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Anyone have an accent?
I know I've heard mention that someone of you have the Boston accent (which I could listen to ALL DAY) but I wasn't sure if anyone else has one? If so, which?
This post is brought to you by... I just got off the phone with a woman that lives in Georgia, and I mainly work with all southerners so I expect/love the accent when we're on the phone.. but this woman actually had a British accent, with a tiny southern drawww. It made me lol inside but I loved it!
So.. do you talk funny? 
Re: Anyone have an accent?
I, strangely, have a northeast accent. Nothing like anyone who lives there. But occasionally it comes out. I am often given a hard time by coworkers in other parts of the US/other countries, because they expect a Texas accent and instead they get something totally different.
My mom once saw a 60 minutes or 20/20 or something where they were talking about people who go under anesthesia for surgery and come out talking completely differently. She and my dad swear this is what happened to me.
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For the record, I do not have the North Jersey accent and/or try to talk like I'm from NY lol I do have a little bit of a Philly/Jersey accent (or so I'm told) but I definitely don't notice it.
When I was 20, my great gram got real sick so my BF at the time and I drove to West Virginia "for the weekend" and it ended up being an almost 3 week trip. By the time we left, we came home saying some words with a WV twanggg lol
It's interesting to me that when you hear a word said a certain way for a period of time, you end up saying it that way too. So weird.
I don't think I do, but I've been told by people not from the Midwest that I do.
S/O: did you see that's a Jersey Shore s/o in England, "Geordie Shore"? That'll be weird to watch w/their accents! plus, some of them look strangley similary!
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I was just reading this on the GP board and thinking the same thing
I don't think I have much of an accent being that I'm basically FL born and raised. North FL mostly has southern accents, south FL has mostly Spanish/Creole accents, and then central FL area where I'm from is pretty neutral.
Oddly enough, when I was younger I had a very southern accent! I watched some home videos of me when I was about 3 years old and heard myself singing the alphabet and could not figure out whose voice that was coming out of me! It was too weird.
I'd love to have a British accent though. Sometimes I talk like that in public just for fun cuz I'm a nerd like that! :-P
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I grew up in western MA, so I have a "CT accent," meaning my Os sounds like As. But it's subtle.
My husband has the slightest hint of a Boston accent, some words are slightly more Boston-y than others. However, he will full-on townie it up to make me laugh. You know that scene in The Fighter, when the mom and sisters all pile in the car to go yell at "that f*cking girl, Charlene"? It's like that.
I'm from South Jersey too. Most people can't tell where I'm from based on my accent but as soon as I say I'm from Jersey they ask why I don't sound like a New Yorker
I probably also have that Philly/Jersey sound.
Nice! Welcome to the board, by the way. Mind me asking where? I'm about 20 minutes northwest of Atlantic City.
Thanks for the double welcome! I've lived out of state for a few years now but I'm originally from Cumberland County. My dad used to take us to Atlantic City once in a while but it was considered a pretty long trip for us
I have been told I have a slight British inflection. Don't know where it comes from, as my childhood was in Portland, Oregon.
I had a boyfriend once who was from Barbados and educated in Canada, and he had a GORGEOUS accent. I'd just listen to him talk for hours....
Kearstin, I don't think I ever realized you were South Jersey. My family owns a beach house in Cape May.
xBrynnx, I just googled and realized Cumberland County is right next door to Cape May County...it's beautiful around there.
XAN! Get up here! Come stay at your shore house and you can come over and hunt ghosts for me.. yes?
Brynn; I'm in Camden County, so not too far and lol @ AC being a long trip
Xan: I love Cape May! I made sure to take DH there once when we were visiting my fam. They've got a great zoo too.
kearstin: Its pretty sad how little people from my area travel...even in there own state. I've only been to NYC once and it was for a middle school trip. No one in my family ever wanted to brave the turnpike.
LOL aw that actually made me laugh out loud. If I come up sometime this summer I'll definitely let you know and we can totally hunt some ghosts lol. My stepdad and his brothers inherited the house from their Mom, so they always take turns throughout the summer using it. They've recently started talking about trying to sell it, so I hope to get up at least a couple of times before that happens.
You Oregon girls (Kenna and Mo) do have an accent, but it is more of a slow drawn out way of speaking.
Hannah- I have always been told that we pronounce our 'O' in a funny tone, but that is the only accent I think that we have.
I love southern accents especially when it is little kids with a southern accent, that is the cutest thing.
Little kids with British accents are cute also, my mom's best friend lives in Wales and her daughter has the cutest little voice, I love to listen to her talk.
My friends always say it depends on my mood what I sound like. My family is from Central Mass/Boston/NYC but I grew up mostly in Syracuse.
When i'm Mad/annoyed/anxious or stressed i sound like I'm from NYC, Drunk/overly excited or watching sports I sound like i'm from Boston, Normal convo it's boring old Syracuse/central NY accent with hints of some NYC.
Also, my friends love to make fun of most the things I say
I grew up (and still live in) the middle of Kansas. I don't hear an accent, though I know a lot of people in this area are hard on the "r" sound and a little lazy on the "d" (especially when in the middle or end of a word) ...myself included.
When I get excited, I get a little drawl. Brad looks at me like I'm crazy when I talk like that.
I also tend to imitate other people's accents when I like them. In conversation with them. And I can't stop myself. I don't mean it maliciously either... I hope people are flattered when it happens!
I agree with this. I think everyone has accents. Even people in different parts of Ohio speak differently.
When I first moved to Canada when I was a kid, I dragged with me my Singapore accent--which is decidedly British-sounding. Since then I've fully absorbed my South-western Ontario accent, and couldn't drop it if I tried.
I used to have a friend from Minnesota who was completely obsessed with my Canadian accent (btw, he was a linguist, not a weirdo) and used to try to copy my way of saying "about" and "out" and "house" and "couch". etc. He always sounded ridiculous and way over did it when he tried to copy me. But it did make me realise that those are some common words that people will pronounce differently.
When I started dating my now-DH, I was floored by his parents' NE PA accent--which wasn't as obvious in DH. They would pronounce strange things like "room" as "rum" sorta, and "sorry" like "sari" (the Indian woman's garb). Growing up right across from Michigan, I got used to people from across the river saying "dallar", "GERedge" and "ruff" instead of "dollar", "garaaage" and "roof".
My brother moved to Ohio a few years ago and is--for lack of a better way of saying it--losing his accent. He accused me of sounding too "British" the other day when I pronounced the second T in Toronto. Ummmm since when is Toronto "tranna?". LOL I wasn't sounding British--HE was sounding American.