Do you have a regional accent?

colliebabe · March 2014

Oh ya. I pahk my cah in Hahvahd yahd.

DreadLoc · March 2014

i've got a slight southern twang until i get worked up and then it gets rully bad.

jorkz821 · March 2014

jessicabcairns said:
Yes. A Canaidan one! But not the same as @LoveActually4‌'s or @jorkz821‌'s. @MrsButt‌'s is probably different too, depending on which province she's from.

I was going to say that I thought most Canadians sounds pretty much the same except maritimers have a bit if an accent. So @LoveActually4‌ has an accent but the rest of us don't. At least not compared to each other.

I do apparently say sorree though. NOT ABOOT.

missyishere · March 2014

Wtf is a water burger

msdrdg · March 2014

I grew up in central CT and moved to Boston for college. Still live in MA.
When I moved to Boston people keep asking me where in NY I was from. Now when I go back to CT they make fun of my Boston accent. When I am really tired or drunk I will mix my NY with my Boston.

FalconCrest · March 2014

i am from Upstate New York. I do not think I have an accent.

BigFatCat · March 2014

Yes, I have an accent. Anyone else in NYC? OP, you're over on Lawnguyland? Nassau, Suffolk?

And if Mary sounds like Merry sounds like Marry, you're saying it wrong!

Monkeybabe · March 2014

FalconCrest said:

i am from Upstate New York. I do not think I have an accent.

My ex roommate is from Albany and has no accent that I can detect.

missyishere · March 2014

@ChickenOnSunday‌

missyishere · March 2014

ChickenOnSunday said:

missyishere said:

@ChickenOnSunday‌

Whats up?

Weren't you asking about Garfield?

Helenahhandbasket · March 2014

Monkeybabe said:

There was a big discussion about Marry, merry, Mary on my BMB. They're all the same, bros.

They are all different!

Helenahhandbasket · March 2014

BigFatCat said:

Yes, I have an accent. Anyone else in NYC? OP, you're over on Lawnguyland? Nassau, Suffolk?

And if Mary sounds like Merry sounds like Marry, you're saying it wrong!

Western Nassau.

jorkz821 · March 2014

Helenahhandbasket said:

Monkeybabe said:

There was a big discussion about Marry, merry, Mary on my BMB. They're all the same, bros.

They are all different!

They all sound the same to me. How are they different?

BigFatCat · March 2014

Helenah, you're a city chick. Lisa, you're not!

Chicken, you could have at least tagged me in the FFFC!

Helenahhandbasket · March 2014

jorkz821 said:

Monkeybabe said:

There was a big discussion about Marry, merry, Mary on my BMB. They're all the same, bros.

They are all different!
They all sound the same to me. How are they different?

Because phonics.

taggiecb · March 2014

I can not for the life of me say Mary, marry, and merry differently than each other.

missyishere · March 2014

so @bigfatcat what was your former SN? Because you've alluded that question and now I'm suspicious.

Helenahhandbasket · March 2014

laceyjean1 said:

I can not for the life of me say Mary, marry, and merry differently than each other.

Mary- Mare (mare, as in adult female horse)-ee

Marry- Mah (like the first syllable of maverick)- ree

Merry- rhymes with very.

BigFatCat · March 2014

Actually, I eluded the question.

minervacullen · March 2014

I've lived in Michigan most of my life with a few years in Illinois. My accent is weird now. I mainly have that Michigan/Wisconsin accent, but when I'm angry my Illinois southern accent kicks in.
My dad's side is from Arkansas, so I also picked up on that growing up.
My inlaws have it bad. They say Mishzgin for Michigan and they leave out the t in words like fountain and mountain. They also use some Dutch and German slang that are not things I grew up with.

Helenahhandbasket · March 2014

BigFatCat said:

Actually, I eluded the question.

@bigfatcat you did.

So-- DO YOU?

missyishere · March 2014

BigFatCat said:

Actually, I eluded the question.

