Do you notice accents?

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We all come from someplace. And that "someplace" has a regional accent, which we tend to carry around with us for life. I left Massachusetts a half century ago: but, at times, "I pahk my cah in the yahd". You, also, have an accent. Do you notice accents? Maybe even your own? Which accents do you like.
I live I PA, now. I hear Jersey & NY accents. I love Southern type accents.
 

Yes...not only British accents, but accents from all over the English speaking world...I have an ear for accents!!

My favourite American accents are Southern... .. my Favourite British accents are the Scottish Highlands .. I don't like the Northern Irish accent, especially Belfast, but I love the Southern Irish, particularly County Down, Wexford or Cork
 
My favourite is the Southern Irish Dublin accent, French and Italian are nice too
 

Tut tut Hollydolly, Co.Down is part of Northern Ireland. I've lived in a number of places in the UK, but strangely enough many people have mistaken my accent for Wester Ross or even Orkney and Shetland (and I've lived in none of these).

The only American accent that I can usually pick out is from Minnesota. I've worked in Rochester for a short while (and incidentally it's where I acquired the handle of "Capt Lightning").
 
Capt Lightning said:
Tut tut Hollydolly, Co.Down is part of Northern Ireland. I've lived in a number of places in the UK, but strangely enough many people have mistaken my accent for Wester Ross or even Orkney and Shetland (and I've lived in none of these).

The only American accent that I can usually pick out is from Minnesota. I've worked in Rochester for a short while (and incidentally it's where I acquired the handle of "Capt Lightning").
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yes that's the only Northern Irish accent I can tolerate really....
 
I'm very good at identifying accents. When I drove a cab, to get through college, I freaked out my passengers, at times, by telling them where they were from. This one guy, from Saskatoon, got so flustered he blurted out, "Wait, do I know you?" The negative aspect of this is that I can't tolerate those actors whose attempt to do accents is a joke. Streep, loved by so many, is truly terrible, to a comical extent. In the same movie, her accent will change over the movie's duration. Terrible.
 
treeguy64 said:
I'm very good at identifying accents. When I drove a cab, to get through college, I freaked out my passengers, at times, by telling them where they were from. This one guy, from Saskatoon, got so flustered he blurted out, "Wait, do I know you?" The negative aspect of this is that I can't tolerate those actors whose attempt to do accents is a joke. Streep, loved by so many, is truly terrible, to a comical extent. In the same movie, her accent will change over the movie's duration. Terrible.
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yes that annoys the bejeezus out of me in films, when they've got the accent all wrong...
 
Well, I'm an Aussie, and even though I've been here since the 70's and have lost a lot of my twang, people at the very least know I'm not from the US. Mostly they guess English, but some nail it. Meanwhile my Aussie friends tell me I've lost it all and I talk like an American now. I still can't pronounce the letter "r" like Americans can. My "car" still comes out sounding like "caaah" for example. My kids love to rag me about my accent.

I'm not really good at guessing where folks are from by their accents, unless it's blatantly obvious. I can tell they speak with one, but the nuances most often escape me. When I first moved to the US, I lived in California and those folks were fairly easy to understand. Then we moved to Alabama and OH MY!!!! I could hardly understand what people were saying, that southern drawl got me every time!!

Ron's from up north (Syracuse/Watertown area) and when we first met, I could tell immediately that he had some kind of accent, though I had no clue where he was from until he told me. I just knew he wasn't southern or Californian!
 
fuzzybuddy said:
We all come from someplace. And that "someplace" has a regional accent, which we tend to carry around with us for life. I left Massachusetts a half century ago: but, at times, "I pahk my cah in the yahd". You, also, have an accent. Do you notice accents? Maybe even your own? Which accents do you like.
I live I PA, now. I hear Jersey & NY accents. I love Southern type accents.
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I have family who live in Massachusetts. I don't notice accents. They speak like Canadians. My son married a New England girl. Even she doesn't seem to have that Kennedy accent.
 
hollydolly said:
Yes...not only British accents, but accents from all over the English speaking world...I have an ear for accents!!

My favourite American accents are Southern... .. my Favourite British accents are the Scottish Highlands .. I don't like the Northern Irish accent, especially Belfast, but I love the Southern Irish, particularly County Down, Wexford or Cork
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Get out of my head Hollydolly!

This could be my answer, except for the Northern Ireland bit,
I don't mind their accents, though the most difficult for me
to understand is the one from Moira in N.I.

Mike.
 
