[Typo]

I don't know why I was thinking of this today but I was I think it was because I called my cell phone to find it and I heard my voicemail.
I love accents..I like to listen to people with accents talk..I find it so interesting...just where they come from or what it's like to live where they live.
I always thought I lacked a particular accent..boy I was wrong!!
I didn't realize what a strong southren accent I had!! I kinda of noticed it when I was in Washington D.C. but I've been noticing it more and more and after hearing my voicemail..I was shocked to hear how strong it was.
I've been noticing it all day when I talk..I'm suprised I never noticed it before. I mean there are certain words that I notice it on like lightning and iron but I am notiticing it all the time now. Yes I know I'm a dork for just now figuring it out. lol.

So I was wondering if anyone hear noticed if they had an accent..or have a certain accent that they thought was intresting?

[silver_moon]

I'm from northern England and apparently I have a broad Yorkshire accent although I never thought I had one. Recently I've been having conversations with people about accents and I realised maybe I do have a Yorkshire accent... I hardly ever say the and I pronounce certain words differently or 'wrong' according to the 'Queen's English'
I notice it more and more when I speak now, though usually after I've said something, and I quite like my accent (even though I probably sound common to a lot of people )

One accent I really love is the Irish accent, don't know why but it's really nice

Molly

[splitimage]

I kind of laugh about my accent. I don't think I have one, of course nobody thinks that they have an accent. But everybody tells me I sound American, not Canadian & thinks I'm American when they first meet me. My friend who is American says I have a bit of a New York accent ?!?

I just blame it on my speach therapist when I was a kid. I had a malformed jaw and had a lot of trouble talking so I had a speach therapist for years and so I guess I learned to talk like her. LOL.

spltimage

[pachyderm]

Even some people from states like Minnesota and Wisconsin have accents noticeable to me!

'Course all I have is an American accent...

[sarahlilianne]

I'm French Canadian and do i have an accent when I speak English?Nooooo ooooo!
Lily

[sabby]

I love all kinds of different accents. My favorite accent would be that of the very deep romance language accents such as Romanian/Italian/Latin. I could listen to those accents all the time and I would be happy


sabby

[splitimage]

One of my favourite accent stories is from when I was living in Ottawa. The synagogue I attended hired a new Rabbi from Georgia. He had a really strong southern accent. I took quite awhile to get used to hearing his Hebrew with a drawl.

--splitimage

[free2beme]

hey, y'all,


I didn't, realize I had an accent until I went to upstate NY and was ordering a meal at a fast food restaurant. 3 people took my order. I didn't think anything about it until I saw all of the employees standing behind the counter staring at me grinning.

[seeker1950]

HI, y'all...Well, I'm from West Virginia, so, yes, I do have an accent...
Even within our small state, you can tell where people are from because of their accent. The southern part of the state is very distinctive, while the northern part has barely any noticeable Southern drawl. When my daughter was in high school, she wanted to rid herself of the WV accent, and she asked me to order tapes for her on elocution, which I did, but after she went off to college out of state, she became proud of her roots, and let the WV drawl roll of the tongue.
She used to be embarrassed when we would go thru a fast food drive-thru, and I'd fake a Brooklyn accent, or a French one. I love learning accents!
Patty

[HALLIEBETH87]

just kentucky accent here

[jbug]

I grew up in Nebraska where I don't think I had much of an accent but since I've moved to Arkansas I've picked up a slight one. There are certain words like oil and y'all that have a slight drawl to them. My cousins would tell me though when I was growing up that I did have an accent but I didn't believe them cuz I didn't hear it.

Jbug

[(JD)]

I take on the accent of the language I'm speaking. But in general, have been told I don't carry any particular accent.

I remember when I was learning how to write from a British author neighbor, I would always talk with a brit accent for hours afterwards I have to work at it still today, to not take on the accent of with whom I'm speaking.

[Liberada]

Flat Southern drawl here ... y'all (pronounced 'yaw'... like 'dawg')

[free2beme]

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Ya reckon?

I love some English accents like Selfy (havent spoken to her but i go there on holiday every year) love the southern Irish accent, so soft, my accent is middle english not quite as broad as Yorkshire but i love their accent too. I love southern american accents, WM speaks with an awesome accent and so does Cajun who is from Louisiana but now lives in Mississippi.... there is just something so lovely about the american accents ..... i love Italians when they speak English too .... very sexy ..... of course I love the north east accent (Newcastle) because my grandad was a georgie .... can't beat the geordie accent imho

g'day, Jinny xoxoxoxoxoxo lol

I dont have an accent its everyone else who has.

[free2beme]

Love it too , Jinnyann.

[sujunew]

Our country is so small we all have the same accent lol! With the exception of the lower South Island, where they roll their 'r's...My father grew up there but I grew up in the north of the North Island, yet I still managed to roll my 'r's. 6 years ago I moved to the very bottom of the South Island and fit in perfectly now!!! When i stayed in Germany one of the English teachers there insisted i had an American accent although it isn't a tiny bit like that!!! My ex-husband is from Northern Ireland but I never really noticed his accent. (Btw I LOVE the Irish and Scottish accents!!!).

I was born in Liverpool, and my parents spoke a lot of French at home, and I moved when I was pretty young- but somehow when I speak English I retain the accent. It's mixed in with my Québécois accent now, which makes for a very odd sounding accent My girlfriend is from Australia, so our children, when they're older, are going to have very strange accents!

When we speak French, though, we both have very Québécois accents.

<font color="purple"> I have same kind of accnt that people out in the rockies have- no accent except once in awhile when I goof up talking and I sound like I have a foreign accent it's kind of european-ish sounding when that happens.</font>

[nightbird]

me three ... (((kerry and free2beme)))

peace,
night

Originally from Bawstin (Boston) Massachusetts where we pahk the cah in Hahvad yahd and get a nice cold drink from a bubbla.

[Typo]

That is awesome Orange_Blossom!!

I was at work the other night and I waited on these two Australian guys!!
I was really shocked to here an Australian accent here in Arkansas, I kinda of got tickled when I was handing them their food and asking them how their day was.
I guess I get so excited over accents because I live in the middle of nowhere and it's always really refreshing to hear something diffrent.

You'd like it here in Florida then. Just on my Cul De Sac alone we have people from,

Ohio
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Washington State
Puerto Rico
Michigan
Massachusetts

That's all I know, they're probably more.

And that's only 14 houses!

I grew up in Nebraska too. When I left to join the Army, I was stationed in Georgia. After a few months there, my mom told me she could hear a Southern accent when I called home.

I went to London a couple years ago and found that it was a little difficult to understand anyone at first even though they were all speaking English.

I work in technology so I hear a lot of Indian accents. I've been living in Colorado for 10 year but still have a bit of a Northern California surfer accent from my time there at the end of my Army tour.