Do you have a strong regional accent?
 

I don't have a southern accent, even though I grew up in the suburbs outside of Atlanta. This may be because my parents are from Argentina, though. Conversations at home were frequently in Spanglish, although in recent years my parents speak Spanish with me very rarely. I think they try to practice their English as much as possible when I'm with them.

So...do ya'll have accents? :D

I have a soft southen drawl even though I grew up north of the Mason-Dixon line. My parents were from the south and their language is my langauge.

(I work hard not to code switch because I suspect unhealthy subconscious signals are sent. I have no evidence of yhis, it's just a sneaky suspicion.)

Interesting...it seems there are a lot of native Southerners here. :) People often do seem surprised to find out you're from the south if you have no detectable accent, at least based on my experience in Jersey City.

No matter where I go people ask about my accent.

I grew up in Detroit :|

Naaa, no accent....

Now I think I will eat some chowdaa in my caa

lol

I have a really strong accent. It's a mixture of Rhode Island and Boston. I drop my r's but I don't pronounce cot and caught the same way. A RI accent sounds a bit like a NY (Brooklyn) type accent. Anyway it is thick and I have never been able to lose it. I have lived in Montreal for 12 years and it is as thick as it ever was. It makes my French almost incomprehensible. Not that it is very good anyway. But the accent made me stop trying to speak French. I wish I didn't have an accent. My wife loves it though, so that's something.

Stong? no. I tend to pick up the regional accents pretty quickly. Being born in New York, sometimes that accent will come out, especially lately since my ex was also originally from New York and her accent was thick. I've also had a Texas/Oklahoma drawlll and MN ya sure, you betcha! Now that I'm back in Oklahoma, I may have a slight drawl back but still, the others will come out and play with certain words or situations I suppose.

I didn't used to have anything but a city accent which is lack of an accent in TX. lmao However, I live in East TX, and hour from Dallas and 2.5 hrs West of Louisiana, and the Tx accent here is a bit of a drawl for sure. I do have that now, and when I'm around other family members that are just outside of Austin, the accent isn't the same there as mine here, so it kinda rubs off on me when I'm in a different area of TX. Texas has a few different drawls or some lack there of in the larger cities like Dallas and Houston. It's interesting to me how many of my family members talk with a different accent. lol
But if you talk to me, you know I'm from the south and have a Texas drawl in my lingo. I say yes ma'am and no ma'am in my mannerisms and stuff. When I lived just outside Detroit MI and worked in that area, peeps knew I was from Tx cause of the yes ma'am no ma'am lingo and the drawl. If they didn't think it was Texan they knew it was from the south.

I do NOT have a strong regional accent although I suppose I do have an accent of sorts... I am Canadian and as such, speak like one. Having grown up with a stay at home mum who has a Scottish accent, I started Kindergarten with a bit of a Scottish accent... I lost it though and began speaking like all my Canadian counterparts! ;) (kids can be so mean!)
Interesting thread!

I very much do have a strong Appalachian accent .
I was born and raised 5 minutes away from both West Virginia and Kentucky so I definitely sound Appalachian .

Born, raised, and still live in California.

No accent

Just an American one :raspberry:

Right...we tend to forget that, here in the States. :D I also have a "generic" American accent.

Can you usually detect regional accents on Americans? I can't distinguish between different types of British accents. Sometimes it takes me a little while to tell whether it's Australian, South African or British. :blush:

I have that Houston accent! When I used to attempt LDRs, people I would talk to from the Northeast or PNW were always disappointed that I didn't sound more Southern.

However, if you get me around my country cousins (Grimes Co., DeWitt Co.) i do have a twang that will come out real quick. And "ma'am," "sir," and "ya'll" are standard in my speech

I grew up in Ohio, now live in Arkansas for several years. I get people guessing I'm from Michigan or Wisconsin, never the South. I did one of those linguistic tests once and obviously came out "Upper Midwest". However, if I'm very tired, a few picked-up Southernisms come out and I sound like a muted Scarlett O'Hara from Cleveland.

I have a good friend who is from California and he most definitely has an accent to me. :)