Accents

LoveActually4

Do you have one based on where you live?

I live on the east coast of Canada. I don't think I have one but I just
had dinner with my BIL from VA and he said my accent was hilarious. Apparently I say "aboot" and "eh" just like in the movies.

What about you guys? Do we have any Southern drawls or Boston twangs up in here?

theimpossibleastronaut

I am from Southern NY originally and now live in PA. I don't think I have an accent really. My hubby says generally not. I do say water and coffee a little differently.

littlestjerry

I have a slight southern accent. Even though I grew up in South Carolina, I didn't really acquire it until I went to college in Kentucky and lived with a girl from Eastern KY for two years. It comes out with my I sound. Like I say time more like tieyem.

missyishere

I'm sure there are a few words here and there I verbalize with a midwestern twist, but I would say I do not have an accent overall. 

flyingsaucer

I have a very good friend from Calgary and I love her accent. Every other word is "eh" I am from the NYC area and definitely have a NY accent (and proud of it!). My family is Jewish from the Bronx and they all sound like Nanny Fran. DH is from the Caribbean and has the sexiest accent ever

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msdrdg

I grew up in CT, but went to school and now live in MA.

I have this weird NY/Boston mix of an accent.  Most of the time I sound like I'm from Boston, but when I am really tired or drunk a little bit of NY will mix in.

colliebabe

Oh ya. Wicked Boston accent right heah (here.)

jorkz821

I'm from AB and I don't think I say aboot or eh.

s0ulchicken

I definitely have a southern accent, but after many years of face to face sales, I am able to turn it on and off at will. Like pp, I am able to mirror, or mimic fairly well, and find that I sometimes do it unintentionally now.

@SookieFrackhouse68 where in VA are you from?

klondikebar

No. You can't pinpoint the region I am from based on my voice.

LadyXaverian

mamaREB29 said:

Do you have one based on where you live? I live on the east coast of Canada. I don't think I have one but I just had dinner with my BIL from VA and he said my accent was hilarious. Apparently I say "aboot" and "eh" just like in the movies. What about you guys? Do we have any Southern drawls or Boston twangs up in here?

I'm also from the East Coast (NS) but have lived in Tennessee for the past 10 years. I was 26 when I moved here. My accent is a bit of a hybrid. When I go home to NS, they make fun of my "southern" accent, but down here, people pretty much know that I'm not "from around here".

I've always disagreed that we say "about" like "aboot". The "ou" sound is definitely different from how most people say it,but it's not an "oooo" sound, either.

LadyXaverian

jorkz821 said:

I'm from AB and I don't think I say aboot or eh.

I didn't think I said "eh" much until I moved to TN and every time I said it, someone would repeat it. Which was all the time. It was beaten out of me pretty quickly.

LoveActually4

I didn't think I said either of those things @SarahL77 until my freaking BIL kept pointing it out!

jorkz821

About = abowt, if anything. I don't think I've ever hear someone say aboot unless its a parody or something.

missyishere

Uh, yes you totally have an accent @onederfulmother.

Dubwife79

I most definetly have a north jersey accent. Dh is from Ireland so he also has an accent. I'm dying to hear how dd's accent ends up sounding.

NotSharknado

I'm from Chicago and I don't believe I have an accent.

NotSharknado

kiraliz2 said:

shanado said:

I'm from Chicago and I don't believe I have an accent.

You do.

Really? I didn't think Chicagoans had accents. You have to tell me how I sound. @kiraliz2

MoonlitPlumeria

I have a fairly neutral accent on a day to day basis. I had a Southern Ontario accent when I was a kid but when we moved to Louisiana, I was teased heavily and tried to give it up. After living here for about 17 years, I am finally starting to sound Southern. I can finally say y'all and not sound stupid. But I also throw in a few Philly sounding words. I say "water" more like "wooder" sometimes.

LaurelBee

Funny, I was just about to say I'm from Chicago and I definitely have an accent

NotSharknado

You guys are lying to me.

virgin4lyfe

I apparently say "sorry" the Canadian way. It's more like soar-y which is phonetically wrong according to my bitchy public speaking teacher. He can suck it.
My chorus teacher used to tell me I had a nasally WNY accent. I'm not sure what that counts towards though.

jorkz821

Sterling13 said:

shanado said:

kiraliz2 said:

shanado said:

I'm from Chicago and I don't believe I have an accent.

