Type Rhod Gilbert into google, it's not as strong but your not far off my accent there.

^ Is pretty much what I sound like. Comes from living about 15 years in and around west London.

I think I've posted this somewhere around here before, it's pretty old, but it's the only video I have of me talking and I don't feel like making a new one. Behold, a Wyoming/Californian accent:

You're as adorable in videos as you are in pictures.
Oh my god.

i like your accent. i saw a possum in the park the other day... i was stoned. we stared at each other for like 10 seconds fuck it was intense

Cross this



With this

Hey he's funny. ^

Some very nice accents in here. When do we get to hear Marijan's accent eh? ;)

As soon as he gets a handle on technology...;)

I'll school you. I'm really interested to hear what a Croatian accent sounds like. :)

A Geordie reporting for duty, i'd find a youtube video or something like that but as i'm at work it's all blocked, I do quite like Irish / Scottish / American accents on ladies though :).

If anyone cares, this is my accent:

Paloma! I do hear what sounds like a slight Chicago accent when you say "bad" and "sad." Are you from Chicagoland?

I have a run-of-the-mill Midwestern accent, too, which is generally the one you hear TV newscasters use throughout the U.S., I have read. I do use gutteral stops, though, if I'm not thinking about what I'm saying. For example, I say "moun-n" instead of "mountain," and "foun-n" instead of "fountain."

Some people in Southern Iowa actually say "warsh" instead of "wash" the clothes. That always strikes me as very hillbilly. My Iowan accent pet peeve is when people say, "I am going acrosst the street," although "across" has no "t" in it. I always say "wash" and "across."

Paloma, how do you say "sorry?" Do you pronounce the middle like the word "or," or do you pronounce it like "are?" I ask, because people from Minnesota and Canada often seem to say "sorry" like "s-or-y" while here in Iowa we say "sorry" like "s-are-y."

Nice hair-fluffing, by the way! You really do look quite a bit like VeggieLover!

Hey! The woman speaking on the radio at 1:00 sounds like *I* do!! ("Blah blah blah") ;)

Michigan actually, but close enough :)

I say fountain like foun-n too. I never realise what words I say funny. I have a lot of weird inflections on my accent, the way I say wash is like "wosh". I always pronounce "right" hilariously. It comes out as "rate" and like is "laike". When I say sorry, it's more like "sah-ree" I guess I split it up. I'm lazy in my enunciation, the only time I'm not is when I'm really angry. And if I look like VeggieLover, that's a huge compliment :D

Ah! Michigan. Yes, you sound like my cousins from the Chicago area, but their accent (with their vowels) is much stronger.

Maybe it's also a compliment to VeggieLover that she looks like you, Paloma! :)

I say sorry. I never realized that until my cousin from California pointed it out to me, because she says it like s-are-y! But it depends on where in Canada you go. The Atlantic provinces have a much heavier accent than people from Toronto do. Of course, I still don't realize that I have an accent! I always think everyone else does :D

The accents around my neck of the woods are notoriously awful, I could bitch all I want about southern drawls and Brooklynese but in reality they are incomparable to the heavy backwoods tripe that I deal with on a daily basis.

Some of the accents are so heavily rhotic it becomes unintelligible and indistinguishable to outsiders. I still can't understand my grandmother distinguish between the words "tower" and "tire," and to exacerbate things there are idiots around here that add a drawl to their tongue for no apparent reason other than appearing as backwards as possible. As a result I'm fairly positive most visitors to this region think us myopic troglodytes incapable of intelligent conversation. Which probably isn't far off base.

EDIT: See this big-ass green blot right in the middle? Yep, that's me.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ght_merger.png

You think you got it bad? This is my town and this is my accent. Enjoy. o.o

Well, I wasn't going to say that about you myself, but...

:D

I see you! I'm the small-ass yellow dot right in the middle of Iowa.

