Do you have an accent?

[BurtWorm]

If I do, it would be called something like American standard, with maybe a hint of New England/New York.

How about you?

[TNDemo]

1. No, but the rest of the country does.

:)

[rogerashton]

2. I drawl.

Grew up with a broaaad southern accent, but largely got rid of it for something closer to American Standard. This mostly fools people, but doesn't fool the computer -- when I use voice recognition software for dictation, it always wants to put in extra syllables.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

3. A Wicked Boston One

It's actually pretty moderate. I say my 'Rs' but I speak really quickly and have long vowels like a true Yankee.

[short bus president]

5. wicked awesome?

:P

[Kathy in Cambridge]

7. Totally, pal

'Pal' is also a Boston thing (used in place of dude or buddy, or, also sarcastically).

[maveric]

93. Boston accent, big time!

Although we dont actually have the accent. Everyone else does.

And we dont say Bahh-ston. Only Charle Emerson Winchester says it that way.

[short bus president]

4. yup

midwesternblandcarolinabrooklyn. It's a schmear.

[arwalden]

6. I've Moved So Often That Any Trace Of An Accent...

... conflicts with traces of other accents and nobody can "place" me very accurately. Hellsbells, I can't even describe it myself.

However... if I've had a few drinks (or if I've spent an hour or two with my Southern relatives, the accent magically returns).

Go figure.

-- Allen

[VelmaD]

8. Hell yeah

I'm from northeast Texas and sometimes I sound like Ross Perot's illegitimate love-child. Sometimes though, when I slow down, I have the lovely soft southern drawl.

Darth Velma

[short bus president]

23. yup

picture Cheri Oteri as Ross Perot, hepped up on goofballs. ;-)

[VelmaD]

26. I'm confused...

was that a compliment or an insult. :shrug:

[short bus president]

29. Cheri Oteri

is very close to the top of my "sexiest women of all time" list. Hope that helps a bit. ;-)

[VelmaD]

31. Much better.

I can feel the luv. *smooches*

DV

P.S. I better be on the top of that list boyo.

[Hubert Flottz]

9. Hillbilly!

Southern WV!

[gyopsy]

10. A florida accent

which is kind of like a southern accent if it were to be combined with a NY accent. So I guess the two kind of cancel each other out.

Although there are so many northerners moving to Florida these days, It's a wonder not more people sound like they're from Long Island.

[BurtWorm]

50. I'll bet there's a smidgeon of Cuban in it, too.

[ronnykmarshall]

11. Um, like nooooooooo!

I like totally talk, like normal! Hello? I'm like, from Californya. We like talk like you're supposted to talk. Omigawd!

[SiouxJ]

19. Like, I know what you mean

I do tend to say "like" way more than I should but I was, like, raised, like, in Southern California. Hell, I even, like, type it out too much.

[Melsky]

20. I'm from So Cal

and I don't really have an accent other than standard American English, unless I get excited and then I hate to say it, but a note of that "valley girl" like, creeps into my voice, y'know. Ohmigod!

[ronnykmarshall]

60. I soooooo know what you mean!

:evilgrin:

When I got out of state I love to lay it on with So Cal talk. Just for fun.

[dolo amber]

79. Dude...

I like, SO totally know what you mean. Having grown up in like San Diego, and lived like, everywhere else, I still sound like I'm like, straight out tha Val, y'know? And it like, TOTALLY pisses me off when like, people look at me funny, like it's like ME who talks weird. Hella not! ;)

[HERVEPA]

12. Fuldulfya Accent

Where people root for the Iggles, drink wooder, and would go for a swim in the Crick, if there was a clean one.

[dawg]

13. a gentle southern accent ....

Not over the top, but enough to notice if you aren't southern yourself.

[rock]

14. Yes. Although my speech is somewhat leveled

you can still detect some clipping from my Appalachia upbringing (South Eastern Kentucky).

[SOteric]

15. That really depends on whom you might ask.

BritishHuman thinks I sound like a Yank.

