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I have the Eastern New England accent, though I seem to pick up an Urban Boston accent sometimes.
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I was tongue-tied as a child and my speak coach spoke Ebonics, so I've always to be concious of the way I talk. When I worked at a hotel, people would come up with all kinds of guesses to where I was from. I grew up on the coast of northeast Florida.
Here is a link to a site where you can listen to speech accents from around North America and the world. <http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_maps/namerica.php> |
This is fascinating...I wish I could hear the differences.
I am in the 'I have an accent' category. Though I have no idea which...I sound like a mix between an american of some sort and an english person, mixed with a very faint, off-in-the-distance, 'I'm really portuguese' twang. |
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I live in Indiana and have heard that Indiana and Arizona have the most normal speaking dialects (rednecks and ebonics don't count). People actually train to speak this way if they are going to be on national news.
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I live in the Warshington that is ofter referred as, "those POLITISHUNS down there in WARSHINGTON....."
I used to hear those ads quite a bit when my family lived in CO. |
I'm Western New England, which is pretty close to North Midland and whatever the dark green is. It's a fairly pure dialect compared to formal English, but not quite so much as Inland Northern.
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According to that map, inland northern. But my friends from all over the U.S. claim that I speak with a bit of a drawl. That's what you get growing up in a rural area, I guess.
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Last week I was out at the local pub when I was approached by an older gentleman who correctly guessed where I was from based on my accent. I guess I must still sound like a Northwest Washingtonian after all these years (read: British Columbian-lite).
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I'm from Massachusetts, parents from northern Jersey and central Pennsylvania. I don't have a Boston or New England accent. I have a tendency to put a 'k' sound at the end of works ending in "-ing", which is kind of German.
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I grew up in Houston but both sides of the family immigrated from Europe so I do not sound like I have the Gulf Southern dialect.
My vocabulary however is southern. I use "fixin" as an adverb i.e. "I am fixin' to post on this thread." I say "yes ma'am" to all females most of the time. I say CE-ment instead of cement, etc. |
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