What does your accent sound like?

[The Feral Underclass]

Mine is a cross between Sheffield/Yorkshire and a faint black country but with received pronunciation.

This:

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and this:

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with this guy's accent:

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[Futility Personified]

Uh, soft southern with a hint of west country burr

[DDR]

Something like this, I guess:

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:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:: laugh::laugh::laugh:

[Os Cangaceiros]

I have a non-regionally specific American accent.

[synthesis]

Fairly thick accent that I'd describe as "west coast" even though I don't think it's nationally recognized as such. (Some tendency to replace "t" with "d" if it's at the end of a syllable, always heavy emphasis on the the "r" and sometimes on the "u" in cases like "absurd" or "burned," sometimes dropping the "t" altogether. Kind of the opposite of the East Coast where they drop the "r" and enunciate the "t." A lot of people I know also tend to replace "s" with "sh" but I don't, at least if I'm sober or anything close to it.)

East Coast people might pronounce "entertained" as "entetained," whereas people I know might pronounce it more like "ennertained."

[Remus Bleys]

I'm from ohio... so pretty much every major American Newsperson. TkUg1fzHXgQFreakishly close to this guy.

[RedGuevara]

Non-specific American accent unless I'm around a group of South Eastern born rural folk of America. Then I have a slight Southern accent.

[Art Vandelay]

Like a stereotypical Canadian I suppose, with lots of 'eh' and 'aboot' thrown about, although I've never heard a Canadian enunciate the word about as 'aboot' before, but apparently its got something to do with the way we pronounce vowels.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Soft Nor Cal drawl I suppose. A mumbly drawl. Sloppy vowels and the "d"s for "t"s thing that Synthesis said. Don't do the chipper San Francisco yuppie inflections that make every statment sound like a question.

I use "hella" and say "like" as in "I was like: 'What are you doing?'" but generally not in the Southern California way as a place-filler ("he was, like, running in, like, a marathon"). I use "y'know" as a place filler far too often.

[Sasha]

all dutch once got described to me as "klingon with troathcancer" though for a dutch person i can speak quite "posh"/smooth because of my theaterschool time.
my english accent is apperently a weird mix of typical dutch, london (from growing up listing to OI punk and watching the BBC) and Los Angeles/San Fransisco (having ex-girlfriends from there)

[Os Cangaceiros]

Dutch is definitely the funniest sounding European language, at least of the one's I've heard.

[Quail]

I consider my accent to be fairly "neutral" but in reality it is a mild Derbyshire accent which is starting to absorb bits of Yorkshire. It varies a little depending on who I'm with though. Sometimes I hear myself say something and think, "Do I really sound that posh?" and sometimes (usually when it's just me and my son, or if I'm with people from the town I grew up) I'll cringe at how strong my accent sounds. It's probably not the nicest British accent, and it's definitely nothing like the British accents on American TV shows!

[Sasha]

this is how proper modern amsterdams should sound fxz04H2xS3c
the song is actually about amsterdam slang, lots of the words have a Yiddish source as you can see.
i use the words but unless i'm hanging out with people who have the accent i dont have the accent..
very annoying anyways, for some reason, probably the theaterschool i did, i pick up other peoples accents really easy, i dont do it intentionally, its just social mirroring but sometimes people think i'm taking the piss out of them.

old school white workingclass amsterdam talk like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr_KApKBadM
modern amsterdam slang has now obviously a lot more english, surinam, turkish and Moroccan stuff in it.

[BOZG]

I would guess that my "natural" accent is somewhere close to this, maybe not as thick though. I'm a bit like Quail (as most people probably are) in that my accent changes depending on who I'm talking to. I speak so little English with other Irish people these days that I'm sure my accent is probably become a bit more generic because I consciously speak slower, avoid slang etc. I've also been told that I'm beginning to get a Swedish twang in my accent too. OEO_t4BdDfU

[BOZG]

Dutch is definitely the funniest sounding European language, at least of the one's I've heard.

