What's your accent

[HEyHEY]

I've got a Vancouver one....something I never knew was an accent until I was told by a couple people. Supposedly we speak quite fast and mumble our words a bit.

[meegbear]

1. Bostonian

Pahk the cah in Hahvud Yahd.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

2. You've got a WICKED Lynn Accent, pal

Or "Nawth Shoah" accent, I've got a little bit of a Boston one. I say my "r's" but have long vowels.

Here's a link. Listen to the wav files-they're hilarious!!!

http://home.earthlink.net/~lnkn/accent.htm

[maveric]

94. Lynn, Lynn city of sin. You'll never come out the way you went in!

Lynns like paradise compared to Lawrence. My hometown.

[LynneSin]

101. Did someone say "LynneSin"

My name is Lynne it rhymes with sin

:eyes:

[maveric]

93. I gut a fucken pissah Boaston accent!

And my SoCal born and raised kids still tease me about it.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. Weird

Not exactly Brazilian... you'd have to hear. Hm, no mike around.

[Gato Moteado]

4. where i grew up....

...on da nort' side o' chi-caw-go, we don't have dose tings. ahr english is perfect.

[Maddy McCall]

5. Texassippian

Texan with a little bit of southern drawwwwl, yawl. :-)

[Mass_Liberal]

6. I have no accent at all

Have lived in Boston and New York, but have neither accent. Kinda lame, really.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

11. A Northeast accent probably

most people can peg a region but not a city. This is true of a lot of Mass people i know who have lived elsewhere.

[JVS]

33. oops

[Kathy in Cambridge]

36. My dad could tell what neighborhood someone was from in Boston

or whether you were from the North Shore or South Shore. With all the transience these days, the language rule doesn't apply as much because the accents of the younger generations have softened due to college away from home, constant exposure to TV, etc.

In Mass, there are distinct regional accents. Some are reflective of the immigrant groups that settled there. People on the South Shore are OFD (originally From Dorchester) or from Southie, hence the common term "Irish Riviera" to refer to this little region. They speak their own dialect, and sound roougher than the North Shore. There is a distinct Italian-Boston accent (Mr. RR has vestiges of it) that is more sing-songy than regular Boston. Also, different lingo exists from neighborhood to neighborhood. And the North Shore (Nawth Shoah) has longer vowels than people South of Boston, whose accent is more clipped.

People from down near Fall River and New Bedford sound more like NYC folks. They have those Bronxish vowels as in "dawg, dawter, cawfee". Rhode Island talks like this also. there are people down there that I cannot understand.

Anyway, students, there's your lesson on Boston Accents 101.

[caledesi]

66. Same here. nt

[JohnKleeb]

17. you sure man

because we dont think we have accents but we do. BTW I got a question for you, because youve lived in both, Yankees or Sox.
On my accent, I may have one but having met some DUers and who have talked to me, they tell me I have no southern accent. I do make myself sound southern lol if you chat with me lol, I say aint, etc heh, but I dont sound like that at all.
Now if you excuse me I will drink my soda.

[ronnykmarshall]

7. Californian

I sometimes slip into Southern Cal, like ya know?

[proud patriot]

49. Californian here also

Like OMG dude :D

[VOX]

57. Yeah! Aloha, dudes!

Awesome -- see you at the beach, dawgs.

(It's only about 4 miles west of me!):toast:

[shanti]

77. that's tripindicular, dude!

glad to see another from so cal.

[roguevalley]

91. I have the one they want on television: expressionless in terms

of identifying you as a region. The Pacific Northwest
accent. The one most people on television have or aim
to have in news broadcasting. :)

[GainesT1958]

8. A combination of three Southern ones:

Southeastern N.C.; Northwestern Alabama, and Southeastern (Tidewater) Virginian!:D

B-)

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

10. A flat Midwestern twang

Which I hope isn't as boring and monotonous as that of KS Senator Pat Roberts.

I do a mean Cockney accent, however, and like to affect it sometimes to mess with people's minds.

[sasquatch]

9. Southwest Ohio/ third gen. Deutscher.

It's a cross between northern norse(yah!), old German words(Any word with two constinents in a row I pronounce the constanents very hard) and kentucky briar(I occasionaly say "Y'all" and simular words).

[Nikia]

12. My parents say I have a Wisconsin accent now

That annoys me because I found that accent very annoying when I came here.

[VelmaD]

13. I got me a Texas drawl...

and if ya ever heard me ya wouldn't haveta ask. :-)

When I get all het up I sound like Ross Perot's illegitimate love-child.

