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Accents

British. I tend to mainly have a southen accent, but I do say some words with a northen accept as I was born up north.
 
A pretty generic English accent, although it's not estuary English (I don't drop my 't's etc.). And despite living in the Westcountry, I haven't picked up the pirate accent :D
 
Arrrr I be westcountry pirrrrrrrrate! >D

Okay, not really. I have a fairly generic southern England accent, but pronounce my A's hard (as in, basket, bath, grass, etc.), which nobody else in my family does.
 
I've heard British before, despite the fact I haven't had any English family since the Colonial Era.

In my own opinion, I have a standard American accent, it's just that I have a slight speech impediment. I might have a slight Southern accent, though.
 
I have an Australian accent, though it's not like the thick accents you hear in movies or on TV. I've had a few people ask me if I'm English, but the only people from England in my family (the grandparents) lost their accent many years before I was born so I have no idea where I might have picked it up.
I've attempted to imitate other accents though I'm limited to about one sentence per accent XD
 
I have an English accent because I live quite close to London, although I like speaking in a posh old English accent sometimes.
 
I'm not sure if a Gwent accent exists, but I sure as hell don't have any of the other Welsh accents, so it'll have to do.
 
I've got a smart-person accent :| Not like the uber-nerd lisp and nasal problems accent, but like, I tend to talk to people like I'm smarter than them (but I AM smarter than most of the people I'm forced to be around, it seems...) Also, I can do a great Scottish accent when I wish. I say coyote differently than anyone I know. Instead of saying it Kai-o-tea I say Koi-oh-teh. I suppose I have English undertones in my accent because I say buried "Brried" and neither "Naither" most of the time. All I know is that my ancestors cam from a lot of different places ranging from Ireland to Sweden.
 
According to Wikipedia, I should have a Northern Midland American accent, since I've been raised outside Columbus, although mom's side of the family came from west of Pittsburgh, but I was born in Marietta, just across the river from West Virginia, and my dad came from around there, too. So normally, I speak some flavor of Northern Midland American with a touch of Appalachian. Occasionally, however, I lapse into full-on Appalachian or whatever happens across my tongue. Like Horrifically Fake Australian.

If you really care about details, caught sounds like cot, always, roof sounds like rūf, I call soft drinks pop, or sodas, depending on how I'm feeling, I often say y'all when I feel like I can get away with it, I say "greasy" as "grē-zē", occasionally interchange "carry" with "tote" or slur "pen" into "pin", use firefly and lightning bug interchangeably, and I think I may have run the sweeper once or twice, and I berry things in the dirt more often than I bury them. I also occasionally string together words into such... phrases as "I'm'a gonna" (I am going to, pronounced ayeh'm-uh-guhn'a) and "I'd've" (I would have, pronounced aye'duhve), but I'm not sure that so much vernacular as just me.

Then there was the time I visited Ireland for a week, and at the end of it, I found myself speaking in an Irish accent to my roommate for a minute before I realized that I was doing it and made myself stop. Now I can't do an Irish accent anymore. Horribly contagious, but so hard to emulate.

But now I'm just rambling.
 
I speak Generic American, but with a bite more "like" and "guys" and "dude" than Generic American. I don't know if I have a Californian accent (whatever that is) or not, but I definitely don't have the Valley Girl or Surfer Dude accents.

I tend to pronounce things wrong a lot of the time and mumble my way through words I don't know. Also, I slaughter grammar when I talk, which makes myself sad because I'd know that I've just killed grammar but it'd be too late to fix.
 
I have a bit of a Philadelphia accent, apparently. I have no idea what the rest is.
 
I don't even know. A combination of stuff from the northern United States and southern Canada, I guess. Maybe a few bits from some English dialects, I really don't know. I'm in an area where most speak Inland North American, linked above, but I tend to pronounce things a bit differently. One notable example is the word "interesting". Most around me say "IN-tra-sting", but I say "IN-te-rest-ing".
 
I sound vaguely British and pronounce my long i's like an Australian person. Which is bizarre because I have no British ancestry.
 
-shrugs- I know I have a European accent of some sort, but I'm not sure from where exactly.
It comes out strongly only when I'm not paying close attention to what I'm talking about. ^^;
People sometimes tell me that it's more noticeable in vowels, such as saying and would sound like aynd.
 
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