Accents

CosmetologyMommy wrote: Have you ever gone somewhere(Another state, another part of your state, etc) and people knew where you were from just from your accent? I have family in West Virginia and when I used to go visit and go to the store or a restaurant, they would always say, "Are you from Chicago?"

This happen to anyone else?

redchief replied: Yes... I've been accused of being from Philadelphia. I'm not, but our accent is very, very close.

luvmykids replied: Nope, we don't have an accent. We talk like normal people.

kayla's mama replied: In Memphis they say that DH and I talk like Yankees from up north.....huh...I'm from St. Louis we talk normal j/k

MyLuvBugs replied:
Same here.....I think....

But i do know what you mean.

kimberley replied: just abroad

5littleladies replied:
Lol!! My thoughts exactly!

gr33n3y3z replied:
LOL

AlexsPajamaMama replied:
Thats what I think too...but my aunt from PA thinks we talk like MAINAHS!

JP&KJMOM replied: We are from Texas so people pretty much know when I first open my mouth!

In Vegas with my best friend one time and we were having a conversation and a girl from Boston told us she was not being rude just liked to listen to us talk.

Hillbilly Housewife replied: I'm pretty fluently bilingual in english and french... but I'm told I have a French accent by english people, and i'm told I have an English accent by french people.



I can imitate a fair number of accents though, and have confused many a salesman.

MamaJAM replied: I've gotten that when we've traveled to the south.
Funny thing is - after my first summer working at the beach I had picked up a NYC/Philly accent....that fall I started attending a new high school and didn't know anyone there. Though I had lived in the area near the school my entire life - I had this accent and people kept asking me where I was from.

jcc64 replied: I'm from New Yawwk. Got-a-problem-wit-dat?

Kaitlin'smom replied: I dont think I do, never been told I have one.

Mom2BNTN replied: Whenever I used to go to Philly everyone would love to hear me talk and even ask me to say certain words just so they could hear my accent. However, I can even go to Florida and they also love to hear my accent. I guess I either sound really bad or they just love hearing someone talk who sounds different from them.

A&A'smommy replied: yes I have a southern accent so I get made fun of if I go anywhere up north

BAC'sMom replied: Ya'll sound just fine to me.

ashtonsmama replied: Yep-for some reason I have a little Southern in me, and it comes out when I'm in CA! So here people think I have a little Southern accent, but I have no idea where that comes from!!!

TANNER'S MOM replied: Di I can tell you have accent. You sound more nothern then I do. You prounance your words different.

I do have a southern accent and it gets worse when I get mad I think. I talk pretty southern too. Here we ain't no Holler Back girls either, cause the holler is a step drop off.. When you driving thru the holler I loose cell phone signal..lol

And youns come back and visit now ya hear!

Heather77 replied: Nope... but I'm in Nevada and I don't think we have accents!

Crystalina replied: My mom has this problem She was born in Germany and raised in the Bronx. Here in Ohio everyone knows her by her accent. She says stuff like 'Pawk the caw in the gawrawge." translation: Park the car in the garage.

I've been told I talk like a hick but I don't hear it.

MyLuvBugs replied:

Brias3 replied: Yes, definitely (We've lived in Hong Kong and Belgium) but before even moving overseas, I've always been told I have a Chicago accent (born and raised there, so I suppose the voice doesn't lie ) Although, I have to admit, I don't really know exactly what that means....I think I talk normal

CantWait replied: I've just got to different provinces, and people automatically know that I'm originally from Toronto.

My3LilMonkeys replied: No accent here, at least not an obvious one.

mckayleesmom replied: When I moved from California to Illiniois I was told I had an accent,,,,but I don't see it.....I don't know.

holley79 replied: Well what's sad is when we lived in Gonzales, LA I picked up the accent of my cousins. It took me FOREVER to get back to my "Florida" accent. But everyone asked the same thing of me also.

EvesMom replied: On my last trip to SC with my mother and 4 aunts, people we had conversation with said we must be from New Jersey I didn't know I had an accent? We all started talking with a southern accent and everyone thought we were natives

MommyToAshley replied: I've lived all over and picked up a few words here and there from everywhere. I think it'd be hard for someone to pinpoint me to one region based on my accent. ... but I could be wrong.