My friend makes fun of my accent.
I say sirrup. My friend says searup.
It's getting to the point where it's ridiculous. It's syrup. How do you pronounce that? Just a hanging Y? Or is it like "door" and "food" where the vowels don't really show any individual way you should pronounce it because there's a billion different ways to pronounce it, which are all correct?

I say "sirrup," too...although maybe every once in a while I say "seer-up" like in the word "seersucker," t3hplatyz0rz.

I feel different accents are lovely (although I don't like "warsh," I admit that). Language and pronunciation evolve. That's the reason English is such a weird, non-sensical language. Spelling and pronunciation frequently don't coordinate and sometimes there are inconsistencies, where words spelled similarly sound different from each other.

We are shaping our thoughts using ancient languages in which words take on new meanings and pronunciations over time...leading to the plethora of different languages and accents in existence today. What is amazing and beautiful is how language/writing in a common language allows people from wildly different backgrounds to communicate, as they do here on MB! I like that a lot.

I have a fookin' Norvern accent, kidderrs!

the second guy is from somewhere 10mins away. but most of these people are very acurate to me :)

A while ago I was told by some chick in the US that us new Brunswick-ers talk funny. I'm still trying to figure out what's odd about my speech. I occasionally pronounce something french-ish but no aboots or ehs.

This thread is a question I've always wondered about, but in regards to (what I consider) a very plain Canadian accent. When I was visiting Australia, I was often told that I wasn't funny, but that what I said was still so cool because of my accent. I imagine myself sounding goofy internationally, or at the very least quite boring, because American media is projected down everybody's throats and doesn't seem to be a scarcity.

EDIT: I remember, first ever day in Belfast, the old tour guide was asking us where we were from, and we must've epitomized the appearance of retardation, because he said really slowly and loudly for us "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ME, DO YOU?". It takes a couple of days to get used to hearing an accent so different.

EDIT: Haha, ****, these videos have me all psyched up for travel.

I imagine myself to speak quite politely to other scottish people. Buuut to others I feel like I am speaking a foreign language.

I have some weird bastardized accent from all of the acting I've done from the time I was a kid to the present. When I travel, people ask me if I'm from Vermont, and I have no idea how I managed to get a Vermont accent, having only been in that state a few times - and I talked like this before I got there. And people around here always ask me where I'm from, because they "can't place my accent".

I guess I'm happy that I somehow dodged the bullet and don't have the dreaded Eastern Kentucky accent. But at the same time, I kind of wish that I didn't sound weird to people who were born and raised for the most part (I did live on a military base in NC for a chunk of my childhood) the same place I was.

Too much Phish. :)

It is most definitely pronounced "sir-up" but I pronounce it "sear-up" anyways. I did it for so long before I knew it wasn't correct, and I'm not going to change now.

EDIT: Now I see that that discussion was from a year ago. Oh well. The point still stands.

Speaking of that, I had grown up in Louisiana and always pronounced it "sir-up" (pronouncing like the "er" in "her") then when I began living in different states, everyone else pronounced it "sihr-up" (like pronouncing the i portion of "if) so I automatically assumed that was the correct way, because Southern Louisianians generally pronounce everything ridiculously. But after years and years, I still have to consciously decide to pronounce it as "sihr-up" solely for the sake of pronouncing it correctly... and come to find out in this thread, I've been expending the effort to be incorrect?

Goddamnit.

Same here. Maybe it's a Canadian thing.

I think I'm going to start pronouncing it "surp" just to be different.

I apparently sound like a mixture of all three Top Gear presenters, and also UK TV presenter Jonathan Ross. Honestly, JoRo is the only one I can hear any resemblance with in terms of expression and delivery of words, although my voice is slightly deeper.

My accent is Inland Northern American English

Inland Northern American English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


More specifically, Buffalo English

The Guide to Buffalo English

I figure this is somewhat relevant:

Language Trainers Group : LT Accent Game

there is really no Malaysian accent on English - it's a sort of a Transatlantic monotone

there is patois, though

lawl.

And in true MB fashion, I know imagine this being said by your avatar.

I've had British people say they love my accent especially when I get profane.

youtube video?