I've been told by more than a few people that I have a somewhat unplaceable accent. My Italian, Spanish and Japanese are alleged to have no perceptible accent. But since I studied catechism with the same Irish priest I referenced yesterday, I will allow as how my Latin has a distinct and undisputed Irish accent to it.

[BritishHuman]

74. I originally wondered...

if you had a special "phone voice", since you sounded so sophisticated. Now I know that you are sophisticated.

[SOteric]

84. What a sweet man,

And perhaps worth noting, you haven't much more than an occasional trace amount of a Brummy accent. For the most part, you sound quite gentrified.

I still think you and your voice in particular, are at their most enchanting in the very early morning.

[trotsky]

16. Ya, sure, you betcha.

Got da Min-nuh-SOH-tah accent as you may have seen in the movie Fargo. OK so usually I keep it to a minimum but especially when talking with family I can lapse severely, dontcha know?

[mac56]

18. Oh jah!

I got it too, ya know. Oh cripes, oh jeez, the people down here, dey think it's a hoot. A guy could get embarrassed, do ya think?

[indigo32]

30. He he

me three, jeez!

[ronnykmarshall]

61. Ya know what sounds nummy right now?

A pan of bars. Any kind of bars, doncha know. We got yer lemon bars, your Rice Krispie bars... ah hell. I got bars coming out my ass, doncha know.

(I can speak it better than I can type it.)

[indigo32]

64. We ought to have some casserole first

dontcha know

[mac56]

70. Not "casserole"!

"Hot dish"!

Oh cripes, oh jeez....

[indigo32]

73. LOL

got me on that one

[NicoleM]

113. Bars and hot dish

Sounds like a pot-luck dinner in the basement of the Lutheran church. Who's bringing the lutefisk?

[myrna minx]

110. You betcha!

Over the top Minn-eeee-sooootah accent.

[T_i_B]

17. Slight Yorkshire accent

Not as strong as it used to be after a few years in the south of England, but I'll sing On Ilkley Moor Baht 'at anyway!

Wheear 'as ta bin sin ah saw thee,
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at?!
Wheear 'as ta bin sin ah saw thee?
Wheear 'as ta bin sin ah saw thee?
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at?!
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at?!
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at?!

Tha's been a cooartin' Mary Jane
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Tha's been a cooartin' Mary Jane
Tha's been a cooartin' Mary Jane
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

Tha's bahn t'catch thi deeath o'cowd
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Tha's bahn t'catch thi deeath o'cowd
Tha's bahn t'catch thi deeath o'cowd
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

Then we shall ha' to bury thee
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at vThen we shall ha' to bury thee
Then we shall ha' to bury thee
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

Then t'worms 'll cum and eat thee oop
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Then t'worms 'll cum and eat thee oop
Then t'worms 'll cum and eat thee oop
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

Then ducks 'll cum and eat oop t'worms
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Then ducks 'll cum and eat oop t'worms
Then ducks 'll cum and eat oop t'worms
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

Then we shall go an' ate oop ducks
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Then we shall go an' ate oop ducks
Then we shall go an' ate oop ducks
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

Then we shall all 'ave etten thee
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Then we shall all 'ave etten thee
Then we shall all 'ave etten thee
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

[rogerashton]

32. Wonderful.

My wife has sung that sometimes, but she has to fake the accent.

Her ancestors were Yorkshire folks, but that's a few generations back.

[LuLu550]

83. Hey, I know that song!

Learned it when I was studying at Manchester University! I even know what it means!

[T_i_B]

100. Manchester?

That's Lancashire! T'other side of the penines from Yorkshire.

Nonetheless I can always post The Lion and Albert for any Lancashire DUers. :-)

http://www.monologues.co.uk/Albert_and_the_Lion.htm

There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool,
That's noted for fresh air and fun,
And Mr and Mrs Ramsbottom
Went there with young Albert, their son.

A grand little lad was young Albert
All dressed in his best; quite a swell
With a stick with an 'orse's 'ead 'andle
The finest that Woolworth's could sell.