You do.

Really? I didn't think Chicagoans had accents. You have to tell me how I sound. @kiraliz2

I went to high school in Chicago and there is most definitely an accent. See SNL super fans. 

Da Bearsssss!

NotSharknado

jorkz821 said:

Sterling13 said:

shanado said:

kiraliz2 said:

shanado said:

I'm from Chicago and I don't believe I have an accent.

You do.

Really? I didn't think Chicagoans had accents. You have to tell me how I sound. @kiraliz2

I went to high school in Chicago and there is most definitely an accent. See SNL super fans. 

Da Bearsssss!


That's right. I forgot about those guys.


I don't sound like those dummies :P

mrebecca

I'm from GA. Furthermore, I've lived in the foothills of the Appalachians all my life. I've been told that us weirdos in the mountains have a slightly different accent than others in the South.
I mean, I don't have it nearly as thick as some of the older folks around here, but it's definitely there.

My generation laughs when we hear the older folks talk, but the people younger than we are laugh at us as we talk.

It's really great.  

NotSharknado

Sterling13 said:

@shanado they are not dummies. But I'm sure you don't sound like them. :-)

@EXP_626, I went to college in MN and it was like a foreign land up there. Oofta.

I know I'm just joshing. I love those dummies.

missyishere

I tease my Northern family a lot about their accents @sterling13.  My dad has a very thick MN accent.  

Lilywildcat

I am from Ontario ad I know I don't say aboot, but I know I say eh occasionally

Mags748

EXP_626 said:

I was born and raised in MN and I don't think I have an accent. However, I used to have a pen pal in CA from the age of 14 to sometime in college. We were IMing one day when his computer froze, so he called me (our first phone conversation). He swore I sound just like the movie Fargo. Then he passed the phone around to all his roommates so they could hear and ask me to say different words, like bag.

Im from WI and I visited my friend in NC senior year of HS and her friends nicknamed me Fargo! We argued back and forth that we didnt have accents. To me, they had sothernish/east cost accents. I can usually control my accent but I hear myself sound WI at times. I say bag like baaaag (long a bake rather than the a in apple sound).

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What @missyishere said.

LuckyDad

I say roof like rough and room like rum.

nixieknox3

i'm from upstate NY and we don't have an accent 

theseaword

I'm from downstate NY. I don't think I have an accent. I live in NE now and people seem surprised when I tell them I'm from NY.

scoutkate

I have a Southern accent.  I grew up in Eastern NC so my accent is a little softer and less twangy than other parts of the state/South.  I think it's most evident in the way I tend to draw out my vowels, especially my long "i"'s. 

missyishere

@mbenit4 people have met me.  They can tell you whether or not I have an accent, but I really don't think I do.  Iowans overall don't have accents. 

bumpuser1691848

mrebecca said:

I'm from GA. Furthermore, I've lived in the foothills of the Appalachians all my life. I've been told that us weirdos in the mountains have a slightly different accent than others in the South.
I mean, I don't have it nearly as thick as some of the older folks around here, but it's definitely there.

My generation laughs when we hear the older folks talk, but the people younger than we are laugh at us as we talk.

It's really great.  

I have a friend right on the GA/NC line and her accent is definitely different from others in GA. 

I have a Southern drawl. It's not real thick, but it's there. I say y'all, ain't, reckon, yonder, etc etc in day to day conversation.

CurlyQ284

I don't think I have an accent, I'm from the DC area. This is making its way around proboards and seems relevant so I'll drop it here

https://spark.rstudio.com/jkatz/DialectQuiz/

CurlyQ284

Here is my dialect map

PunkyBooster

I have a southern accent. Ds says some things very southern.

ILs are from Boston and have insane Boston accents.

theseaword

CurlyQ284 said:

Here is my dialect map

Is dialect the same, though? I certainly think people could tell I am from the northeast due to my verbiage choices. I don't think that means I have an accent though.