So - have you been told that you have an accent?
 

*after giggling and staring for two minutes while I'm helping her with her homework my niece decides to respond to me...*

Me: "What's wrong sweetie?"
Niece: "Nothin'. I'm just laughing. Where do you live again?"
Me: "Birmingham, Alabama."
Niece: "Ooooh, That's why...Uncle Jon, you sound so country!"
Me: "Is that so?"
My niece: "Uh-huh. We (her and my nephews) think you sound just like Huckleberry Hound"
*At this point my big brother proceeds to burst into peals of laughter*
Me: "That's...cute sweetie, now go in the other room and play with your brother."

So...apparently I'm frequently told that I have an accent, but for the life of me I can't hear it. Do any of you guys have an accent, and if so, what kind is it? Can you recognize it when you talk and do you often pick up on others?

I've got a Texan drawl to the way I speak. To be honest, I haven't really noticed it until recently. One day someone told me that I sounded like a true Texan, and following that, I started to listen to how I sounded when I spoke. Came to the conclusion that I've got a decent accent. Only took me about 20 years to notice it... =U

I did a few commercials in my youth. In one of them I was supposed to actually speak, but the owner of the company didn't like the spot because he said I sounded like a "hick" and the producer dubbed over my voice. Then it just looked like a bad kung fu movie. I guess that was more to the advertiser's liking.

Heh. Accents. Quite a funny thing actually. I've been told that when I perform my Japanese songs and stuffs, I sound very..umm.. American? Lol. Its weird. I don't even have a single non-Asian bone in my body, heh.

Though when I speak...no one makes any comment whatsoever, though I've been told I look like so many OTHER races other than my own, lol.

I've got a Texan drawl (like Gechmir), though I never noticed it until I moved to Michigan for a while. It was really funny because all I had to say was a few words and people would ask me where I was from. The words y'all, fixin' to, and Coke (in the place of "pop") seemed to be dead giveaways. Most people thought that my accent was cute, though I really got the impression that some folks assumed that I wasn't as smart as they were because of my accent.

Apparently, us people from CT are supposed to have 'the closest thing to proper English' for our accent... I don't know if that's right, but I've been told that my accent consists of actually pronouncing all of my words, especially letters that can be slurred... like 'T's. Rather than saying 'Wanna go here?' I unconsciously take the time to say 'Want to go here?'

Though since going to school, I've been known to mimic some of my friend's Boston accents... "I'm gonna go paaaaak the caaaaa."

My sorta Boston accent slips out from time to time, but it's generally clean.

Apparently I've been told I have a "posh london" accent. >_> I'm "well spoken" apparently and someone from the US who I spoke to thinks my English accent is awesome. @_@

I don't know where I got it from or how it stayed because I've been pretty much all over england while my father was in the RAF. >_> And my mother's from London and my father is from Shrewsbury. >_>

I don't know if I have an accent (not a terrible one anyway), but I'm pretty quite sure I often mix BrE and NAmE pronunciations, which might sound weird to native British and American speakers. I want to learn speaking with an Australian accent (how queer, I know). Most accents are actually pretty cool, I think. Since Latvian is a quite monotonous-sounding language, I always love listening to people with interesting accents.

I apparently have a recognizable Canadian accent, but I really don't hear it which, I guess, makes me similar to everyone else who has an accent and insists that they don't. Go dig up the voices of GFF thread.

I have the typical Californian accent. It's really nothing special, and I don't notice it because it's what you typically hear in movies and on television.

Yeah. I have been told that by Americans who travel to my area. They especially make fun and pay very close attention to me saying "eh" all the time. They laugh.... :(

Oh well. But many say that my Canadian accent isn't very strong and that I have a very neutral voice making it hard for people to pinpoint where I am from.

I have a neutral accent, basically however people generally sound on American TV is how I sound. Though I remember someone said I sounded like I was from Colorado. I was never aware that Coloradians had an accent and I have a friend from there and he doesn't have one. Nope, no funny accents for me.

I'm British, so it's always a conversation topic when I'm in an English-speaking country that isn't Britain. However, even when I'm on home turf people apparently have trouble placing my accent - I've been asked if I'm German, South African, American, Canadian, and on one bizarre day Spanish. I think it's due to my varied upbringing; I lived in Germany for two years, the USA for five, and my father is Austrian, so...