They didn't think much to the Ocean
The waves, they were fiddlin' and small
There was no wrecks and nobody drownded
Fact, nothing to laugh at, at all.

So, seeking for further amusement
They paid and went into the zoo
Where they'd lions and tigers and camels
And old ale and sandwiches too.

There were one great big lion called Wallace
His nose were all covered with scars
He lay in a somnolent posture
With the side of his face on the bars.

Now Albert had heard about lions
How they was ferocious and wild
To see Wallace lying so peaceful
Well, it didn't seem right to the child.

So straight 'way the brave little feller
Not showing a morsel of fear
Took his stick with its 'orse's 'ead 'andle
And shoved it in Wallace's ear.

You could see the lion didn't like it
For giving a kind of a roll
He pulled Albert inside the cage with 'im
And swallowed the little lad 'ole

Then Pa, who had seen the occurrence
And didn't know what to do next
Said "Mother! Yon lions 'et Albert"
And Mother said "Well, I am vexed!"

Then Mr and Mrs Ramsbottom
Quite rightly, when all's said and done
Complained to the Animal Keeper
That the lion had eaten their son.

The keeper was quite nice about it
He said "What a nasty mishap
Are you sure it's your boy he's eaten?"
Pa said "Am I sure? There's his cap!"

The manager had to be sent for
He came and he said "What's to do?"
Pa said "Yon lion's 'et Albert
And 'im in his Sunday clothes, too."

Then Mother said, "Right's right, young feller
I think it's a shame and a sin
For a lion to go and eat Albert
And after we've paid to come in."

The manager wanted no trouble
He took out his purse right away
Saying "How much to settle the matter?"
And Pa said "What do you usually pay?"

But Mother had turned a bit awkward
When she thought where her Albert had gone
She said "No! someone's got to be summonsed"
So that was decided upon.

Then off they went to the Police Station
In front of the Magistrate chap
They told 'im what happened to Albert
And proved it by showing his cap.

The Magistrate gave his opinion
That no one was really to blame
And he said that he hoped the Ramsbottoms
Would have further sons to their name.

At that Mother got proper blazing
"And thank you, sir, kindly," said she
"What waste all our lives raising children
To feed ruddy lions? Not me!"

[LuLu550]

105. I know, I know

That's just where I learned it, silly!

[RebelOne]

21. Philadelphia accent

Though I was born there, grew up in Miami and now live in Georgia, I can't shake
that northern accent.

[proud patriot]

22. I don't know if I do . Do Native Californians have an accent ?

I guess I do if I talk Valley , but I'm not from the valley .

[BurtWorm]

24. How do you say "pig?"

Do you say "pyug?"

[proud patriot]

28. nope ...I just say it how it's spelled , pig

However I have an aunt who was born in Tennessee
so I say "y'all" sometimes .

[Kathy in Cambridge]

42. 'You(s) Guys' or 'Yous' =Y'all Up north

I personally hate'Yous' and tend to say 'You All' or 'Y'all'

[rogerashton]

33. According to the linguistic anthropology course I took

in, um, about '65, all widespread language groups recognize the accent of some regions as "neutral," that is, not an accent at all. In German, I believe, it is Essen. In Italian -- Florence? French (of course) Paris, although I believe the French of Toulouse is considered easier to understand. For AMERICAN English, it is Pacific-coast, I think, which goes as far north as Washington (Warshington, to me) state. BRITISH, however, it is southern England.

That's from memory, years later, unnerstan.

[BurtWorm]

34. But someone with a sharp ear can probably tell

if someone is from San Francisco, Seattle or LA. I know there's a Southern California accent. A lot of child actors from the 1950s and 1960s had it. It's subtle, but you can hear it. Words like pig or big, with short i's, are pronounced like "pyug" or "byug." "Him" on the other hand, is pronounced, "heem." Jack Webb had the accent.

[proud patriot]

116. That's very interesting

I wonder what causes the differences over the long term ..

[zanana]

118. I learned English from watching television, so...

My accent is American Standard. The friends I have who grew up around here all sound like that. I spoke only French until I was about six; now I can speak only English. Bummer.

