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    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.



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    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

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    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

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

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    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.

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    Standard Western American, I'd say.

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    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.


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

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    Pretty Midwest non-accent I'd say. Sometimes I get a bit of a Southern accent going, as a lot of people from KC have Southern accents (don't ask me how) and you sort of pick it up. Some of my words and phrases are straight up Queens, NY accent (thanks to growing up around a stepfather who was born and raised there).

    But mostly I don't have much of an accent, nah.
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    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.

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    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

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    I sound like a nerd.

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    Obviously, I don't have an accent.

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