[TheMightyFavog]

14. I am a Wisconsinite.

ergo, I have no accent.

[Liberal Christian]

107. Also from Wisconsin

Also have no accent

Odd how other people do, though.

[eyesroll]

15. Standard Chicago suburban one

But when I'm talking to someone, I begin to take on traces of their accent after awhile.

On edit: I've probably assimilated a bit of the Milwaukee accent as well, since I've lived here for several years.

[slinkerwink]

16. I have a deaf accent, and most people don't know I'm deaf because

I speak well, so they assume that the accent is Eastern European in origin.

[Kellanved]

18. well

German, I guess. :shrug:
My German is a mix of Hessian and a little Berlin.

[wellstone_democrat]

19. NE Prep School with "Texas" sort of starting to drift in

on certain words. Someone told me today that it was "creepy" to hear

[jonnyblitz]

20. my friend from Calgary says I have a "Nanny (Fran Drescher)"

accent which I know I DONT. HE says OOOOT AND ABOOOOT for "out and about" so screw him! LOL. :crazy:

[JohnKleeb]

24. WTF does that mean

I talked to you a lot at the late October protest and I didnt detect a Fran Drescher in you. :hi: Jonny havent seen you in a while, I got some files that you may be interested in, with your red leanings.
You really didnt have any accent that I noticed but what do I know, I just a Virginian. Do you think I had one?

[jonnyblitz]

29. LOL

my red leanings? SHHHHHHHHHH *looks around* :hi:

[JohnKleeb]

53. I can flee to old country quicker than you can say guten tag

:)
:hi: man
havent seen you in a while

[HEyHEY]

32. he's probably messing with ya

No one says ooot and aboot, here that's an old myth.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

39. That's more like Nova Scotia

I have met Canadians that say "oot" and "aboot". Yes indeedy.

[HEyHEY]

110. I think people use the wrong term

I don't hear an ooo sound..it's more like a slight Irish accent on the word.

[jonnyblitz]

85. nooo...he says oooot and aboooot!!

LOL. I call him OOOT. He is one of my most favorite people of all time!

[Whitacre D_WI]

21. Sauthwesstern Ahia wit some Milwaukee in der too.

Mainly SW OH; but I will occasionally slip into the Milwaukee accent when drunk, or when speaking to someone from Cudahy, which is a similar feeling.

[bigwillq]

22. The Valley One

right here in sunny..................Connecticut. If you're from CT you might know what I mean.

[Breezy du Nord]

23. I suppose a little Minnesotan

But just a little. Not as bad as my dad's. he's a ranger.

[Lizz612]

88. Me too

Parents are from Chicago/Wisconsin area, and i was raised in St. Paul, the MDers think I have a funny accent, I think theirs is funny.

[VicariousDemocrat]

25. WHAT'S YOUR ACCENT

Trinbagonian (Trinidad & Tobago), Canadian & American.
(Newbie here).

[HEyHEY]

30. hey welcome to DU

[shanti]

hey trinbagonian!

welcome to DU:-)

[gyopsy]

26. Floridians don't have accents

well, real ones do I suppose. But I was born in FL and never really had one. I think it's the NY influence down here.

[Ramsey]

27. Neutral American

I do say a few words that reveal my Southern roots, such as "y'all" and I have a slight twang on my "u's". But mostly people that meet me guess that I am from New York or California. I have that sort of neutral, newscaster American accent.

[corporatewhore]

28. A fake brittish accent

:P

[TrogL]

31. South, Southern Ontario with a Buffalo overlay corrupted by British

I grew up in Southern Ontario, which has its own accent, near Niagara Falls which makes it really nasal, but listening to Bob Weinstein of WKBW TV Buffalo NY added a twang to it which didn't help by raised by parents with half-assed (probably fake) British (say around Manchester) accents (or maybe it's from my British lover from the early 80's)

[devilgrrl]

35. That's Irv Weinstein

not Bob Whatever, why you nut! :spank:

[baldguy]

54. My dog attacked him once.

Well, his shoes anyway. Puppies tend to have fun that way.



He was real nice about it.

[July]

81. Hey, you "pistol-packing punks"!!!

Woo-hoo!!! Buffalo girl here (live in NJ now). You have a picture of Irv!

[TrogL]

83. Right. I know what happened

I know another journalist in Buffalo named Bob. I conflated the two.

[devilgrrl]

34. A lot of people think I'm from Philly or Toronto.

I did live in both communities, guess I picked up a bit from each.

