# What Accent of English Do You Have? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 14, 2011, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-of-english-do-you-have/585394 "2011-06-14T03:44:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-of-english-do-you-have/585394/21 "2011-06-14T06:34:44Z")
'Strayan, mate. Or Australian if you insist on using all the letters in words. Although I’ve spent a mere two weeks outside the country in my entire life, I am sometimes told I have a bit of an accent. I caught that from my first husband, an American. Now I’m shacked up with an Englishman, so my accent should be all kinds of messed up in a few more years. What can I say? I likes me some furriners. ---
**Author:** ![Tarwater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@Tarwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarwater)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-of-english-do-you-have/585394/22 "2011-06-14T06:43:53Z")
Pacific Northwest English. There’s a hint of North Central American (Minnesota Accent, or the “Fargo” accent), but only if you’re listening for it, and only if you’re listening very, very closely. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-of-english-do-you-have/585394/23 "2011-06-14T06:44:50Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > California English it is…like totally, dude. (born and raised in San Diego) Dude, like seriously. This it totally me. Like, I have to try to like, not say ‘like’ so much, you know? It totally gets annoying when I slip though. Like, seriously. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-of-english-do-you-have/585394/24 "2011-06-14T06:54:12Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > Dude, like seriously. This it totally me. Like, I have to try to like, not say ‘like’ so much, you know? > > It totally gets annoying when I slip though. Like, seriously. The funny thing is, some of my family and friends have a tinge of Southern accent in there due to all the migrant farmworkers who moved to the Central Valley during the Dust Bowel. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-of-english-do-you-have/585394/25 "2011-06-14T07:18:32Z")
american muddle. grew up in idaho. thought i spoke standard american until i went to ft knox. one of the staff at a chow hall there was from the shiloh area of tennessee and asked me what part of that area i was from. (go figure everyone said the oregon drawl was dead and i was raised in the wrong area anyway, shows what a bunch of egycated ijjits know) lived in ga for a few so aquired a strong southern accent, lived in ks for a few years and gained a twinge of midwest, so now depending on mood or how mad i am i can sound deeply southern, slightly midwestern or like i grew up in the town i currently live in, which is sort of a bedroom community about 10 miles from the metro area with its own distinct accent (if you grew up there) ---
**Author:** ![AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-of-english-do-you-have/585394/26 "2011-06-14T08:01:27Z")
Deaf and New England accent. Think Marlee Matlin or Heather Whitestone McCallum. I remember the day after the Miss America pagent, when Heather Whitestone was crowned I went to school, and everyone was like " Hey! About…Miss America talks just like you do! ---
**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-of-english-do-you-have/585394/27 "2011-06-14T08:05:58Z")
A heavy Dutch accent, that disappears after about 1 hour, only to be replaced with the accent of the person I’m speaking too…Irish, British, Afrikaner…or even Pidgin English if I’m speaking with other non natives speakers ---
**Author:** ![scruffycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scruffycat/32/200_2.png) [@scruffycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scruffycat)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-of-english-do-you-have/585394/28 "2011-06-14T09:58:51Z")
I have a Manchester accent, though not a really strong one as I’ve only lived in the area for 15 or so years. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-of-english-do-you-have/585394/29 "2011-06-14T11:33:27Z")
According to [one map](http://aschmann.net/AmEng/#Dialects_TheNorth), Inland North. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-of-english-do-you-have/585394/30 "2011-06-14T12:07:53Z")
BBC English, except when I’m at my brothers then some of the old South London creeps back in (think of the guys in Spinal Tap). Growing up I remember my mother constantly correcting my and my siblings’ school acquired accents _ **Pronounce your Tees!** _ So we all developed two accents, one to fit in at school and a posher version for home. These days I mostly I remember to do the ‘T’ thing, glottal stops are so [Estury](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estuary_English). ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-of-english-do-you-have/585394/31 "2011-06-14T12:18:56Z")
Mid-Atlantic American, with some regional NJ features probably due to my parents. ---
**Author:** ![JoseArcadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@JoseArcadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseArcadio)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-of-english-do-you-have/585394/32 "2011-06-14T12:51:30Z")
Scottish - a blend of Highland/teuchter and Glaswegian. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-of-english-do-you-have/585394/33 "2011-06-14T13:20:20Z")
I’m somewhere in between [Received Standard English](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation) and [Educated Australian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_English). I once had someone in Australia ask whether I was from Leeds or Leicester: I lived as a child in Leeds, and my mother was from Leicester, but I can’t pick those dialects in my speech. ---
**Author:** ![Inthewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Inthewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inthewater)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-of-english-do-you-have/585394/34 "2011-06-14T13:27:18Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > According to [one map](http://aschmann.net/AmEng/#Dialects_TheNorth), Inland North. Wow, I’m from Des Moines, IA. Look at that map and tell me what accent I should have? 😛 I’m screwed. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-of-english-do-you-have/585394/35 "2011-06-14T13:46:53Z")
Gulf Coast Texas accent, but not country and educated sounding. I can dial it up though, if I’m out in the sticks and don’t want to seem like too much of an outsider. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-of-english-do-you-have/585394/36 "2011-06-14T13:56:31Z")
New England, New York, General American combo. Actually, I would love for someone to analyze my accent secretly because I’m one of those people who can change accents at will, although just from those three choices. ---
**Author:** ![Candyman74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Candyman74](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Candyman74)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-of-english-do-you-have/585394/37 "2011-06-14T14:00:58Z")
Southern English accent (as in an accent from the South of England). No idea what, if anything, it’s called. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-of-english-do-you-have/585394/38 "2011-06-14T14:07:35Z")
RP or BBC ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-of-english-do-you-have/585394/39 "2011-06-14T14:14:22Z")
Mid-Atlantic American with hints of Down East Maine when I get drunk. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-of-english-do-you-have/585394/40 "2011-06-14T14:33:15Z")
Despite growing up at [ground zero of the Northern Cities Shift](http://jscms.jrn.columbia.edu/cns/2007-04-10/haynie-vowelshift.html), I’d say my accent is just a very subdued, subtle Inland Northern. I do have the Mary-marry-merry merger, and on occasion the strong Buffalonian fleeyat-a sneaks out. [A good example of a spoken Buffalo accent](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPZgZpVuYXo): “Beverage teeyaxes never made anybody healthy.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-of-english-do-you-have/585394.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-of-english-do-you-have/585394.md?page=3)