'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.
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.
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.
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)
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!
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
I have a Manchester accent, though not a really strong one as I’ve only lived in the area for 15 or so years.
According to one map, Inland North.
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.
Mid-Atlantic American, with some regional NJ features probably due to my parents.
Scottish - a blend of Highland/teuchter and Glaswegian.
I’m somewhere in between Received Standard English and Educated Australian. 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.
Wow, I’m from Des Moines, IA. Look at that map and tell me what accent I should have?
I’m screwed.
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.
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.
Southern English accent (as in an accent from the South of England). No idea what, if anything, it’s called.
RP or BBC
Mid-Atlantic American with hints of Down East Maine when I get drunk.
Despite growing up at ground zero of the Northern Cities Shift, 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: “Beverage teeyaxes never made anybody healthy.”