Live on the west coast of the US, which means I have almost no accent what so ever. Although, I like to do accents, so I have a tendency to slip in and out of various accents (for example, when I'm tired, I some times talk in a southern drawl).
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All I can say it's a bizarre thing that probably no one else in the entire world has, my own personal accent if you will, couldn't help developing a strange accent since as a kid I was always moving between cities all over México, so I have an amalgamation of around 13 different accents which is only made stranger by the fact that for some reason my Spanish language is really proper, normally using words that most people aren't familiar with, and then you throw English in the mix which I learned from TV and school but in school I was taught UK English because that is the proper one, you know? So basically it's just weird and also ridiculously monotone, though I have been told by some women that it's sexy so at least it has that going for it.
It's impossible not to have an accent and technically speaking if any place were to have English without accent it would be some part of England, given that the language originated there but given the time that has passed English without an Accent is probably non-existent, just saying, also to you it will always be the other people that ones that sound like they have accent because yours is always going to sound like the default accent, so I take it you mean you have West Coast US accent.GrimTuesday said:
English. I mean, I lived in North Wales most of my life but I wouldn't call my accent Welsh, so English will have to do (that's what everyone in Canada says it is anyway. Or Australian, for some weird reason).
I'm from Toronto, so I suppose my baseline accent is sort of Canadian/American - I don't really notice any regional oddities with it, outside remnants of Scots, although I suppose we all need a baseline.
That said, I grew up with a mid-strength Edinburgh accent, courtesy of my mother, until it naturalized, so I've always been fascinated by accents. I can still whip out my old accent, as I can different varieties of many other accents. If I'm exposed to a voice that sounds distinctive, I will either try to mimic it, or I'll just start doing it accidentally.
That said, I grew up with a mid-strength Edinburgh accent, courtesy of my mother, until it naturalized, so I've always been fascinated by accents. I can still whip out my old accent, as I can different varieties of many other accents. If I'm exposed to a voice that sounds distinctive, I will either try to mimic it, or I'll just start doing it accidentally.
I slip between my regular white Canadian guy voice, and an Irish accent. Thanks to my father. His parents were both from Ireland, but he's not full time accent either.
Nottingham lad here.
So as a someone who lives in the East Midlands, our accents are neither Northern, nor Southern.
Depending on the person, it can sway further towards either direction.
Myself? I don't really have an accent, but I have my formal voice, in which I enuciate my words properly, and then there's my everyday voice, which still isn't as slang filled as most locals', but I sometimes leave the 'H' off a lot of words.
I 'urt myself
I 'ate it
'ippopotamus
And even then, I tend to pronounce them properly more often than not.
So as a someone who lives in the East Midlands, our accents are neither Northern, nor Southern.
Depending on the person, it can sway further towards either direction.
Myself? I don't really have an accent, but I have my formal voice, in which I enuciate my words properly, and then there's my everyday voice, which still isn't as slang filled as most locals', but I sometimes leave the 'H' off a lot of words.
I 'urt myself
I 'ate it
'ippopotamus
And even then, I tend to pronounce them properly more often than not.
I'm from Canada and parts of my speech have a bit of Wisconsin in them, or so I've been told. I mean uh... what're you talking aboot hoser?
Black Country:
Kaylied - Intoxicated
Yampy - Crazy
Oss - Horse
Giz a goo - Let me have a go
Ar - Yes
Tar - Thank You
Ai - Isn't
Dai - Didn't
Doe/Dow - Doesn't
Yow am - You are
Jed - Dead
Jeded - Died
Tay - Tea
Bostin - Good
Fittle - Food
Bonk - Bank (Eg. Quarry Bonk)
Though accents around the Black Country vary from settlement to settlement they each share a common vocabulary sometimes.
Mine ai as thick as some people from arahnd here but I wish it was a bit mowa.