[CalebHayes]

37. I think mine is pretty normal, but thats what everyone thinks...

I'm from Seattle and I talk like everyone on TV and on the radio. Does that count? Do I have a Seattle accent?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

38. I prolly groo up with an accent like the one in Farrgo

but then I moved to de eas' coas' for naw-een yeahs, and when I came back to Minnesohda, people weh always asking, "Arr you frum Noo Yorrrk?" After that, I moved out to the west for eighteen years, and when I came back to Minnesota, a few people asked if I was from England. :wtf:

At this point, the Pacific Northwest elements, similar to Midwestern but softer, probably predominate, but I still slip into Eastern when I'm irritated. When speaking to older relatives, I find that they understand me better if I speak stereotypical Minnesotan, as they do. This may be due to the emphatic articulation in that dialect.

[Blue-Jay]

40. I'm not sure I *have* an accent.

I tend to (unintentionally) parrot someone's accent back to them when I'm talking. My mother says that I've always done that.

That said, when I'm drunk, I slide into my grandfather's Scottish accent. Again, I don't even realize that I'm doing it until someone mentions it to me.

[Whitacre D_WI]

58. You don't sound a damn lick like a Springfielder,

that's fersure.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

41. I have a vague Glasgow accent, but kind of posh sounding.

Not that I'm posh or anything.
P.S. Vancouver does not have an accent. Unless sounding stoned is an accent (I keed)

[Whitacre D_WI]

62. So, you sound like a Glaswegian aristocrat...

...wow.

I sound like an unwashed hick.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

63. Glaswegian Aristocrat is like Progressive Conservative

Hell of an oxymoron.

[Whitacre D_WI]

64. I'm just picturing the Rezillos at high tea.

Or were they from Edinburgh?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

67. Edinburgh. Glaswegian bands include but are not limited to...

Orange Juice, Teenage Fanclub, Primal Scream, Belle and Sebastian, Delgados, Franz Ferdinand, Snow Patrol, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Travis, Jesus and Mary Chain, Aztec Camera.

[Whitacre D_WI]

70. Oh.

I like the Rezillos way better than any of them.

Though I do get into a JAMC mood every now and again.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

75. The Rezillos / Revillos were great.

Particularly 'Top of the Pops' and 'Can't stand my baby'

[Whitacre D_WI]

79. Nothing beats their cover of "I Like It."

Though "Destination Venus" comes close.

[T_i_B]

96. Posh Glasgow?

:crazy:

Myself, I have a faint Yorkshire accent (as I am originally from Sheffield) but as I've been living in deepest darkest Essex for 5 years now that has weakened a bit.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

104. I sound like Stuart, the singer from Belle and Sebastian, if that helps

[cryfordawn]

42. Buffalonian Accent

I moved to Dayton Ohio for a few years and at my first job they made me repeat the word Bombers over and over and would laugh so hard. I didn't get the joke. But I guess they say we have an accent here. It is Pop not soda. hehehe... Oh well.

[LuLu550]

43. Non-regional American

I sound like a TV news broadcaster.

[SmileyBoy]

44. One-third Minnesotan, one-third (Manitoba) Canadian, one-third gay.

So I sometimes spout out the "ya, you betcha" and the "eh?". All that with the sprinkle of the gay accent.

[Vogon_Glory]

45. Generic American Mid-Western

My accent these days is generic American Mid-Western, despite the fact that I was born in and have lived most of my life here in Texas. It's not that I'm not proud of the better parts of my Texas heritage, it's that the American Mid-Western accent seems to be more widely understood by most people I talk to, even the Texas-accented minimum-wage drones working on the telephone.

I have a limited amount of control of my Texas accent. I usually trot it out when asking for directions in a strange city.

[camero]

46. Southern

The Canadian women love my accent. :)

[fudge stripe cookays]

47. I confuse a lot of people...Texa-bertan

Those of us who know Austin know the drill. Sort of a non-accent.

A lot of people think I'm from California, since an Austin accent isn't a heavy duty syrupy one like the rest of Texas.

But sometimes a little drawl comes through. reprehensor says I say "buuuuk" and "cuuuuuuuk" instead of book and cook.

Plus, I've started picking up some of his Albertan a bit. Sometimes I hear myself for a second and think "Geez! I sound like Margie in Fargo. How did that happen?"

Henry Higgins would have a field day with me!

[pagerbear]

48. I sound like a fag.

Could be because I am one.