[Kat 333]

44. Don't think so ...

I live in Southern Oregon - just 12 miles from Northern Calif border so on any given day you, likely, come across as many people from either side of the border. Haven't noticed an accent here or there. We're a ways from Southern California though. Lots of people from there that live here now and they don't seem to have one - at least not noticeable

[ronnykmarshall]

65. Native Californian as well.

When I lived in San Francisco someone told me I had a "Modesto accent" :wtf:.

I didn't know there was an accent for the SJ Valley.

It's strange because people have also told me I sound like I'm from:

1. The East Coast
2. Chicago
3. Atlanta (Is there a different accent in Atlanta?)


I think I pick up accents however. When I travel around the east coast or if I'm round my friend TJ, I start to sound like a New Yorker.

I like picking up on accents, keeps people guessing!

[proud patriot]

115. "Modesto accent" ROFLMAO

:crazy:

[MoonGod]

109. "Totally"

I'm SoCal born and raised and my g/f (from West TX) always laughs at my pronunciation (and frequency of use) of the word "totally"... along with a few other things.

[proud patriot]

114. OMG Like I Totally know what you me !

Can you you believe it ? :hi:

[anti_shrub]

25. I have a slight Pittsburgh accent

Not nearly as bad as some folks, like my mom who says "worsh" instead of wash. Its funny because to her, our first president was George Worshington.

Sometimes I have to make a concious effort to not lapse into Pittsburghese, but yinz guys should know its hard when the Stillers start playin' and everyone goes down to Primanti's to watch the game n'at.

D'oh.

[JVS]

27. You live Dahntahn or in the Suburbs

See yinz guyz later, I gotta go make a jumbo sammitch. d'jeet jet?

[anti_shrub]

35. I live in the burbs

In Penn Hills, which despite what Tino Martino says on Mullet Talk, has far less mullets and IROCs than believed.

Ironically, I'm actually on my way to Jyant Iggle to buy some jumbo.

[JVS]

41. Go Indians!

I come from Penn Hills too.

[cmd]

80. Yinz got any chip chop?

I'll be up from Stumville, if yinz do.

[sugarcookie]

36. SE Texas

My AZ kin tell me I do.

[Bossy Monkey]

37. Uv korse nawwwwwwwt

People around here always ask me where I'm from-- originally, but anywhere else they'd say I have a Southern accent. I once spoke to somebody with an expert ear who said I sounded like I was from Greenville, which is odd 'cause a) I'm not and b) I never really noticed any difference between Greenville and Columbia accents. Anyway...

[mvd]

38. No

I lived in Maryland for a long time - in Frederick. Didn't pick up any Southern accent, though.

[BurtWorm]

39. Heh-u's the wooder deh-un thir?

[mvd]

56. Here in SE PA they use youse

I actually had a math professor who used youse - and she's still at Ursinus! I got one of my two worst grades from her. :eyes:

[damnraddem]

40. No, but everyone else does.

When I moved back to the place I was born, I noted that no one had an accent when I was raised there but they had all acquired one by the time I moved back.

[carolinayellowdog]

43. Yes, fromTahdwahtah Vahginya

most notable for the rounded o's and the unpronounced r's

[Kathy in Cambridge]

45. Tidewater is a beautiful accent

There is nothing sexier than a Southern gentleman's accent from Virginia and North Carolina!

;-)

[Maine Mary]

46. Ayuh. I slight Maine accent

with a hint of NJ.

[BurtWorm]

49. Do you say "nawt" for "not?"

Do you say "core" or "caa" for "car?"

[Maine Mary]

51. Well I don't think my accent from either State is very pronounced

We moved to Maine when I was 12 (25 years ago) so I have some leftover cental NJ-ism's (like whuuter for water) But also have a little Maine too. It's an ever so slight dropping of my r's at the end of words. I have friends who live in Jersey but have visited Maine who say it's not really Jersey OR Maine. I'm a hybrid FREAK :-)

[BurtWorm]

57. I'm a Jersey Maine hybrid freak myself.

We moved from Northern NJ when I was 5. Kids used to laugh at me for saying something like woo-range for orange. I thought a kindergarten classmate's name was Amstrong, and it was Armstrong.

