Accent?

[CeeBee]

I have a weak but existing southern accent.

 

[AMDG]

Presently I live in an area that has a tendency to add "r's" where they shouldn't be, and I seem to have unwillingly "adopted" that habit. Of course, it goes nicely with one of my accents from the other side of the country which has a tendency to gloss over the "r's" in speech as if they weren't there at all, plus a weak Lonnnga Eyelannd, N.Y. accent. It also goes nicely with a very weak south-western accent and some remmants of my DH's southern accent that I've picked up. (That one can be heard particularly when I'm upset or angry.) IOW by my accents, you'd never be able to guess where I'm from. Guess that happens to military.

Darn! Too bad I don't have a British accent. I think that accent sounds nice.

 

[Victrixa]

When I was in Europe, the French told me I spoke French with a Canadian (Quebecois) accent. They also didn't hesitate to stop me in mid-sentence to correct my pronunciation of some of their vowels, etc

Yes, I have seen French people (from France) correcting Québécois people. That can be a bit annoying. On the other hand, there was a time where I was surrounded by and friends with many Swiss people. I ended up speaking with their accent. So much so that a Swiss lady once asked me from what region of Switzerland I came from! (that was kind of a compliment!) The French Swiss accent is my favourite French accent, along with the Belgian. I promise myself to go to Switzerland one day! That will be a gift from God to me.

 

[Strength]

I'm from Newfoundland and I speak with an Irish accent, so whenever I travel, even in Canada, people think I'm Irish.

 

[thereselittleflower]

I know this thread has probably been started a millon times before, but I wanted to know anyways. What accents do you all (I dont say y'all, take note) speak?

I dont really have an accent, I think. I have gotten comments on how plain my language is. When I moved from Minneapolis when I was 7, I had that northern-Minnesotan accent which is hard to describe. Kids even called me chinaboy! scratch: ) I lost that pretty quicly though, and now I just speak my words sluggishly.

I was surprised to learn that most newscasters come from Oregon as we have hte least amount of accent anywhere in the nation . . . I have no idea why . . .


Peace in Him!

 

[geocajun]

IOW by my accents, you'd never be able to guess where I'm from. Guess that happens to military.

I think growing up military helped me obtain and shed accents very easily as well.

Darn! Too bad I don't have a British accent. I think that accent sounds nice.

Not only that, but British accents also make a person sound smarter too!

 

[Benedicta00]

I don't have an accent.

Around here depends on what parish you are from, that will determine your accent. All those bad movies (like "the Big Easy") makes new Orleanians look like a bunch of ignorant talking, beer drinking fools but hardly no one in the city talks broken Cajun or with a Cajun accent. A true New Orleanian will actually sound like a New Yorker but not a strong and we have our own way of pronouncing certain words.

 

[Maggie893]

As for me, well, I speak English fluently and quite well, however, I speak English like a Francophone, more exactly, like a French-Canadian speaks it! I speak English with a French accent.

Down here we call that Canook!

I am very cautious about my accent. We tend to replace 'r' with 'ah' and 'a' with 'ar'. So idea become idear. Car become cah. Paper is papah. Really thick accents actually change the 'r' in the middle of words, so church is more like chuahch and liturgy is litahgy, lord becomes almost loahd. We also insist on everything being "wicked good".

So you can see why I am very cautious when I speak!

 

[epiclesis]

I am very cautious about my accent. We tend to replace 'r' with 'ah' and 'a' with 'ar'. So idea become idear. Car become cah. Paper is papah. Really thick accents actually change the 'r' in the middle of words, so church is more like chuahch and liturgy is litahgy, lord becomes almost loahd. We also insist on everything being "wicked good".

So you can see why I am very cautious when I speak!

you new englander!

i have a few friends from boston and they talk like that too. it's hilarious.

 

[Maggie893]

you new englander!

i have a few friends from boston and they talk like that too. it's hilarious.

Actually Steph, that makes me a new englandah! Or better yet a Mainah!
yeah almost as good as pig latin!

 

[Aaron-Aggie]

i have no accent so i get comment all the time about the fact i don't have a texas accent when i tell people i'm from texas

 

[InnerPhyre]

I grew up in Washington DC/Maryland, so if there is a Maryland accent, I guess that's what I have. I know I don't have a Virginia or a New England accent....guess I just have a normal boring voice

 

[Wild_Fan4Christ]

I moved from MO to MN when I was 8 and all my friends called me a hick because of my southern accent. But after living in MN for 17 years I have that northern MN accent with the long O's. I live in IA now but I still have it and everyone I meet asks if I am from MN. I even have people from CA tell me they love my MN accent. What can I say, how a boot it, hey? Some say I am canuck

I have an Aunt that lives in England and I love her accent. Another accent I like are from people who live in Boston. "Go Paark yo Kaar in the Yaaaard."

 

[thereselittleflower]

I find I pick up the accent of the area I am in, especially when I go back east where I come from . . . it doesn't take long to pick it back up . . but I shed it just as fast when I get back home . . .. wonder what that means?



Peace in Him!

 

[Glorianna]

I think this thread is kinda funny because people never notice their own accents! I don't think I have an accent, but maybe I do to others!

 

[Wolseley]

Wel, after having lived in Michigan most of my life, I have the usual flat Midwestern twang. We don't look at it as an accent, although I will admit some of the local idiom is pretty hokey---stuff like "It gets hotter'n all git-out around here this time o'year."

I had a friend in the Air Force from Maine, and we used to tease each other about accents. I don't remember what he told me about mine, but I used to imitate him saying things, "Let's get in the cah and go t'the bah; then we'll pick up some beeah, go pahk n'the hahbah yahd n'drink it theyah"; or, "Oh, ayuh---s'down from Bah Hahbah, 'cept y'can't get theyah from heah".



And out of all accents speaking English, an Irish accent is the loveliest-sounding.

 

[Brother Charlie]

Im having trouble depicting that accent. I know a guy from Michigan and he has no accent at all./

 

[RobNJ]

Come to Jersey... We'll loin ya hadda tawk good!!