So... What kinda accents does everyone have? Do you have a cross between accents? Did your accent fade when you moved to a different place? Is there a particular accent you really like or would love to have?

I have an English accent... I don't know how diverse accents are in other countries or places... I assume they are all as diverse as here, but at least here, people's accent could change from town to town. I really hate the accent most have in the closest town to mine. All I can think of to call it is 'soo common' and they often have a habit of punctuating by swearing lol.

I quite like most european accents and love some of them! But I do like Irish... I dunno whether its through love or laughter.. either way its cool lol.

My own accent... it's I would say with common as '1' and ultra posh Queen style as '10', its somewhere between 4 and 6. lol

Sometimes I fancy having a european accent of some description... but I quite like english lol. ^_^

People say I have a Southern accent...
but, those are people who have never heard some of the other people in the south talk...
Heh, but I think I just have a normal accent with a mix of redneck-ish.
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I really love Australian accents...<3
But, they're not for me.
I like my accent the way it is. :clown:

Although I don't really have an accent, I sometimes say my "a's" kind of Canadian (haha, no clue why) and a lot of stuff with a southern accent.

Or fake accents. <3 That's so fun.

Like all the times I've had "British accent day" with my friend.
Which I can't do anymore.
'Cos I know two British persons.
And so they might get mad. =(
'Cos there accents are kinda strong.


I don't know why people say "bad" accent when it's strong. Accents aren't "bad," that's just the way someone talks. Kind of like way back when people thought lefthandedness was "bad." Just plain dumb.

Well I'm from the US... so I donno... I have an American accent, it's not really special or anything. There aren't any ultra harsh vowels or anything.

I do, however, have family from Brooklyn, so sometimes that accent can pop out. Usually when I have my Brooklyn accent it is on purpose.

I have two accents: One for english, and one for hebrew

The english one is an Upstate New York accent, like Rachel Ray has (bad example, but shes one of the few well-known people from Upstate). However, the hebrew one is a south african accent.

Why south african? My hebrew teacher in 6th grade was south african, and she spoke the hebrew words with a south african accent, so now me and 4 of my friends who were in the SpEd class also speak hebrew in south african accents.

I suppose since I live in the midwest, that I have a midwestern accent. It's not something I really think about since most people here generally speak the same way I do.

I have that watered down New York accent of New Jersey. I only noticed it when I moved down south. o0

Oh no, you have the dreaded Jersey accent? I refuse to admit, ever, that I have a Jersey accent. It just doesn't exist in my book.

Still the same accent as I stated above... nope hasn't changed!

I have a slightly western accent, but mostly my accent is just plain American.

When I try to speak with a British accent though, it always comes out Australian. ._. So I can do a good Australian accent.

I'm American with the regular American accent, like most of the Americans I hear on TV. However, I have noticed that most people where I grew up have a "hick" accent, very country and grammatically incorrect and whatnot.

I love Dutch accents on English, mostly because my boyfriend is Dutch and I have become obsessed. :D I also like Australian accents, and some other random ones.

I guess I have an American accent. Which doesn't make a whole lot of sense because there are so many accents from the Midwest, East coast, New England and the South. So I guess the "American accent" is just whatever is left over ;) Anyways, I'm from CA, so yeah.

And I'm not very good at imitating accents. Actually, I'm horrid at it. So I'll just stick with American.

I'm from Canada, but living in England...Hehe.
Uhm, and my accent's not fading. At all and I've already been in England since April last year. Erf! My friends immitate me. Apparently I say 'About' like 'Aboot' And my friends claim I say 'Eh' a lot, too. Which is like...Untrue. Haha...But yeah. Even though I don't have a natural English acccent, I can put a snooty English accent on...:blink:

Also, because I'm French-Canadian, people who don't actually know me in real life, are sometimes led to believe that I speak with a French accent. But I actually don't...Even though French was my first language, to my knowledge my accent's always been that of an English-speaking Canadian, as if English was my first language instead of French...If that made any sense at all.

I dont really HAVE a accent. Im the average American....kinda
However i can to imitations and some more of the popular accents.
Like English, Aussie, indie, FOB (oriental asian immegrants to america w/o a decent accent), arnold, and it goes on

Well to change from all the american accents XD.

My mother language is Frisian, a language spoken in the province where I live, Friesland in the Netherlands.

Basically all the languages I speak which aren't Frisian have a Frisian accent through it. When I speak Dutch, you can hear I'm Frisian. If I go to Amsterdam or something, they could immediatly pick out I'm Frisian. And I basically have the same for English, seeing Andy loves that Frisian accent through my English XD.

Owh and I love Australian accents, and the English accents.

I am from the USA, but I am up north, so I always prolong my o's and something else, I sound like I am from the Netherlands or something.

I really love Asian accents, don't know why, I find them very intriguing.

