Do you guys have an accent?- Page 2

[zepka102]

Posted: 5/19/05 at 9:13pm

ok, so we talk a little nasally... i dont know... hard to tell myself what i say thats different... BUT, they DO tell tv reporters to talk like they have my accent... i was told dan rather does atleast...

[Mythus]

Posted: 5/19/05 at 9:18pm

I've got a Gloucester accent, which is kind of similar to a North Shore accent but worse in some ways.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 5/19/05 at 9:29pm

I dropped my Jersey accent 20 years ago, when I left for college in New England. I have lived in Manhattan for 12 years, but I wouldn't say that I have a New York accent. If I had to characterize my accent, I would say "Northeastern".

[midnghtdolphin]

Posted: 5/19/05 at 9:31pm

i'm accentless. pa... don't really have an accent.

[gretchenrose]

Posted: 5/19/05 at 9:53pm

No accent here...but since I'm from "NorCal," people LOVE to make fun of how we say "hella"...

[Dollypop]

Posted: 5/19/05 at 9:53pm

Ladies and Gentlemen:

EVERYONE has an accent!!!!!!

It depends on the region where you live and how long you've leived there. I was born and raised in New York--first in Brooklyn and then on Long Island. I have some sort of New York accent, but not as defined as others. Perhaps all these years of teaching Shakespeare and acting in various productions has given me better diction than most, but I can still hear my New York roots when I speak.

As many of you know, I travel a great deal and when I'm in Europe, many people think I have a London accent--not a British accent or a cockney accent, but a LONDON accent. Again, I think it's the Shakespeare in me.

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 5/19/05 at 10:06pm

I get teased quite abit in CT because they pronounce AUNT as "auhnt" The rest of the country says "ant". Also here they say grinder for a hero sanwich, tonic for soda, and bulky roll for hard roll. When I first came here in 1980, I played Aunt Eller in Oklahoma. The called me AUHNT ELLER.

[Aigoo]

Posted: 5/19/05 at 10:10pm

Everyone does have an accent. It might not be as obvious as Brookyln, Jersey, "Chicago-an", or Canadian, but it's still present. Usually, when you talk to a person from a different region, they'll point it out.

For example, it's not really an accent, but I've noticed people from the Midwest tend to say "like" a lot more often than people from the other regions of America.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 5/19/05 at 10:12pm

I was born in Kansas and have a little Bus Stop accent.

[ashley0139]

Posted: 5/19/05 at 10:17pm

I was born in NY but moved when I was six. But my mom has a really thick New York accent (she grew up on Long Island). Sometimes when I talk it slips out. I've been told I said something in a NY accent before. It happens more when I am around my family from NY.

[ConvinceMe2]

Posted: 5/19/05 at 11:25pm

Dolly, I have no idea what a "London accent" is. London has so many accents. They, virtually, vary by neighborhood. There is still a stigma associated with certain accents; but I've never understood why? To me, it has everything to do with grammar, and nothing to do with dialect/accent. The only accent that somebody may consider "London", would be what is called "estuary", which is a slightly more posh-sounding East London accent. It's the most accepted as "normal" speech these days.

Edit: chaged the spelling of neighborhood from the English spelling!

Updated On: 5/19/05 at 11:25 PM

[IMsooHyprToday]

Posted: 5/19/05 at 11:32pm

i have a california accent (which is how they usually talk on TV...)

but i say "milk" funny.... does that count?

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 5/19/05 at 11:44pm

Dol, you have an accent or should I say ahkcent too. At least I admit my accent, why is it my siblings that all think they're accentless?

[cabarethed]

Posted: 5/19/05 at 11:57pm

Updated On: 9/14/05 at 11:57 PM

[vbplayer]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 12:12am

Aigoo, are you a Chicagoan?

[andyf]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 1:38am

I say "milk" with an "e," too.

I'm from New Jersey, so I guess that's my accent. I really don't think it's that bad until people start speaking in Standard English and then I get really self-conscious about everything. But, yeah...I don't think my accent is strong at all.

[bythesword84]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 2:57am

andyf, I've never noticed your accent at all.

On the other hand oddly enough bwaysinger and my friend from oregon are from totally different areas of the country and have the same accent, which is weird to me.

I don't think my accent is particularly potent although when I went to Manchester last summer my friend's family told me that my accent was "harsher" than my mothers. Yet, our only difference is that she was born in a different LI town than I was. And, I have a friend who swears anyone would be able to tell I was from New York by the way I say "horrible" and many other words. I think she's right because anywhere I've been the minute I say something people say "Oh are you from New York?"

[paradox_error]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 6:43am

I certainly do, though I don't know what it is anymore...

Born and raised in Australia, when I was 15 I lived in New Zealand, and came backto Aus with a thick New Zealand accent, after a while I regained much of my accent, though I was often asked if I was from another country...

Now I'm living in Poland, and I am certain my accent has evolved again, probably a little English/Polish sounding.

So I sound like I have a mix of Australia/New Zealand/English/Polish accents...

[Joshua488]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 7:15am

I'm from Connecticut, so I have your standard American accent.

Although, from living with my niece from North Carolina for over a year, sometimes I can blurt out a "y'all" here and there and some other Southern words and phrases.

[KelRel]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 7:54am

I am from Kentucky, but I do not have the southern hick accent that is stereotypical for this area. I had it as a kid and learned to drop it. I have more of a northern Ohio/Midwest accent. If I get really tired and sleep deprivation kicks in I sometimes slip back into the southern accent. It annoys me to death but my husband thinks its cute and kind of southern belle-ish (grr)

[LittleFish8386]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 9:58am

I am sure the Long Island slips out of me occasionally, but I am working super hard on my non-regional diction.

[OnTheAisle]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 10:03am

somehow, I blessedly avoided the South Jersey/Philadelphia accent - probably cause I was surrounded by family from Massachusetts... I don't think I have any discernible accent (*sob*) but I can pick them up quickly, which usually gets me in big trouble the minute I cross the Mason-Dixon line!

[Elphaba]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 10:23am

do most Manhattanites pronounce "mirror" as mirra?
everytime my partner says that word I laugh.....

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 10:45am

Okay, as proven above I do have an accent. But, if you watch California news, that's how I talk. I can do some other accents, like Proper British and Cockney British, a itty bit of Irish, and a Southern accent. (I have no idea what kind it is though)

[LittleFish8386]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 10:50am

I do a mean Austrailian accent.