Do you have a noticeable regional accent? If so, what is it and what do you think of it?

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  5. I certainly don’t think so, but a colleague from Texas once asked me if I was “from New York or something.”

    I have a softened Delco (Philly) accent that I guess isn’t noticeable unless you’re from waaaaayyy out of state.

  6. No. Most people don’t believe me when I say I’m from Texas. Although, somehow when my friends and I are playing online all of us magically gain a strong drawl…none of us have an accent in any other situation.

  7. I’ve been told by friends that I have the strongest midwestern/Minnesotan accent out of everyone they know

    I wear it with pride honestly, also I kinda have the ability to tone it down depending on who I’m interacting with

  8. No, being originally from SoCal and Seattle, I sound a bit like a newscaster. But my inner valley girl comes out when I’m drunk

    I love hearing regional accents!

  9. I have a little bit of a Southern accent. I put a lot of effort into losing it as a kid, and now I wish I hadn’t.

  12. I have a very generic Midwestern accent I think, though my region likely comes out in certain words without my noticing.

  13. People in Alaska say that I sound Californian from my slang but maybe less from the accent.

  14. To quote Stephen Colbert from his Colbert Report days, “we sound like we’re from nowhere…which is partially true.”

  15. >Do you have a noticeable regional accent?

    Yes

    >If so, what is it and what do you think of it?

    Umm, Ozark trash? I don’t really think about it most of the time. It’s just my accent. I can turn it off if I think I need to, but that’s pretty rare.

  17. Midwest accent I guess, which if you’re not farther north is pretty much a ‘neutral’ accent (although I do say “ope”).

  18. Half of people say I have a thick accent, half say I have none at all. Besides that people tend to laugh when I say bag and I don’t know why.

  19. my wife laughs when I say words like “oil” and “truck” which I find weird, especially since she grew up not 15 miles from where I did.

    I think my accent is similar to “cowboy kent rollins”, only I’m from kansas and not oklahoma so I don’t think mine is near as thick as his.

  21. I don’t. I mean, it’s probably Southern but not a stereotypical Southern drawl. Had people up north tell me something to that effect. Born in Charleston, SC, raised and educated in AL, with parents from VA. I guess I’m an amalgamation of those three. I say some things like a Virginian (told to me by Virginians), some things like a South Carolinian, some things like an Alabamian.

    And I guess I’m fine with it. People don’t assume I’m some illiterate country bumpkin when I talk. (I am no longer illiterate).

  22. My husband has a Boston accent.
    People just say that I sound from “the North”. I’m good with it.

  23. I’m from Queens so a NY accent I guess, but not your typical “fuhgeddaboudit” accent. I’m Latino so I don’t sound like Larry David or Robert De Niro. If anything my accent sounds more like John Leguizamo.

  24. I have an accent- everyone does, even people who lie to themselves- but it’s a Northern New England accent. Because it’s not a cartoon “Bawstin” accent, people from outside the area don’t usually recognize it. I’ve been mistaken for Canadian, before, by non-Americans.

    (When my Da visited England in the 50s, he said, nobody recognized American accents that weren’t “New Yorkers, Cowboys or Gangsters”. Not like when I went in the 90s, when they couldn’t tell what it was if you didn’t talk like a New Yorker, Texan or Gangsta. 🙂 )

  25. You betcha. I’m not native to Wisconsin, but I am told mine is thicker than most. It’s borderline Upper Peninsula. The Midwest accents in general I think are great.

    I do go full South Baltimore when I drink with my dad. That’s a ridiculous accent based on a volume of dropped syllables and converted vowels. Think French meets drunken Welsh.

  26. I had much more of a regional accent when I was younger, the whole area is losing it, although it comes out when we’re angry. Or talking about coffee

  27. Growing up I had a Baltimorean accent but moved to the south,now I have a strange mix of the two

  28. I didn’t think so until I heard my children with a slight Murland accent. They are not growing up in Maryland, so I know where they got it from.

  29. Yes and no. My Pittsburghese accent is in there, lurking, but I’ve actively worked to suppress it since I was in middle school.

    It does sneak out when I’m around too many other people who have it, or I’ve had a bit to drink or am agitated.

  30. I grew up in western Iowa and have lived in the middle US all my life. I think we are kind of known for having a neutral American accent. Older or more rural people might sound a little different but I think mostly it is pretty subtle.

    My thoughts on it are that it probably doesn’t sound very interesting.

  31. born and raised in Michigan, and a friend from San Francisco always (playfully) made fun of my “Midwest accent,” which I never knew was a thing. Heavily defined by wide-mouth vowels or diphthong vowels, and a Midwest accent often includes very fast and sometimes slurred speech.

    Ex: Mom, Rock, Pot sound like mAHHm, rAHHk, pAHHt. The mouth goes wide.
    Bad, Dad sound like Bayad, Dayad. Almost like there’s a second syllable.

    And some examples of fast, slurred speech includes the phrase, “I am going to-.”
    No midwesterner will ever say it word for word; Instead it becomes, “Imma/Imana (Eye-ma, Eye-mah-nah.”
    “Imana run to the store,” “Imma head to work”

    “Did you” = “Ju.” (Rhymes with ‘you’)

    “Ju eat dinner yet?” “Ju wanna come to the store with me?”

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