Do you think you have an accent?

[MoBeans]

I moved from Buffalo NY to near Boston Mass. I do not have an accent. A Boston accent they don't use R's. An extreme example is ‘pahk yah cah in Hahvahd Yahd’. My father in law sounded like that. I used R's so he always said I had an accent. My wife who is from here thinks COT and CAUGHT sound the same. She obviously has a Boston accent although she says I am saying it wrong because of my accent. They are the ones with accents, not me.

My brother says things like 'help me worsh the squorsh' adding R's where they don't belong. Not sure if it's a mid-west Buffalo accent or it's just my bro.

 

[TeePee]

I moved from Buffalo NY to near Boston Mass. I do not have an accent. A Boston accent they don't use R's. An extreme example is ‘pahk yah cah in Hahvahd Yahd’. My father in law sounded like that. I used R's so he always said I had an accent. My wife who is from here thinks COT and CAUGHT sound the same. She obviously has a Boston accent although she says I am saying it wrong because of my accent. They are the ones with accents, not me.

My brother says things like 'help me worsh the squorsh' adding R's where they don't belong. Not sure if it's a mid-west Buffalo accent or it's just my bro.

I'm from the Mid-West. I don't know if it's a Mid-West thing or not, but growing up (before I was corrected), I always put "r's" in where they didn't belong. We would "warsh our cars" and referred to the state of Washington as "Warshington". There were a few others I can't remember since it's been so long.

 

[January]

Australians tend to do that too - especially southern Australia - so things like ca(r)stle, ba(r)th, na(r)sty

 

[Naturally]

... "speaking" of Alabama ...

 

[KSav]

That video reminded me of how people here in North Dakota flatten their vowels. A friend who moved here from a different state said one of her daughter's college peers said she was majoring in "Egg," leading to confusion. Turned out it was Ag. That's a classic example.

Similarly, when we first moved here my daughters made friends with a girl in their class they called "Meggie." But her full name was Magdalena. That confused all of us a lot. Again, it was a pronunciation issue. Her own mom, who hails from Kansas, pronounced it "Maggie."

 

[OldFeller]

I drink wooder out of the faucet. What does that tell you about any accent I might have.