I don't know what kind of an accent I have (perhaps Canadian?), but when people tell me I have one, it seems pointless. I mean, they say I have a Canadian accent? Okay? I don't know what a Canadian accent sounds like. Is it an insult or a compliment? Sometimes I don't know.

According to a lot of people now I have a very posh english accent; I don't understand why though because I think I sound scouse most of the time (and sometimes I even slip into a cockney accent without meaning to). I've been told this by people who live in my city and by people at other ends of the country. I guess it's because I tend to pronounce my words as best as I can when I'm nervous for some reason.

I have. many times on the phone at my job, I've been told I have a thick new york/bronx accent.

I like to think I have a remarkably neutral accent, given my suburban upbringing, but in one instance someone noted that I have a slight drawl to my voice (Texas). This may be the case because I can dive right into a Texas drawl when I am either: drinking, lazy, or under emotional duress.

It may also be the case when I use words like: reckon, y'all, fixing to, feeder road, and Coke in my vocabulary.

But fancy that, a second generation Asian-American born in Texas with an unforced Texas accent.

People are actually surprised to learn I grew up in North Carolina, because I don't have a southern accent. Sure, there are a few southern idioms in my speech (like "I'm fixin' to do something"), but for the most part I have a neutral accent. Sometimes when I'm visiting family in NC, and I'm out in public, I find myself slipping a bit of an accent into what I say, just to blend in I guess. Growing up I conciously tried to avoid getting an accent because I didn't like how southerners sound. Listening to the local politicians and used car dealers on TV, not to mention most of my redneck classmates, I didn't want to sound like them.

I've had a couple of people ask if I'm Canadian, and the rest usually can't place where I'm from on first meeting.

Edit: Dullenplain, y'all isn't really a southern thing anymore. I've heard plenty of people say it here in MD, and they don't have southern accents. Just don't be like my high school Latin teacher, who taught us that verbs are conjugated as such:

I am
You are
He/She/It is
We are
Y'all are
They are

If we didn't write "y'all" on the test, it was counted wrong.

I've been told I sound "white", if that makes any sense. In fact, most people who meet me don't even think I'm Mexican and immediately assume I'm just a Californian suburban white boy. Even more interesting is that the ONLY two people I've ever spoken to who said I have a slight hispanic accent are ava and Alice. Now THAT'S some sad shit. :(

People who aren't from the south tell me I have a southern accent, and yet people who live down here have asked me "you're not from around here are you". Sorry that I'm not totally unsophisticated like the majority of Alabamians geez :(

In Texas, the Greek and Canadian* people I know tell me that I have an accent. Hell, I was told by several of my old High School friends in California that me, my mom and my grandma all have a slight accent of some sort -- apparently something from my great-grandparents (one was from Tenessee, the other was from Oklahoma). My grandma often uses 'Okie-isms' in her speech. It's also something of a Central Valley accent, what with the glossing over of consonants; it's hard to write down, but there's like a stop and a missing consonant in some words, like Mountain is more like "Mao'en" (no clearly defined "t" sound).

*I was annoyed that a Canadian told me that she had to most neutral accent :annoyed:... I have nothing against Canadians, but she had an accent too. It was just different.

I didn't notice any particular accent to your speech... and the ya'll thing is extremely pervasive even in people who otherwise have absolutely nothing of a drawl. I get mad at myself if I use it. Also, nobody in California says "ya'll" yet...it's still more of a southern/eastern thing.

That's because it's the result of a suburban upbringing, being raised on listening to numerous news anchors, and a pervasive and conscious effort on my part to render my voice regionless in most normal circumstances (in public). I'll admit the regional influence is not strong, but this sort of thing allegedly comes out like a subconscious slip.

My fellow southerners tell me that I have no accent at all. People from up north tell me I have a noticable accent. I like to think that I have a fairly neutral accent, although occasionally I let it slip. Sometimes, I'll say something like "Sahlent Hill" instead of "Silent Hill". I try to catch myself before doing things like that, though. I also use a lot of regional words like "coke" and "y'all".

Well I'm from newfoundland so we kind of have an newfie accent within a canadian accent. Supposedly when we have tourists come up to our area especially when it comes to the small little bay communities practically everyone has an accent. We don't personally notice because I suppose its how everyone talks.

Its kind of funny, I work out in alberta and albertans can tell your from newfoundland without any problems whatsoever. Its kind of funny as well that when I worked out in a larger city I practically have no accent at all from what people tell me. When it comes to me being in a little community in a place I'm more comfortable my accent comes out in full force.

