Your Accent

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 1:23am

I have been thinking a lot about Accents lately.

I am from California but I have a Canadian/Southern/New York Accent.

I say ruf instead of roof, and crick instead of creek. I also say ya a lot with a very thick Canadian Accent.

But, When I talk I don't hear an accent.

What accent do you have (or have been told you have, because normally you cant hear your own accent)?

[TheatreDiva612]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 1:26am

Southern Belle/Debutante accent, but definitely not "twangy" or "hillbilly". But sometimes I sound like a valley girl when I get excited.

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 1:36am

Let's see...I have a very basic Ameircan accent, but I pronounce "caramel" and "orange" with an East Coast accent, so they sound like "kerramel" and "ahrange".

[mateo]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 1:38am

i have been told my voice is very southern california.. but I dont know what that sounds like.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 1:38am

neddyfrank, have you lived in all those places? Saying a few words here and there doesn't mean that you have THE accent, and the people that do have THE accent will probably be insulted that you think something as minor saying "eh" means you have a Canadian accent.

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 1:39am

I think that californians talk very singy songy, and they end the last word of every sentence up...if that makes sense.

Southern Californian is for a boy, a surfer voice, for a girl, a valley girl

Edit: No I have not lived in Canada. All of my mothers family is from Oklahoma and they have VERY thick southern accents and that is where I picked it up from. All of my fathers family is from the East Coast and have VERY strong accents, which is where I picked that up from. Regarding Canada, when I was little we would spend the summer up there (which is almoust 3 months out of every year) and I picked up little bits of their dialect. I was just using those words as an example. Updated On: 10/2/06 at 01:39 AM

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 1:42am

Hunter Bell has the *cutest* accent of them all.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 1:58am

I'm originally from Central America and emigrated to the U.S. when I was 8. Thus, I spoke with a thick Spanish accent for the first couple of years. Today, I have what is considered a "standard American" accent.

Updated On: 10/2/06 at 01:58 AM

[BroadwayRandy0711]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 2:40am

I am a Texan and have a slight southern accent, I have learned how to hide it well. I do say "Y'all", and pronounce words more drawn out.

[nztheatreluva]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 4:13am

I have a kiwi(New Zealand) accent, except when I was in the States I occassionally got mistaken for an Australian and sometimes I get asked if I'm actually American by other New Zealanders. I'm not entirely sure why

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 6:56am

I have a more central Canadian accent. It's more toned down from what the stereotypical (east coast/priaries) accent is. It does come out in some words though, like "Oh, I know."

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 8:07am

I have a southern accent . . . but not Clay Aiken "southern"

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 8:21am

I have a slight southern accent. It used to be a little thicker. My accent was never as thick as those of my family. I think growing up, for some silly reason, I thought a southern accent made a person sound less intelligent. Now people can never quite place where I am from. I cannot get rid of "y'all." It won't happen. I do remember making myself stop using "ain't" when I was very young. And my best friend makes fun of the way I usually to say "umbrella." I guess I put the accent on the first syllable instead of the second. UMbrella. I have been working on that one. I don't want Miss Harvard giving me crap.

I do find that my accent is very adaptive to my environment. I never mean to, but I end up talking more like those around me. When I visit Tennessee or my family comes up, my accent gets much stronger again and takes a few days to get back to normal. But having lived between NJ and NY for the last year, when I talk to my mother on the phone she tells me to stop talking like a yankee. lol I spent a month working in Danville, KY last year. When I left that place I was talking like Loretta Lynn.

[Calvin]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 9:47am

I had a somewhat thick South Texas accent when I was a kid, but I have all but eradicated it. Some people can still pick up the Texan in my voice, but it's pretty subtle, and when I go back to Texas, people just think I'm one of those Yankees. My dad's from Philadelphia, so I've also picked up some of his wacky pronunciations, like "donkey." I did not, however, pick up his love of scrapple.

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 9:56am

I speak with a NY accent. Tawk Cowffe dowg and all that jazz.

[ashley0139]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 10:02am

I don't have an accent. I was born and lived in New York for 6 years, but was really raised in Atlanta. However, I have always refused to have any kind of southern accent (and I HATE the word "y'all"). I do say some words like New Yorkers (awl instead of all). I also say horrible like hahrrible. I don't even know what that is.

[Jyn326]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 10:03am

I have a southern accent. I 'lovingly' refer to it as sounding country whenever I get excited or tired. It comes out the most when I'm self-conscious about my accent (like when I'm up north).

I do say "ya'll" because 'you all' just doesn't sound right coming out of my mouth. But unlike actors who try to imitate southern accents, I don't throw in a "ya'll" in the middle of my sentences. I use it casually such as "how are ya'll doing?" It's not emphasized either as in "how YA'LL doin'?", it's very subtle. In my opinion, anyhow.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 10:06am

Mine's Southern Australian.

I have no idea why, since I was born and raised and have always lived in the US.

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 10:12am

Mine is very much International Gay Whiteboy. You know, that sort of...just...gay thing that some people, no matter WHERE they grew up, develop.

I spent the vast majority of my formative years in West Virginia, and I never had so much as a HINT of an accent. It was always very straightforward with very sharp consonants and proper vowel sounds, with the occasional extra emphasis on the strongest syllable, that sort of thing...(ex: "Reeeally, dear, I cannot POSSibly understand WHY you would EVer DO such a thing!")

It's not even really that remarkable until you hear the REST of my family speak, and then it becomes apparent that I am some sort of space alien.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 10:14am

I speak the language of love.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 10:24am

I thought it was seasons?

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 10:35am

When I was first in grade school, we had just moved from New York City to Kansas, and the kids there all thought I "talked funny." I guess I had a bit of a New York accent (for a five-year-old). My dad has one, so I'm sure that's where I picked it up.

It didn't take long for me to lose the accent entirely, though. I don't have much of an accent at all now. "Generic White Boy" is probably the best description... but every now and then, when I get either excited or drunk (!), people hear either a bit of a Kansas "twang" or a bit of the old "New York."

[Over_the_Moon]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 10:45am

I'm pretty bland when it comes to accents. Standard American for the most part. A little bit of Midwestern peeks out here and there because a lot of my friends and family have it.

[EverythingIsRENT]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 10:50am

I have a slight Jersey accent. Not "Coffee Talk" bad, but, it definetely comes out in certain words, like I say "ahrange" instead of "orange" and stuff

[Elphaba]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 11:02am

neddy, I totally disagree......I have never heard a Californian end any sentence on an up.......And just cause you say crick doesn't make you have a Southern accent....those are words dear, NOT accents.

Canadians tend to end sentences up, at least in Ontario from my experience.

I have always thought I had no accent, however friends tell me I sound midwestern (whatever that means).....

My partner is Manhattan through and through.....sometimes I ask him to say the word "mirror" just to get a chuckle.......I pronounce it "meer-er" he pronounces it "mi-ruh"