Your Accent

How would you define your accent when speaking your first language? Has anyone considered it particularly noticeable?

I have a standard Midland American accent with some West Coast influence but I'm having a large amount of people notice English or French elements which is baffling to me, but considering I live in the South perhaps they're just getting their accents mixed up. I did some theater and broadcasting in high school and college which trained me to avoid anything overly regional developing.

I used to have the most major Southern accent ever.

According to my dad, our accent is really specific to the area of TN that I'm originally from. I worked really hard to get rid of it in high school though b/c I got made fun of over it often.

I didn't really think I had one anymore, but since I've moved to NYC it's always really obvious that I'm not a native when I talk.

It comes and goes. It gets more pronounced when I'm drunk tho xD

I have what I consider to be a generic English accent, though not RP/BBC. I live in the middle of the country and so I have random features from different accents, so it's sort of hybrid in a way. As examples, I mostly (but sometimes switch!) use the short "a" sound (think jam) in words like grass and bath which is very much a northern feature. But then I also use the glottal stop and drop the t at the end of words like "what" and "not" which is a southern Estuary English London accent feature - think David Tennant's Doctor Who. People have a great deal of difficulty in placing what part of the country I'm from, which is amusing to me :shobon:

It's Australian but not ocka, don't know how else to explain it.

My accent is pretty Glaswegian-lite, if you can dare to imagine such a thing. Not nearly as nasally and rough sounding as a true Glaswegian accent, since I was raised to speak proper.

Standard Western American, I'd say.

I have a pretty distinct South Wales accent, though it's nowhere near as thick as what you'd find if you were to go deep into the valleys, where I guarantee most people would struggle to understand a word of it.

I would say it sounds more like a prolonged belch than an accent.

Just u stundurd Nuw Zuulund uc:bou::bou::bou::bou:.

UDUT: Huhuhu, fultur.

I have a very slight Vermont accent. the Vermont accent is pretty much dead though. I think once my grandfather generation dies, it'll be basically gone.

Can't really talk about Polish accents, since the language is really monolithic, but my English accent can be generally described as "American". I was taught early by New Yorkers, and then I had some more standard training during my studies, and then I did a lot of research on Southern accents, so that influenced me as well. A friend of mine that spent most of her life in the US said I sound Canadian :exdee:

I sound like a nerd.

Obviously, I don't have an accent. :cool:

Geordie with an Aussie twang, but people often think I sound Romanian or South African.

This, according to Shorty.

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Originally Posted by Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World

Obviously, I don't have an accent. :cool:

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Always amuses me when Americans say this. You have a filthy yank accent the lot of you! Never forget your linguistic inferiority to the motherland!

I have a pretty neutral accent

My 'accent' has been compared to Africans, Asians, Sylvester Stallone, and Dusty Rhodes by multiple sources.

I didn't even know I had an accent!

I sound pretty boring. Midwestern with a trace of a Chicago accent. I don't sound like the Blues Brothers or anything, but apparently you can hear a bit of it when I speak. Just go to my YouTube channel and find a video with me talking in it to hear what I sound like or go to one of my Five Nights at Freddy's Let's Plays on here.

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Originally Posted by Psychotic

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Originally Posted by Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World

Obviously, I don't have an accent. :cool:

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Always amuses me when Americans say this. You have a filthy yank accent the lot of you! Never forget your linguistic inferiority to the motherland!

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Silly Brits, thinking they really gave anything to the language. You know, other than words.

I have some kind of an accent. Though my fiance can understand me :)

My English is very American and as far as I know I don't have any particular accent beyond that.

On the other hand I've been told my German is very distinctly Austrian which is weird because it feels like the most natural thing in the world to talk like this >_>

Here's a Vermont accent. The old man is Fred Tuttle he lived and was a farmer in the same town as my Father when I was growing up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MwICs8gIh4

Some sort of weird pan-Atlantic accent, people can tell I've spent time in the US, but I'm pretty clearly Bong nonetheless. I'm from basically the same place as Pauw, but with a lot of Norn Iron as well, which throws another baseball bat into the works.

My real accent is strange and can never be pin-pointed. It's like a cross between North Carolina, Jersey, Nasal Congestion and News Reporter.

At some point during my childhood I was full on Florida accent and I think that can be attributed to some of the older members of my family's accents rubbing off on me. I pick up accents really quickly especially Midwestern, Californian and Southern accents. When I hang around certain people I start to talk like them. Gift but mostly a curse, halp!

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Originally Posted by Sephex

I sound pretty boring. Midwestern with a trace of a Chicago accent. I don't sound like the Blues Brothers or anything, but apparently you can hear a bit of it when I speak.

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Same here, but mine's more nasal.

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Originally Posted by Colonel Angus

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Originally Posted by Sephex

I sound pretty boring. Midwestern with a trace of a Chicago accent. I don't sound like the Blues Brothers or anything, but apparently you can hear a bit of it when I speak.

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Same here, but mine's more nasal.

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"[name] is being a real jeerkoaff today. Dude tried to steal my sasage!"

Standard Western American. I think there is a slight Montana twang (different from the Southern twang) when I get loud.

I used to use a lot of Pacific Northwest-isms, as well as weird pronunciations from way up there in Puget Sound Land, but I trained myself out of a lot of those when I moved away as a kid and people started making fun of me. xD You never really realize you have an accent until you move away and people point it out to you.

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Originally Posted by Kalevala

This, according to Shorty.

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This exactly. You're an Irish Canadian Pikey Warlock.