I have no idea why you Texans and shit think "coke" is unique to your area. Up here in the entire northeast (not just New England), we all say "coke." In fact, I was under the impression that only the midwest and surrounding areas say "pop."

I have a pretty notable accent, when I get angry or loud. I try to repress it most times, since it can make a person look shitty when they say "wheah ah ya pahkin' d'cah?" Not too classy. ^_^

But yea, I've got the accent.

I have an accent - like every human being does. Specifically, I like my drinks shaken, not stirred if you catch my drift >_>. When i'm happy or otherwise being loud, i'll break into a far more local Shropshire accent that some americans confuse with a London accent for some strange reason. I also find myself subconciously adapting my accent to match the people around me depending on which part of the country i'm in; it is a reflex that has evolved I think to help people with very thick local accents understand me better.

Californians say "coke", too, though I hear "soda" the most. Never "pop", though.

People ask me where I'm from every once and a while. Although, rarely do they identify my slight accent as anything. Normally, I'm asked if I come from more northern regions, or am told I speak to proper to be from this region. I guess that would be a complement.

I have a typical Michigan nasaly voice/fast talking. There's some website out there that describes how people from Michigan talk. I never realized the accent until I saw that site, and I definitely follow that description.

Here's the site that describes how people from around here talk.
http://www.michigannative.com/ma_home.shtml

I've been told that I have a "lack" of an accent, apparently. Everyone expects me to speak Hawaiian-Pidgin and say "braddah" and shit all the time. I grew up learning perfect English in school so I don't really speak Pidgin outside of my own home if I can help it. If anything, it's your standard "mainland" English + common local loan words from other languages like Japanese or Filipino. I totally know I have a Pidgin accent when I speak to my parents, I just snuff it whenever I'm elsewhere. And I look local, so whenever I go out somewhere like the post office, the person at the desk always hears me speak and exclaims "wow, you're so well-spoken! Are you from here??" and I get a typical NO WAI response when I inform them that I was born and raised here. Funny to see people respond that way, if not embarrassing.

When I talk to people from the internet on the phone, they're disappointed that I have no accent. Then they ask me to say something in Pidgin, and I feel weird saying it and then it comes out weird, because I feel like I'm just forcing myself to do it. Just an odd thing with me. The same thing happens if they ask me to say some crazy combo of swear words. Just won't happen if I have to do it on cue.

Despite never having been told I have an accent, I notice myself when I speak sometimes that 1 in like 500 words comes out with a filipino tinge, despite not knowing a how to properly speak tagalog. This happens especially when I'm speaking too fast, too excitedly, or saying too much at once. I attribute it to my parent's use of tagalog when talking to each other and all the exposure, despite never making an attempt to speak it.

ADD: I probably also have a Canadian accent. Just reminded me of when I saw a video in Linguistics last year. Apparently Canadians don't produce certain sounds as hard as Americans do. Eg. "about" We apparently sound like we are saying "aboot" since Canadians don't pronounce the "OW" as hard.

My friend speaks fluent English and Vietnamese, and once in a while I notice her a's have a slight accent to them, being pronounced as in the relaxing kind of "ah" but not as noticeable. She doesn't notice it herself though.

I've mostly got the standard US television accent. Having grown up in New Jersey, New York, and Virginia, and having been around people with many different accents, I guess I just pulled through with the boring stuff. Having all that around me means I can (on a good day) pull off some halfway decent mimicry.

People in Utah say "pop" for everything. From the mappings I've seen, "coke" is predominantly southern with a strong front in part of New England, "pop" is mostly midwest through to about Nevada, and "soda" is strongest in the non-coke parts of New England (including most of New York), California, and most of the east coast through to about South Carolina (and much of Florida). I wonder where that polling site went; it was quite informative.

Was is something like this website or even this more comprehensive map?

Though I must say, maybe we're in for another dialect migration.

In California we say "coke" too, but in that case we're rarely referring to a soft drink.

That reminds me... The girl I dated in college used to refer to ALL soft drinks as "sodapop", which is something she got from reading The Outsiders in the 6th grade and never really grew out of.

Accent? No, but Philadelphians pronounce certain words differently than everyone like water.

Filipino accent. Sounds awfully funny at times and am proud of it.

