Do you have an accent?

[mvd]

Poll question: Do you have an accent?

Was raised in Maryland, where there's an ever-so-slight Southern accent, but I didn't pick up any of it. And my part of the Philly area is free from the Philly accent.

[Shell Beau]

1. Southern all the way! And proud of it, too!

[SheilaT]

28. My original

accent (strong Upstate New York) has been diluted, not deluded. I moved to Arizona at age 14, and at first people could barely understand me or would make fun of the way I spoke, so after a while I smoothed out most of it. Nowadays, only rarely,and only with certain words, will my original accent reveal itself.

[Not Me]

29. Canad-jin

From Toronto, still drop a couple "ooot's" and "eh's"

[hyphenate]

87. That's one of the things I enjoy about TV shows

filmed in Canada. You can tell which ones are American and which are Canadian by the way they say "out." I picked it up a bit myself when I was there. Then again, my mother's side of the family comes from Cape Breton, so I'm used to the accent already, and have heard it all my life.

[kick-ass-bob]

2. No, but everyone else does!

:crazy:

[redqueen]

3. Texan comes out sometimes...

I think it's only sometimes but my coworkers in other states say otherwise. :)

[movie_girl99]

4. I'm from Texas

but i don't have the southern drawl thank god. Most of my family does though. I have been asked many times if I'm from California and now that I'm married to a Brit i occasionally have a tidge of an English accent.

[Shell Beau]

8. Did you say Thank God you don't have the drawl?

:wtf: Just kidding, I am glad, though, that I do!! :silly:

[Burma Jones]

5. When Inebriated, I speak in the manner of my childhood home

of N'awlins.............

[fertilizeonarbusto]

6. Love my accent

It's very hard to place and I'm convinced it has gotten me a lot of, um, attention over the years.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

7. southern accent here

and i am quite happy with it.

when i was younger i did learn how to say "pen" and "ten" as single syllable words instead of peeyan and teeyan.

but other than that, southern all the way.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

21. No-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-oa, why-y-y-y-y you-u-u-u-u askin-n-n-n-n-g?

Just a touch of Southern/country/central Kentucky drawl. My middle daughter who has always spoken very, very fast now lives in South Carolina. She has picked up a pronounced southern drawl but didn't bother to slow down. She is virtually un-understandable by anyone without a translator. Bless her little heart.

She says in the south you can say anything about anyone as long as you add the phrase - "Bless their little heart." on the end. Like "He is a lying, puke, pseudo oilman, rich man's brat who has never done an honest day's work in his life. He has gotten thousands of people killed, wouldn't know the truth if it bit him in the ass and he is a stoopid idjit asshole. Bless his little heart." Would be a non-offensive phrase in SC. Works for me.

[yellowdogintexas]

88. what part of Southern /central Kentucky? I am a just below

Bowling Green gal myself. Still talk that way too.

So Southern it drips.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. Not as far as I know, no...

No-one has ever asked me about one or stated that they heard one...Just plain old California-speak!

:popcorn:

[maveric]

33. When you say "House" or "Mouse"...

Do you pronounce it "Hay-ouse" or "May-ouse". My ex and all my SoCal kids talk that way.
And how dare they mock my Boston accent!!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

63. Hi maveric,

No, I don't pronounce "house" "hay-ouse"...I pronounce it "howce." And the same for "May-ouse." For me, that is "mause." I think that Bostonian accents are gorgeous! I'm just plain vanilla...Not that there's anything wrong with that! LOLOLOL...

BTW, how's your post-op son doing today? I imagine he's at least a little bit better, I hope!

:hi:

[maveric]

69. He's doing great. I took him to the beach for an hour today.

Healing well as usual.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

70. How good is that? I'm pleased to hear it...

He's coming along quickly...and of course getting out to your nice beach will accelerate anyone's healing!

[maveric]

76. He's always been a quick healer. Two days of being trapped at home

was getting to him, so I thought a nice day at OB and a walk down the pier would improve his spirits.
It did!

[TK421]

10. People can always tell I'm from Philly, because it sounds like it

when I talk,or so I'm told...

