chick]

14. Mine depends on the day

and who's around. I'm one of those "lucky" (coughbullshitcough) people who seems to absorb the accent of the majority of people I'm around. Not even a conscious thing, but highly annoying at times.

[Gormy Cuss]

34. Ah, another morpher

I do the same thing. In business settings I learned to control this tendency because some people think I'm poking fun at them. I agree, it is highly annoying at times.

On the upside, when I was in college I learned to fake accents in foreign languages to the degree where native speakers would double over in laughter at my perfectly accented gibberish.

[Kathleen04]

16. No real accent here

From Southern CA--sometimes I say "prettineer" (pretty near) which I picked up from mom who's from upstate NY.

ALL of my close college friends have accents to a certain extent and all four of them are from different states.

[etch a sketch prez]

17. I probably have a funny accent.

I was born and raised in Cajun Country, went to college in New Orleans, have been living in Minneapolis for 2 years, and for a least 10 years, people have been asking me if I'm from New York. Don't ask me how that happened.

[no name no slogan]

32. welcome to DU!

:hi:

another MNan here! :D

be sure to check out the DU MN state forum-- we're having a gathering this week at Minnehaha Falls, everyone's invited! There's usually a fairly decent-sized contingent there, so it will be a lot of fun!

:toast:

[Writer]

18. Mine's a mixture of Texas and Maine.

Don't ask.

So you'll hear me say, "Hey, ya'll get in the cah, okay?"

and "Oh my god, ya'll. That's totally WICKED!"

[Floogeldy]

20. Heidi probably does.

;)

Defnilly would sound great.

[Heidi]

24. "Thangs" have changed

since I began living among "foreigners," that's true. ;)

[enigmatic]

21. I've got a Clevo accent

At leat that's what my wife says, anyway..

[yvr girl]

22. Only when I argue

I sound more Brit when I argue. :shrug:

[tjwmason]

25. I don't have an accent

I speak the Queen's English. I do, however, have a couple of bits of vocabulary from the Scottish dialect which I picked up at university (e.g., things are 'wee').

[supernova]

33. Ha Ha! Touché, tjwmason!

:D

[Jamastiene]

26. I must. Get this...

My friends from upstate New York say I definitely have a southern accent. And the people I know here in town (I live in NC) say I talk like I'm either from "up north" or the "midwest"...

I think I talk like a mixture. I have always been self concious about my southern accent because I have seen too many "eyewitness spectators" on television news shows. They never pick someone with something halfway intelligent to say and no matter where the incident happens (north, south, east, west or overseas), the person has a southern accent. I don't completely understand that one, but I am a big fans of certain accents. I especially love the Brooklyn accent and the New Jersey accent and the ones they use in the Stephen King movies (and apparently in some parts of the state of Maine). I like some southern accents, but not the ones on televison news and fake ones in the movies. They are always too thick and unbelievable to me.

Something that always amazes me is that someone with a thick English accent can drop it for movies and sound totally American, yet most Americans can't fake an English accent to save us...

P.S. I also love the way Canadians pronounce some words. Like "about". I like that.

[tenshi816]

27. I do.

It's a mixture of deep American south and British, and I go in and out of each without really noticing it.

[Mutley]

29. I have a little Maryland accent.

Goin downdeocean, hon. But it's not too thick since I've only lived here for 14 years. (Holy shit, I've lived here for 14 years?!?!?!?)

[Bassic]

30. When I want to I can speak with a heavy

French-Canadian accent. Not to be confused with a French (from France) accent.

[supernova]

35. Slight N Carolina accent

I have a very soft carolina accent. "I" or "eye" is pronouced half-way between "ah" and "eye" I sometimes drop my Gs on the ends of words: goin', shoppin', (depending on how tired I am) and of course I use "ain't."

If you've ever heard Andy Griffith speak, I'm very similar.

[Kellanved]

37. you called?

:hi:

[texas1928]

39. My boss.

He has a mix of Indian, and Bahamain accents. It is hilarious.

[Allenberg]

40. I have a twist

of the terrible Pittsburgh accent mixed in with a small bit of New Englander thanks to having mostly friends from Vermont, Boston, and elsewhere throughout NE while I was in the military.

[ghostsofgiants]

41. I've been told I don't have an accent

But the rest of my family members have noticable Newfie accents. My brother's is especially thick, for some strange reason.