Kaylied - Intoxicated
Yampy - Crazy
Oss - Horse
Giz a goo - Let me have a go
Ar - Yes
Tar - Thank You
Ai - Isn't
Dai - Didn't
Doe/Dow - Doesn't
Yow am - You are
Jed - Dead
Jeded - Died
Tay - Tea
Bostin - Good
Fittle - Food
Bonk - Bank (Eg. Quarry Bonk)
Though accents around the Black Country vary from settlement to settlement they each share a common vocabulary sometimes.
Mine ai as thick as some people from arahnd here but I wish it was a bit mowa.
I have a generally Australian accent, and I can't hear myself properly so I don't know how different it is from people from other areas. I do know that I roll my r's more than most other Aussies, prompting many Aussies to ask if I have ever spent time in (or originated from) countries like Ireland, the USA and the UK. I never get that question from those guys though (paddys, yanks and poms that is).
As for regional accents, I can't really tell you much. I personally find the differences to subtle to describe. I can usually guess if someone's from Victoria or WA or Queensland but only if I'm trying (from Sydney by the way). I think the best way to describe the Australian accent is lazy pronunciation and enunciation. Such as "Fucken" or "Bludg'n" instead of "Fucking" and "Bludging".
As for regional accents, I can't really tell you much. I personally find the differences to subtle to describe. I can usually guess if someone's from Victoria or WA or Queensland but only if I'm trying (from Sydney by the way). I think the best way to describe the Australian accent is lazy pronunciation and enunciation. Such as "Fucken" or "Bludg'n" instead of "Fucking" and "Bludging".
I have a Northumbrian accent. It's essentially a rural Geordie accent, the two aren't particularly different though. We're able to tell the difference but it's rare that you'll find anyone else who can.
There are far too many colloquialisms to list them all here.
There are far too many colloquialisms to list them all here.
I live in Ohio, but was born in Tennessee, and my mother is from Texas.
For the most part, nobody really mentions noticing an accent, but I've got those moments where the south comes out in me.
For the most part, nobody really mentions noticing an accent, but I've got those moments where the south comes out in me.
I come from the state of Iowa, so apparently that means I have no accent. Or you could say that the lack of a distinct accent is itself an accent.
Fun Fact: National news (that's USA national news) companies actually look for people from the midwest for anchors and reporters and such because apparently because the lack of accent, if you want to call it that, is much more easily understood nation wide than a, say, southern, or northern, or east coast accent.
Although I do tend to say the word Wisconsin with a Wisconsin accent. That would be an elongation of the "o" sound. Wisc-on-sin.
Fun Fact: National news (that's USA national news) companies actually look for people from the midwest for anchors and reporters and such because apparently because the lack of accent, if you want to call it that, is much more easily understood nation wide than a, say, southern, or northern, or east coast accent.
Although I do tend to say the word Wisconsin with a Wisconsin accent. That would be an elongation of the "o" sound. Wisc-on-sin.
Well, I've got a good ear for picking apart dialects, but from what I've heard of you on the YouTubes, you don't have an accent. Of course, you could just be doing that whole "try to sound neutral" kind of thing. I wouldn't know a damn thing about that.Redlin5 said:
Seeing as how I'm from Utah, I've got a slight Utahn (Western-Rockies, I guess you'd call it) accent. Basically, take an easy to understand default voice, murder the hell out of every T in a word besides the first one, and lop the G off of every "ing" verb.
You sometimes get weird shit like "Rocky Moun'ains" from us. Luckily, I've effectively corrected the T bullshit in my own accent, though the G problem still remains.
I'm English/French but I have what people would call a relatively neutral American accent (Ohio-ish I guess...think Ted from How I Met Your Mother). This can change sometimes since I do pick up verbal mannerisms randomly such as saying "Howdy" and "Y'all". People also say that I can sometimes get some Irish in my accent from time spent in close proximity to an Irish family nearby.
My accent's kind of a mix between typical New Yorkah, and a tad Canadian, being upstate and not far from the Canadian border. I tend to extend "a" sounds, and they come out more like "ah", I turn words like "awesome" into "aouwesome" or "balls" into "baowls". Also, "i"s come out as kinda "eh" sounding sometimes. So yea, that happened.