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poopylungstuffing
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04 May 2007, 11:21 am

Yaaaay...another thread I can totally relate to..my voice changes alot depending on what I am doing...I have been accused of talking like I do on purpose but I swear that isnt the case.

When I worked in the food service industry people asked me where I was from all the time....They thought I was either from Europe or Canada (and I was born and raised in TX)

People also thought this about me when I was a switchboard operator and my voice was always heard on the intercom at this music store where I worked for 2 years.

(insert flashback of forcing myself not to mimick the Scottish lady I worked with..had to practicly talk like a robot when i spoke to her so i would not mimick her)

um...I have a sort of high lilty sort of voice (because I am a singer)...and I annunciate well...i think that is what causes it.



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04 May 2007, 11:21 am

I have a beautiful accent!



04 May 2007, 11:24 am

Lot of people ask where I'm from. They don't even know I was born here. I think I got my accent from due to being deaf when I was a baby.



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04 May 2007, 1:20 pm

A relatively quiet but distinctive central Lancashire accent. I like it; it suits me. I do sometimes imitate a Ian Paisley-style Ulster accent to take the piss out of something (usually extremism) or a Scottish accent when I make joking references to being drunk. But my accent is Lancashire. :)



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04 May 2007, 1:33 pm

I sound like The Sex Pistols, when I sing. :lol:



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04 May 2007, 9:02 pm

Today, I asked about a book about English (British) literature and I thought my voice sounded as though I had an English accent, even though I'm American.



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04 May 2007, 9:19 pm

...I grew up in the New York City area (the suburbs - Westchester , to the direct north) , my parents were Southern (Texan - with at least noticeable accents all their lives) , I think I tend to speak a little " Wasp "-y , people at times think I'm Canadian or New Zealander or simialar . I use a few Southern/country-isms in my speech , like " directly " (for " soon - but not real soon " - kind of like the Jamacian " soon come " , I think ??????? Must be something about hotter climates , people aren't so hung up/anal retentive about being on time ! !! !! !! !! :P :) ) , and " y'all (contraction of " you all " , for referring to someone/a thing/people collectively - It makes sense , and I've seen/read people saying that the American Southern " y'all " makes sense ! !! !! ) , or " fixin' " . A lil' bit .



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04 May 2007, 10:04 pm

I'm picking up a ritzy English accent from watching too much "Charlie and Lola". Even my friends and my mom have noticed, especially since I've started calling her 'mum' without even thinking about it...



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05 May 2007, 1:07 am

I have an odd accent. Apparently it sounds really posh. I picked up a bit of my mum's accent, but my brother didn't, which is kind of funny.



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05 May 2007, 1:13 am

I always explain to people that my dad is Czech/American and my mom is from Rochester new York and that is why I have an unusual accent.



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05 May 2007, 5:10 am

My accent slides around a bit, too. Since I've grown up and am more-or-less dealing with the real world, I speak mainly with an Australian accent, but even that wavers a bit between quite posh and very bogan. I get asked if I'm from various parts of eastern Europe, but I think that's mostly because people read my long, ethnic name and make assumptions before I even open my mouth.

I also slip into some sort of British accent very easily - I personally don't think it's very convincing but I generally fool people when I accidentally use it in public, including one lady who pinpointed it to Lancashire. 8O



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05 May 2007, 6:21 am

No, I don't have an unusual accent... but when it comes to accents, I am a master at many because I find it easy to imitate them after I've heard them for sometime.



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05 May 2007, 7:13 am

Grimbling: Better start using dialect words like 'war', 'theer', 'provvin', 'owt/nowt', 'wur', 'o'reet' and all that lot. ;)



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05 May 2007, 9:29 am

When I am reading, I will pronounce a word, such as "schedule" differently, depending on whether the book or article I'm reading originates from America or England. I do this silently, as people here would probably think I'm weird.



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05 May 2007, 9:45 am

When I travel around the UK, I arrive back home with a slightly different accent.
It happens mostly in London or Hampshire, my accent becomes a mixture of southern words with northern it is really weird, people often think it is a deliberate action.
It usually shakes off within a few days.



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05 May 2007, 11:16 am

I have lived in the south (US) all my life, but everyone I meet here asks me, "Are you from up north?" However, everyone I meet from the north tells me that I do, indeed, have a southern accent. I always paid attention when they taught grammar in school and actually applied it to my own speech, which I don't think most people do. However, I did pick up some features of southern pronunciation. Only recently have I started working on the pen/pin distinction (most southerners pronounce both like "pin").