[kitkatrose]

Memphis Accent. The more you know me,

the more it comes out. I've also been told it comes out when I'm hungry. :shrug:

[kitkatrose]

50. Oopsie. Dupe...

[Kat45]

51. Boston. No r's where they belong. (I always pak my cah)...

but some r's where they don't belong

[MisterP]

52. faint German, Ws go to Vs occasionally

[aquaman]

55. Well,

I have lived in South Carolina for most of my life, and my family is from here. However, before I was born my parents lived overseas for eight years and lost some of their southern drawl. I never thought I had a southern accent, that is until I went to Boston for a week. I was then told that I did.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

56. Southern. All my Yankee friends call me "hillbilly"

[Bake]

59. Genuine by-God Southern!

I lost a lot of it when I was in the Cincinnati area (N.Ky.). But since I came to Mis'sippi, it has come ROARING back!

Bake

[Nevernose]

60. East Texas twang

I worked really hard on losing the accent when I left Texas, though I've been told that when I drink I sound like Boomhauer from "King of the Hill."

[RebelOne]

61. Born in Philadelphia, PA, raised in Miami, FL

Now living in Atlanta, GA area and still have the Philly, PA accent.

[elperromagico]

65. I'm from Arkansas, but my accent apparently is more midwestern.

However, I have some eccentric pronounciations in my lexicon:

Sorry is pronounced "Sore E"
Tomorrow is "Too More Oh"
Arkansas is "Ar Kin Sah," not "Or Kin Saw"
And of course, Either is "Eye Thurr"

[tigereye]

69. one parent from outside Boston (Woosteh) and one from

Western New York with hard r's; and I grew up in W. Pa and still live in Pittsburgh, so I am developing more of a Pgh accent - catch myself saying "rill" instead of real, dill instead of deal, etc. My brothers say yunz, but I don't.

[Burma Jones]

68. That's tough...N'Awlins some, some midwestern

It depends on whether I've been drinking. In the DC area, nobody noticed any sort of accent. When I went out to the midwest for college, they all thought I had a southern accent. I DO pronounce a lot of words like they do in New Orleans. We spent three years there when I was a kid. Mostly, I was raised in Indiana and the DC area

[Spider Jerusalem]

71. So-called "General American Dialect".

Spent my linguistic formative years in (non-redneck) Florida and California, which is probably why.

[Eumenides]

72. I have the dumb ass accent

I live in dumb ass-ville Florida. I could be a freakin rocket scientist but when someone hears me speak, it's like, "Hey, who's that dumb-ass?"

[Gildor Inglorion]

73. North Georgia Mountain Accent

I probably sound like Zell Miller, since we were reared two counties apart, but I never SAY anything that he says. Not all hillbillies are rednecks.

[shanti]

74. a cross between

cali valley girl, ghetto fab, and rasta cool ;-)

[dpbrown]

76. Wisconsin

Nearly U.P.

Although when I traveled overseas, people sometimes asked me if I was from Canada.

There you go.

Dan Brown
Saint Paul, Minnesota

[brainwashed_youth]

78. southern

I'm a good ole boy through and through

[carpetbagger]

80. New York (LI) x Appalachian/Mid-Atlantic.

Nobody can really target where I'm from, or even close. Appearently, when you put the two together, people say I sound like I'm from the Midwest, although I don't think it sounds at all like any Midwestern accent I've encountered.

[last_texas_dem]

82. Very weak southern

People from outside the south can probably tell where I'm from, but I actually have a fairly weak accent compared to a lot of southerners. My accent is more "southern drawl" than "Texas twang", though, which is good as I'd much rather sound like John Edwards than *. I'm not too big on "southern pride", but I do love iced tea, ranch dressing, chicken fried steak with gravy, and think "y'all" is one of the most practical words ever created, and encourage more "Yankees" to start using it!

[Endangered Specie]

84. Southern accent.

Yall hear?

[kixot]

86. South Florida.

So basically like anyone on CNN.

[Ysabel]

87. i sound like this...

http://www.msn.fullfeed.com/~lorax/kimb/NewSound.wav

[BiggJawn]

89. KGB Midwestern

Ever hear a Russian who learned English from the KGB? They sound like they live south of the great lakes and north of the Ohio. and that's as close as you can get to nailing it down.

Too much shortwave listening. I'm surprised I don't speak with more of a "cut-glass BBC accent"....

[populistmom]

90. Midwestern female soprano, also known...

to insert a bit of Swedish twang on occasion.

[Westegg]

92. "Pittsburgh," in theory...