Whenever I'm around the local flavor, Nobody seems to bring it up but I know they notice my northern accent. I've refused to assimilate the southern accent. Of course I could be just saying BS, but I still refuse to assimilate the accent.

I didn't think I had an Australian accent, but I was told I had one by people with American ones.

However, I have a Canto accent when I speak Mando and a Mando accent when I speak Canto. Go figure

LOL - I love that Boston (or is it NYC?) accent. My brother in-law and sister bought a new car, and negotiated a 5 year bumper-to-bumper warranty coverage with this 35 yr old woman - policy maker at the Toyota dealership. Her accent came out after a few sentences, but I loved it.

As far as I know, I don't have an accent. I have a dull, boring, American english voice that sounds too plain. Go me!
Hope if I ever move to a different country (preferrably Australia), I'll have guys and girls asking me where I'm from alot. I could form an accent if I wanted to, but what the hell for?

And for the record, I hate the southern accent. God, I've been prejudiced into thinking Texans and such are just dumber by the way they talk :( - which of course isn't true - its just a damn flaw of mine.

Well, English being my second language, I'm told that I have an accent (of course, told by native speakers). But I have also gotten comments about how there's barely an accent in my speech by a few teachers and friends too.

The part I was wondering is:
Since I live in Midwest (Missouri), people in the west coast or south said I have a midwest accent, which, I do not understand the difference between midwest and west coast accents...

I have the most american/white sounding voice you could ever have. It's so neutral it's almost annoying. I swear i stuggle understanding anyone with an accent, and it's embarrassing because it's like "what?" every other sentence. I'm in the north-east by the way.

Me too! I can't stand the way my grandparents talk. God i feel sorry for southerners who come up north.

Man, who says that crap? Lets be honest... its called a soft drink(best), soda(2nd), or pop(3rd). Not coke.

[QUOTE=XSO;355745]Apparently I've been told I have a "posh london" accent. >_> I'm "well spoken" apparently and someone from the US who I spoke to thinks my English accent is awesome. @_@

I love English accents. :) They are so amAzing! I have loved England since I was a kid. If I wasn't in America, I'd be in England. That's my phrase and it's true. Most of my ancestors came from England. I LOVE English accents. That's why I like my men British. I'm sorry I had to say that. I'm completely obsessed with Harry Potter. The guys ar so amazingly Hot!

Accents are a weird thing. To you, you don't have an accent because that's what you're used to. But to others it's different because they are not used to the way you speak. I'm From California, so hearing some one frome Texas or New York speak is an accent to me because that's not what I'm used to hearing.

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When I speak English I have a german accent. It´s not really nazi villain english because I´m pretty used to speak english at work.

So for my German. I live in the Ruhr area of Germany and we actually have a pretty nice accent here. So, yes, I have been told that I have an accent once or twice - but only when I speak with other people from the "Ruhrpott". We have a collection of words noone else uses.

Some sound vagualy english, like "Pömms" instead of pumps, and most can be explained by the images you get in your head. Like "Luftkotelett" - "Air Cutlet" for a slim person or child.

Let me verkasematuckel you the link to a dictionary, you old Kamuffels. ;)
http://ruhrgebietssprache.de/glossar.html

Saying coke for soda is incorrect. Coke is short for a name of a company (coca-cola). Saying soda or pop is fine, but saying coke is quite annoying IMO.

I don't exactly have an accent, but i've been told by other New Jerseyans that I picked up the New Jersey accent. We tend to say words with a somewhat long emphasis...

Like water... Normally pronounced with emphasis in "ah", NJ said pronounced with emphasis on the "awe". Same thing with ball and a couple of other ah/awe words... <_<

As far as that Coke thing is going, how is it possible to refer to hundreds of other soft drinks saying coke anyway? Is it supposed to be referenced to Cola or something? I don't get it.

Philadelphians are the only people to say "wooder" for water. Everyone thinks it sounds weird that is from out of town, but to most Philadelphians "wahter" sounds weird and to me sounds a little pretentious, although I know it isn't.

Just reading it makes me think it's a little weird. But i've never heard of it being said like that.

I like how a word, all alone, can sound pretentious to someone!

I have a standard English sound, commonly known as bottlenose smooth, and have greatly destroyed the slight Spanish accent I had growing up as a child briefly learning two languages at once.

In Spanish, however, I am ridiculed for my accent, commonly known as "stupid gringo trash" accent.

