What accent do you have?

Question

Where did you pick it up - has it changed at all ?

Answer 1

Scottish......I fear I may be picking up a glaswegian twang to it soon though......

Answer 2

Well, being that I'm in my home area, the way we talk's not considered an 'accent'. Go to Australia, and comment on their accent, and they'll say "Yank, fraid YOU'RE the one with an accent!"
I DO pick up accents remarkably quick though. My family, and much of my military training was in the America's deep south, so I tend to pick that up quicker than others. I speak german with a mixed bavarian/polish accent, and even in english I tend to roll my "R's"

Answer 3

well it is strange because I grew up in Miami and never thought that I had an accent. However, now I am in college in CA and my friends make fun of me because my accent has changed a bit. Whenever I talk to my friends from Miami, I can totally hear their accent now. I can pick up a Miami accent anywhere now. Like on the hair competition on Bravo (Sheer Genious?) there is a lady from Miami, and I knew she was from there before it was even said on the TV.

Answer 4

Quart aiphew: Since I spent tway wakes weeth a wheel heeled fummily in Weestun Orstayllya, and chaim ha'am spikking lark thease, wheech Aie marst saie pleezzd mai dear muhmah know ende, I seem to have acquired the facility to adopt accents, and acquire new ones, with a facility that knows bounds largely dictated by experience.

German, French, various American, a few English, some Irish, Scots, Swedish (lately), ... umm ... but basically the rather neutral educated Australian accent which is native to my tongue.

Answer 5

The accent you hear but I don't. The accent that is my own way of talking when everything is done. With an Aussie accent where everything said is begun with the accent of where I came from. (With apologies to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.)

Answer 6

i've been told that i don't really have an accent.... (i spent a few years working as a telephonist, and was told this by more than one customer...) but in my opinion, i do have a slight north yorkshire accent, and people from the north east can usually pick up on it.

Answer 7

I'm from Lancashire. The time when I have noticed my accent the most is when I've heard myself speak on a video recording. If I wrote the way I spoke no one would be able to read a word of it.

Answer 8

I don`t know, really. All I know is lots of people ask me if i`m from the east coast (I live in Washington State/US) I tell em, no....i`m from Germany....waaaaay back east....lol
I think it depends on where you live, you`ll adapt and pick up the accent of people you are mostly surrounded by. Some pick it up fast, others never (Arnold Schwarzenegger)...

Answer 9

Appalachian accent, from my birth in rural Pennsylvania.
Hasn't changed a bit.

Answer 10

I had a liverpool accent then i got a south england accent which has stuck with me and i have mixed them all together. it has turned into my own accent.

Answer 11

I have no clue where I got mine. I live in Utah, and no one else who has lived here all thier life like I have has my accent. I've been asked if I was russian, canadian, southern, latin, and swedish... hard to explain! Most people say it's sexy though.. i even got emails at work saying how sexy my voice was and i could switch to a much "sexier" profession and be a natural expert at it... lol!!