A Seattle Accent? Is it Egg or Aigg?

Ok, they are so totally wasting their money. I am from the Pacific Northwest and I say egg, and cot etc. no accent here! And I lived in E. WA. for several years and never started sound like a southerner!!! I now live in Alabama and say....."ya ain't from 'round her ar ya" !!! LOL

Okay, so I'm from the Mojave Desert in California,  both my parents are from upstate New York, and I now live south of Seattle.  I've trained the rags and tatters of my Buffalo roots in  out of my speech (I now say "water" instead of my childhood "wudder," for example), and I pride myself on being accent-free.

So a couple years ago, my sister, Mom, and I visited Buffalo for my grandmother's 95th birthday, and sister and I were a little giggly (privately) about the Buffalo accent.  There is no "ah" sound in Buffalo, did you know that?  It's a short "a" as in "apple" instead, and in extreme cases (like my Aunt Mary) it's pretty nasally.  

So sister and I went garage-saling in my mom's childhood neighborhood, and I started up a conversation with the 2 ladies conducting a sale.  Mid-conversation, one of the ladies asked where I was from.  When I told her Washington state, she replied, in broadest Buffalo, "Oh!  I thought I heard a touch of Vancouver in your accent!"  I mentioned (tactfully) the Buffalo accent, and both seemed amazed that there was such a thing.

Accents...who knew?

--Nikki

Living in PNW, myself, I don't believe there is accent in Seattle. I know here in Oregon, there are a ton of people from Minnesota. Who's to say that many of the "accents" these Drs were hearing were not from transplants?
 

I guess there is a accent but even cooler to me is that the american accent now is more like the british accent in 1776 than the british accent is now

As someone from the PNW, I have the blandest accent & regional terminology out there. :B Bag is bag, egg is ayg, both is both (no 'l' sound in there), pen is pen, soda is soda not pop or anything else, a shopping cart is not a trolley, caramel is carmul, pecan is pecawn, crayon is cran, etc.

Everyone has an accent....

I always laugh when my hubby would say I had an accent when we met (I grew up in WA state) The biggest chuckle for him was pellow (pillow), beg for bag, pretty much all the words mentioned by previous posters, LOL. He was from Indiana and had a huge accent to me but none according to him!    Yep,I agree we all do to a certain extent.