I'm on a webinar and the presenter is from Mississippi.

[Bunny]

I am totally enjoying his southern accent - it's very smooth and relaxing, actually.

I'm in Western PA, and we have our own very hickish and comical accent - "yinzers", we call ourselves. I try hard to minimize it when I'm talking in a professional situation.

Do you have a regional accent?

[geardaddy]

1. No, not really

I supposed my Os are a little elongated sometimes.

[Shell Beau]

2. I probably sound a lot like that man with a female voice.

:) Mississippi all the way!! :P

[Bake]

3. Does it take him twice as long as anyone else to get a sentence out?

My mother (bless her heart) was born in Tupelo, and she talks soooooo slooooowly ...

:hi:

Bake

[Rob H.]

4. Nope

Grew up a Navy brat and moved around too frequently to pick up a regional accent. When I moved to Idaho back in '95 the people I worked with couldn't believe I'd come there after living in Memphis for 13 years because I didn't sound Southern.

[Richardo]

5. I don't, except when I'm around a yinzer...

...I pick up that Pittsburgh accent without even thinking about it. (I guess it's because I *did* learn to talk there.)

:hi:

[jobycom]

6. I'm from the Mississippi Coast, my parents learned to speak in New Orleans

where my father grew up Cajun and my mother's father grew up second generation German in the Irish Channel, known for producing an accent that sounds more Boston than New Orleans.

Usually after 30 seconds of speaking to someone I begin to sound like them. Once when selling something to a Brit, I started imitating his accent without realizing I was doing it. He was actually pretty cool about it--said it happens more than I'd think.

I guess my base accent is a muted Mississippi Coast accent, which is slightly southern but heavily influenced by outsiders, since it's a tourist area with two military bases. Northerners usually know I'm southern right away, but southerners often have trouble placing me.

[TZ]

7. I guess so. I've been told a Maryland or Eastern accent...

I remeber when I went to Minnesota for the first time last year (where they DO have very distinct accents) I got asked all the time, where I was from because it was obvious from the moment I opened my mouth it seems that I wasn't from around there! :)