A quesiton about accents?

Question

I've been living around Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia all my life. And I have a slight britsh accent mixed with a Southern Drawl. How did this happen?

It's weird I just picked up the accent by watching alot of BBC but I stopped watching it.

Answer 1

Many people have combo accents. I heard a combo NYC and southern accent before.
I can see some similarities between English and Southern accents, I am not surprised at all.
If you like a British accent, then you adopted it, thats not too strange either. Your brain made it work for you, thats not a bad thing!

Answer 2

I don't know although I've lived around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania my whole life and people tell me I have a slight southern accent. I can also do an Austrian one quite well. The farthest south I've ever been is to Ft. Washington, PA and that's was for a driver's test.

Answer 3

I've heard that British linguists come to Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay to study old English, as the dialect spoken there is closer to the original than modern British English. There could be elements of British speech that are comfortable to you for those reasons. On the other hand, I grew up in Virginia, and found Japanese to be my easiest language to learn. Maybe past lives???

Answer 4

Maybe you couldn't handle the full blown southern drawl. British accents just sound more edjumacated, you know? At least you do not have the californian accent, and say "like" and "you know" all the time!! LMAO

Answer 5

Hmmm, you are TRYING to speak like that??? Most people pick up regional accents no matter where they live. If you work closely with British accent people you may pick up a little one, too.

Answer 6

You probably have friends you hang out with that have that accent

Answer 7

I think living in different regions your brain kinda picks up on the different dialects you hear.