Question of the Day - Friday, October 10th, 2025

[casportpony]

Today's question is from @fowltemptress:

Has anyone ever stopped you to comment on your accent?

No.

 

[SFerg]

Has anyone ever stopped you to comment on your accent?

Yes, I was asked if my accent was south GA by someone from Massachusetts. Which was crazy because I'd never met the person and he knew where I was from just from the way my draw sounded!

 

[azurbanclucker]

Yes. In Serbia. Funnily, they asked why it wasn't twangy and southern like on tv

 

[User690263]

Today's question is from @fowltemptress:

No.

Nope, though I have been asked if I'm annoyed with someone because I tend to speak rather monotone

 

[Sally PB]

Nope.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

When I was working maintenance at some condos in Maine explaining what I had to do to fix a heater a women did ask, "get out of Philly much"?

 

[muddy75]

It’s been awhile, but yes

 

[Evadig]

No

Oh, wait. Yes, people have thought I’m from England.

 

[NotabitaiI]

Nope, I think my accent can either be pretty blank or I mirror the person I'm talking to. When I was a toddler I had a THICK deep south drawly accent, then I had a standard Midwestern accent which is pretty much my default accent now, but if I'm talking to someone with a twangy Texan accent I'll find myself talking like them, and then because I grew up in a huge city where I was a whitish minority sometimes I use AAVE and that makes me sound super Texan.

 

[tripletfeb]

All the time. My one triplet sister and I have a German accent. We even took 8 years of speech therapy in school because the school told my mom it was a speech impedement. Well, 8 years of speech can't fix an accent. Anyways, we sound like we are from Boston but we aren't. Born and raised in Ohio. When I was a waitress at Olive Garden, my guests would ask me all the time where I was from. I started making up stories about being in the Witness Protection Program. And still today, anytime I meet someone new, they comment