Accents...

Just looking at the Fargo movie thread in stress release and wondering to myself, I wonder if I have an accent. So, calling all Southerners, Northerners and East Coasters, since you are the ones usually picked on about accents, do people in the midwest/central US (ie Utah, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, etc) have a distinguishable accent to you?

I have heard it sounds like we have stuffy noses...

I have heard it sounds like we have stuffy noses...
I heard it sounds like you have a stick up your.....

My neighbor is from the south and she tells me it sounds like we have a stuffed up nose. But in my opinion we don't have accents...everyone else does.

All you Americans have weird accents....

Us Austalians are normal. :tongue:

lol is there such thing as a cali accent ?? I had a friend think I had one for about a month till he finally figured out it was my lisp :P

I don't know what you're talking aboot, eh!?!

I'm Canadian and people in California don't seem to have an accent to me. David Letterman, Conan Obrien, Jay Leno...they all sound normal to me. Oh, and I've never heard anyone say "aboot" and I hear lots of US citizens end their sentences with "eh". The most recognizable accents that I know of in the US are the Boston area natives, New York area natives, and "southerners" like Texas and Alabama.

All you Americans have weird accents....

Us Austalians are normal. :tongue:


By crikey he's right dinga!

lol is there such thing as a cali accent ?? I had a friend think I had one for about a month till he finally figured out it was my lisp :P
Yep. They all sound like stoners. :lol:

The most recognizable accents that I know of in the US are the Boston area natives, New York area natives, and "southerners" like Texas and Alabama.


Dont forget the Chicahgo accent....... *chris farley* Da Bears! *chris farley*

lol is there such thing as a cali accent ?? I had a friend think I had one for about a month till he finally figured out it was my lisp :P
You know....like...all those cali girls...that like...talk like...they like the word like...or something...like...ya know?!

hehe...

when I moved form Cali to Arkansas, everyone knew I was from Cali by the way I talked, my "accent". I was like, "Dadgum! I'd reckin'd I'da fit rawt in with all-a you-ins!" :icon16:

Dont forget the Chicahgo accent....... *chris farley* Da Bears! *chris farley*

LOL You gotta go all the way into the city to find that accent. :lol:

What about those kiwis??? Dave??? j/p :p

Heck, I don;t think I;ve ever meet anyone from the middle of the US...probably scared of the water.

I have heard it sounds like we have stuffy noses...
Nah, it's just that thin "mountain air" in those states located in the Rocky Mountain range, not stuffy noses. :lol:

sadly i have some of my grandfathers blood...he was born and raised in the back woods of Kentucky...and i've been told i have an accent. I never realized it until i was told and since then i always seem to catch myself saying things with an accent....it sucks, i've made myself paranoid.

I got me a Boston accent. I use it predominatley when I'm pissed off and yelling at someone, like a real person from Boston should :)

The only person who told me I have an "east coast" accent is Oz. I've lived in Kansas City, and there is a lil bit of an accent here and there, but it's not too bad. No one from KC knew I wasn't a "local yokel" from my speech. I've visited northern California, which also had a slight accent, but not much. Almost like a drawl but not twangy. None of them knew where I was from based upon any accent, either. I guess I speak somewhat neutrally.... which considering "Picksburghese", that's a GOOD thing.

I live in North Carolina. I love the Dukes of Hazzard. I have a Silverado with a Dixie horn. I know people that could make Jeff Foxworthy look like he belongs at Donald Trumps side.

Ya'll all need to git to cetchin that thur possum fore it gets away. Thelma kin cook it up fer us.

Okay, were not that bad in North Carolina. I do have a southern accent, but I can turn it off when I need to.

Dont forget the Chicahgo accent....... *chris farley* Da Bears! *chris farley*

Ya, we are our own unique bread, set aside from the rest of the midwest. Da bears Da bulls, one of my favorite SNL skits. Yes it is true tho, most f us do talk like thatin Chicago.

I've had a lot of accents because Ive moved so much. When I moved to california, everyone knew I was from texas because of how I talked.
When I left california and went to Hawaii, everyone knew I was from california.
When I left Hawaii, and went to Ohio, people didnt know where the hell I was from but they thought I talked funny.
I never picked up an Ohio accent because I wasnt there long enough, and I wouldnt want that accent anyways.

I have heard it sounds like we have stuffy noses...

I would have to agree. I live in Utah and if you've ever heard your own voice on tape it kind of sounds that way.

Well, I was born and live in the state of Michigan, but everyone thinks I am from the south. They all say I have a southern accent and whatnot. I don’t know it might be the blood or something. People get a kick out of my George bush and Larry the cable guy impersonations. There is this one kid in my school that calls my cowboy, I said one day "why do you call me cowboy" he said, "Cause you sound like your from the south" Hell I really don’t know. Southern people say warsh instead of wash and idear instead of idea. You want to hear the world idear? Watch American chopper.

- Kevin