Your Accent- Page 5

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 10/3/06 at 9:35pm

"I say pEllow not pillow."
I have a friend who does that. It drives me crazy.

[jessica0414]

Posted: 10/4/06 at 12:33am

I definately have a Chicago accent (or should I say a Chicaaaaaaago accent?). I also have other random Chicago-isms, like measuring distance in time, not miles (because it's entirely possible for a drive that should only take five minutes to last for half an hour due to all the construction that's ALWAYS here).

[broadwaydestined]

Posted: 10/4/06 at 12:45am

I have the accent thats a step up from the rural alberta accent. I talk really weird, and i get made fun of. I'm like, canadian/british

GO CANADA

[DracoMalfoy]

Posted: 10/4/06 at 7:17am

I speak with an accent like your typical national news achorman.

However, due to the fact that I have hick parents I say things like "yonder" for "over there", "Howdy" for "hello", "holler" for "a small valley", and of course, "y'all" for "all of you"

I lived in California for a while so I say things like "dude" and "like" in the same constant context that a valley girl would.

I was in the military for a while so I say things like "roger that" and "hoo-rah!"

I used to hang out with a bunch of Canadians so I say "eh?"

I'm obsessed with being of Scottish decent so whenever I mention the name of something or scomone Scottish I do it with my best Sean Connery accent.

What's really wierd is that I have phrases from movies that I use all the time. When someone mentions someone who is dead, I always say (with the Sean Connery accent) "he's a dead as Julius Ceasar" (from the Untouchables) Another obscure one is when I look in the refridgerator and there is nothing to eat I say "nothin but hell-sh_t" (which Elliot's older brother in E.T. said)

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 10/4/06 at 9:53pm

I think I have an odd combination of New York/Southern accents.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 10/4/06 at 9:55pm

draco those are words and phrases, not an accent

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 10/4/06 at 9:58pm

I don't have a New York accent, but I'm a third-generation New Yorker. I have a fairly neutral voice with some random twists from different parts of the country. I pronounce some of my words with a Mississippi accent, some with a New York...just different quirks.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 10/4/06 at 10:00pm

Oh, and... 85% of the time, I can't say "specific."

[CJR]

Posted: 10/4/06 at 10:04pm

I can definitely hear my own accent. I try like hell to curb it, but when I get going, I cant help it.

I sound like I was born and raised in Queens... which I find amusing, considering I grew up in Lower Fairfield County.

My accent can be attributed to my grandfather, who was a photographer for the NY Daily News. He had a heavy NY accent from working in the city and spending all day around people who grew up in the city. (My grandparents, my parents and I all lived in the same house -- it was a big house, dont worry lol or we all would have killed each other hahaha)

[Izzybeth008]

Posted: 10/4/06 at 11:02pm

i have a VERY thick texan accent. for example: Instead of saying "barbed wire" I always end up saying "bobwIrrrre" my friends all make fun of my accent.

[DracoMalfoy]

Posted: 10/5/06 at 7:31am

"draco those are words and phrases, not an accent"- Elphaba

excuse the F out of me.

At least where I come from they teach children how to speak properly unlike the South, Brooklyn, Long Island, Rhode Island, Maine, and of course the most gutteral and ignorant-sounding accent of all, Boston.

[JLY's Jersey Gal]

Posted: 10/14/06 at 10:15pm

I have a New Jersey accent or as I would say a New Joisey accent, well that's how you pronounce it there. But with a southern slang because I now live down south. It sounds fuuny.

[paradox_error]

Posted: 10/15/06 at 12:08pm

It's a sign! I have a 50% Yankee accent, despite only ever living in Australia, New Zealand and Poland. I've never even been to the US!

That said, my accent depends on who I'm around. It's a strange mix of Aus and generic British, with some NZ in there. Around my family my accent goes very "bogan" (white-trash) Australian. Generally it's quite crisp and precise though, something quite uncommon in Aus.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 10/15/06 at 12:11pm

"of course the most gutteral and ignorant-sounding accent of all, Boston."

It's so true. That's the area I was born and raised, and never spoke with that accent - always hated it. Most of my family does, especially certain cousins - when I listen to them, I wonder if they realize how ignorant they sound. It's truly awful.

[wexy]

Posted: 10/15/06 at 12:39pm

Basic Brooklyn, though my professional phone voice givesno trace.
In a high school speech I said something like 'They kill the animals fuh duh fuh'

When I speak to my sister, I will regress.

[actor]

Posted: 10/15/06 at 11:16pm

I wish I had an Italian accent.

[Freckles1329]

Posted: 10/16/06 at 1:12am

I'm from Jersey, but I don't have the "jersey accent" whatever that is supposed to be. I say some words like I'm from New York City.

[Perfectly Marvelous]

Posted: 10/17/06 at 1:22am

I have a weird, psuedo New York accent. I think this is due to the fact that both my parents are from New York, NY is my second home and I spent a year on the North Shore of Long Island.

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 10/17/06 at 2:00am

I say Mary/marry/merry the same way. Same with Barry/berry/bury. I only recently learned that not everyone does.

[alterego]

Posted: 10/17/06 at 9:18am

I don't have an accent, I'm Australian - but you Americans here sure have one.

Rath, I somehow doubt you have a South Australian (Adelaide?) accent.

I've always wondered why Americans pronounce the flavour caramel as car-mel. Could someone explain this? What happened to the second syllable?

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 10/17/06 at 9:21am

I pronounce it caramel.

I thought Sydney was south. What do I know?

[alterego]

Posted: 10/17/06 at 9:25am

Sydney/Brisbane/Melbourne are considered Eastern Australia.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 10/17/06 at 9:26am

Okay. I have an Eastern Australian accent.