I have a fairly thick Boston accent if I speak normally. I try to slow down and enunciate though. I have nothing against the accent, I just prefer everyone doesn't immediately know where I'm from within 5 minutes of meeting me.
Do you have an accent?
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I've been brought up in England for my life, and my family is Scottish, so whenever I talk to people on VC for the first time, they always say I sound very British xD. I have had a few of my colleagues say that I sound like i'm from 'up north' aka Manchester/Edinburgh, so I guess even though my mum mainly speaks in an English accent all the time, a bit of the Scottish managed to get into my speech. On a slightly weirder note, both me and my mum have had several people ask us IRL if we're from Australia? I'm pale as anything IRL and don't think I sound Australian at all so it always confuses me lol.
Crunchy_Water
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East coast new england accent..but apparently to my family i have a slight southern accent despite me never having been down there in my life lol
I just moved to a new England area and compared to the folks here, I definitely have an accent. I've been pretty amused with how most people have some variation of a boston accent around here. Though for here, its normal and I'm the one with the accent.
Theoneandonlymegan
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The accent in my area is kind of hard to explain but basically people in my area tend to round out words so when you say hiking you only pronounce like half of the g, like you kind of just ignore it or when you say mountain you ignore the letter t
Dawnpiplup
Kick ass.
Well I guess an Oklahoman accent cuz y'know
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dragonpisces69
Mayor Marcia of Lumina
I'm Dutch and I've learned British English from workbooks with CDs at school and watching BBC shows with subtitles at home, which is where I slowly but surely got my British accent from. I'm so used to it by now, that whenever I'm trying to impersonate American English people/characters, I feel so uncomfortable speaking without that familiar and 'safe' accent.
Sharksheep
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Yes. I don't what you would call it but an American Midwest accent.
Mary, Marry, and Merry are all pronounced the same way for me. I know they are slight differences but I cant hear it
Mary, Marry, and Merry are all pronounced the same way for me. I know they are slight differences but I cant hear it
Nunnafinga
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Eh,I'm an Arizona native and I don't think we have any discernible accent but I once read a report by a regional linguistics expert that said native Arizonans speak with a "slight drawl".Very slight.There are a lot of transplants and tourists here so I've heard a lot of different accents.A long time ago at the place I used to work,a customer asked me what I thought was "Where's the comics?",so I thought he wanted some comic books but then I noticed that he was wearing a Boston Red Sox shirt and we were in the drug section so I figured he might have wanted "Carmex",that stuff for chapped lips and I was right.Another guy with what sounded like a thick Southern American accent asked for "chew pallets".Was that some kind of chewing tobacco?Nope,turns out that he wanted "shoe polish".....don't know how that became chew pallets.Maybe he was a Cajun?
Agh, I have a Southern accent. I'm from Texas. I watch it and can usually mask it with a more generic New England/regular American (??? idk what to call accent-less American English lol) but when I'm tired, excited or just lazy it bleeds through and it is VERY blatant.
I never really thought I had an accent till I had someone sit and point out the certain ways I pronunciate certain vowels? It was funny when he'd start stopping me talking to point it out since I'd asked what he meant about me having a noticeable accent!
Actually no, in each language there is one location at least that is considered accent-less. Basically they determine a standard as the 'pure' version of a language and then any differences around that is considered an accent. For instance it's Akron, Ohio for American English that is considered to be accent-less. Accents are usually defined by region or social class the issue is how large of a region you consider before you claim it's an 'accent'. Is a country of origin small enough to declare as an accent or is it a particular city within that country, since that isn't standardized the colloquial sense of the term 'accent' is largely subjective. Pretty much anybody from a foreign country speaking a non-native language will have a roughly identifiable location, but odds are to a native speaking they're not going to be able to identify a specific town whereas some towns within a native speakers language can sound fairly unique. Clearly the scope of saying somebody has an Asian accent (typically trouble with "l" and "r" is a far cry in specificity compared to Boston.
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I'd say no I don't have an accent considering I'm close to the baseline 'accent-less' region for my particular dialect of English.
SpaceTokki77
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If there's a New Jersey accent, I have one
itsjustlew
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I’m from the south so I have a bit of a country accent. There’s the county part and the city part where I live and in the city part the accent is dying out and most people either talk with no accent or in a rapper type of accent if that makes sense. In the county most people have a country accent and since I go back and forth my accent isn’t as strong as most people’s and I can hide it easily but sometimes it flares up.