I think Dutch people speaking English is probably the funniest accent. But speaking their mother tongue, I have to give it to the Danes. Though there are some similarities between Danish and Dutch accents.

[Thirsty Crow]

I've been told that I speak "CNN American English". Made me think actually, and I do tend to notice that my speech goes more towards the AE side of things. Wonder why that is (pronunciation was never a part of English classes, not in high school, not in college; meaning, nobody forced RP).
As far as native language goes, even here I kind of speak neutral, a variant of the standard mixed with the north-eastern kajkavian dialect. The situation with Serbo-Croatian dialects is very interesting (by thatI mean dialects in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia). Should have majored in sociolingustics.

[The Feral Underclass]

I consider my accent to be fairly "neutral" but in reality it is a mild Derbyshire accent which is starting to absorb bits of Yorkshire. It varies a little depending on who I'm with though. Sometimes I hear myself say something and think, "Do I really sound that posh?" and sometimes (usually when it's just me and my son, or if I'm with people from the town I grew up) I'll cringe at how strong my accent sounds. It's probably not the nicest British accent, and it's definitely nothing like the British accents on American TV shows!

You definitely have an accent.

I think when I'm around non-Yorkshire people I tend to drop the accent more, but when I'm around people with thick Sheffield accent, it comes out more. For ages I thought I had quite a neutral RP accent, but then people started pointing out the Sheffield/Yorkshire. I guess you can't really tell when you're around people who sound the same.

I really hope the boy grows up to have a really thick Sheffield accent. When he starts at school you won't be able to stop it!!!

Some choice Sheffield slang and how Quail's son will talk in the future:

"Geeor"
- Stop it

"Gee uz anutherun"
- Give me another one.

"I ant gorrit a tell thi"
I'm telling you I haven't got it.

"Weer t'Wicker runs or t'watter on t'Weer"
- Where the Wicker runs over the water on the Weir.

"Gerahto theer nah"
- Get out of there now.

"If thaa dunt geeor ashal clipp thi"
- If you don't stop it I'm going to hit you.

[The Feral Underclass]

I would guess that my "natural" accent is somewhere close to this, maybe not as thick though. I'm a bit like Quail (as most people probably are) in that my accent changes depending on who I'm talking to. I speak so little English with other Irish people these days that I'm sure my accent is probably become a bit more generic because I consciously speak slower, avoid slang etc. I've also been told that I'm beginning to get a Swedish twang in my accent too. OEO_t4BdDfU

The Irish accent is hot. Fact.

[The Feral Underclass]

Something like this, I guess:

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This accent is great!

[A.J.]

In this neck of of the woods somone's accent is an immediate identifier of their class I.e. working class people speak with local accents whereas the effeminate upper/middle classes speak with, what's the word, "anglicised" voices.

[Thirsty Crow]

In this neck of of the woods somone's accent is an immediate identifier of their class I.e. working class people speak with local accents whereas the effeminate upper/middle classes speak with, what's the word, "anglicised" voices.
Sorry, come again?

[reb]

In this neck of of the woods somone's accent is an immediate identifier of their class I.e. working class people speak with local accents whereas the effeminate upper/middle classes speak with, what's the word, "anglicised" voices.

What is with this macho prole fetish bullshit?

[DDR]

This accent is great!

It could be worse

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BTW, that lady's husband also speaks really good english

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The glorious stuff begings at 0:42.

But I consider it normal, since they all have this guy as teacher:

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Seroiusly, I only understand viva españa.

[Tenka]

I consciously avoid picking up my living family's uncouth accent. I listen to a lot of British people via media, but I don't like BBC English. When I was small and going to school in Arizona a classmate called me "Boston crap", inexplicably....

[Ceallach_the_Witch]

I have a fairly faint Yorkshire accent

[Quail]

I really hope the boy grows up to have a really thick Sheffield accent. When he starts at school you won't be able to stop it!!!