[BroadwayBrat]

13. Yo Philly....

We say "wooder" and "donna shore" and various phrases

[TK421]

25. YO YO YO

Yes, water is pronounced as "wooder" Although I don't think that pronunciation of the word is limited to the Philadelphia region

[Redstone]

78. Yeah, you warsh your face, rinse it with wooder,

then dry it with a tal, right? Then walk down the payment to the Accamee to do your grocery shopping.

Boy, I remember that. Yo, Antny!

Redstone

[In_The_Wind]

11. a little bit of a Southern accent at times

but I've lived in the North since 1969 so I've lost most of it

[Jersey Devil]

12. Only when I check my erl or get cut off by some joik on the Toinpike

Udder den dat and sometimes when eatin' a sammich, no, not really.

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. Everyone has an accent

There's no way around it.

The question is "What kind of an accent do you have?"

[mvd]

26. Yep, someone who answers that they have no accent..

will sound different to one who does. For purposes of this poll, I'm restricting the accents to area-based ones.

[Karenina]

85. "What kind of an accent do you have?"

Depends on who's listening! :evilgrin:

[tjdee]

15. No, and I'm even from New JeRsey. Not New Joisey.

That is one of my biggest pet peeves, when people try to create an accent for me because I'm from NJ.

Me: "I'm from New Jersey."

Them: "You mean 'New JOISEY', with "CAWFEE", hardy har har?"

Me: "Uh, did I *say* New Joisey?" :grr:

[Kire]

96. Re: New Joisey

seriously, where did this come from? I demand a complete etymological investigation.


Check out Demopedia's New Jersey Page-

http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/New_Jersey#Nickname

[MrSlayer]

16. South Philly accent.

I'll exaggerate it when I'm out of town for fun.

[BurtWorm]

17. Iway have a slight igPay Latin accent.

My family ovedmay from the oldway country when I was irteenthay.

[Demit]

18. You mean you can't say "Gyo Gyo Gyo Iggles!" properly?

Oh you poor boy :(

[MrScorpio]

19. I have a very thick Michigan accent

Deep and mellow

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

42. Yooper or Troll?

[MrScorpio]

62. I'm from Detroit

It get's pretty thick down there

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

65. Correction...

It get's prety thick down there, eh?

[sbj405]

77. That's Dee-Troit

I'm originally from the 'burbs.

[Danmel]

99. Do you say Thee-A-ter?

i/o theatre? I know a guy from the Detroit area and he always says Thee-A-Ter

[hickman1937]

46. So do I, I guess. I read somewhere that Kim Bassinger took

lessons to acquire the michigan accent for 8 Mile. I didn't know we had one, although I've suspected because Madonna works so hard to cover it up.

[kedrys]

20. Oh bloody 'ell

Only when dead tired, or dead drunk, or dead. :P

[arcane1]

22. depends upon how much I've been drinking

I also tend to pick up others when I'm exposed to them repeatedly

so I guess that's a "maybe"

[Droopy]

23. I'm from southwest Ohio

But I've been told that I have somewhat of a southern accent. When we would go to visit relatives in Maine when I was a kid my cousins would think that I sounded like a hillbilly.

[CottonBear]

24. Southern (NC mountain / Eastern TN) accent and proud of it!

:)

[tjwmason]

93. Glad to hear it

The southern U.S. accents are absolutely beautiful - such a pity that many try to suppres them.

[Parrcrow]

27. As a Canadian in SE Kansas, I would have to say no

but the drawling locals would disagree. Granted they can't figure out what planet I'm from.

[last_texas_dem]

30. A southern one

More Southern than "Texan" despite my being a lifelong Texan and it ranges from very slight to fairly thick, often depending on how tired or angry I am (if I'm either of these it thickens) or how comfortable I am around the people I'm talking to (the more comfortable I am, the thicker the accent.)

Though I tend to have decent grammer (something not often associated with a Southern accent) I do have a few "ignorant" sounding pronunciations I seem to be destined to forever cling to, such as "yoo-mid" and "yoo-mun" for humid and human, "poym" for poem, and a couple others.

