# Accents
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents/421754
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [October 6, 2007, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents/421754 "2007-10-06T15:40:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents/421754/1 "2007-10-06T15:40:52Z")
You got the Southern Drawl,
the Western Twang,
The Irish Brogue,
the Scottish Burr,
and the Australian Strine.
What other names for regional accents are there?
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### Author:  [@brazil84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brazil84)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents/421754/2 "2007-10-06T15:45:49Z")
[QUOTE=Enola Straight]
You got the Southern Drawl,
the Western Twang,
The Irish Brogue,
the Scottish Burr,
and the Australian Strine.
What other names for regional accents are there?
[/QUOTE]
Corn-belt rasp?
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### Author:  [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents/421754/3 "2007-10-06T15:59:36Z")
West Indian lilt
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### Author:  [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents/421754/4 "2007-10-06T16:14:27Z")
You mean accents which are not simply identified by where they come from?
Scouse (Liverpool and surrounds)
Cockney (London)
Received Pronunciation, aka RP (family of posh-sounding accents originating in southern England; how British actors and TV presenters often talk; the default accent for newsreaders)
RADA (Very posh strain of RP, from Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Used in old British films such as _Brief Encounter_.)
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### Author:  [@brazil84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brazil84)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents/421754/5 "2007-10-06T16:53:05Z")
[QUOTE=Usram]
You mean accents which are not simply identified by where they come from?
[/quote]
I guess he/she means accents that have their own names beyond a simple “X accent” where X is a location.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents/421754/6 "2007-10-06T17:02:26Z")
[QUOTE=Enola Straight]
You got the Southern Drawl,
the Western Twang,
The Irish Brogue,
the Scottish Burr,
and the Australian Strine.
[/QUOTE]
I’ve never heard the last one. It’s just “Strine”, which is “Australian” in, well, Strine. Australian Strine is redundant.
Also, it’s Midwestern twang, righ
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents/421754/7 "2007-10-06T17:23:50Z")
The Baltimore Mushmouth.
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### Author:  [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents/421754/8 "2007-10-06T19:26:57Z")
The Long Island Lockjaw
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### Author:  [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents/421754/9 "2007-10-06T23:00:12Z")
Da Bronx.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2007, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents/421754/10 "2007-10-07T15:26:16Z")
Castillian lisp.
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### Author:  [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents/421754/11 "2007-10-07T15:45:25Z")
[QUOTE=Usram]
You mean accents which are not simply identified by where they come from?
Scouse (Liverpool and surrounds)
Cockney (London)
Received Pronunciation, aka RP (family of posh-sounding accents originating in southern England; how British actors and TV presenters often talk; the default accent for newsreaders)
RADA (Very posh strain of RP, from Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Used in old British films such as _Brief Encounter_.)
[/QUOTE]
Plus:
Norf Lunnon (North London, don’t you know)
West Country (=rural)
Brummie (from Birmingham)
Toon (from Newcastle)
Scottish (various)
Welsh (lilting)
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### Author:  [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents/421754/12 "2007-10-07T17:36:56Z")
Norn Iron accent = Northern Ireland
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### Author:  [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2007, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents/421754/13 "2007-10-07T18:03:26Z")
The Czech gargle.
(no offense; I have friends from the Czech Republic who told me this).
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### Author:  [@Miscue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miscue)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2007, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents/421754/14 "2007-10-08T12:34:47Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel]
West Indian lilt
[/QUOTE]
I’ve also heard Spanish speakers refer to the Mexican lilt as well.
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents/421754/15 "2007-10-08T16:12:51Z")
The middle of Indiana has the Midwestern Flat, of David Letterman.
A lot of southern Hoosiers have the Mountain Twang of Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn. Linguists say it came from the Scots and Irish coal miners who dug into the Apallachians and followed the coal west into Ohio and Indiana.
Northwest Indiana has the Calumet Region, where you’ll find the Chicago Crunch. Crunchers sound like they’re chewing the words and spitting them out. “Th” is very close to “t.”
Americans from India have a beautiful tonality I call the Song of India. It has the stamp of the time when the British thought they were in charge, but there’s a musical quality that comes from farther in the past.
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### Author:  [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2007, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents/421754/16 "2007-10-09T19:32:43Z")
Jamaican Patois.