Yeah I am pretty sure he will get a Sheffield accent as he grows up... At the moment he talks with a bizarre mixture of accents. Sometimes he even says stuff like "carstle" and "barth" and I guess he must've just heard that on the tv. There is no r in castle or bath!

[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

Fast and laced with profanity.

"Whares are fuckin teevee remoot?"
"S'on the chesterfield isnit?"

My partner is from Rhode Island and has the cutest New England accent - stops for "tt" in the middle of words ("wri'en" for "written") and lots of "r"s for "w"s ("drarer" for "drawer").

[Crabbensmasher]

Like a stereotypical Canadian I suppose, with lots of 'eh' and 'aboot' thrown about, although I've never heard a Canadian enunciate the word about as 'aboot' before, but apparently its got something to do with the way we pronounce vowels.

In the Atlantic provinces, we tend to pronounce room as rum, and roof as ruff. Silly stuff like that. Some people say it's Newfoundland, but I think it's everywhere Atlantic

[Tim Cornelis]

My English accent is "British". I'm not familiar with all the accents. I probably pronounce some words with different accents. I think I gravitate between no accent, or a flat accent, and some other accent I don't know what's it called. I just try not to sound posh. I've been looking which accent sounds like it, but can't really find anything. I don't think it sounds Northern, it's certainly not Yorkshire or something. London would be statistically probable. Maybe a mix of Birmingham, Essex, or something.

I speak Dutch without accent. You can kinda hear I'm from Utrecht, but it's not really an accent, it's subtle pronunciation. I only found out after studying elsewhere that this was the case though.


this is how proper modern amsterdams should sound fxz04H2xS3c
the song is actually about amsterdam slang, lots of the words have a Yiddish source as you can see.

Holy..., nostalgia bomb.


Dutch is definitely the funniest sounding European language, at least of the one's I've heard.

Racist.

[RedAnarchist]

Probably somewhere between Liverpudlian and Lancashire.

[Tim Cornelis]

Okay, so apparently I speak Estuary English. Supposed to be the future replacement of RP English. Now I'm watching 12-16 minute videos of a German linguistics professor. I should be studying, sigh.

[Ele'ill]

philadelphia accent, people ask me if I'm from brooklyn so I guess it's pretty thick also apparently pronounce some words with a slight southern accent

the two main areas I grew up

[Os Cangaceiros]

Racist.

It's a compliment!

[Don't Swallow The Cap]

An odd mix of standard AE, southeastern, and new england.
As others have noted it varies by who im with. I lived in both areas an equal amount of time.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

landan.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

mixed with posh. I dunno?

[Il Medico]

GFwqsEVO5wo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFwqsEVO5wo)
This pretty much.

Though I call it a shopping cart, not a buggie.

Also, Y'all isn't a stupid word.

[BOZG]

According to my wife, I sound nothing like the person in the video above so I decided to record myself doing the voice tag thing to see. She's right but she also thought that the person in the video sounded like some friends who sound nothing like that. Anyway, here is my accent: https://audioboo.fm/boos/1697863-bozg-voice-tag

[BOZG]

Also, Y'all isn't a stupid word.

It's a contraction.

Aside from that, to use the YouTube tags, you just need the code at the end, not the whole thing.

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

thames estuary/cockney/saaahf east with a broad vocabulary. i swear a lot too for fack's sake, innit

[GiantMonkeyMan]

A little bit of Janner mixed with BBC English and a touch of London borough picked up from TV and uni mates.

