# UK or AU parents with children raised in the US - Is their accent pure US or a combo?

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**Created:** [September 10, 2006, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-or-au-parents-with-children-raised-in-the-us-is-their-accent-pure-us-or-a-combo/372227 "2006-09-10T23:40:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-or-au-parents-with-children-raised-in-the-us-is-their-accent-pure-us-or-a-combo/372227/21 "2006-09-13T02:36:03Z")

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[QUOTE=Lobelia Overhill]  
My father is Scottish and my Mother is Irish, I first started going to school when we lived in London and had a ‘Norf Landen’ accent till we moved to Scotland, where upon I became ‘Glaswegian’… Nowadays I have a peculiar West Cork/Glasgow/Mancunian accent (the Mancunian comes from a friend)  
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Yeah… I think accents are primarily where you grew up, and/or are living.

I know a girl whose parents had fairly thick Scottish accents, but she grew up in southern England near Southampton, and oddly enough, she sounds more like a BBC announcer than anything else. Nobody who hears her talk will confuse her with a Scot.

The funny part about accents is just how relative they are. She was convinced that I had this super-thick Texas drawl, when in reality, it’s very, very mild (to the point where people in Dallas say I don’t have an accent).

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**Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-or-au-parents-with-children-raised-in-the-us-is-their-accent-pure-us-or-a-combo/372227/22 "2006-09-13T11:13:35Z")

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[QUOTE=psiekier]

Both of her parents had (and still have, I presume) thick New Zealand accents - they sounded just like Crocodile Dundee.  
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He’s Australian, different country, different accent..

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