Tell me about your accent

inb4 lol I don't have an accent: No, you have an accent. The only people who don't have accents are people who don't speak.

• English — 98% standard New England Connecticut accent, though I recently learned that I pronounce some consonants (more specifically, my t/d, s/z) the polish way rather than the English way. English t/d and s/z are alveolar (tongue touches the gums), the Polish t/d, s/z are dental (tongue touches the teeth).
  • Because I'm weird, I sometimes subconsciously mix Polish vocal inflections into my talk when I'm excited.
  • Apparently this is a uniquely New Britain thing—if a t occurs between two [i] vowels, I pronounce it with a glottal stop. IE: "hard hi'in New Bri'in.", "Oh no you di'in'!"
• Polish — Whatever people speak around Warszawa, since that's where my family comes from, though with a horrendous English accent on some of the more difficult consonants. I'm getting better at it, though.

edited 5th Mar '11 5:10:20 PM by annebeeche

Pacific Northwestern. Meaning I say "didjoo" instead of "did you", and I have a few Canadianisms. Other than that, what you'd see on American Television.

Uh....No clue.

Standard Eastern PA now. Was essentially ebonics for a long time but I managed to train myself out of it because I was getting picked on for it.

If you're a native english speaker, it's probably the region where you grew up. I grew up in New England, so I have a New England accent.

When visiting other countries, I am frequently mistaken for a German.

What Zersk said, but with any potentially interesting quirks ironed out by my prior home.

British. Mostly a sort of generic southern English accent, but I have a few American inflections thanks to the American side of my family and I have a slightly estuary edge to my voice as well, thanks to going to school/college in East London and Essex

A standard Ohio/Midwestern accent, which it often seems is the "default" American accent.

I once met a girl from Kentucky who spoke with a heavy Southern accent. She said that when she moved to Ohio, she thought that everyone there sounded "proper", because that's how newscasters and other prominent media figures speak.

Generally a British sort of thing, interestingly enough.

Logically I know that I must have an Australian accent, because I've lived here all my life.

But it's a very posh Australian accent. People always ask if I or my parents are from England, or Canada. Once someone even suggested I was South African.

This thread needs vocaroo.

Ivy, you sound like Current! Me.

Stop that.

Forge me a replacement set of vocal chords, and I'll consider it.

Never held enough conversations with native English speakers to be able to determine what my English accent is like. As for Spanish, it's just regular modern Buenos Aires accent, it's pretty distinctive among Spanish speakers.

All you could really tell is that I come from the northeast.

Speaking of Vocaroo, I found an accent-themed recording I did a while back.

Since you likely don't know the Alcoholic Frog, look him up on Youtube, he's pretty funny.

I come from Tucson, Arizona. I guess I have an accent but I couldn't tell you what specifically it is? Well, it's an American accent.

A specific American accent that causes me to drop about an eighth of the consonants, and only has one vowel sound.

I'd like to go to England so that I can pick up a much cooler accent. Also, some of the best tropers live in England.

Like This brilliant human and humanist thinker.

edited 5th Mar '11 6:03:13 PM by AlirozTheConfused

A raspy tone of Mid-Atlantic English, more or less. Despite spending no time in America.

edited 5th Mar '11 6:01:42 PM by Shichibukai

An Australian voice that apparently sounds very English.

Mid-Atlantic. Luckily, I didn't pick up the locals' tendency to pronounce "wash" as "warsh".

Like me

...uh, okay, if you want me to.

What? No, I meant I have an english sounding Aussie accent too.