[RedBen]

i'm frum sout chicAHgo

How to speak Chicago-ese...
1. Grachki (grach'-key) is Chicago for Garage Key as in, "Yo, Theresa, waja do wit da grachki? Howmy supposta cut da grass if don't git intada grach?"
2. Uptadaendada (up-ta-da-en'-dada) as in, "Joey, you kin ride yur bike uptadaendada alley but not acrost or I'll bust yur butt."
3. Sammich. Chicagoese for sandwich. When made with sausage, it's a sassage sammich; with shredded beef, it's an Italian beef sammich, a local delicacy consisting of piles of spicy meat in a perilously soggy bun.
4. Da. The definite article is a key part of Chicago speech, as in da tree bears or da Mare -- the latter denoting, for as long as he wants it to, Richard M. Daley, or Richie, as he's often known.
5. Jewels. Not family heirlooms or a tender body region, but a popular appellation for one of the region's dominant grocery chains, to wit, "I'm goin' to da Jewels to pick up some sassage." As in most Chicago pluralizations, the S is pronounced with a hissing sound, rather than the usual Z sound of American pluralization.
6. Field's: Marshall Field, a prominent Chicago department store. Also Carson Pirie Scott, a major department store chain, is called Carson's etc.
7. Tree. The number between two and four. "We were lucky dat we only got tree inches of snow da udder night"
8. Prairie. A vacant lot, especially one on which weeds are growing.
9. Over by dere. i.e.over by there, a prolix way of emphasizing a site presumed familiar to the listener. As in, "I got the sassage at da Jewels down on Kedzie, over by dere."
10. Kaminski Park. Perhaps the high concentration of ethnic Poles makes people want the White Sox to be playing in this mythical ballpark, rather than in their true home, Cellular Field formerly known as Comiskey Park.
11. Frunchroom as in, "Getottada frunchroom wit dose muddy shoes." It's not the parlor. It's not the living room. In the land of the bungalow, it's the frunchroom, a named derived, linguists believe, from front room.
12. Use. Not the verb but the plural pronoun you. "Where's use goin'?"
13. Downtown. Anywhere south of the zoo and north of Soldiers Field near the lake.
14. BoysTown: A section on Halsted Ave., between Belmont and Addison, which is lined with gay bars on the west and east sides of the street. "Didn't I see uze in Boystown in front of da Manhole?"
15. Braht: Short for Bratwurst. "Gimme a braht wit kraut."
16. Cashbox: Traffic reporter slang for tollbooths. "Dere's a delay at da cashbox on da Skyway"
17. Goes: Past or present tense of the verb say. For example, "Then he goes, 'I like this place'!"
18. Guys: Used when addressing two or more people, regardless of each individual's gender.
19. Pop: A soft drink. Don't say soda in this town. "What kinda pop you got?"
20. Sliders: Nickname for hamburgers from White Castle, a popular Midwestern burger chain. "Dose sliders I had last night gave me da runs."
21. The Taste: The annual Taste of Chicago Festival, a huge extravaganza in Grant Park featuring samples of Chicagoland's fine cuisine. Takes place around and before the Fourth of July holiday.
22. Jieetyet: this is used to ask ;"Did you eat yet?"
23. Winter and Construction: Punch-line to the joke, "What are the two seasons in Chicago?"

[#FF0000]

