Do you guys have an accent? — Page 2

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...

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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".

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

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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.

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

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!

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

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?

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Aigoo, are you a Chicagoan?

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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?"

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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.

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

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

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I do a mean Austrailian accent.