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Greetings all,

I was thinking today about the variety of accents and decided this would make an interesting topic to discuss what kind of accent we each have.

I'll start:

Being born in Liverpool (Non UK Residents, this is where The Beatles were born and speak this accent) , in the United Kingdom and living there for several years, I have a slight Liverpudlian (Scouse) 'twang'.

Here is the accent, courtesy of Harry Enfield:




(My accent is not as strong as that...)

However, after living in the City for 7 whole years, I had to move to the Midlands where I live to this day. I live just outside the city of Stoke-on-Trent, which thankfully, I did not acquire the accent from.

Overall, I have a Liverpudlian accent diluted with boring Midlands...

I was hoping to also let people outside the UK that there is more accents here than just the stereotypical Cockney-London accent, and the famed BBC British accent.



So, what kind of accents do you lot have?

Minnesotan.

Not entirely sure. I'm quickly pegged as having a English accent in Wales (though I'm Welsh, and there's many "English" accents"), but whenever I record and hear myself, I just sound depressed. No "Pip pip" just "meh".

"An organised massacre of the Mancunians"

I don't have an accent, you have an accent.

coolyo294 wrote:Minnesotan.

Like Huckleberry Finn? Oh wait...that's Missourian...I think

I'm not sure what name it has but its whatever accent is prevalent in the southern Alabama region...although I have been told I have the cool ability to do Australian and Scottish accents that my friends consider "dead on" on command...

Normal speaking voice with the clipped speech pattern of a Jersey accent.

Neutral Irish accent. Obviously Irish, but not identifiable with any particular region. Most people assume South Dublin.

Apparently before I started going to the school I go to I had a very strong bedfordian accent (which I sometimes revert to by accident) but these days I have borderline recieved pronunciation.

FYI recieved pronunciation is the archetypal british posh accent.

I speak like this sometimes.

NSFW for swearing like you're in fething southie, ya fething prick.

Neutral Chicago, though its less neutral when I'm talking to someone with the same, or similar, accent. There's also some Minnesotan in there from living there for 4 years, and a little English from living there, and some Spanish from actually trying to acquire it when learning the language.

I have what's known technically as the Inland Northern Accent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_Northern_American_English

Here's an example of a person with such an accent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpoKkAijqv8&feature=related

It's basically General American, only with a few vowel shifts, most famously the long and high a in words like Cat, which can sound like "Kee-at." Mine isn't as noticable, since my Father comes from further west, but I'm sure a non-local would detect it.

Chowderhead wrote:I speak like this sometimes.

NSFW for swearing like you're in fething southie, ya fething prick.

Spoiler:

The individual in your video sounds exactly like one of my former Drill Sergeants. We used to bet on how many times he'd say "f*ck" while explaining something to us.

Welsh accent, being welsh.

Sounds like this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkYAiKHnFoY

But mine is mellowed compared to those.

A New Orleans one...

New Orleans...where using "Th" to start any word is against the law....and saying any full word is frowned upon.

For example if I say " I'm going to that store to get those things"
It will sound like " I'm goin ta dat stor ta get dose tings".

Klingon

Howard A Treesong wrote:Welsh accent, being welsh.

Sounds like this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkYAiKHnFoY

But mine is mellowed compared to those.

I get so easily annoyed by a thick Welsh accent.

Living in Wales...

Jordan wrote:

Chowderhead wrote:I speak like this sometimes.

NSFW for swearing like you're in fething southie, ya fething prick.

Spoiler:

The individual in your video sounds exactly like one of my former Drill Sergeants. We used to bet on how many times he'd say "f*ck" while explaining something to us.

Don't fething bet. Last fething time I fething bet, I fething lost a fething gak ton of fething money. I could have fething got a fething cah with that fething money.

What was with the knife hands in the OP video?

I don't really have much of an accent I think, I'm fairly neutral overall, maybe a twinge of New Yorker/New Jersey in there every now and then, but its not really obvious apparently. I do pronounce certain (very specific) words oddly, you could say THAT is an accent, and thats a result of growing up with my dad who speaks English with a slight German/Hungarian accent. I know when I play the 'guess where my accent is from' game nobody has ever really got it right (on the first try). I've been accused of being Canadian, Australian (wtf? How did that happen?), Virginian, from the West Coast, and various European nationalities, so... yeah...

Chowderhead wrote:
Don't fething bet. Last fething time I fething bet, I fething lost a fething gak ton of fething money. I could have fething got a fething cah with that fething money.

Now I know, and knowing is half the battle, haha.

Chowderhead wrote:

Jordan wrote:

Chowderhead wrote:I speak like this sometimes.

NSFW for swearing like you're in fething southie, ya fething prick.

Spoiler:

The individual in your video sounds exactly like one of my former Drill Sergeants. We used to bet on how many times he'd say "f*ck" while explaining something to us.

Don't fething bet. Last fething time I fething bet, I fething lost a fething gak ton of fething money. I could have fething got a fething cah with that fething money.

Vary your vocabulary. Use Fath.

I like to pretend my accent is this strong




Very NSFW Angry Glasgow Accent


Truth be told most people don't think i'm from Glasgow.

I don't really have much of an accent, although I have to focus when saying the word "windmill" to prevent it coming out like "wind-meel".


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Medium of Death wrote:

Very NSFW Angry Glasgow Accent

Spoiler:

Surely they aren't speaking English.

I have an accent.

That's specific.

Imagine your stereotypical American. That is what I sound like.

My dad is 1st generation Irish. WHY COULDN'T I HAVE HIS ACCENT! GENES, WHY MUST YOU TORTURE ME?!

coolyo294 wrote:That's specific.

It's just an accent, because you can't tell what country I'm from but you know I have an accent somehow.

I sound English until I have a few pints and then I sound a lot like this fella.




My gramps used to drive him and his brother to school on the bus from St Just.

coolyo294 wrote:Minnesotan.

Diddo

A little Minnesota twang with some Fargo thrown in on the side.

Quite a bit of fargo thrown in on the side actually.

And I know what a "hot dish" is.

In all honesty though I don't know if us Canadians (with the obvious exception of Newfies and Quebecers) actually sound that much different from the US (with the obvious exception of southerners and New Yorkers).

I'm about as flatly American as you can sound, although my mother is native German so I guess I have some influences or whatever.