Accent

The Real Mitt Romney:

I have a little Yankee in me. Orange = arange. I can easily pull off the "aw" in coffee, dog, call, etc because I'm from New Jersey I don't think I have a true accent. At least, my friends from different states have never said anything. I have a slight lisp + a tongue thrust so my words are just jumbled, but I don't have true specific accent. I think the only thing that separates me from people in NY is my slang

Correction: According to my best friends, I pronounce room as "rum" but I pronounce roof correctly. I don't know where "rum" came from, maybe it's a central NY thing I picked up and didn't realise?

I can't say I have much of an accent, I've been told that on certain occasions I have a southern one, and other times I do sound like a Mexican.

It varies depending on who I'm around at that point.

I kind of swing from standardish American to backwoods Canadian.

Love my good old Aussie accent, I think the more country you are, the more prominent it is. I lived rural for 15 years haha.

i have a california/valley-girl accent.

I have a southern/Alabama accent. Idk if everyone knows the different southern accents, but people from Texas can clearly tell that I'm not from here, same with those from Georgia. I used to have a very mellow accent, but as I'm getting older it's getting more prominent and I like it.

Funny fact: I'm from Denmark and even though it's an incredibly small country there's still 9 (or more) different accents. I live in the southern part of Denmark, where a lot of our words are based on German words (because we were German in some weeks back in the days). Just in one part of Denmark (Jutland) there's about 4-5 different accents).

I'm from Essex in southeast England, but I'm pretty well spoken unless I'm really tired then I start dropping syllables.

I've got a Michigan accent, which I guess is a Canadian sounding midwest American accent.

nearly witches.:

I've got a stereotypically west-of-Scotland accent. Slightly softer than the Glaswegian accent, but still pretty harsh. We've got a lot of slang that goes along with the accent as well, like 'ken' for 'know' and I tend to pronounce 'aw' sound as 'ih' sounds (for instance, I almost always say 'whit' instead of what'). Apparently I don't sound as Scottish as people think I should though, which is amusing.

I also hadn't noticed this, but my friend recently pointed out that I cut the g off of the end of words. She only noticed when I pronounced 'you're fucking shitting me' as 'yer fuckin shittin me', and we now keep noticing it on all words ending in 'ing'. Don't think it's a regional thing, so I don't know where that's from.

Also, my friend has a Dunfermline / Fife accent and every time I spend extended periods of time hanging around with him, I lapse into a Fife accent. It irritates everyone, but I just seem really susceptible to picking that one accent up despite having only been in Dunfermline like 3 times in my entire life.

I've lived in the Pacific Northwest for more than half my life, so I sound pretty PNW, however I have this unconscious mimic where I pick up, not generally whole accents, but bits of speech and adopt patterns of speaking from either people I've talked to or have heard on the radio, or seen in a film.
So that affects my accent a great deal, but in a rather sporadic way so that it's difficult to place, or even pin point what's off about it.

So I guess I'm PNW, which is sort of flat without much to it except the occasional emphasis at the middle of a word, and then I have a few Canadian pronunciations, a Scottish rhythm, an Irish rolling of the "r", I sometimes cuss in an Australian fashion, and sometimes mumble with a Brooklyn spin, I get a Kentucky drawl on occassion... yeah, I confuse people.
Sometimes my voice goes a little raspy, sometimes it goes kind of deep, sometimes it has no intonation at all, sometimes it doesn't even work, I just make airy sounds, which is dumb.
I can do a decent Bane impression though, so whose complaining?