Do you have an accent?

[Adela]

Do you have an accent? I've lived in Georgia my entire life, so I definitely have one. My husband lived in Columbia, SC and then moved to Georgia. He had sort of a faint one, but he's developed more of one the last few years. Mine used to be really heavy, but I've improved it.

My husband likes to tease me about mine. He say's it gets more southern whenever I get around my family. There's is heavier than mine.

 

[MissRowboat]

I had one when I lived in North Carolina..But when I moved to Kentucky, I lost it.

 

[Darkhorse]

Everyone has an accent - a set of inflections and pronunciations characteristic of the speech they have been immersed in - wherever they might be!

 

[DixieBelle]

Well, I think I talk pretty normal, but I notice that most non-southerners sure have a peculiar way of speaking!! Yeah, I reckon I do have a bit of a Southern accent, but that's just fine by me....I haven't met a Southern accent yet that I didn't love!

 

[Adela]

Everyone has an accent - a set of inflections and pronunciations characteristic of the speech they have been immersed in - wherever they might be!

Ok. A southern accent as opposed to the regular "American accent" that we hear on the news.

 

[DeaconDean]

Being as since I was born and raised in North Carolina I would say no. I talk just like everybody else. But...in 1984 I was living in Southern California and when I would visit a bar people would buy me drinks just to hear me talk. Like...whatever.

 

[RED that's ME]

I do have a southern accent. It's interesting how many colleges are offering classes now to help southerners get rid of their accent.

 

[KEPLER]

I do have a southern accent. It's interesting how many colleges are offering classes now to help southerners get rid of their accent.

I've been told by more than one person since moving to NC that I have a "California" accent ??!!

Like, totally, I guess.

 

[savvy]

I don't think my southern accent is very distinguishable, but british people I met told me they could notice it. I was slightly mollified by the fact that they found it "cute."

 

[teffie]

lol hehe im australian. hehehe you like....go around the world and they all crowd around going: SAY SOMETHING FUNNY!!! lol the funny thing is, that down ere in aus, we dont walk around naked going: "g'day mate!!! bung some shrimp on the barbie!" hehehe and we dont ride kangaroos to school...lol but i went to fiji for a week, and spent the whole tie with 2 NZ gals, 1NZ guy and 2 aus guys. i swear 2 you by the end of it i came back to good 'ol sydney talking like a newzealander!!! hahahaha it was really funny....anyways
lol xoxo steff

 

[savvy]

lol hehe im australian. hehehe you like....go around the world and they all crowd around going: SAY SOMETHING FUNNY!!! lol the funny thing is, that down ere in aus, we dont walk around naked going: "g'day mate!!! bung some shrimp on the barbie!" hehehe and we dont ride kangaroos to school...lol but i went to fiji for a week, and spent the whole tie with 2 NZ gals, 1NZ guy and 2 aus guys. i swear 2 you by the end of it i came back to good 'ol sydney talking like a newzealander!!! hahahaha it was really funny....anyways
lol xoxo steff

you lie, sheila! I know you say those things! don't ruin the illusion!

 

[littleferris68]

yeazur...u can tell im from the south. its fun when i go 2 michigan 2 visit family and all the michigan gurls(not my family...not THAT southern)LOVE my accent....quite nice


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[KnowBeDo]

Born and rasied in Alabama. I can have a pretty thick accent. My wife has lived in California her whole life. We both have to repeat ourselves so much. She can't understand my family at all. When we go back home, I have to translate about half the time.

 

[CHRISTIANINACTION]

I do!! I'm from Mississippi and I am a "redneck" with an accent.

 

[DERF]

No offence, but I think Southerners talk too slow. I'm from NJ, and I can't really understand what many Southerners are saying.

 

[Adela]

I do have a southern accent. It's interesting how many colleges are offering classes now to help southerners get rid of their accent.

I think it's a little sad. How boring would it be if we all sounded exactly the same. Southern accents aren't bad, I like having one.

I have trained myself to be able to turn it off a little depending on who I'm talking to. For example, when I worked as a receptionist and had to answer a lot of phone calls my husband said he could barely tell I had one whenever he called me at work.

 

[RollTideRyan]

I have a mid western accent which isn't really much, but when I'm surrounded by people who grew up in Bama, I guess it is a bit different.

 

[zmastah]

Ok. A southern accent as opposed to the regular "American accent" that we hear on the news.

Also, which "Southern" are you referring to. I'm going to school in South Georgia (18 miles from the Florida line), but my home is in North GA (30 mins. from Athens) and I've noticed some subtle differences. For example, my girlfriend from Fitzgerald still laughs when I say things like "okrie" or pronounce creek "crick" or bear as "bahr." Much of my family is from the North Georgia mountains, too, so that has a lot to do with it. Yet, I've noticed some folks in South Georgia say some things that I don't quite understand, either. Such as calling rates "rites."

 

[philmwri]

North georgia is an a transition zone between the coastal southern dialect and the gulf southern dialect and the southern appalachian dialect.People in south georgia speak the coastal southern dialect.

 

[zmastah]

Yeah, and I checked a dialect map of sorts (I forget the official term) and my home area is actually right smack dab on the border line between that transition zone of Appalachian and coastal southern.