Accent

A cross between an Indiana accent, a Detroit accent, and Yooper slang.
It ends up sounding like a Joey Ramone-type thing or Kid Rock on a bad day in his young hip-hop days. Maybe even a NY Dolls, but they're from NYC, mostly. Sylvain's voice is hot.

But, it's not harsh or anything. Just a little city.

I'm from Upstate New York. My accent is a mixture of everyone around me. Pretty much a little bit of northern Florida (my father), Boston (my husband), Pennsylvania (my aunt and uncle) and good ole northern New York (rest of my family).

Basically my accent isn't that awesome. Sometimes it can be really confusing especially since I tend to talk quietly.

I can't remember if I've posted here before or not xD

I'm from the North-West of England. It's not an attractive accent at all, it's quite drawling and broad and is often associated with a lack of education or low social class in comparison to some accents from the rest of the UK. But I will defend it fervently until I die. I love the dialect and the slang and i couldn't care less if people think less of me because of the way I talk. Although, everyone always assumes I'm from Yorkshire and not it's westerly bordering county, and even though I'm secretly a bit annoyed (Yorkshire gets all the press ) I have to pretend I'm not arsed because I'm fighting a losing battle.

I was born in Bristol, England and lived there until I was about 3. Then I moved to Wales and although to me it doesn't sound as if I have an accent, my mum and dad are adamant that I speak with a Welsh twang. Some words you can definitely tell, like when I say the words "school" and "pool", instead of pronouncing them like they're spelled, I chuck a "wel" in there so they sound like "skewel" and "poowel".

I lived in Kingston, England until I was eight or so before we moved to Wales, more specifically the Isle of Anglesey (in the North). I personally think I just sound whiny but with no accent, but then in recordings I think I sound like the stereotypical English girl. Sometimes I put a Welsh emphasis on a word or two, but that's all.

I was born in North Yorkshire in England, but we moved before I started talking so I escaped the Yorkshire accent. We lived in Suffolk, England until I was about eleven, and then we moved to Northern Ireland, where I live now. For the last two years, I've been spending half the year in Scotland for university, so my accent is like a huge mix.

Normally, I sound English, but when I get angry, my accent goes full Irish and no one can understand what I'm saying. Then, to top it all off, I use Scottish slang words, which makes it even more confusing.

@ maleficent.

Kingston upon Thames or Kingston upon Hull?

I live right near Kingston upon Thames >.<

@ Vicious.

Kingston upon Thames.

@ maleficent.

Aha I live in Sutton

I have a bit of a Jersey/Yankee accent because my father is from New Jersey and is as Yankee as it gets. I've never been there, though. I just don't communicate with the people around me, which is in the South, so I never pick up anything else and always just pick up more Jersey. My mother has a Southern accent because she was born and raised here, but she's got a twist of Yankee, too. People constantly ask us where we're from because they assume we aren't from here with our accents, even though we are.

But I'm also capable of picking up an accent really quickly if I watch too much TV. Like when I was watching all the seasons of Misfits straight, I managed to pick up a British when the only British person I know is my girlfriend. I was able to pick up an Irish-like accent after watching The Boondock Saints over and over because I had an obsession. My parents say I watch too much TV and really should cut back because I pick up too many accents so quickly. They think I have a problem mentally.

maylene.:

People in Michigan have crazy wierd accents. I'm originally from California, so all of my friends think I'm the one who's talking funny.

I second the first sentence. I have a Michigan accent, and I agree with you.

I'm from Somerset, England. People here have a "farmer's accent" as most call it.
We drop the 't' and the 'l' in a lot of words: e.g. "wo'er" rather than "water", "foo'baw" instead of "football".
We also tend to change the 'th' sound to a 'v' sound, e.g. "wiv" instead of "with". I can't stand it, although I've been told my accent isn't that strong at all.

I'm from Buffalo, New York, so I've got whatever accent people around these parts has. Something to do with A's in certain words, I don't know.

^ Buffalo's only a couple hours away from where I live. :)

lauzzdestroya:

We also tend to change the 'th' sound to a 'v' sound, e.g. "wiv" instead of "with".

That's how my friend and I say "with". Our friend Helen moved here from Britain when she was really little and that's how she says it too. We must have picked it up from her because I've never heard another New Yorker say it like that.

I'm Scottish, so I have this really thick Glasweigan accent, and Glasweigan's basically have an entire langauge of our own. Most words are just kinda twisted to fit our accent. Some words we just invent out of nowhere... Like tattie bogle, our word for scarecrow, it's my favorite Glasweigan word ever. We talk really fast too, and we use our hands a lot, I've lost count of the times I've almost been hit in the face by someone gesticulating. I go kinda proper when I'm talking to people with differant accents, as if I automatically assume they won't understand me otherwise. Unless I meet someone from a band, then I get all excited and go full Glasweigan, talking a hundered miles an hour and hands flailing wildly. Most times, I don't even realise some words are exclusively Glasweigan/Scottish until I use it and they get confused. I love the Welsh accent, though, I'd love to have a Welsh accent.... We also talk to much... Lol.

am from northern Ireland, so ive been told I have a very thick country/farmer accent and I talk fast and have my lip pierced 3 times so my family cant even understand me half the time but I don’t care ^_^

I'm from Texas... So I'm hard on my A's, and I add them (Wor-a-ld rather than world) or I just drop the first half of the word.
I don't have a drawl though... also I pick up other people's accents, like, I have a friend from Mississippi, and they have O.O accents out there, and if I'm around her too long, my accent is all redneck. In May I watched alot of Dr Who, so my accent was... not from 'round these parts.

Here's my question to any Europeans or anyone NOT in the US. I know that a lot of American teens sit around joking with British accents (or Irish, etc)... but do you guys do the same with American?

WriteToLive:

Here's my question to any Europeans or anyone NOT in the US. I know that a lot of American teens sit around joking with British accents (or Irish, etc)... but do you guys do the same with American?

Only very occasionally. It's not particularly fun/funny to sound like the tv.
Oh, sometimes we do the more 'extreme' ones, actually - like stylised New Jersey or Chicago.

I'm Australian. I live in the middle of nowhere. I don't have a really girly voice (thank heavens, I dislike girls that have really girly voices, they annoy me). I'm from Tropical Far North Queensland, but my accent is somewhat mixed. My grandad is from England, so he still has a bit of an English accent. For some reason I've picked it up and mixed it with the Australian accent. The English isn't strong though. :)