I wish I could "do" accents. I'm a big joke teller and sometimes I try to get the accent right and fail miserably. The only accent I can do fairly well is Italian for some reason, and even that wouldn't fool anyone.

Sometimes I've been told that I have a touch of a "Tidewater" accent. I lived there for a while.
 
Definitely 'notice' accents. I'm fearful on my annual trips to the UK. I've had a couple of incidents where I just could not understand people from whom I was asking assistance. I was in a town in Scotland (can't recall the town, not too far from Balloch), and I couldn't find the train schedule to get back. I had to go to three different people to find someone who was intelligible to me. Also tried to speak to some people in York with their heavy Yorkshire accent which again, was unintelligible to me. For the most part, in my travels, the accents are not too difficult.

I did have a mildly humorous (to me) incident while hiking in the Cotswolds. I came across a group of boys (probably around 14 years old) hiking the trail. We stopped to chat for a minute. One of the youths commented, out of the blue, that he really liked my accent --- it was 'posh'. I laughed, and told him that Americans think Brit accents (actually, Americans love the 'London' accents, if there is such a thing) are the greatest --- he had no idea.
 
I moved to Indiana when I was twenty. The first time two young men asked me if I was from Pittsburgh I was surprised. I never realized I had an "accent". For a few years I was asked a dozen times or so.
If any on "yinz" guys can relate to that yer probably havin' chipped ham for lunch.
Here We Go Steelers!
 
DGM said:
I moved to Indiana when I was twenty. The first time two young men asked me if I was from Pittsburgh I was surprised. I never realized I had an "accent". For a few years I was asked a dozen times or so.
If any on "yinz" guys can relate to that yer probably havin' chipped ham for lunch.
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I grew up in Pittsburgh and loved chipped ham. I moved to Chicago and Illinois when I was 18, after that I moved to Indiana think in the early 90’s.

Some say I have a slight accent, but it varies to what they think it is....English was my second language but I learned it early on...around 5-6.

Im guessing it’s a mixture of East Coast and midwestern.

I don’t hear an accent and most people around me don’t either.

Ive talked to Falcon on here in person and I think he’s said I don’t have one but I’m not sure.

Ill ask again...

Falcon do I have an accent??
 
Years ago, when I was in the USAF, we had guys from Massachusetts, and others from Louisiana, in the barracks, etc., and they had a hard time communicating with each other due to some of their extreme accents. It was almost as if they were speaking different languages, until they began to get used to each others speech patterns. Today, what I notice most is when I'm watching TV, and someone from Great Britain is speaking....to me, it seems as if they fail to pronounce the Letter "R".
 
I do notice accents though I don't have one. As a child some cousins had such pronounced New York accents, I couldn't understand them, but as adults, they lost it. It's easiest to tell if someone is a Down Easter or from any part of the American south. :) I can tell the difference between English, Irish, Scot and Welsh, but have trouble with Aussies who can sound like South Africans. It's easiest to know if someone is from the Islands - Caribbean.
 
Well, growing up in Massachusetts, I never thought John F. Kennedy had an accent. I've lost most of my Mass. accent unless I'm tired; then it comes out. Now I have an Eastern PA accent. With the New Yorkers & Jerseyites moving into the neighborhood, we now drink "cau-aughee" (coffee). Both my parents are from French Canadian stock, who spoke fluent French when they were kids. My mom had a mild French accent. She had trouble pronouncing the letter "H" if it was the first letter of the word. "Ospital" for hospital.
 
Mike said:
Get out of my head Hollydolly!

This could be my answer, except for the Northern Ireland bit,
I don't mind their accents, though the most difficult for me
to understand is the one from Moira in N.I.

Mike.
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LOL...

The one that grates on me most in NI is the Belfast accent.. here on the mainland, I can't stand the Brummie accent.. (sorry to anyone from Birmingham)..
 
There are so many nationalities here that I am in heaven just hearing them, and guessing where the different dialects originate from.

I got a kick out of being told I had an accent, when I lived in South Australia. They always assumed I was "American" .. had to correct them, that I am Canadian.
 
Being a pilot for 34 years, I have heard many different accents. When I was in the Marines, my best buddy was from Arkansas. After being around him all through boot and then another 3 months at Camp Lejeune, I picked up his accent. When I was given 15-days of leave and went home, my mom asked me why I was talking funny.
 
Speaking English.

I have a good friend from England (But living here now.) Sometimes I can hardly understand him.
 

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