I am, however, not at all ashamed of the term "y'all" and would like to see it catch on across the U.S. I just consider it to be quite a useful expression. Much clearer than the plural "you" and not gender-specific like "you guys." I do have my doubts about it ever truly catching on; most of the "Yankees" I know who have moved down here refuse to say it because they think it sounds too stupid. I'm a fan, though.

[YankeyMCC]

31. A Wicked Pissa one

Boston

[sniffa]

52. ditto

though my time out in the western parts aLmost kiLLed it. :o

[Deep13]

100. Yep, wicked good.

From the Town of Leicester /LESS-tah/ just west of Worcester /WUSS-tah/. Been living in the buckeye state since 1991, so the accent has really calmed down. It comes back when I talk to people back East.

[maveric]

32. I gut a fucken pissah Boston accent!

My SoCal born & raised kids tease me about it all the time.

[JimmyJazz]

34. NSMA tells me that I have a Philly Girl accent.

It comes and goes, though and is really only prevalent with certain words like "hot dog," "coffee" and, of course, "Flyers."

[Beware the Beast Man]

35. As a former Western Pennsylvanian, I need to ask:

Do you drink "Water" or "wooter"?

[JimmyJazz]

41. Everyone I know in this area drinks

"wooder", but I definitely drink "water" - I also don't drop my "g" when saying words that end in "ing" - I say "something," not "summin"

[progmom]

45. you do

:hi:

[BlondieK143]

36. Southern all the way.

And it gets worse as I drink more.

[radwriter0555]

37. "NO, but I have a TILDE!!!! "...... ~......."

Buh dum bum.

[SarahB]

38. Do I?

Some people tell me I sound mid-western still? Those who have heard me, what do you think? I tend to think I'm utterly nondescript. :shrug:

[swag]

39. Yeah, and a very affected one it is.

[luvLLB]

40. East Texas accent...but only when I get riled.

[mark414]

43. a pretty solid wis-caahhhn-sin accent

[Dastard Stepchild]

54. Do we have an accent?

Born and raised in Wisconsin (tho transplanted to Illinois).

[mark414]

55. from what i am told

as i meet more people from different parts of the country i have it pointed out to me more and more

real nasally (is that even a word?)

[Dastard Stepchild]

57. ok....

I can see that. I'm rather nasal. :)

[progmom]

44. no

(SHUT UP HEDGES! SHUT UP HEDGES! SHUT UP HEDGES!)

[JimmyJazz]

47. Hedges isn't the only one, you know....

Damn! *Runs away from you, too* <-----see recent thread of xultar for the skinny on this comment :D

[progmom]

48. I DO NOT SOUND LIKE I COME FROM MICHIGAN

i do not come from michigan. :grr:

[JimmyJazz]

49. I still lurve ya!

:hi:

[progmom]

51. .

:eyes:

[Anarcho-Socialist]

60. Well, *I* love your accent

Wherever it's from :loveya:

[Magrittes Pipe]

72. You have a Michigan accent.

[progmom]

105. yeah, well, your ass has a midwestern accent

that is your ass you're always talking out of, right?

[blondeatlast]

50. My Kansas accent creeps in on me unexpectedly sometimes.

I haven't lived there for 30+ years, but have a county full of relatives there that I see often!

[Jack Rabbit]

53. No, I'm a Californian

We set the standards in all things.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

64. Here's the right answer that I've been looking for!

CALIFORNIA RULES!

:woohoo:

[mwdem]

56. Southern, occasionally, when I'm tired...

or have been around my family for any length of time!

[barackmyworld]

58. Chicaaaaahgo

And sometimes it dips into the "hey dere" wisconsin one.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

59. A general British accent with hint of a north east English accent

Until my late teens I had a very strong north east English accent (similar to Geordie) but I gradually lost it :shrug:

[T_i_B]

97. People keep telling me I have a Yorkshire accent

The result of growing up in Sheffield.

