What kind of accent do you have?

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Ferr shurre, we all have accents. No, you only think you don't. If you don't think you have an accent, that means your speech is exactly like all the people, who surround you. So, when you leave that area, low and behold, you have an accent. As a kid from Massachusetts, I had a "Boston" accent. Now I live in N.E. Pennsylvania, I talk like the locals. For "coffee", I say "cough-fee". Right across the river is New Jersey, they say "caw -fee", and they don't think they have an accent, either. I love accents. What kind of accent do you have? Got some favorites?
BTW, one of the weird things about accents is that we don't pick up the accents of our parents, or adults, we pick up the accent of the kids in our neighborhood. How they talk, we copy.
 
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I Have a Scottish accent.. altho' only detectable to a few.. after almost 50 years of living in England.. my accent is barely discernible to most people and they mistake it for everything but Scottish.. usually Australian, or South African.. everything but Scottish and are stunned when I tell them where I was born and raised
 
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I don't think I have an accent, but last week a guy talked to me who doesn't know me, and he asked what part of England I was from. :unsure: I told him I was born and raised and educated in America. He still had trouble believing this but it's true. I don't sound English at all but I do sound like an American with no regional accent whatsoever. That's all I can say.
 
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I don't think I have an accent, but last week a guy talked to me who doesn't know me, and he asked what part of England I was from. :unsure: I told him I was born and raised and educated in America. He still had trouble believing this but it's true. I don't sound English at all but I do sound like an American with no regional accent whatsoever. That's all I can say.
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you know what ?.. I swear every American and Canadian I've spoken to on here and in real life swear they have no accent... :D
 
My voice work for radio and TV commercials made me really listen to myself as I talked. My voice work coach had been the "voice of CFRB AM 1010 " for more than 20 years. He did all of their intros, extros, weather cuts, news cuts, and station call signs. He told me that I needed to learn to speak from my chest, and time my breathing. My natural accent is mid Atlantic , with some Canadian lilt.

Quite a few Canadian radio and TV performers moved to the US and did very well. Peter Jennings was a good example of a neutral accent, as was Morely Safer another Canadian, and so were Lorne Greene, Donald Sutherland, William Shatner, Leslie Nielsen, Christofer Plummer and Gordon Pinsent. Alex Trebeck had a very long career in the USA, but his accent was formed by his upbring in a French speaking family in central Ontario. He didn't start to speak English until he went to grade 1. His first radio experience was at the local CBC French language station in his home town of Sudbury, Ontario. He went on to do CBC TV national news, and CBC game shows, before going to the States.

Canadians have a wide range of natural accents, based on where they grew up, and what language they first learned at home, as a child. Of course we also have millions of people who now live in Canada, but were born in some other country. They may speak English, but with a strong accent from their home country. First Nations people also have some noticeable accents, in particular the Innuit. JimB.
 
I didn't know I had an accent until I lived in CT for a couple years. And the guy behind the deli said he could tell I wasn't "from around here" because of my accent. My accent is very specific to where I grew up so I can't define it as a larger region and telling it would divulge personal information which is only allowed to be shared with Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and the list goes on.
 
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