i'm frum sout chicAHgo

How to speak Chicago-ese...
1. Grachki (grach'-key) is Chicago for Garage Key as in, "Yo, Theresa, waja do wit da grachki? Howmy supposta cut da grass if don't git intada grach?"
2. Uptadaendada (up-ta-da-en'-dada) as in, "Joey, you kin ride yur bike uptadaendada alley but not acrost or I'll bust yur butt."
3. Sammich. Chicagoese for sandwich. When made with sausage, it's a sassage sammich; with shredded beef, it's an Italian beef sammich, a local delicacy consisting of piles of spicy meat in a perilously soggy bun.
4. Da. The definite article is a key part of Chicago speech, as in da tree bears or da Mare -- the latter denoting, for as long as he wants it to, Richard M. Daley, or Richie, as he's often known.
5. Jewels. Not family heirlooms or a tender body region, but a popular appellation for one of the region's dominant grocery chains, to wit, "I'm goin' to da Jewels to pick up some sassage." As in most Chicago pluralizations, the S is pronounced with a hissing sound, rather than the usual Z sound of American pluralization.
6. Field's: Marshall Field, a prominent Chicago department store. Also Carson Pirie Scott, a major department store chain, is called Carson's etc.
7. Tree. The number between two and four. "We were lucky dat we only got tree inches of snow da udder night"
8. Prairie. A vacant lot, especially one on which weeds are growing.
9. Over by dere. i.e.over by there, a prolix way of emphasizing a site presumed familiar to the listener. As in, "I got the sassage at da Jewels down on Kedzie, over by dere."
10. Kaminski Park. Perhaps the high concentration of ethnic Poles makes people want the White Sox to be playing in this mythical ballpark, rather than in their true home, Cellular Field formerly known as Comiskey Park.
11. Frunchroom as in, "Getottada frunchroom wit dose muddy shoes." It's not the parlor. It's not the living room. In the land of the bungalow, it's the frunchroom, a named derived, linguists believe, from front room.
12. Use. Not the verb but the plural pronoun you. "Where's use goin'?"
13. Downtown. Anywhere south of the zoo and north of Soldiers Field near the lake.
14. BoysTown: A section on Halsted Ave., between Belmont and Addison, which is lined with gay bars on the west and east sides of the street. "Didn't I see uze in Boystown in front of da Manhole?"
15. Braht: Short for Bratwurst. "Gimme a braht wit kraut."
16. Cashbox: Traffic reporter slang for tollbooths. "Dere's a delay at da cashbox on da Skyway"
17. Goes: Past or present tense of the verb say. For example, "Then he goes, 'I like this place'!"
18. Guys: Used when addressing two or more people, regardless of each individual's gender.
19. Pop: A soft drink. Don't say soda in this town. "What kinda pop you got?"
20. Sliders: Nickname for hamburgers from White Castle, a popular Midwestern burger chain. "Dose sliders I had last night gave me da runs."
21. The Taste: The annual Taste of Chicago Festival, a huge extravaganza in Grant Park featuring samples of Chicagoland's fine cuisine. Takes place around and before the Fourth of July holiday.
22. Jieetyet: this is used to ask ;"Did you eat yet?"
23. Winter and Construction: Punch-line to the joke, "What are the two seasons in Chicago?"

This sounds like northeast and southwest PA slammed together

[Sinister Intents]

I have an Erie PA accent, I also have a bit of an accent from being around people in western NY.

[brigadista]

like this -

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[Firebrand]

Generally fluctuates between the london accent and RP depending on the circumstances/who i'm with. I replace some t's with glottal stops, use long a's, and drop a lot of r's when they're next to another consonant, it gets a lot milder in formal situations though.

[Lily Briscoe]

I'm from the eastern US but I've lived out here for long enough (and made enough of a conscious effort hah) that my accent is close to standard/Pacific Northwest American English now. When I first came out here, I thought everybody here sounded funny as hell, but now when I talk to my family back east I think they sound ridiculous, so... it's all sort of relative, I guess.

[synthesis]

I'm from the eastern US but I've lived out here for long enough (and made enough of a conscious effort hah) that my accent is close to standard/Pacific Northwest American English now. When I first came out here, I thought everybody here sounded funny as hell, but now when I talk to my family back east I think they sound ridiculous, so... it's all sort of relative, I guess.

Funny how? I don't mean that in a defensive way; just curious about what pronunciations stick out to you as PNW inflections.

[Il Medico]

It's a contraction.

Aside from that, to use the YouTube tags, you just need the code at the end, not the whole thing.
Contractions are still words yo.

Also, just the code doesn't seem to work either. Meh.

[Lily Briscoe]

Funny how? I don't mean that in a defensive way; just curious about what pronunciations stick out to you as PNW inflections.

There are tons of things, but I'll give you some examples. I remember thinking it sounded like some kind of mutant Canadian accent, and actually, I noticed I somebody earlier in this thread mentioning that people on the Atlantic seaboard say "ruff" instead of "roof" (etc.) which is really bizarre because that's not something I EVER heard anyone do until I moved out here. So maybe it has more to do with proximity to canada?