[tjwmason]

103. I spend a few years in Sheffield too

Never really caught the accent very thoroughly, and the slight hints of it were the first thing to go once I moved down south.

[Spider Jerusalem]

61. "General American Dialect"...

which is pretty much the un-accent of accents, if you're from the US.

[FuzzySlippers]

66. No. I speak unaccented midwestern American English.

The way God intended for English to be spoken.:D

[katinmn]

68. Haha. Me too.

[Placebo]

67. Chicago accent I guess...

I really don't think I speak with an accent at all, but when I travel people seem to pick up pretty fast that I'm from Chicago. :shrug:

[deadparrot]

71. Probably a slight midwestern one from time to time.

I don't think there's much of one at all, but a stray word might slip out here and there.

[Magrittes Pipe]

73. I have a southwestern Ohio accent.

I sound like I'm from Dayton.



BUT I AM FROM SPRINGFIELD, YOU ASSHOLES!!!

[WoodrowFan]

102. we don't have accents

I'm from Dayton, we don't HAVE accents.

[mtnester]

74. Flat as can be no accent Ohio...the only time I can pull an accent is when

I saw "crick" and "warsh" and "prolly"

[Kathy in Cambridge]

75. No

[JimmyJazz]

80. *cough* bullshit *cough*

:hi:

[Left Is Write]

79. Yes, I suppose I do.

[Jamastiene]

81. Here's the kicker.

I'm from the south. People from up north tell me I definitely have a strong southern accent. People from the south tell me I have a strong midwestern or even in some cases northern accent. I've never understood how that can be. Either it is southern accent or a midwestern accent or a northern accent. They need to pick one.

My favourite accents though to hear are New York (Brooklyn and Queens), New Jersey, and Boston accents. I love them more than anything. I'm a nut for different accents. I actually wanted to do research on animals to see if southern cats/dogs/etc. have a different accent than northern cats/dogs/etc. I was told that is a stupid idea. Well, they do in the cartoons. Who knows? Maybe they do in real life too.

[mvd]

90. Southern accents are really pretty and charming

:hi:

[scarlet_owl]

82. I have a St. Louis accent. I never knew there was such a thing

until I moved to Illinois. My sister and I were put into speech classes for it. After sixteen years here, I still speak differently than everyone else.

[yvr girl]

83. I don't have an accent but I do use 'Canadian' words, spellings

and pronunciations.

[AlFrankenFan]

84. A faded southern accent

I still say "cain't" "ain't" "y'all" and """"mispronounce""" words according to the Yankess in California...:grr:

[hyphenate]

86. Massachusetts

Boston--'nuff said.

[fleabert]

89. If I am drunk, sleepy, or hanging around other Texans, my Texas twang

comes a runnin'!

[BrotherBuzz]

91. Fifth generation Northern Californian...

We ain't got no accent because, like our morals, we left them at the continental divide.

[tjwmason]

92. No - pretty much straight English R.P.

But I do have occasional dialectic touches from the various places I have lived - such as the Scots use of 'wee' for little.

[Neoma]

94. Difficult question.

A hardly noticeable southern accent.
Then again some times it sounds a bit British..

Depends on which movie i watch maybe?

[RebelOne]

95. I was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Miami, FL.

But I still can't shake the Philly accent.

[RogueTrooper]

98. Scottish

a mixture of West, East and North East Scottish accents.

[Danmel]

101. I'm From Brooklyn

You gotta problem wit dat?

Seriously, I have NY accent, but right after college I worked for a Japanese trading company and one of our clients was in Brownsville Tennessee. Every word out of the reps mouth had fourteen syllables! My boss was from Osaka and he had a very choppy short staccato way of speaking. I couldn't say the letter "R". I'd say wahta, cawh, etc.

Well they put me on the phone as the intermediary cause they just could NOT understand each other. SO I learned how to saw the letter "R". I now naturally say New YoRk, not New Yawk.

But I still have enough of a NY accent to make in pretty clear where I hail from.

[DemExpat]

104. Texan accent - even in speaking Dutch I have this.....

:D

DemEx