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  • TheCatGodess

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    I have a Northern England accent apparently, which would be accurate because I live there. :)
    August 5th, 2012 at 05:43pm
  • louis tomlinson.

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    I'm fromNew England, so I've got a New England accent I guess? I'm also pretty good at English accents too :)

    I dunno if this is a New England thing, but I've been told that I say "draw" "straw" and "saw" weird, like "drawr" "strawr" and "sawr"
    August 6th, 2012 at 03:33am
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    I was born in Massachusetts, moved to Canada, then to New Hampshire. I talk very quickly and replace Rs with Hs when I'm not thinking. That's the Boston in me. I've never been told I have a Canadian accept and no New Hampshire borne have I ever met has an accent. I guess it's only a hint of a Boston accent.
    August 6th, 2012 at 04:19am
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    Pennsylvania. I don't speak like I'm from Pittsburgh all that much, because I'm not, but there are a few things.

    Here.

    rilly - really.
    acrosst - across
    anymore - lately (SO MUCH.)
    fer - for
    prolly - probably
    crick - creek
    jaggers - thorny things out in the woods.
    pensyvania - Pennsylvania (ALLTHETIME)
    --we somehow drop the use of "to be," for example, "my car needs fixed."

    ALLL OF THIS. (copied & pasted) ->Vetran - Veteran
    Vetrinarian - Veterinarian
    Intrest - Interest
    Cabnet - Cabinet
    Compny - Company
    Famly - Family
    Restrant - Restaurant
    Where you at - Where are you?
    Hot water heater - Hot water tank
    Wound up - Ended up
    Nother - Other
    Corter - Quarter
    Woulda - Would have or would've
    Coulda - Could have or could've
    Shoulda - Should have or should've
    Didja - Did you
    Wouldja - Would you
    Couldja - Could you
    Shouldja - Should you

    Facepalm nevermind guys. I'm stupid. Stupid Sarah.

    She speaks Pittsburghese.
    August 6th, 2012 at 08:55am
  • Zachary Merrick.

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    I have a really awful Yorkshire/Northern English accent. Facepalm I was born and brought up in the county, so I can't say it's a shock.
    I'm really bad when it comes to pronouncing t's and th sounds properly (don't ask me to say 'bath', it comes out like 'baff' half the time XD) and I've been told my accent has a really bad drawl to it, too, which I didn't actually realize until it was pointed out how long my o's and a's actually are. XD

    My favourite bit about my accent is confusing people from the South/the London area with it. tehe
    August 12th, 2012 at 03:46am
  • josh ray person

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    I have a French-Canadian accent. Although I have been told it's very subtle (mostly due to my being a perfectionist when it comes to pronunciation).
    I have been told I sound like a Greek-Montrealer. Which is kind of a funny thing, because I am not Greek at all.
    August 12th, 2012 at 04:50am
  • nearly witches.

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    I have the most fabulous Scottish accent (and yes, that WAS sarcasm). If you've ever heard Ben or James from Biffy Clyro speak, that's my accent, but in a female form. I tend to pronounce 'to' at 'tae' and 'you' as 'ye'. I also miss 't' off of the end/middle of a lot of words. Like, 'lot', I pronounce without the t pretty often. All of the typical Scottish colloquiums.

    I also (and apparently this is completely something in the town I live in) say 'ken' instead of 'know' a lot. And yes, I do say aye more than is probably needed.
    August 12th, 2012 at 12:06pm
  • derek hale.

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    I'm from New Zealand, so I have a kiwi accent. I'm an Aucklander, and I was raised in a strong Polynesian environment despite the fact I'm a 'bloody palagi', so I get shit a lot because I sometimes talk like a 'fob' (which is a slang term for someone from a Pacific Island) or a 'Hori' (a derogatory name for a Maori person). So I say 'bro' a lot without even thinking about it. I guess you could term the way I speak as a kind of Urban New Zealand English, I guess? Something like that. lmfao And that was a terrible explanation.
    August 19th, 2012 at 05:29pm
  • fearless-forever

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    I'm from texas but gosh I have no southern accent whatsoever. I just sit back while my hick friends make fun of ME for talking proper... I've been told I sound british before but I can say most confidently I don't. And no offense toward southern people, I'm technically one too. :)
    August 19th, 2012 at 08:22pm
  • marsflor

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    I have an American accent. I'm not sure what kind of American accent, as in Texan or whatever. Sometimes when I'm angry I sound very odd though, as in my voice has a bit (a lot) of a Spanish accent. Haha. Other have told me that I have a teeny tiny English accent occasionally when I speak. But from my perspectiveI just have a plain American accent. People have told me I say things like, "singer" strangely. But I don't see how.
    August 20th, 2012 at 05:01pm
  • The-Maine-Becky

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    Potteries! I live about 15 minute drive from where Robbie Williams grew up, but he's lost his accent now!

