What do people usually think of your accent?

[lisaviolet]

I am not sure anyone.picks.up on an accent as far as location, but I most certainly enunciate ad nauseam. And that has been commented on - and joked about - when travelling.


And being Canadian, I do spend a lot of my days making sure that I find Floridian and American accents surrounding me, walk up to these strangers & loved ones and enunciate all about their various issues.

 

[lisaviolet]

I'm usually pegged as Canadian when I'm talking to someone on the phone. I do hear it a bit when I say certain words. I do not say oot or aboot. I honestly think it mostly comes from growing up with a parent with an Australian accent and one who has a mish mash of accents based on world wide travelling and living in different locales. I spent time growning up in Australia and went to speech therapy in Kindergarten (in Canada) to lose it. I wish I had been able to keep it.

Who made the decision initially about speech therapy? A professional at school?

What a shame as accents that children take on, when living in various locations before twelve, are interesting.

Phil Keoghan so?? from the Amazing Race is an example. I find his accent interesting. He is from New Zealand but spent quite a few years of his childhood in Canada.

(And I just read in Antigua as well.)

 

[disneydreamer1980]

I don’t really have one but members of my family have a strong Baltimore accent. Wooder instead of water, warsh instead of wash, mondee instead of monday, everyone is “hon”. Os are pronounced differently, kind of exaggerated. It’s a very specific accent

 

[prairie_girl]

Who made the decision initially about speech therapy? A professional at school?

What a shame as accents that children take on, when living in various locations before twelve, are interesting.

Phil Keoghan so?? from the Amazing Race is an example. I find his accent interesting. He is from New Zealand but spent quite a few years of his childhood in Canada.

(And I just read in Antigua as well.)

Not sure if it was a teacher or my parents who made the decision.

 

[DeeBee3]

But then I bring up those Buffalo nasally A's, woo boy. Here's my friend Naaaancy from Cheektovaga, she loves to drink pop.

Oh, you mean you want some paaahhhhhhhhhp?

 

[summerlyangel]

I'm from very rural South Carolina, so I can only imagine what people from other places think when they hear me speak. They'd be wrong. lol I've had many of my husband's family or friends or coworkers make fun before they met me or actually talked with me. They usually leave impressed. Southern does not mean idiot despite what media would have you believe. Again, whatever you think about Southerners, and I know the general perception, that's not me. Though I will concede that it may be true for many of my fellow Southerners.

I'm very good at code-switching. I speak like my family of origin when I am with them or on the phone with them, and my accent is very, very thick. Even my kids make fun of me at that point and tell me they can't understand what I'm saying. Outside of that specific situation, you'll just catch a hint of a Southern accent. My DH is from Detroit, so he has moderated my accent through the years, I believe, as I have his. He always says I have an "classy" Sothern accent, whatever that means. Our children are pretty non descript to me, but his family says they sound Southern, my family says they sound Northern. We live in a metro area just south of Charlotte, and most of my associates are transplants, so it only makes sense that my accent has moderated through the years. Even I do a double-take when I hear a very Southern or country accent these days.

When I'm in Detroit visiting DH's family, though. Those people are LOUD. lol

 

[cm8]

I'm from very rural South Carolina, so I can only imagine what people from other places think when they hear me speak. They'd be wrong. lol I've had many of my husband's family or friends or coworkers make fun before they met me or actually talked with me. They usually leave impressed. Southern does not mean idiot despite what media would have you believe. Again, whatever you think about Southerners, and I know the general perception, that's not me. Though I will concede that it may be true for many of my fellow Southerners.

I'm very good at code-switching. I speak like my family of origin when I am with them or on the phone with them, and my accent is very, very thick. Even my kids make fun of me at that point and tell me they can't understand what I'm saying. Outside of that specific situation, you'll just catch a hint of a Southern accent. My DH is from Detroit, so he has moderated my accent through the years, I believe, as I have his. He always says I have an "classy" Sothern accent, whatever that means. Our children are pretty non descript to me, but his family says they sound Southern, my family says they sound Northern. We live in a metro area just south of Charlotte, and most of my associates are transplants, so it only makes sense that my accent has moderated through the years. Even I do a double-take when I hear a very Southern or country accent these days.

When I'm in Detroit visiting DH's family, though. Those people are LOUD. lol

Cousin !!! LOL South Carolina here as well and I don’t think I have a souther drawl but I can hear something I’ve also been told I sound very “country” by people that live in Columbia( The audacity)! When it’s them who sound the most country!

Most people say I tend to sound like Susan Sugarbaker and maybe a bit of Julia if you come for me If you’re reading this like what in the world??? Google up Designing Women and play an episode, those 2 sisters are whom I’ve always been told I sounded like

 

[summerlyangel]

Cousin !!! LOL South Carolina here as well and I don’t think I have a souther drawl but I can hear something I’ve also been told I sound very “country” by people that live in Columbia( The audacity)! When it’s them who sound the most country!

Most people say I tend to sound like Susan Sugarbaker and maybe a bit of Julia if you come for me If you’re reading this like what in the world??? Google up Designing Women and play an episode, those 2 sisters are whom I’ve always been told I sounded like

I most definitely know the Designing Women :lol: Great accent!