I guess I really don't have an accent. But to some people I'd have like a southern accent, but in reality I don't. It's just where I live some people in the US would assume I have one -lol-

I know some one from CA, they have a really strange accent, I don't know if you would but he does.

My mom is always berrating me for talking in "a Southern accent," although it's actually a New York accent, and I told her this, and she said that either way it makes me "sound uneducated."

My grandmother apparently thinks that since I once lived in Canada, my accent must be Canadian, which I just don't get since I talk to her all the time, and my dad assured her that I can porounce the word "about," and that I've ALWAYS had a "Yankee drawl." For all you Americans who don't know what a Yankee drawl is, it's the "stereotypical" American accent.

I dunno, a LOT of people say they can pick out my Southern accent. I have family in the South, and when I come home from there, I have a full blown Southern accent. It is really quite funny. When I am around someone English, I will often adopt their accent without even realizing it. I also have a "laawwnngisland" accent, which is really quite funny to hear myself talk around other people, because you can really hear it. XD

On that note, I really love the English accent, as well as the Irish one. I am Irish, so I just melt for the Irish accent. I knew an Aussie once, and I made him just talk, I didnt care what about, just talk, I love it ^_^.

Heyyyy, just while we're on the subject of accents... Did you know that no accent/dialect (such as a southern accent or ebonics) is any less grammatically complex than a standard American accent? People who have these accents aren't any less intelligent and their accent/dialect is equally as valid! It's just that people slap a stigma on them and they are seen as "unintelligent." Linguistically, however, no accent/dialect is more superior than another.

Just thought I'd share. :p

I have a cross between accent. I'm from California for eight years then moved to Oklahoma, where I've lived since, and I'm nearly twenty years old now. It's a little hard to tell, but it is very obvious when I say things like ya'll and stuff, but then pretty much every other word I say is like, so yeah :p

Thank you! Tell that to my mum.

I'm American soo I have an American accent but I don't know what it would be specifically. I live in Maine but I, thankfully, do not have a Mainer accent. Oh jeez, I would shoot myself. I do not switch my a's and r's, thanks. (Example, I say datUH not datER, ideeUH, not ideeER).

You know, New York was nce New Netherlands, and we still havent forgotten our dutch heritage XD

Lets keep on topic here. This is a thread about accents not heritage.

I have an Australian Accent...unfortuantly. XD When I get mad though, my accent changes slightly to something Dutch or around about that.

You should be happy about having an austrailian accent! in my opinion they sound the best!

Regular American accent here. I do pronounce "aunt" like "ant" but I'm not sure if that's normal or not. I do know people here in Massachusetts usually pronounce it "ahnt".

I love English accents though. They're so sexy. XD Same with Irish.

I have a Chinese Accent, because I am Chinese, and I live in California as well.

Well, when it comes to speaking Dutch, my accents more of the Southern one. Though, my English speaking is typical British with a hint of Dutch. Blegh. I hate my Dutch accent :irritated:

I don't think i really have an accent... I'm Arizonan, so I guess it's normal... ish? Although, one day my family and I were at Olive Garden and this guy with a very strong New York accent asked if we were from back east. The guy was close... my family on my dad's side are all from Pennsylvania. Aaaanyway... Arizonan with a hint of Pennsylvanian? XD

I have an Irish Accent but I dont notice it, it seems that i don't have any accent at all.

Hmm. I have an array of accents, if you could believe it. ^^:

My father's from Britain, so I speak with some British words (ie. loo, and 'boot' of car). My mother, though originally British, was born in Africa, so picked up an accent there. And yeah, so I can speak the langauge she was brought up with. But overlal I have a Northern American accent, meaning I sound out all of my words.

Since I moved down south they all speak like, "Ya'll knaw mean?" And I'll be all, "...Wth? Do you mean, 'You all know what I mean?" And they laugh. -.-;

I was born in Cali, but I moved to IL when I was like, one, so I have a chicago accent. I used to have this weird speech problem where I said my R's really weirdly, but it's gone now..

English: little of British accent

Japanese: Osakaben

Chinese: mix

The proud Bristolian accent! Although I only hear it when I'm away from Bristol...

ooo-arr!

Australian...I was watching an American show the other night -no idea what it was- and they had an Australian guest, I was like 'no way - we do not sounds like that!' Anyway, point being that we sounds weird...

Minnesotan!
Yeah, I'm very proud of my accent and state x3. It's not much different from normal english but we say some words differnetly and tend to say 'Ah,and Ay' a lot.

Before we moved up north, my family used to live in Texas, so I have a VERY strong southern accent. It's really funny, though, because recently, after living in Boston for a few years, I've been beginning to pick up a Bostonian accent. Mix these two together and you get a very interesting combonation, although the southern "twang", as my friends put it, is far more prominent.