Accents!?

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My accent mostly resembles that of my region. However, I have occasionally found myself picking up on bits of other accents, or reading English words as if the phonetics are Romanized Japanese. I don't really seem to have anything recently, but I think there are some words and what have you that I pronounce as if with a different accent.

Ironically, I find it difficult to simply imitate most accents intentionally. Unless maybe I'm reciting lines from a game or movie where a character has an accent; then it seems like I use a bit of accent out of imitating the character. I might also be able to do it if I'm coping someone else's example of an accent. Some are easier than others.

I'm from the Canadian prairies where most people sound like they're from Minnesota (think of the movie "Fargo"), but I've been told repeatedly by strangers that I either sound like I have a proper British accent (I hear this from fellow Canadians) or, when I lived in Seattle for a little while, everyone thought I was Irish for some reason. I've never tried to speak differently, but I guess I sound foreign, even if I've never been to England or Ireland.