Anyway, people out here say "Orange" and "fOrest" and I always said "arnge" and "farrest" etc. etc. A lot of people out here say "bolth" instead of "both" which drives me up= the fucking wall for some reason. I also have always pronounced have like 'on' as 'auwn' (one of the things I still do) whereas everybody here just does the regular short 'o'.

But a lot of it has to do with vowell pronunciation so it'spretty hard to convey in text. Like there is this weird reversal with the A sound in a lot of words. Example I used to do just a typical short 'a' sound in words like 'ran', 'can', 'and' etc. and here it's more of a 'aya' sound, whereas with other words where I used to do the 'aya' sound (e.g. 'bad', 'sad', 'laugh' etc.) people out here do the short 'a'. IDK, it sounds like minor stuff but adds up to be really immediately obvious. IDK if any of that makes sense I am pretty trashed at the moment. But I tried.

[ВАЛТЕР]

When speaking my native language I have a Sarajevo accent. When I speak English I have I guess some kind of an American accent considering I lived there and that's where I learned to speak English.

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Posh with odd inflections of Kent and Scouse

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

A female version of Alex from Everything Is Illuminated.

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Standard brazilian accent.

[L.A.P.]

I have this accent from northwestern New York that has a thick nasal sound

[Flying Purple People Eater]

One of the Australian accents.

I never pronounce 'L's at the end of words

So 'I whirled into a rage' would probably sound like "aa-ee werwd intu uh raeidj".

Also, I pronounce my 'A's in words like 'branch' and 'dance' as in 'Arm', not as in 'Apple' like most people from Eastern Australia.

Probably a bit like the driver in this video:

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[Alexios]

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This is pretty accurate except the "aw" sounds aren't as exaggerated

[human strike]

Westcountry-BBC English cross. Despite being raised in Dorset, my accent is more Bristolian having spent the last 4 years here and having Bristolian familial roots. It's not all that strong usually, though it depends who I'm talking to and in what context. In fact - and I don't mean to exaggerate this - but sometimes I take on an accent with notable Welsh tones, but there's a crossover between certain Welsh dialects and Bristolian - plus some Welsh family background and my last two long-term partners have been Welsh.

[La Comédie Noire]

Bostonian/ Massachusetts. Missing rs on certain words, saying er instead of a like "tuner sandwhich." It's not as pronounced as my dad's though.

So imagine good will hunting, except not stupid.

[Il Medico]

Oh hey, btw, Brits. Quick question:

Why the hell do you guys pronounce Aluminum "Al-u-mini-um"
There's no second 'i' guys. Seriously.

Unless, of course you guys do spell it with a second 'i'. In which case, why y'all always got to spell shit wrong? Huh? Huh?:p

[Queen Mab]

It was the guy who invented it, Joseph Priestly I think? Or someone else. Who thought that "aluminum" sounded stupid and that "aluminium" fit in with the restd of the elements he had discovered and sounded better.

So blame him. :)

AS FOR THE RECORD I have your fairly basic middle-class southern English accent, quite normal, can be a bit chavvy at time,s can be ab it posh at times depending on whom I'm speaking to and how formal I want tob e.

[Zukunftsmusik]

Mine is a cross between Sheffield/Yorkshire and a faint black country but with received pronunciation.

This:

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and this:

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with this guy's accent:

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I so wish I talked like this.

I try to talk with some sort of standard British accent, but I think it sounds more like some sort of Norwenglish with too much American influence.

[Quail]

It's spelled "Aluminium" so I pronounce it "a-lu-min-yum"

[human strike]

Americans aren't allowed to criticise anyone else for false pronunciation until you learn to say the words 'jaguar' and 'Nicaragua' properly. Actually, even then you're not allowed to, you get everything so wrong. 'Route' is quite clearly proncounced like 'root', not 'rout', otherwise what does the 'e' signify?