When I speak Korean, I have a really bad English/foreign accent. Actually, I think my Japanese sounds better than my Korean (which is horrible)

I've lived in Colorado most of my life, and I've noticed that, when I travel somewhere else, no one really says that I have an accent. I think Coloradoians (how the fuck do you spell that?) typically don't have super-noticeable accents.

I do stutter sometimes though -_-;;

Or just your local area doesn't realize it. The more you move around the state, the accents and lingo will differ.

I think I was only told one time that I had an accent, and it wasn't very noticable anyway. I've been in Baltimore all of my life, so if I did have one, it would be from there. Of course, I'm not even sure what a Baltimorean accent sounds like, so.. ^^;


I, like quite a few other females, like accents on guys. Especially British and German. ;_;

Speaking of accents, take this test:

http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_america...nt_do_you_have

My results were Philly. No surprise there.

According to that quiz, I sound like I'm from 'The Inland North': You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop".

Yet I don't call soda 'pop', nor have I ever been asked if I'm from Wisconsin or Chigaco. The Northeast was the very close second in the quiz though. And when I messed around with my answers to see what the description for the Northeast accent was, it was the same exact description! 'Pop'... bah!

I got have a midland accent... In other words, "I don't have one".

It seems a lot of people pronounce mary, marry, and merry the same way. Most Philadelphians don't, but I find it very annoying when people do. Just a accent pet peeve of mine.

I have a midland accent, it says.

Midland accent as well. "The West" in a close second. Suppose that's close enough, being raised in Nevada and California.

Well I really don't leave long island that much, so we all talk teh same here, but I'm sure if I went anywhere else people would comment on how i say water or talk or lawng ilind

I've been told, more than once, by random passers-by, that I have a British accent. I have some holdovers from my education in Malaysia, but really, I sound more like a mix between Chinese and American more than anything else.

I have a thick newfie accent. Talking to people here at home you don't think about it and can't seem to notice any accents, however when I go to the mainland, eveyone knows where I came from, and if listen to myself talk with other people there, I can hear a big difference from my accent and theirs.

I can certainly tell where you comes from.

Now, whenever I read one of your posts, I will hear that voice in the back of my head.

the quiz says i have a midland accent. i've lived in the NE my whole life, near CT so maybe thats why i have "no accent" ?

I've been told that I don't sound southern, and that's good enough for me.

I've been told more than once in the past by other Aussie'zzz that I have a slight American-ish accent thing goin' on. I DON'T HEAR IT. I think it's because I don't say 'struth' enough. I'm going to put it in every sentence from now on! Watch the struth out, motherstruthers!

I am from Kansas originally (no accents whatsoever there). When I lived in NYC, people with very thick Brooklyn accents would try to tell me that i had a southern drawl.

Despite the fact I've lived in the same area all my life, locals come up to me all the time and ask me where my accents from >< I've been told it sounds American, Australian, Irish, Scottish and South African...

Even though i don't hear it, apperently i have a very southern accent (for England). I'm mainly told by the Welsh and Americans. If your English you may know what i mean by a Portsmouth accent, if not nvm.

Portsmouth accents are too common to be counted as a true Southern accent dahmit! :P

pffft i don't think you can get more southern without falling off the country franposis :eye:

maybe so, but southern accents are traditionally a bit more... well spoken?
most areas of the south have been filled by Londoners though so the accent's somewhat disappearing. Probably explains why people don't believe mine is local though, what with me having a nice posh accent...

That's true, I think allot of people try and sound like they're from London. For "street cred" -roles eyes- Personally i don't get it.

Even though I don't hear it, I apparently have a rather strong California accent. I was in Virgina and everyone thought I was a "Valley Girl".

Ohmigod, the horror.

I've been told I have a Yorkshire accent, which isn't out of place seeing as I am from Yorkshire. But I don't think it's that distinct like a Brummies accent or a scousers accent.

No one has said I had an accent now other then stating the fact that I speak through my nose. A habit that I inherited from my dad. However when I was little, maybe 2 or 3, I was told I had a British accent most likely do to my dad being half. But somewhere along the way I lost it....

I have a little bit of an accent, although its not that bad. I'm from Texas, but I don't have an overtly texan accent... just some things tend to sound a little different from a typical american accent. . . . damn.

