What accent do you have when speaking English?

[AreaCode707]

West coast (California) US accent here. Very tv-newscasterish, not very interesting. What about you all?

 

[Double Trouble]

Pretty bland midwestern here, no discernible accent. I'm guessing there's a lot of folks that sound like Apu from the Simpsons here

 

[zerocool84]

Originally posted by: AreaCode707
West coast (California) US accent here. Very tv-newscasterish, not very interesting. What about you all?

Which accent is that? There are many around here. I'm white but anyone not from LA says I have a mexican accent. Northern Cali sounds different than Southern.

 

[jupiter57]

I've been told that I have an "Educated Southern" accent.
I am educated, but I have spent most of my life in rural Kentucky, you tend to repeat what you hear.

 

[Red Irish]

Belfast accent.

 

[Locut0s]

Well I live in Vancouver Canada so I guess my accent would be considered west coast. For those in the US it would be north western, think Seattle.

But of course no one can really recognize their own accent like those outside can. I'm not aware of what would define the north wester/pacific accent?

 

[skyking]

Originally posted by: Locut0s
Well I live in Vancouver Canada so I guess my accent would be considered west coast. For those in the US it would be north western, think Seattle.

But of course no one can really recognize their own accent like those outside can. I'm not aware of what would define the north wester/pacific accent?

That would be our accent too, and the people in the UK can detect it quite readily
We were asked many times about it while on vacation this month.

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: skyking

Originally posted by: Locut0s
Well I live in Vancouver Canada so I guess my accent would be considered west coast. For those in the US it would be north western, think Seattle.

But of course no one can really recognize their own accent like those outside can. I'm not aware of what would define the north wester/pacific accent?

That would be our accent too, and the people in the UK can detect it quite readily
We were asked many times about it while on vacation this month.

Probably because you don't sound like the dumb southern hick they have come to expect Yipee for living in the "cultured" north west

 

[xSauronx]

From the south, live in the south, sound like Im from up north a bit. *Shrug* i hate the southern accent, though, and slip into it every now and again, mostly if Im talking to someone with a strong southern accent

 

[Kirby]

Lived in Alabama my whole life....so yeah....

 

[Miklebud]

I'm from MA, but don't have a Boston accent. I don't know how I'd describe it, other than 'normal'/'TV-news caster-ish".

 

[FoBoT]

i change it up to keep people guessing, a little country/redneck, a little southern (picked up from my wife and friends from when i was in the navy) but mostly TV style vanilla american english

 

[lxskllr]

From MD. I think I have a slight southern accent.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Kiwi :thumbsup:

 

[SP33Demon]

American.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Southern.

This thread could use a poll.

 

[BW86]

Long Island

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

Mildly southern. Funny thing is, when I speak Japanese, I have a southern Japanese accent (according to my fiancee's parents).

 

[nageov3t]

I've got the generic west coast accent from growing up in Portland, OR, but the Jersey slips through sometimes when I say stuff like cawfee.

 

[Circlenaut]

Originally posted by: Miklebud
I'm from MA, but don't have a Boston accent. I don't know how I'd describe it, other than 'normal'/'TV-news caster-ish".

Likewise

 

[zebano]

Light Minnesota accent, elongated Os.

 

[Triumph]

Slight Pittsburghese. Not a yinzer, but its there.

 

[sdifox]

Really fucked up accent...

 

[Barfo]

Latino

 

[edro]

I've been in central Ohio my whole life, yet I have a southern twang.