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Originally Posted by Pike

I used to use a lot of Pacific Northwest-isms, as well as weird pronunciations from way up there in Puget Sound Land, but I trained myself out of a lot of those when I moved away as a kid and people started making fun of me. xD You never really realize you have an accent until you move away and people point it out to you.

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Puget Sounders make a hard A for the wrong words like "bag". It turns into "bayeguh," and it is horrible.

Norn Irish does the same so uh I think you're the horrible one.

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Originally Posted by Mister Adequate

Norn Irish does the same so uh I think you're the horrible one.

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They aren't Norn Irish, they are American Seattle-ites, which is why it is wrong.

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Originally Posted by Shorty

Puget Sounders make a hard A for the wrong words like "bag". It turns into "bayeguh," and it is horrible.

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Yeah "bayg" is one of the (many) things people made fun of me for and that I had to train myself out of. xD

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Originally Posted by Pike

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Originally Posted by Shorty

Puget Sounders make a hard A for the wrong words like "bag". It turns into "bayeguh," and it is horrible.

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Yeah "bayg" is one of the (many) things people made fun of me for and that I had to train myself out of. xD

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Sorry, I hope I didn't make you feel bayd xD :heart: all in good fun

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Originally Posted by Shorty

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Originally Posted by Mister Adequate

Norn Irish does the same so uh I think you're the horrible one.

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They aren't Norn Irish, they are American Seattle-ites, which is why it is wrong.

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It's the exact same sound so if it's wrong for Seattle to do it, it's wrong for Belfast to do it. :colbert:

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Originally Posted by Mister Adequate

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Originally Posted by Shorty

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Originally Posted by Mister Adequate

Norn Irish does the same so uh I think you're the horrible one.

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They aren't Norn Irish, they are American Seattle-ites, which is why it is wrong.

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It's the exact same sound so if it's wrong for Seattle to do it, it's wrong for Belfast to do it. :colbert:

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okay, it's wrong for all of you

Having grown up in Washington, this whole 'bayg' thing is ridiculous. I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist and you guys are just making it up.

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Originally Posted by Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World

Having grown up in Washington, this whole 'bayg' thing is ridiculous. I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist and you guys are just making it up.

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You're one of them! :argh:

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Originally Posted by Shorty

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Originally Posted by Mister Adequate

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Originally Posted by Shorty

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Originally Posted by Mister Adequate

Norn Irish does the same so uh I think you're the horrible one.

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They aren't Norn Irish, they are American Seattle-ites, which is why it is wrong.

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It's the exact same sound so if it's wrong for Seattle to do it, it's wrong for Belfast to do it. :colbert:

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okay, it's wrong for all of you

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wow that's just...

wow :cry:

And damn proud of it.

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Originally Posted by Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World

Having grown up in Washington, this whole 'bayg' thing is ridiculous. I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist and you guys are just making it up.

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Where in Washington? I was a bit north of Seattle and everyone I know totally said it.

We also had (have?) a habit of dropping syllables out of words. Crayon -> Cran, Mayonnaise -> Man-aze, Caramel -> Car-mel. Actually I still say all those words like that and haters can get out :colbert:

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Originally Posted by Pike

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Originally Posted by Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World

Having grown up in Washington, this whole 'bayg' thing is ridiculous. I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist and you guys are just making it up.

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Where in Washington? I was a bit north of Seattle and everyone I know totally said it.

We also had (have?) a habit of dropping syllables out of words. Crayon -> Cran, Mayonnaise -> Man-aze, Caramel -> Car-mel. Actually I still say all those words like that and haters can get out :colbert:

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Aahhahaha these are all the same for Utah

I have been persecuted for saying "carmel" instead of "car-a-mel"

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Originally Posted by Pike

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Originally Posted by Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World

Having grown up in Washington, this whole 'bayg' thing is ridiculous. I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist and you guys are just making it up.

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Where in Washington? I was a bit north of Seattle and everyone I know totally said it.

We also had (have?) a habit of dropping syllables out of words. Crayon -> Cran, Mayonnaise -> Man-aze, Caramel -> Car-mel. Actually I still say all those words like that and haters can get out :colbert:

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I actually lived down south in Vancouver. So, practically P-Town. And the others you mention we definitely do, although caramel kind is a give and take. But I still don't think I have ever heard 'bayg', and I've been all over Washington and Oregon.

I have the very sexy and seductive mixed accents of Dutch German and West Coast Canadian.

I thought everyone pronounces it manaze & carmel.

I've got some relatives who say ''warsh'' instead of ''wash''. my grandmother also says ''sangwich'' instead of sandwich & ''haych'' instead of ''aych''.

My accent is something like Rick Grimes in the Walking Dead, but with a little more southern twang. That's really the only way to describe it lol

I definitely sound Northern English but not scallyish. I think I speak quite eloquently only I have a tendency to mumble when I'm nervous, drunk or both.

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Originally Posted by Dark_Valentine

My accent is something like Rick Grimes in the Walking Dead, but with a little more southern twang. That's really the only way to describe it lol

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I don't really have much of an accent. Maybe barely Midwest if anything.

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Originally Posted by starlet

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Originally Posted by Dark_Valentine

My accent is something like Rick Grimes in the Walking Dead, but with a little more southern twang. That's really the only way to describe it lol

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I don't really have much of an accent. Maybe barely Midwest if anything.

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Yes! I do say Carl like that sadly rofl

I'm Australian but my accent doesn't sound like it, I just sound really.....high pitched and lame.

My accent's pretty much RP (i.e. posh). That's mostly to do with my education. I went to a private primary school, and a pretty middle-class grammar school at secondary level. My friends never cease to make fun of me for that. :p