[xJlM]

47. Buckeye/Briar

Actually, my accent isn't really that bad, but I guess others notice it. I also noticed when I lived in Atlanta that there were a lot of folks who sounded more northern than me, but that's true all over the south in the bigger cities.

[JohnKleeb]

48. dont know

[shanti]

52. no, not even a valley girl one!

californians don't have accents....but i do love accents, especially west indian ones.

[Kellanved]

53. Yes

A slight Hesse-accent; now mixed with an Berlin accent.

Oh and my English is heavily accented (think worse than Arnold); it tends to get better after a few weeks in an English-speaking country.

[JohnKleeb]

55. Wheres Hesse?

I dont know German accents, I of course can regonize one but I dont know like regions, btw would a Swiss-German that could be or could not be what my ancestors were sound like Arnold or a regular German.

[Bossy Monkey]

63. Here

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessen

Germans mainly can't understand a word of Swiss German. My forebears also were Swiss. Swiss people speaking English most probably tend to speak with British accents because of the number of British visitors they've had for at least the last century. I've been there, but can't remember what accents were like.

[Kellanved]

66. center

The accent is not like an Austrian or Bavarian let alone Swiss accent(OK it's similar in northern Bavaria) - infact it is quite unique (mine is very slight - my parents aren't Hessian).

German-Accents (not yet complete) (Edit: the sentence read is: In winter the dry leafs are flying around):
http://www.uni-marburg.de/sprache-in-hessen/sprachlandschaften_dt.html

[JohnKleeb]

75. Interesting

Well we got a German phone book and actually most of the Kleebs were on this town near the Netherlands but I am Catholic and often told I am Swiss-German. Do the math and it could make sense. I dont care really.

[LuLu550]

54. American non-regional

I sound like a newscaster most of the time but once in a while I slip up and revert to my Lawn Guyland roots and say "SNEE-CUZ" or "FIN-GUZ."
I never never say "FIE-DOLL-AHZ"

[BurtWorm]

58. Do you ever hear yourself saying

becoss?

[LuLu550]

85. emmm

Isn't that how you say it?????? ;)

[TrogL]

59. Southern Ontario contaminated with Buffalo NY

Too many hours spent listening to Irv Weinstein

[It was not a pretzel]

62. Black Country

when speaking english. Bavarian when I talk german.

[qb]

67. I'm from Minnesohhhh-da

I never thought I had an accent until an elderly woman in Miami Beach asked if I was from France!

[BurtWorm]

69. I just guess they're a little deaf down there, doncha think?

You betcha.

[Breezy du Nord]

76. That's my dad!

Sven and Ole right there!

[Breezy du Nord]

68. I don't think I do

My dad sort has a Minnesota-Iron range one though.

[Nikia]

71. I don't know

I was born and raised in Ohio and thought the people of Wisconsin had a horrible accent when I moved here 7 years ago (Wow, it's been a long time.). My husband and Wisconsin friends say that I have an Ohio accent. My family says that I have the dreaded Wisconsin accent. It must be a mixture of both.

[Castilleja]

72. I don't think so

But maybe sometimes a small one slips out! Sometimes I try to tailor it according to who I am speaking too. Bet if I left Texas, someone could pick it out.

[BritishHuman]

77. I say, old bean!

Accent, what what? Queens English, dontcherknow!

Toodle pip!

[BurtWorm]

86. You quite reek of it, old boy.

Cheerio!

:toast:

[bif]

78. From Detroit

So basically, no accent.

[BurtWorm]

87. Detroit is the leeand of Steenderd Eenglish.

Actually I'm using Buffalo as my model. It's a lot like Buffalo, isn't it?

[cmd]

81. Eastern Ohio with a touch of the Southeast hills

And I kin speak Picksburgese

[Booberdawg]

82. I'm from midwest but

have been told I have a bit of an eastern accent. My dad's from Philly so maybe that's where I picked it up.