But, while I was born and raised there, I seem to have missed "the accent" of lore.

"Yinz gone dawn-tawn, an' at? Pick me up a sixer of Arn...Cu-mawn. Don' be a jagg-off." Translation: "Are you fellows going to the downtown area? If so, please buy me a six-pack of Iron City beer. Come on now: Please don't be an asshole about this. "

[youngred]

95. Ontario Canadian

Oddly enough.

[Ekova]

99. Yep.

Me too.

[youngred]

105. Odd thing is, I'm not Canadian

I was born in Albany NY, moved to Rochester NY, and my only influence is going across the border a couple times a year :shrug:

are you Canadian with that accent?

[renegade000]

97. generic mid-atlantic...

so generic...haha

[La_Serpiente]

98. Hawaii

Well, I don't really cut off sharply on the consonants. I do elongate my vowels though.

[Cuban_Liberal]

109. Hawaiian accents are soooooo sexy!

:evilgrin:

[Hubert Flottz]

100. Campbell's Creek(krik)Rogue Brogue aka Hillbilly!

I'm southern fried but I've been fried in the north, east and west too, and WV still has some of the best of everthang! Best, Mountain Momma's, Mountain Vistas, Mountain climbing, Mountain Streams, Mountain Dew, Mountaineers! We have nothing but mountains to climb here in WV, but when you get to the top of the mountains, you can look down on the rest of the world!

We've got the best of everything bad for ya, and we worst of everything good for ya! Our glass is never half empty here, it's either Plum Empty, or Clear Full! Our idea of stimulating the economy here lately though, is throwing our empty beer cans out the truck window, so some poor soul can feed the kids, by collecting and selling the cast off beer cans! We now have some potholes in our main roads here, that are rapidly becoming some of the grandest canyons east of the Mississippi river!

One thing that makes this such a GOOD place to be, is the people! These people have backbones like an Ironwood, just like the old song says! The sad thing to see here is the wrecking of our mountains and streams by the Coal Baron's RABID UNREGULATED Strip mining! The energy companies here want to turn our God given beauty into a large, gray, gloomy, flat, featureless, SHIT HOLE, in return for some quick easy cash and they FUND George Dymbya Bush! Bush is letting the strip miners run wild here now and he has wiped out all the regulations regarding environmental protection!

So if you want to come see what a pretty state this is, you'd better hurry before our grand old mountains are forever leveled and our beautiful sparkling streams are bulldozed over with dirt and rock! People who would allow the land to be so wisely unused, should not be leading us, we should be leading them, to jail!

Idle minds are the GOPer's workshop!

EDIT}}}SWAN SONG?

Official Song of the
State of West Virginia

West Virginia Hills

1. Oh, the West Virginia hills! How majestic and how grand,
With their summits bathed in glory, Like our Prince Immanuel's Land!
Is it any wonder then, That my heart with rapture thrills,
As I stand once more with loved ones On those West Virginia hills?

CHORUS:

Oh, the hills, beautiful hills, How I love those West Virginia hills!
If o'er sea o'er land I roam, Still I'll think of happy home,
And my friends among the West Virginia hills.

2. Oh, the West Virginia hills! Where my childhood hours were passed,
Where I often wandered lonely, And the future tried to cast;
Many are our visions bright, Which the future ne'er fulfills;
But how sunny were my daydreams On those West Virginia hills!

CHORUS

3. Oh, the West Virginia hills! How unchang'd they seem to stand,
With their summits pointed skyward To the Great Almighty's Land!
Many changes I can see, Which my heart with sadness fills;
But no changes can be noticed In those West Virginia hills.

CHORUS

4. Oh, the West Virginia hills! I must bid you now adieu.
In my home beyond the mountains I shall ever dream of you;
In the evening time of life, If my Father only wills,
I shall still behold the vision Of those West Virginia hills.

CHORUS

[LynneSin]

102. Pure Pennsylvania Dutch

Grew up in the area and it was normal to speak that strange accent. Add in the fact I have a small speech impediment and I have the silliest dialect

[Parrcrow]

103. Ottawa Valley

slightly Irish sounding but with definite 'oot and aboot' qualities.
more pronounced when I'm with my family.
I do a killer mimic of Newfie too. "I'm after foolin' de bys from da Rock my sohn."

[Bonhomme Richard]

106. Philly - but then again people from Philly...........

don't have accents.

[Cuban_Liberal]

108. Flat Midwestern with a Hoosier twang.

:)

[GreenPartyVoter]

111. Downeast and Middle Atlantic mixed together