Talk about your accent in here!

I'm from California. We talk normal. Everyone else has an accent. LOL Actually...I do use the California regional words. "Dude...that's like hella cool."

 

i say stuff simliar to that, as i said pacific morthwest mixed with typical americna teenager, except i'm from Washington and not california

 

I find it weird when British people say things like 'dude', they can't really pull it off.

 

As a Brit, I agree. But the Scots can pull it easily.

 

I'm not wrong. You can't concisely tell what I'm trying to portray in text. The same way I have no idea why a Boston citizen would sound like a sheep!

 

I'm not really sure, I'm from Nottinghamshire in the UK so I use quite a bit of regional dialect, but as for my accent i'm not sure. My friends from here all say I have an accent but i'm not entirely sure where from??

 

haha, am fae north o scotland, so strong scots accent fir me, och aye!

 

I've got a pretty strong cockney accent but for the occasional dip into a kind of northern/Yorkshire 'blordy 'ell' type of thing. It's very strange. Me Dad's from 'up there' so 'e's to blame, like.

 

I never really though of myself as having an accent at all until I travelled abroad. People on tv talk like I do. Everyone around me talks like I do. It just seemed the normal way to talk. Other than being aware that I used words and expressions that were Cali-only, I wasn't really aware of differences. Then I travelled to England, Wales, and Ireland. People kept telling me that they couldn't understand me because of my accent. First time I thought about it.

 

I have a heavy southern accent. Think I want some "Pi" instead of pie. I love it and hate it.

 

My home is in Greece.
I moved to California when I was 13 so 4 years ago.
My accent is weird, lets just say that.
I talk weird too, or I talked a little different then the Californians to me.
They have accents,to me,as well.
I don't know how to explain it though.
Everyone explain it so much easier then I do.

 

I wish I had an accent other than the accent which in America is referred to as no accent.

 

I wish I had an Irish accent. I just find it pretty cool.

 

Accents are hot. All I need is to hear a British person say "strawberry" and I melt.

 

I'm with you on that once


Im stuck with an Aussie accent, prett average one at that. (Unless i ever go on the Ellen show , speak out and watch re-runs), it' ll always be meh.

 

I'm from Maryland, in the US, and I don't think I have an accent. Maybe people from other countries notice, but I don't think I have one...

 

I'm from southern Australia so i guess i just have an Australian accent...
Although i've been mistaken for English and South African because i don't have the classic stereotypical Australian drawl. No Crocodile Dundee for me
I have a bit of a funny, almost clipped way of speaking. My husband's mum is English (Dover) so when he gets worked up that comes out really strongly!

 

Americans seem to be rubbish at distinguishing commonwealth accents (although to be fair, I'm terrible at North American accents).

People have mistaken me for Australian, British and New Zealand. I do NOT sound like an Aussie, kthx.

 

Ever watched lost

If i see a south African play an Aussie again I'll stone the flaming crows!

 

No, and it sounds like I shouldn't.

Incidentally, Leonardo DiCaprio in Blood Diamond had a pretty good "Rhodie" South African accent, for a movie.

They normally get it horribly wrong, but his was a valiant attempt.

 

I've been mistaken for Irish quite a lot, although i haven't been traveling in a while so I wonder if that would change now my accent is perhaps not as strong, although i imagine if it does change people will think I'm English. It's also quite ironic that people think I have an Irish accent, when that's the one accent I find it so hard to understand, well southern Irish - northern Irish I think I can understand.

 

Well, to people not from the UK, British, Scottish, and Irish sound similar. I can usually tell them apart, but I don't really know a difference between Northern and Southern Irish...

 

There's a very definite difference. I can understand both most of the time. The only accent I struggle with is glaswegian, but I think that's because half of the time they aren't speaking English...

 

I think I speak posh Welsh. yeah yeah i know what you are thinking - thats an oxymoron, but hey give me a chance to explain.

I live in wales, grew up in wales, but got job in Westminster and later PR, and now Psychologist. Have been told many times too lose the accent, as it would hold me back in career (it hasnt!), but thought sod it. I actually don't want to lose it and think everybody should keep their accents, variety is the spice and all that. However, I did lose a lot of the slang that goes with heavy accents, a lot of English speaking Welsh tent to add "s" and "d" to end and beginnings of words, such as " i likes that" or "i d'do that", so what is left, is the welsh think I'm English (sorry guys, but here in taffy land you cant have a worse insult bestowed on you) and the English think I'm welsh, so guess my accent is Wenglish.

 

Ahem what about welsh? Not only do we have our own accent, but we also have our own language!