Accents

[Shauna]

I speak the Queen's English.

[Night Fury]

Howay man....

[escobert]

If you live near Toronto, you pronounce it 'Torono'.

Or if you live in Vermont as well!


I speak with a New England accent but that doesn't mean I sound like a stupid masshole. I guess you could say we do sound a bit like Bostonian's and such but much closer to neutral than them.

[Iceglow]

I have a typically British accent.

No, you don't. London and Britain are not the same thing. I have a generic British accent, and you don't sound a smurfing lick like me you common pigherder. No-one on TV sounds like you. Have you never noticed that?

I know a few people will claim I sound cockney

Not even that. You are a mixture of cockney and Estuary English. Either way, if someone heard you talk they'd know exactly what part of the country you were from. I've heard your posh voice and you still say words like "with" as "wiv" and "now" as "naaah", and spray that liberally with glottal stops.

The irony of no smurfer even in my own area not knowing where my accent is from. To the point of utter disbelief when I actually say I'm a local.


With being pronounced as "wiv" as you put it is more than likely a problem resulting in my shall we say, less than organized facial surgery.

[Inferno]

I speak with a french canadian accent, so pretty much everything I say in english sounds weird. People here struggle when saying "the", you know with the tongue... they say "de"

[fire_of_avalon]

Oh hey, people in this thread, collect colloquialisms. No, really I do. I have a whole list of things people say and mostly it's things people around here say.

So give me some.

[DownDiagonalLeftA]

From New York and tawk like it.

My boss has a THICK Albanian accent, its hilarious when customers joke about it to me. Sometimes on the phone I have to pretend like I can't hear him just to get him to repeat what he's saying because I can't understand it.

In particular, the phrase I make fun of most by him, when he sees me doing something right, he says "there you go" but it sounds like he's saying "ergo".

[Rebellious Eagle]

Utahns don't pronounce t's. Or enunciate at all, rilly.

We New Jerseyans don't pronounce our T's, either. It's Tren'on, not Trenton. Also my dad is from Philadelphia so I picked up a few things from him, such as pronouncing water like "worter".

[Unbreakable Will]

Oh hey, people in this thread, collect colloquialisms. No, really I do. I have a whole list of things people say and mostly it's things people around here say.

So give me some.

I do tend to sound like many cultures these days, I get odd stares because I say bollocks quite a bit on top of other things said around the site.

[Loony BoB]

I have a New Zealand accent. Despite living in Scotland for ten years, I can't do a Scottish accent for the life of me. I have picked up on a few phrases, though. As for simple words like 'Aye', I was already saying them in NZ, so that doesn't count.

There are too many phrases over here to even attempt to list them. Same for NZ, really. I wouldn't know where to begin, and I know that there are a lot of sayings that are new in NZ that I don't know personally because I wasn't around when they became popular (eg. nek minit).

[Aulayna]

Aw'right meight, yeah, 'ows it goin'? 'ere, you 'ear about ol' Bob daaaaan in the garage - he's only gone an' bloody done 'is knee in again! Muppet.

[Loony BoB]

Are we also talking favourite accents in here? If so: My favourite accents are 'sing-song' accents like Irish (my favourite), Geordie, Southern (as in Southern USA). Some other Americans have a big of a sing-song to their accent too, which I really like. Beyond that, I also love the Jamaican accent and the Kent accent (near London, not to be confused with Kent's Australian accent ). Some Brits may chastise me for this, but I also like girls with Scouse accents a little... not as much as Kent or Geordie, though. And Yorkshire is often kinda funny.

My least liked accent is, sadly, Indian. I used to love it when I was younger but erk, it's grating after being around so many of them on the bus now. It doesn't flow in any way whatsoever. I liken it to someone getting a stick and dragging it along metal bars. Di-di-di-di-di-di-di-di-di-di. Every syllable is so hard. I'm assuming it's a culture thing for Indians to consider it perfectly okay to sit next to someone on the bus, take out their phone and talk really loudly without stopping (seriously, is the person at the other end saying anything? o_o)... for an hour. I don't like that kind of culture thing. I know some much softer spoken Indian people, too, but the frequency of the more obnoxiously loud phonecallers on my bus is insaaaane.

[Sephex]

CHICAGA.

Actually, only a very thin trace of it, according to those who have heard my voice (and who don't live near the Chicagoland area).

[Pumpkin]

I imagine I have at least a mild Southern accent. Apparently I like to do lots of voices and impersonations, and don't really notice when I do them.

Apparently not as thick as people from other areas hope for when I visit them and they know where I'm from.

He really barely has a southern accent. I can't hear it unless I'm trying to hear it.

I have a mild Canadian accent. It comes out mostly in my 'o's, like in the word no. It comes out the most when I say Nova Scotia. When I speak french, my accent is very much the Canadian French accent, but iI was taught to speak with the France French accent if I choose to.

[noxious.sunshine]

This is gonna sound -really- bad... But I really can't deal with talking to customer support over the phone when it's based over in India and the person's name is "Bob" and he sounds like Apoo from the Quickie Mart. I have no patience for it.

I swear I'm not racist. I dated an Indian dude one time.

I really can't think of any sayings me or anyone else used to say other than "I used ta could", which was something -I- always said. I've heard/read several Georgians say things like "Any Southern woman worth her salt" (namely Paula Deen & Trisha Yearwood. Eva Longoria has it somewhere in her cook book, too, but she's from Tejas).

I will say, I'm not too fond of Puerto Rican Spanish accents (how they say their R's like "L"s ... Like instead of saying "Martar" (to kill), they say "Maltal"). No offense to anyone. I also can never get used to the lispy Spanish the Spaniards speak, even though it's the Spanish from which all Spanish originates.