July 20, 2002
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Do you have an accent or do people tell you you do?

Though I've lived away from the city for 17 years now, I still can't lose the New York City street-sound.... especially when I'm upset, angry or just excited about something. Some people love it, some detest it.... and as for me, I just don't give a damn. (it's the attitude never goes away)

Fisch, 47
Preston
, CT   USA

No, I dont have an accent, but when I lived in Maine, people there poked fun at the way I pronounced some of my words.

Tam

Nope, no accent here... But I have a tendency to pick them up from others..

Nicci, 27
Las Vegas
, NV   USA

Born in Texas and still here, just yesterday I made a business call up north and the woman said she just loved to hear southerners accent. Listening to my voice on my answering machine I sound like a hillbilly to me.

Laney
TX  USA

No.

Talia, 25
Stamford
, CT   USA

I have some kind of accent, I used to think it was just my Tennessee accent but see, some people around here ask "where are you from? Your accent is different." And yet the people from up north and other countries say, "wow you have the country accent." So I don't know. But I say I have a Tennessee accent and that is fine with me.

Lisa J., 23
TN  USA

I never thought I had an accent but when I talked to a long-lost brother, HE had an accent so I figured I probably did, too. People have told me that I have a slight accent but they can't quite place it. When I tell them all the places I have lived they say, "Well, there's your answer. Your Eastern accent (Buffalo,NY) has been tempered by your Texas accent (Killeen,TX)."

Reba, 50+
Silver Spring
, MD  USA

Sometimes. How I pronounce "yesterday, orange, snacks, and Cul-de-Sac", oh and beer.

Christine, 36
Syracuse
, NY   USA

I know I have a New Jersey accent (not to be confused with NYC, Bronx or Long Island accents).

Laura, 37
Lowell
, MA   USA

Compared with other who speak American English, I suppose I have a run of the mill way of speaking and certainly in my day to day, no one mentions that I have one. However, but me in the South or beyond the US borders and I would suddenly have an accent. Seems it is all about your position geographically at any given time.  That an your .

Felicia, 36
Lowell
, MA USA

I used to have a Texas accent, but I've lost most of it. I think I might still have a hint of it.

Janet, 44
E. Brunswick
, NJ  USA

I basically have the accent of the educated Easterner, but I have lived in enough places that people always think I am from somewhere else. In addition, I have adopted some British idioms that I am regularly exposed to by my son-in-law and his family.

Jane, 62
West Linn
, OR   USA

If I talk to friends who live up north [Michigan] or on the East coast [Virginia, W. Virginia], they tell me I have a "western" accent. I don't really think I have one.

Jeremy, 14
Highlands Ranch
, CO  USA

I have a "texas twang". I say my i's with a very draw out "I". And when I get out into the country part of Tx and here the way people talk , my twang gets even stronger. My fi gets a kick out of it.

Stephanie, 25
TX  USA

Of course I do! I am a Texas girl after all!!

Firelady, 24
Frisco
, TX    USA

Everybody's got some kind of accent. But I've never been told I have one.

Karen, 22
Ames
, IA   USA

I am a resident of New Jersey and no I do not have the Joisey accent. No one ever comments on my accent except for my sister (when she lived down South) on the phrase: youse guys.

Janet, 44
E. Brunswick
, NJ  USA

On a rare occassion someone will say I have an accent, but I think it's only on a few words. I was born and raised in Kansas so to some people, my accent may be a bit midwestern.

Doug2, 29
Overland Park
, KS  USA

Well, Im an Australian, so we dont have an accent - it's everyone else in the world who speaks funny.

Brad, 21
Sydney  AUSTRALIA

I think everyone has an accent to some degree. It may be just a few words you say differently, but to someone else, it's an accent. I think I have a mix of Philadelphia, PA words (wooder = water) and northern New Jersey (daug = dog). Other than that I probably sound like your basic New Jersian.

Tracy, 24
Ocean City
, NJ  USA

I've been in Texas all my life and the only time anyone says I have an accent is occassionally someone says, "Are you from the north? Like Michigan?" I don't understand it, but oh well.

Triana, 29
Austin
, TX   USA

The funny thing is, I'm a southerner, but I've tried so hard to sound like an intellectual, I think I've rid myself of accent. Perhaps "Northeastern" accent. Once in a while I'll let a long vowel slip, but no one ever really notices. Which is too bad--I'd kind of like to have my southern accent back. In retrospect, I think it's a kind of nice way to speak.

Cancer, 20
NYC
, NY   USA

I generally speak with a very generic, standard voice, and no accent.  Occasionally, though, I will hear and have been told of elements of a Mexican-American accent.

Johanna, 18
OK  USA

Down here in Costa Rica, they know I am a gringo right from "hola."

Eric, 20
San Jose  COSTA RICA

Everyone has an accent! If I went to sweden I would have an accent!! If an australian went to England he would have an accent.

Nicole, 17 
El Paso
, TX   USA

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