What Kind of Accent Do You Have?

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I'm a Midwesterner, born in MI, raised in KY.

I have a slight southern drawl, it's more noticeable when I'm talking with Northerners. The guy I went camping with this weekend is from Canada, lives in Chicago, and he has a major Canadian / city boy accent. He gets a total kick out of my Kentucky drawl! He says when I get mad or excited about stuff I sound like a total hick!
I do say y'all & dang a lot.
 
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Originally Posted by katspixiedust

What really gets me is when northerners pronounce Florida like "Flarida." It makes me want to scream. I don't think it would bother me so much if so many of them weren't so convinced that they were right. In reality, Florida comes from a Spanish word and you don't pronounce "o" in Spanish like an "a" in English!! AHHHHHHHHH!

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SORRY!! I do that!! But I completely understand. I'm from Lancaster, PA and no one except people who live here can pronounce it right!! It's not pronounced like Burt Lancaster's last name. We PA Dutch like to say "Lancester".
 
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Originally Posted by MissCharlotte

SORRY!! I do that!! But I completely understand. I'm from Lancaster, PA and no one except people who live here can pronounce it right!! It's not pronounced like Burt Lancaster's last name. We PA Dutch like to say "Lancester".
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Isn't that just so frustrating?! I'm ok with it as long as people admit that their accents affect their ability to pronounce it properly, it's when they say, "NO that's how you say it!" that I flip out!
My family has had many friends from PA that we would visit yearly when I was growing up and I know that I definitely pronounce Lancaster wrong!
 
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Originally Posted by CoolCat

Someone of you have you ever heard about the Mexican Accent?
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I have heard it Rigel
 
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I pronounce flordia like "flar rid a" as a joke only though. A lot of people from pittsburgh pronounce it "pix burg" which drives me absolutely nuts.

I would say I have a valley girl accent with a mountain (not southern) twang when you get me p'od.
 
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I really only have a slight southern accent. Mine is really only noticeable when I pronounce (i) or shorten words ending in (ing) to (in') for example: running = runnin', sleeping = sleepin', washing = washin'. The funny thing is, there are even variations among southern accents!
 
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Originally Posted by Kellyyfaber

The funny thing is, there are even variations among southern accents!
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You got that right. My favorite thing that guys with a south GA accent say is "caint" instead of can't. Drives me nuts in a good way!
 
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I am from Trenton, NJ and it seems as though we have our own type of accent here. lol I had never really noticed it until I moved down to Florida back in 94. I was 9 and all the kids asked me why I talked so weird. lol
 
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Jus' cain't get more suthen
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Actually it depends totally on the person I'm talking to. If I'm talking to a northerner, it will get REAL thick. At other times, if I'm in a pedantic mode it will tend towards more a textbook almost English sort of thingy wossname.

And yes, the accents can vary not only between regions of the South (Florida excluded) but between city and country. Some parts of Southern Alabama have what most of y'all would probably think of as the "definitive" Southern accent although to most of the rest of us it sounds rather fake; dropping a lot of endings, drawling out words and dropping r's so that "there" sounds like "theyah." Other areas will turn it into two syllables, but it would be more like "theyar" with the r pronounced.

BTW, I thought it was pronounced "Lanxter" sort of.
 
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I'm from (now say it with me) Wi-SCON-sin. It drives me nuts to hear people from out of state mispronounce it!! Sometimes people think I'm from Minnesota or the Dakota's. (think of the movie Fargo) Eh!!
Was back when during my honeymoon in the British Virgin Islands we picked up a couple of ladies hitchhiking and they thought I was from Germany!!

Its pretty easy to pick out where other people in the states live by the way they talk!!
 
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There are a number of accents across Canada as well... When I moved to Ontario from Alberta, people picked up that I wasn't from Ontario. Even in Ontario there are variations of the accent. I can always tell a Maritimes accent.
 
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I'm guilty of having a jersey accent, even though I really don't notice it except for when I say words like mall, walk, talk, call, etc. I don't think it's that noticeable but the British guys my friends and I met this weekend all thought I had the best accent. My friends were all from Central Jersey, whereas I'm from North Jersey and I think my accent might be influenced by being so close to NY.
 
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Originally Posted by GratefulBear629

I am from Trenton, NJ and it seems as though we have our own type of accent here. lol I had never really noticed it until I moved down to Florida back in 94. I was 9 and all the kids asked me why I talked so weird. lol
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I attended East Stroudsburg University in PA years ago and many students hop over the PA/NJ state line to attend there. One of my friends had a strong NJ accent. I was fun making her say "I walked down the hall to get coffee". Those words just have entire new sound with a Jersey accent.
 
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I have mostly a mid-western accent. Although it is slightly colored by a southern and northern accent both. My Mom's family is from around St. Louis but out in the hicks and have a kind of bizare southern-midwestern accent going on. My Dad's family is from South Missouri so I also get a little southern there. Then when I was a kid I had a speech thearapist from the north I'm think from around Boston or something so certain words I pounce the way he thought me.

All I can say for sure is that people around here that don't know me always ask where I'm from.
It makes me giggle because I was born and raised right here.
 
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