    But it's a really strong accent, so strong that some people raised in the same city don't understand me. It seems to be stronger in men, but the sad thing is; I sound like a man! It's really fast a gruff, I have to remind myself to speak properly, because it's not just an accent, it's a whole dialect!

    We were learning about accents and dialects in English where my teacher put together a typical conversation (If my dad were to meet a friend down the pub) and I had to translate it for about 90% of the class!

    I guess that we rush and miss letters off too! And everybody is called 'Mate', 'Norm' or 'Doris'

    I say things weird, like;
    Head = 'ed
    How's it going? = 'Ows at?
    Get = Ger
    Are you all right dear? = Tow rate owd duck?
    ? = Nesh (We just made that word up)
    Pound = Pund
    For = Fer
    Has = 'As
    To = Ter
    Can't = Conna
    First = Fost
    Beat = Bate

    O = U (sometimes)

    This video below has some more words in it that I say wrong.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D71b57ttr-A&feature=related
    August 20th, 2012 at 11:12pm
  • orange county.

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    I have a British accent. I would probably say that I speak a lot more posher than most people for The West Midlands. I guess I'll sound like singer Beverly Knight or 1D member Liam Payne as they're both from my hometown.
    August 21st, 2012 at 03:44am
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    I was born in the east coast so when I moved to California I was told I had a country (red neck) aCcent. But I'm also hard of hearing so some of my words are missing s or z.
    August 28th, 2012 at 08:06am
  • the blissfully dead

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    I'm fom Liverpool...... Scouse accent! I don't think my accent is as bad as some people's, but I definitely do have quite a strong Scouse accent. I don't think the Scouse accent is a particularly nice one. In fact I think it's pretty horrible. I don't pronounce the letter h or g at the end of words Any other scousers out there?
    September 1st, 2012 at 11:33am
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    My accent's kind of like, a mixture between Newcastle and Sunderland, with a bit of Middlesborough thrown in for good measure (basically, the big North East cities). So, I have the Durham accent. Which basically makes me sound like I'm stupid haha.

    stoput - stop it
    canny - alright (as a reply when we're asked how we feel)
    git - very

    Up here, we tend to drop our 'h' a lot and our 'th' sounds. 'T' is dropped a lot anol (as well) haha. I dunno if this is all of Britain, but we say 'khazi' for the loo. And some of our joke-y insults are like, wazzack and winnet and stuff like that. We tend to speak git quickly, and tend to opt for shorter words, making us sound like we have stifled vocabularies haha. We also don't say 'my' very much... it comes out 'me'. Example: 'where's me slippers?' Oh, and we drop our 'g' anol. We say 'nothun' instead of nothing haha. We have a few bits in my family which confuse those around us, like 'cald' (pronounced cahd).

    Basically: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYV7dDzi0cc
    September 1st, 2012 at 04:55pm
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    i have a pretty ridiculous wisconsin accent. i mumble, conjugate, replace "th"'s with "d"'s, and speak through my nose. my sister moved to iowa and whenever she travels back up to visit, she says that my accent is worse than everyone else's. i guess it's the perks of living in east jesus nowhere where the accents haven't been diluted by culture, lol.
    September 9th, 2012 at 07:59am
  • alexander bernadotte

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    I think I have that stereotypical California-girl, valley-girl accent. Where everything has an upward inflection? Which makes me sound, like, really stupid? And we say, like, like a thousand times in every freakin' sentence?
    September 14th, 2012 at 10:53am
  • KaitlinandCompany

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    I have the most gulf coast, Florida, Spanish-tinged accent. Like, there are random Spanglish (Spanish-English) words that pop up out of nowhere, but then half the time I sound like a valley-girl.

    Which is super odd in Tennessee, where I live now. Oh, and I tend to say 'super' instead of 'very'. And my words get drawn out and sort of tilt up at the ends. Kinda. That was a horrible explanation.
    September 16th, 2012 at 01:13am
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    I have a southern Finnish accent with a bit of a stutter
    December 30th, 2012 at 09:21pm
  • dally winston.

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    I have a Midwest-Michigan accent, whatever that might be. Though, I often catch myself talking in a Russian accent. :P
    December 31st, 2012 at 01:30am