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

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.

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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 was speaking idiomatically.

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."

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Tritoch

Thankfully I managed to avoid having a Southern accent despite living in North Carolina my whole life.

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.

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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?

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Originally Posted by Alice

not that my accent is nice or genteel

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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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?

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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.

I was speaking idiomatically.