Do you think you have an accent?

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.
 
MoBeans said:
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.
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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.
 
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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."
 
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MoBeans said:
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.
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Watching the Buffalo TV news, as Canadians living in Ontario, the NY state accent was a hoot. The 11 pm catch phrase " do you know where your children are "? was all ways answered with.........In jail, or setting another fire "On the east side of town'. JIMB.
 
Since everybody spots me as being from the New York/New Jersey area, even though I haven't lived there since the 1970's, I guess that's my accent. It's pretty toned down by now.

The dead giveaway is the way we pronounce "coffee." That, and Jerseyisms such as "down the shore" instead of "at the beach."
 
A New York thing that I have never understood. An egg creme. AS far as I can figure out, it does not have either an egg, or creme, in it ? Can anybody explain what it actually is ?
 
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