Well I don't necessarily have an accent, but some words that come out of my mouth come out in this weird foreign accent. My siblings are always getting on me about that. I don't know why but it happens. When I was in my earlier years of high school I used to pronounce child, "chowd", or apples "opples". I think I sometimes I have accents when I speak because sometimes I mix the languages (like the pronunciation of the syllables) I know/learning with my "American" words/sayings.

I'm the Afro american that talks all proper like some white college grad.
Oreo & texas tom were some of the common names thrown my way but now since I'm older and more of a badass, people just "say youre not from around here are you."

I've uh, accidentally started spreaking in english (new york accent) really fast and somehow a fob accent gets thrown in there.

I never thought I had an accent (born in America) and then a friend recorded a convo. Damn I sound weird.

Yes I've been told quite a few times. Hispanic, etc.

Thankfully I managed to avoid having a Southern accent despite living in North Carolina my whole life. Deep Southern accents tend to grate on my nerves, especially horrible words like "purty."

I don't really have any kind of specific accent at all, though a few people have accused me of pronouncing certain words in a Northern way. "Hall" was one of them, but I can't remember what the difference was exactly.

I have a northern accent with coming from the north of England. It is not very distinct though as I sound like everyone else round my way, so people rarely comment on it.

I love accents, I'm not sure exactly what draws me to them, but I love them. I find them interesting and they can get me into a philosophical spiral. I find it rather amusing when people who have not had the experience to notice the differences in accents which may sound similiar try and guess where someone is originally from.

I've been told I have an accent by many people; from family and friends to aquaitances and complete strangers. My uncle described it as: "an Oregonian slur with a slight Irish undertone," whatever the Hell that means.

I usually don't pay much attention when people tell me I have an accent. I just let it slide past with little to no regard.

EDIT: I figured it out, last minute. I speak relatively quickly to most people, though in my area, its relatively normal. I'm not sure where people get the "Irish undertone," but I did notice the possiblity when I asked for a drink... "Drink" would definitely be one of those words. I should look into it.

I don't really have an accent.....or so I think. But depending on who I talk to, I may pick up an accent sometimes. Well only for that time during the conversation.

I'm told that I sound like stewie from Family Guy, or at least, when I was a few years younger.

Personally, I feel I have a "stoner" accent. It's like Southern California valley/surf speak but with a different tempo and incorporates a lot of "ebonics." I don't really have any issues with enunciation. It's mostly noticeable when I'm tired or excited.

Even when in sort of formal discussion I will use a lot of "Dude," "Man," "Bro," (California Pronouns) "like," et cetera.

It hurts my heart that you said this. I adore a nice, genteel southern accent, and not that my accent is nice or genteel, but I wouldn't change it for anything. I was embarrassed about it when I was young and moved out of the South for a while. Now I'm ashamed of myself for ever being embarrassed about it.

Accents are a strange thing. I mean, what IS an accent, anyway? I live in Northern Ontario where nobody really has 'grown' an accent. That is--until I go somewhere like New York City, or Chicago, or pretty much ANYWHERE--where I'm told I have a 'Canadian' accent, whatever that is.

I'm sure that as you become accustomed to the way you speak, and the way all of the people around you speak... to YOU, you don't have an accent. But to everyone else, you do.

On that note, I've listened to myself talk, and I can't label my voice with an accent. I'd like to say my voice is 'plain', or 'normal', but... then again, what is normal? :rolleyes:

Wrong and wrong. Anyway, I think most accents sound nice, even attractive, if they are not so overpowering that you can't understand what the person is saying. Accents I can't stand are few and far between, but apart from my own (it's not really distinctive enough) there's the Newcastle accent and Cockney. Even worse is the new Cockney-Gangsta hybrid that kids use these days. You know, white kids speaking in a "black" way to be cool and just sounding really stupid.

Sort of like that girl who just got voted off the VH1 White Rapper show? Do you know the one I'm talking about? I couldn't place her accent, but now that you say that, I think she has the Cockney-Gangsta thing going on.

As far as I know, you only find Cockneys in London; it's a UK thing but you guys have the same sort of people over there too, i've no doubt about that.

Obviously the accent is native to London, but there's a pretty strong Cockney contingent on one side of my town (Canterbury).

From 2002-2005 I lived on Res at University in Melbourne, Australia. An American girl told me I have the thickest aussie accent she has ever heard, and that if I went to America, the chicks would love it. I wonder if she is right?

I was told by a friend, on our very first session on SOCOM: US Navy SEALs, that my New Jersey accent slips in and out frequently.