Your Accent- Page 4

[StageManager2]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 5:33pm

And what do you think I sound like, lildogs?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 6:19pm

I was born in Pennsylvania, raised in South Carolina, and live in Indiana.

I think I sound like a valley girl.

[Dancinqueen123]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 6:24pm

I was born in Michigan and I currently live in Chicago. I guess I have a pretty standard midwestern accent.

Once in a dance class, we had to read monologues(Don't ask why, I have no idea. Must have been something to the effect of showing more emotion on stage) and my dance teacher told me it sounded like I had a New England accent. Which is really wierd considering I have never been to either coast.

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 6:27pm

I guess I have a Long Island accent since I've lived here most of my life (lived in Queens when I was younger). According to that quiz, I'm 49% yankee.

[beuk-et-moi]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 6:29pm

I am Europudding, I have a Dutch mum (Spanish/Dutch ancestors), a German father (Polish, Pruisian ancestors).
I live in Antwerp Belgium, we speak German at home with a strong Dutch accent.
Belgium is devided in Flanders (where they speak Dutch) and Wallonia where French is the native language
For my countrymen i also have a far too Dutch prononsuation, and the Flanders people don't like the Dutch at all, most of them detest the Dutch, having a Dutch boyfriend doesn't help either

At least we can marry in both countries now so like the famous soccer player Johan Cruyff once said "every disadvantage has it's advantage"

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 7:35pm

When I visited Paris, someone asked me if I was Canadian. I'm originally from Maine, but don't have the thick downeast accent that a lot of people associate with the state ("Ayuh").

I don't pahk the cah in the gaRAHge. :) For one thing, I don't even HAVE a gaRAHge.

[Sondheim Geek]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 7:38pm

New York accent... it's pathetically bad, though I'm pathetically proud of it, especially now I'm out in LA. I was going to try to get rid of it, because it’d be easier to do voice over work… but to no avail.

[EmieMarie]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 7:41pm

is there such a thing as a northwest accent? or is that the only place in the US that doesn't have it's own disticnt accent
I have nada accent

[MissElphie]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 7:56pm

Canadian. I don't hear it, but apparently I say words like "shout" and "about" very strangely. I also say "eh" a lot.

[dirty rotten guy]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 8:11pm

Our English teacher told us one year that there is a specific accent that most people in CT have. I guess when we say certain words we leave out vowels out. Like I would say "Ornge' instead of "Orange" or "Choclate" instead of "Chocolate".

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 8:57pm

I've never lived outside of New York so I'd say New Yorker / the city / Long Island.

[aspen]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 9:12pm

These are so fun to read! I had no idea people actually said umBRELLa rather than UMbrella.

I have the closest to a neutral American dialect as you can get. Prob'ly cause I listened to a lot of books-on-tape as a kid *shrug*

But, I love mimicry (it all began with Elvis impersonations at age 3), so I'm constantly using different dialects to put emphases on whatever I'm saying. Sort of the way Robin Williams sometimes talks, but hopefully not quite so terrifying, lol.

[Blair]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 9:44pm

I don't really have an accent, but I live in Alabama - born and raised. The city I live in is an "engineering" town, so we constantly get families that move here from all around. There are not a lot of teenagers at my high school with southern accents.

That all changes when you go to the next town over, only about 10 minutes away. It's funny.

My grandmother, on the other hand, is SO southern that she says "Eh-ree" instead of "area". I have no idea where that comes from, but all the people that grew up around her do it. I've never heard anyone else from the south say it that way.

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 9:55pm

dirty rotten guy, i.... thought that's how all people talked. oh well i haven't traveled much so i haven't heard very many different ways of talking.

although untill i was about 7 i thought the yellow veggie that grew on a cob was called "con" because of my boston-born-and-raised grandother

[Zyla]

Posted: 10/3/06 at 12:02am

I'm really interested in accents; I liked reading this thread.

According to my parents, I "sound very Midwestern" (United States). Which means, to them, no accent at all, so I can't really give any examples. My parents are both Midwestern, but I was born in the Mid-Atlantic region and grew up in New England. I'm just relieved that I have, apparently, not picked up a Maine accent!

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 10/3/06 at 12:08am

I have a regular old American accent. But I wish I had a Cockney accent!

[flicker_]

Posted: 10/3/06 at 12:41am

I live in Southern California, so I pretty much have "no" accent. However, I often use New York, Dutch, and Jewish/Yiddish terms, picked up from my mother and grandma. For example: undeck the toffle- dutch thing for "clear the table."; oi vey, spiel, sod-ER instead of sod-A. idea-R instead of idea. I also throw in a few Italian interjections, which I get from my grandpa: Oh Dio (Oh God), Aiah! (ouch!)

[BrunetteBombshell]

Posted: 10/3/06 at 3:47am

I have what could be called a "Delawarean" accent. I sometimes say "wuter" instead of water and "ruff" instead of "roof".

[Alejandra925]

Posted: 10/3/06 at 11:54am

I was born in Kansas and lived there for years but mainly grew up in a small town in Eastern North Carolina. So I picked up a slight Southern accent. It comes out more at certain times than at others, like when I'm excited about something and not thinking so much about enunciating clearly, LOL.

[kelzama]

Posted: 10/3/06 at 12:22pm

Just about every American has an accent of some sort or another. You just need to live in a town that attracts tourists from all over to hear it.

I love listening to my grandmother's circa 1910-1940 Victrola records because the accents havn't been sanitized, as they are nowadays.

[absolutely fabulous]

Posted: 10/3/06 at 7:33pm

I'm from the east coast of Canada and apparently I do in fact have a Canadian accent despite my denial. I have noticed a lot more "ay's" coming out of me lately and no matter how much I try, the word "slippery" will never come out of my mouth. It will always be "slippy" with me. I've tried to say it the proper way but it just never happens.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/3/06 at 7:54pm

Lived my entire life in NY

Never had an accent. I now feel I have a void never having had one

[Liam]

Posted: 10/3/06 at 8:09pm

I say mElk not milk.

I say pEllow not pillow.

I can't say specificially.

and I say prmint not peranent

There is ALOTT of other words i can't say/say funny....

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/3/06 at 8:09pm

One thing I've noticed since I am now living in Florida (Tampa area), I have been called "hon", "honey", "Sweetie", "darlin'" and other assorted greetings on the phone and in person. I'm starting to get used to it, but it seems very foreign compared to my Puritan New England upbringing. :)
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[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 10/3/06 at 8:17pm

I was born and raised on Long Island by two Brooklyn born parents. I haven't lived there since 1975 and still have the accent!My mother has lived in California for 11 years and still talks like she is from Brooklyn. I have lived in CT for 26 years and still talk like a New Yorker.