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My accent?

A full grown Flemish accent ofcourse! (Also known as the accent, that other dutch people can't understand. )

I have an odd accent. Having lived in Kent, Essex, Cambridgeshire and now Oxfordshire, it's all over the place....

Although really I think it could be described as 'Slightly posh with a twang of Bristolian and a little bit of Fenland'

"I say, you there, Get orf moi Laaaand!"

Well, I'm Home Counties, which means I think I'm neutral but come across quite posh. And very nasal. But that bits just me.

The OC-D

I was born in the Bronx, NYC and lived there until I was 24. So, a NY accent. Although it's a little muted after living in the midwest for a decade.

At home, East Texas & North Louisiana hybrid. They aren't the same.

At work, less drawl, but about the same.

Y'all shore do talk funny.

I normally speak with a swindon/BBC accent however when I spent time with my family in yorkshire I gain a yorkshire accent.

Fun fact: when stressed or angry I get more posh/bbc english sounding.

My accent? Let's just go with posh. That's what you get for having an English teacher as your grandmother...

Im from Michigan, we dont really have an accent. But everyone else says we do..... So I dunno

Flat irish... sound a bit northern to the brits I guess.

I grew up in an overspill town North of London.
Then moved to Leeds in the North for 5 years, and finally to the Midlands, since '03.

So, mostly a mild London accent, with lots of missing Ts and "in'" at the end.
"I'd be doin' whahhever I wanh"

A very slight Texas drawl, some people aren't convinced I'm actually from this state.

KingCracker wrote:Im from Michigan, we dont really have an accent. But everyone else says we do..... So I dunno

Yeah, you do. Assuming you're from somewhere south of Manistee-Tawas, you've got a very distinct Michigan accent that I really haven't heard elsewhere. North of there it starts to blend into a Wisconsin accent. Then for some reason Yoopers totally bucked the trend and came up with their own perversion of the language

I have a mostly North Midlands accent, bland American.

I've got a mostly neutral American accent. But, there's definitely a bit of a Chicago accent mixed in.

KingCracker wrote:Im from Michigan, we dont really have an accent. But everyone else says we do..... So I dunno

Yes, Michiganians have an accent. You probably drop your hard T's, and add something extra to your R's (making you sound a bit like a pirate). And, you have a bit of the nasal Chicago thrown in there.

My accent is mostly New England, with an occasional Southern twang thrown in, courtesy of growing up in Arkansas. I've figured out that it's the long vowel sounds like in "boots" and "tile" and bring out my Southern roots.

The local accent (Northamptonian) is the bastard offspring of cockney and yokel and is the least endearing of all British regional accents. Consequently my mother beat a slight 'northern-ness' into me, vaguely yorkshire-ish. I go a bit cockney gangster when angered, sounds like a Guy Ritchie movie

Howard A Treesong wrote:

Happygrunt wrote:

remilia_scarlet wrote:Apparently, I have a thick russian accent, and sound like this(sort of, not really). My fiancé used to write things down for me to say for entertainment, I never understood why.

I will pay you millions of dollars to say things related to the Soviet Union.

Yes, while wearing a russian uniform and holding a whip.

O.o

My accent changes.
It sorta defaults to more-or-less american, but when I spend any amount of time among British people, it changes to whatever region they're from, and I can mimic quite a few other accents as well (scottish, australian and thick Southern US drawl, as well).
Nobody ever guesses I´m Dutch from the way I talk.

I was born about 15 miles too far out of the city to have a Chicago accent... which puts me squarely into the "generic American, no idea where you're from" category. Funny bit is that people who grew up 15 miles further out did have a decidedly rural accent... but no such luck in my suburban environment (though I am blessed NOT to say "warsh" instead of "wash" as a result). I remember hearing some PhD linguist talk about all these subtle variations of accent in our region... he totally botched it.

I have no idea.

Raised in Lincolnshire, lived in Peterborough, regular visits to the sarf! and l now live in Birmingham.

The further south I get the more Eastenders my accent becomes.

I usually get mistaken for being from Derby or Nottingham.

Glaswegian; or the reason why I won't ever get an office job outside of Scotland. ^^

remilia_scarlet wrote:Apparently, I have a thick russian accent, and sound like this(sort of, not really). My fiancé used to write things down for me to say for entertainment, I never understood why.

No joke, there is a girl in my Psychology class that has the exact same accent...but she is from the Czech Republic...

Gitsplitta wrote:I was born about 15 miles too far out of the city to have a Chicago accent... which puts me squarely into the "generic American, no idea where you're from" category. Funny bit is that people who grew up 15 miles further out did have a decidedly rural accent... but no such luck in my suburban environment (though I am blessed NOT to say "warsh" instead of "wash" as a result). I remember hearing some PhD linguist talk about all these subtle variations of accent in our region... he totally botched it.

Hmmm... 15 miles too far from Chicago to have an accent. But, not rural and still described it as "suburban".

You're from Kenosha?

WARORK93 wrote:

remilia_scarlet wrote:Apparently, I have a thick russian accent, and sound like this(sort of, not really). My fiancé used to write things down for me to say for entertainment, I never understood why.

No joke, there is a girl in my Psychology class that has the exact same accent...but she is from the Czech Republic...

So they look all the same, to you, eh?

RACIST! RACIST!

WARORK93 wrote:
No joke, there is a girl in my Psychology class that has the exact same accent...but she is from the Czech Republic...

A lot of eastern europeans have similar accents, one of the guys in my playgroup is from estonia, and he has an accent similar to a russian, of course, to me, everyone else's accent was exotic and different to me.

Chowderhead wrote:So they look all the same, to you, eh?

RACIST! RACIST!

What does a similarity in accent have anything to do with looking the same?

Stick to your day job Chowder...there's no more room in the S.S. Dakka for another troll...

remilia_scarlet wrote:

Howard A Treesong wrote:

Happygrunt wrote:

remilia_scarlet wrote:Apparently, I have a thick russian accent, and sound like this(sort of, not really). My fiancé used to write things down for me to say for entertainment, I never understood why.

I will pay you millions of dollars to say things related to the Soviet Union.

Yes, while wearing a russian uniform and holding a whip.

O.o

remilia_scarlet wrote:Apparently, I have a thick russian accent, and sound like this(sort of, not really). My fiancé used to write things down for me to say for entertainment, I never understood why.

Were many of them related to a moose and squirrel?

Grakmar wrote:Hmmm... 15 miles too far from Chicago to have an accent. But, not rural and still described it as "suburban".

You're from Kenosha?

Naaah, just from the suburbs... but to get a proper Chicago accent you need to be from "the city" proper. Which I'm not.