Sorry my spelling and grammar aren't caring today if you're a troll or not (although I am a bit embarassed I did so). So who are you?

taggiecb · March 2014

I would still say 1 and 3 the same. And I would feel silly saying Mah-ree.

Helenahhandbasket · March 2014

laceyjean1 said:

I would still say 1 and 3 the same. And I would feel silly saying Mah-ree.

LOL-- OK.

jorkz821 · March 2014

Helenahhandbasket said:

laceyjean1 said:

I would still say 1 and 3 the same. And I would feel silly saying Mah-ree.

LOL-- OK.

But there's that song -Going to the chapel and we're gonna get maaaaare-ied...

Not mahhhhh-rried.
Songs are always correct.

minervacullen · March 2014

Mary, Merry, Marry sound the exact same. That's the truth.

Helenahhandbasket · March 2014

jorkz821 said:

laceyjean1 said:

I would still say 1 and 3 the same. And I would feel silly saying Mah-ree.

LOL-- OK.

But there's that song -Going to the chapel and we're gonna get maaaaare-ied... Not mahhhhh-rried. Songs are always correct.

This is exactly what they say--lol-- I think you are hearing it with an accent

Monkeybabe · March 2014

I'm just going to leave my half of my BMB's marry/mary/merry youtube battle here. Shit's all the same!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkGgWkqbBwU

proudworkingmom82 · March 2014

Yes I do but I live in Kentucky it's rare for anyone not to have one here.

AngeliaG8 · March 2014

I grew up in wi. My dad is from ar and I guess growing up I picked up some of his accent. I used to get asked where I was from when I had lived here my whole life.

I'm one of those who pick up accents really easily so when I moved to ar myself I had that "Yankee" accent as they called it but it didn't stick around long. It was still there just not as thick.

Now I'm back home and so thankfull that I'm talking like a northerner again. I don't mind the southern accent so much but oil does have an "I" in it. I got so annoyed with myself when started saying "ool".

So even though I transform it's never throughly. No matter where I go/live I will always be asked where I'm from.

AngeliaG8 · March 2014

AngeliaG8 said:
I grew up in wi. My dad is from ar and I guess growing up I picked up some of his accent. I used to get asked where I was from when I had lived here my whole life.

I'm one of those who pick up accents really easily so when I moved to ar myself I had that "Yankee" accent as they called it but it didn't stick around long. It was still there just not as thick.

Now I'm back home and so thankfull that I'm talking like a northerner again. I don't mind the southern accent so much but oil does have an "I" in it. I got so annoyed with myself when started saying "ool".

So even though I transform it's never throughly. No matter where I go/live I will always be asked where I'm from.

Ugh. I posted under the wrong name.

Eta. Still wrong. The bump is pissing me off. I wanted a new name for a reason. I logged in under new name yet I'm still posting under the old. Really? Wtf!

FrickandFrack · March 2014

I'm in the DC area so I'm gonna go with no.

FrickandFrack · March 2014

LauraT25 said:
I don't know how to describe it..but it is a distinct way of speaking.

Hmm, interesting. I've never heard that before. I'm intrigued.

LadyXaverian · March 2014

I'm from Canada but live in the south. My accent is all kinds of messed up.

I do retain some of my Canadian accent, but when I take those, "How do you pronounce…?" quizzes, I always have to think about it because I pronounce many words 2 different ways depending on the company I keep.

I'll put it like this-- southerners have stopped noticing I'm Canadian, but when I go home to visit, I get made fun of for my "American" accent.

Dubwife79 · March 2014

I am so fucking fascinated with accents. I sound like a stereotypical northern njer. My kid has a nj/Irish accent. It's pretty funny. Dh is from Dublin and that city has 2 super distinct accents. My sil sounds completely different from the rest of my in laws and grew up like 10 minuets away from them.

jesuisfatiguee · March 2014

Sometimes I have a southern accent, but I'm not sure if there's any rhyme or reason to it. I always out myself with ample use of "y'all" though.

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