Accents and dialects

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Thought has a longer "O", same with Dawn to don. Longer A.

The A in Pasta and Father are different, and bother and father are different.

I sometimes pronounce the name Mary as Mah-Ri




Does the local media have an American accent/dialect or local accent?

I know it's the same in Arabic where there are countless dialects, but media reverts to FusHa when reporting.

"Park the car in Harvard Yard."

Some people say this as: Pawrck tha caw in Haw-veard Yawd....

People like some of my relatives from Maine.

Da test said I was neutral, and could be from anyvere sou' of Michigan and nort' of da Ohio River, what da hey? Dat test is biased, hey. Dere were no selections for Yooper talk. Dat's discrimination.

Aye Matey, and yar Captain Crunch fells yur pain.

The local Fargo news-people mostly have Upper-Midwestern accents, with a few people with Great Lakes and Western accents.

I had a teacher's aide in high school who was from Boston who has that accent. We always gave her a bad time about her dropping her r's.

Uffda, yah!

I have a pretty neutral American accent. When I go to New York though, people can tell that I'm a New Englander. And people sometimes think I'm from Europe because I phrase my words in a more european way! Weird, huh?

Couldn't get the quiz to come up but anyway...

I'm British. Furthermore, I'm originally from the county of Kent, which has two distinct accents: inland it's a more countrified accent, but on the north coast they've absorbed a London influence (probably from the main London railway line being there), so as my music teacher used to say, we emphasize our 'AY's and 'OY's.

But....I moved to East Anglia a decade ago. And, I've started to pick up the Suffolk accent in particular, which among other things says 'Toosday' for 'Tuesday' and 'suffin' for 'something'.

BUT....I work with Americans. What happens if you're British working with Americans in Britain is, you end up with an accent that sounds British to the Americans you work with, but to any other British people who don't know you well, sounds vaguely Australian! (You also end up dropping your Us in various words when you write.)

BUT...when I was in Seattle, I got mistaken for a local! OK, I know it's Pew-ALL-up and PEW-jet Sound and Mount Ray-neer, but...people keep telling me the Pacific Northwest doesn't have an accent as such...or that 'they all sound Canadian'. Now I'm confused...

I got northern on the test but any time I go somewhere out of the tristate area everyone always asks me what its like in NY o_o One time I was on rosetta stone I was talking with this dude and while it was supposed to be Japanese practice some stuff was said in English and he said I sound like a Yankee. I asked him what that means and he said "someone from NY or NJ".

For those who wanna give a voice sample try this website on for size
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0SqMTozdyMF

aaaand my voice sounds horrible <,<

I've lost my Cockney accent a few months back only to reveal a different accent. Something that sounds German with a mix of Western Canadian. I think I'm happier with the way that I sound now to be honest. Looking back, I now understand why my parents were telling me not to talk nasally the entire Summer of 1987. They knew I was trying to hide something. My sister caught on right away.

My accent fluctuates between Scottish, northern Irish, and Midwestern American.

I'm another one that all over the place (well all over England anyway).
Lived mostly in the Midlands as a kid, but Mum's from Hastings (south coast), Dad's from Nottingham (North Midlands), step-Dad's from Southall (West London), and I've now lived on the edge of the Pennines in West Yorkshire for 25 years (West Yorks. has a distinct Yorkshire/Lancashire hybrid accent all of its own).

I seem to have distinctly gravitated to the laziest parts of each of those accents - typical Northern short vowels, "T" is a glottal stop wherever possible, the letter "H" and word "the" have gone completely AWOL, and I use the Yorkshire short forms of many words (e.g. "owt" = anything, "nowt" = nothing)
"I'm going to the shop, do you want me to get you anything?" -> "Moff'shop, jyawun'owt?"

I have an odd, quiet way of talking. My sentences are fractured and I often repeat myself and back track my words as I'm saying them. I don't talk a lot, either.
According to the quiz, I have a neutral accent.

I don't really think I have an accent. I know it's British, obviously, but it's neither distinctly Southern (i.e. RP) nor Northern (i.e. Yorkshire/Lancashire), and not really distinctive either. I live near Stoke (north-ish middle of England), and all my family are from that area. My grandparents and dad have a rather strong Potteries accent, but I don't think I do. But I do know the accent's a lot milder amongst people my age.
My school is near Manchester, and a friend of mine who used to go that school and lives up there, has told me I have a little bit of one. I can pick up an accent shared across the other students at that school: they pronounce words like "book" and "look" a bit more like "buck" and "luck", and their 'a' vowels (e.g. "bag", "hand") sound different, more like an 'o' sound.