Accents

[Bethany Shepard]

What accent do you have?
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For me, It depends on who I'm around:
Family: Missouri/California
Southern Accent Friends: Southern

[Blitz]

Me..... I have no distinguishable accent. I even end up talking like the British on a few words. Some people say I sound like a person from the Dominican Republic.

[TigerShadow]

I'm from the South, but I wasn't raised in a house where Southern accents were naturally thick, so mine tends to be fairly understated. When I get really excited or otherwise worked up, though, it tends to surface more consistently.

[Ameraka]

I have a Midwestern accent. It seems to be pretty much like the standard you hear on TV etc, but then if you go to a different state (like Minnesota right across from our town), or even a different part of the state, you can notice differences. I think we tend to hardly pronounce some sounds. Like how we say "Wisconsin" is more like "Wuh-SCON-s'n", hardly pronouncing the last 'i' at all. And there's some things we say, like "pop" instead of "soda".

[Ashley]

I have a very, very, very slight British accent because I watch way too much British TV xD But my normal accent I guess would be Canadian (if that is an accent), but I sometimes sound French Canadian for some reason. I don't speak French that much... weird.

[Stella C.]

I didn't think I had an accent until I went to Ohio on a missions trip with my youth group, and we started talking to this one guy on the street and he said, "Your from (insert my state here), aren't you? I can tell by your accent!" I was like, "Um ya."

Haha Amerika, I have a friend that we always teased because she kept trying to say Wisconsin but it always came out, "Wis-CAH-ns'n

[Novatom]

I don't have an accent really but my friend pointed out that I say a few words with a British accent, particularly "actually" which I pronounce as "octually."

[Gooey98]

But my normal accent I guess would be Canadian (if that is an accent), but I sometimes sound French Canadian for some reason.

Yup, Canadian is definitely an accent.
I guess I just have a standard Northwestern accent...not really what anyone would call an accent.

[Ameraka]

Haha Amerika, I have a friend that we always teased because she kept trying to say Wisconsin but it always came out, "Wis-CAH-ns'n

Ha, that's funny. We make fun of the people on the news a lot of the time because they're "saying it wrong". "Wis-CON-sin"--what state's that?

I used to think I didn't have an accent but I've been made aware I kinda do.

When we went to New York, people thought my grandpa was from a foreign country. He's not; he was born and raised in Wisconsin.

When we went to the South Carolina this year, we stopped at an ice cream place. They asked if my sister wanted a bowl or a cup. My sister kept saying "cup" but they couldn't understand her.

[Blitz]

Every one thinks they don't have a strong accent till they travel somewhere else.

[Ameraka]

It's true, everyone has an accent. We just don't realize it when we live around other people with the same accent.

[SirWhit]

I probably have an accent.

[Bethany Shepard]

I was talking in my regular voice (Missouri/California) and my cousin said "Wow! You have a really big Southern accent!" Ok....

[Doll]

I have a bit of a Coloradoian accent (whatever that is), but not much other than that.

[NinjaThrowingStar]

Depends.... when I'm super excited I sound like a valley girl (CA) But normally I have a vagabond accent it's kinda just bits and pieces of a ton of America accents. If I'm tired... I have this really weird California/deep south/new England/middle north west thing going on like Every other word sounds different.... But I'm super good with speaking in different accents and telling accents apart!

[Gooey98]

Let me just put it this way when it comes to having an accent: I talk to Ben, Audrey, Ryan Matlock, and Montie (NarniaQA Guy) quite frequently. They're from all over the country--all different places and none really close to me (except, of course, that Ben used to love in CA.) When I go back and listen to recordings, I don't notice any kind of difference at all in the way I talk from the way any of them talk. Thus, I can say quite assuredly that I have a fairly standard American accent.
I do think that television and the internet have helped to standardise American accents to some degree...obviously not completely, but a lot more.

[Mickey]

I guess I have the regular accent.You know? I like to talk with an English/British accent though! And I've always liked the Southern accent!

[ArnoldtheRubberDucky]

I have a human accent.

[TigerShadow]

And for a rubber ducky, that is a truly unique quality.

[Bethany Shepard]

I was babysitting a few nights ago and was talking (or trying to) talk in a French accent. I'm terrible at anything that isn't Missouri or Southern... So it was really bad, I'm sure, but it entertained them.