What Kind of Accent Do You Have?

Originally Posted by SaveTheKitties

Mine is a Canadian Accent especially when I say out and about

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You mean "oot" and "aboot" ? Interestingly enough I understand some sections of West Virginia have a similar accent! I once had a manager from there who would pronounce out and about like that. It was so odd it always gave me pause.

I grew up on the west coast of the US, so I guess my accent is whatever you call how newscasters tend to talk here. However, when I go back to Hawaii to visit my family I start to pick up the lilt of a Hawaii-style pidgin accent.

Originally Posted by RoseHawke

You mean "oot" and "aboot"

? Interestingly enough I understand some sections of West Virginia have a similar accent! I once had a manager from there who would pronounce out and about like that. It was so odd it always gave me pause.

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I have an aunt from WV who has that 'oot' thing happening.

Chalk me up as another Northern Jersey, close to the city, thing going on.

Wow, I didn't realize how many members are near me in the Philly/NJ/NY area. Nice to know I'm not alone. haha

Mine is as Southern as it gets, y'all! I was born and raised on the GA/SC line, spent some time in LA and FL, and now I live in NC.

I'm Australian, living in Canada. Every one says they just love my accent

I guess I have a typical mid Atlantic accent. Also from LANCaster (emphasis on the first syllable, not LanCASter as tourists say). But when I speak Spanish, I have a Puerto Rican accent, because I work with so many Puerto Rican students!

Originally Posted by bren.1

I guess I have a typical mid Atlantic accent. Also from LANCaster (emphasis on the first syllable, not LanCASter as tourists say). But when I speak Spanish, I have a Puerto Rican accent, because I work with so many Puerto Rican students!

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I'm from the Lebanon/Lancaster area too. I can always tell when someone didn't grow up in the area.

I can hide my south-side Chicago accent very well (yous guys from there know what I'm talking about......da Bears and da Bulls) unless I've been drinking too much or I'm with my family. Then it comes out in earnest.

I can pass a Texas drawl if I have to - lived there for a few years and had to hide my northern accent.

My favorite accent is northern mid-west (Minnesota, northern Wisconsin and do-yooper area (upper peninsula of Michigan).

Originally Posted by rosiemac

I can tell a southern american accent!

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I had the pleasure of working with a team of people from Florida, Tennessee, Texas, Kentucky and South Carolina. Being from Chicago, I thought all southern accents were the same until I met these folks. Believe me when I tell you that every part of the country has a slightly different accent. With my Chicago accent and another member's (oot and aboot) Toronto accent, we made a fine team!!

Hey, y'all! I'm a country girl! I've got a true Southern accent! I use all the redneck words that Jeff Foxworthy jokes about . Everybody tells me that Barbara Mandrell's song "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool" is about me - it's my life's theme . I'm even spending this weekend rodeoing. Ahh...a weekend with a bunch of cowboys - now that's living! Right girls?

Well I have a typical Aussie accent.

I have the crappy south western PA accent. I'm an English major too, so you would think I would know better.
Examples:
Yins instead of You Plural.
Warsh instead of Wash.
And of course the typical slurring together of words.
Ex. Whatchaupto? and Comere.

People from NC ask me where I am originally from because I don't sound as southern as most, but when I speak to friends from up north or to the west, they say I have a southern accent. Guess I have an American accent.

I have a 'New Zild' accent - it's awful!

Originally Posted by ugaimes

FL is a toughie Katherine. A lot of native Floridians that I've met (much of my family included) do not have any real kind of discernable accent...I guess b/c Florida is such a melting pot of people from all parts of the country?

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I grew up in Florida, spent 5 years in Upstate NY and now live in Chicago so my accent is all over the place!

I do have some southern-ism's though: sometimes there's just no substitute for y'all!

I have a terrible Israeli accent. I think. It's such a mess really. Been taught at school by American and Australian teachers. Then at university had to take a full year of "British pronounciation" ...

Most Israelis can't even hear the correct pronounciation in English - can't tell the difference between "ship" and "sheep" for example, or "full" and 'fool" (is there one?). Which is also why Israelis have terrible spelling mistakes in English. The pronouciation course taught me to "hear" the difference between the different sounds, but I probably mix them up all the time when I try to talk. Fortunately most of my communications with English speakers are in writing

English. Though I can also do a good Yorkshire when necessary!

I have a Sesefrican accent! (That's a English South African accent -for all those that haven't come across a south african before )

When I was living in the UK I was mistaken as a Kiwi, an Aussie and even a couple of times as an American.
When I spoke Afrikaans (my second language) I would be mistaken as Dutch, Flemish and even Eastern European.

Maybe I should get recruited by MI6

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I don't think I have much of an accent, certainly not compared to people who live in the north of the UK or stereotypical Londoners! Just sound English I suppose (but without plums in the mouth!)