I met my first North American!

[Buff Hooligans]

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Honk honk honk - sound familiar? No, it's not your geese, it's a New Yawkah.

 

[The Poultry Peanut]

Hi Bant!
ETA: I like other countries accents...like The Australians or British...I have yet to hear a South African accent though

Maby you should come up here someday

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

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British don't have an accent when speaking English. Its there language everyone else keeps messing up.

Canada an the southern US talk slower than norther US. All 3 compress words but in different ways. The mid west compresses words just like the south but talks faster like the north. This may be a little over generalized as I can usually tell which state someone is from by there accent. Like some one from Ohio will call a dog a DaHg where in Georgia it is A DoWg

 

[saddina]

I tell people that there's no california accent, we all sound like the people on TV.

Saddi- who does have an accent, but good luck placing it.

 

[debilorrah]

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[michickenwrangler]

I've spent nearly all my life in Michigan, up near Canada, and since we're surrounded by the Great Lakes, we're a little more isolated and some of our words are different from the rest of the USA. We say "pop" instead of soda, we also say "crick" instead of creek. It wasn't until I was a teenager in our capital Washington D.C. that I was identified as having "a northern accent." Two days later, I was at a fast food restaurant on the east coast and asked "What kind of pop do you have?" The lady said that they didn't sell popcorn.

While meeting my brother's in laws at his wedding last summer, just to be a jerk I put on a thick "Yooper" accent, which sounds a bit Canadian without prepositions, and my brother's new sister-in-laws kept asking him "Why does your sister sound like the sheriff on Fargo?" (A movie that takes place in North Dakota near the Canadian border).

The US southern accent is definitely "Twangier" than others. Just wait until you hear a great "Boston" accent, sounds kinda like a flat, garbled British accent

Bantimna, if you ever get a chance to watch the TV show King of the Hill, an American animated sitcom, watch it. It gives a good range of US accents from hillbilly Texas to Southern to Upper Midwest (sounds like Canadian)

 

[chickaddict]

I've never heard an accent I didn't like. They are all beautiful to me. But nothing beats a good Irish brogue.

 

[thespinningcottage]

I worked with a girl from SA long ago. To me, she sounded very British.

 

[newchickgal]

I was born and raised in Northern California but all the while growing up I always said (and still do) warsh for wash...guess I got that from my Grandma who was from Kansas! But don't know for sure. Think I'll warsh the cloths now.

 

[Redhead Hen]

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Really? And here I thought warsh was a Maryland thing. It's not Washington DC .. It's Warshington DC. And water is warter. Sink is Zink. We don't have windows ... we have winders. Cars use ool not oil. I have pitchers on the walls instead of pictures too! Haha! I honestly think there are are least 3 different accents in the state of Maryland alone. Oh and EVERYONE is a Hon! Okay ... here is a link to how we talk here in MD!

http://www.robinsweb.com/maryland/merlin.html