[kixot]

88. None whatsoever.

I have a news anchor quality to my voice and could probably get work doing voice overs. I work in a call center, too, so I get to hear accents from all over. Mine is very standard and fast, kind of like what Castilian sounds like to a Spanish ear.

[HEyHEY]

89. I have my Vancouver speedtalking slur thing going!

And I love it!

For those of you remembering Hunter Thompson...no it's not THAT bad

[mitchum]

90. American television standard

[Maple]

91. Is it even possible for a Canadian

to have an accent?

I think not eh.

[BurtWorm]

92. Don't know aboot thot.

[HEyHEY]

94. epends

I've lived in every region of the country that's why I noticed that Vancouverites talk a bit fast and not as clear. Torontians say things like RADiator. And they also really pronouce their words. Priaire folk sound like they say dth instead of th. Maritimers....well we are all familiar with that accent. Even in the kootneys of BC they talk a bit different

[Pert_UK]

95. Moin's arf Burrmingum and Harf Queen's English.

So there.

P.

[BurtWorm]

96. Those are two of me favorites.

Or favourites, as you and SOteric might say.

Monchister rocks, brootha.

[Pert_UK]

99. The Birmingham accent is a good one?!?!?!?

Never heard that before......

To be frank, my accent is actually half Black Country, rather than Brummie, and half Home Counties - the 2nd half stemming from the people I lived with at Uni and in London.

Come on...they won't locate Call Centres in Birmingham because nobody wants to talk to someone going, "ALL ROIGHT MATE! How's yer bin our mucker? Wot d'yao wunt unnyway?"

Hey - have you tried the Brummie translator? Go on - gie it a goo!

http://www.whoohoo.co.uk/main.asp?pageid=brummie&topic=translator

P.

[BurtWorm]

107. Pardon me, skip, me yed is mush.

I thought I read Manchester when yo 'ad actually written Beeermigem.

We yanks am suckers for british accents, yo knoo. It doesn't matter where it's frum. It cud be frum Sheffield, an' we'll fall for it.

[SOteric]

108. BritishHuman

is a Birmingham lad, but he hasn't got much of a Brummie accent at all. Even when he's pissed. Every now and again you can hear perhaps the faintest trace of it creeping into a vowel or two.

[BritishHuman]

111. I live in terminal fear of becoming a yam-yam

A slang term for the deep Black Country where "You Are" has gone through "Yow am" to "y'am". I work with several, and it's awfully catching.

[SmileyBoy]

97. Yeah. It's a Canadian-Minnesotan hybrid.

In the Red River Valley, we speak in very Canadian-ish and Minnesotan features. For example, In Canada, They say "oot" and "aboot" for "out and "about", and Americans pronounce it phonetically. Here in the Valley, we say "oat" and "aboat" for those words. Also, we have more of a "hoser" quality to our Minnesotan accents.

[Solly Mack]

98. You bet your sweet bippy I do

Southern Twang......

[SoCalDem]

101. Occasionally I lapse into the "flat kansas 'a'.."

as in KaaaaaaaaNSaaaaaaS..:)

[dudeness]

102. a broad australian accent ..so i am told..

:)...gitadogupyabushyadickhead

[VOX]

103. Hint of West Texas twang...

My dad was from El Paso, and I picked up much of his speech and inflection. The softer, rounder tones of the Texas accent grow sharper and "twangier" to the west, and El Paso is almost New Mexico!

[laconicsax]

104. I have been told

that I sound like I'm from New York...not the New York accent, but just that I'm from New York (state).

I always thought I sounded more like I'm from southern CA--where I spent my most formative years, and where most of my family is from.

[Lurking Dem]

106. Only when I'm tired

or drunk. I end up sounding a little like Holly Hunter.

[TheYellowDog]

112. Yes, I do.

n/t

[MaineDem]

117. So I've been told

But only by people "from away". Around here I don't talk with half the accent the locals have.

My friend from WV asks me to say "Mark, where will you park the car?" all the time. She gets a big kick out of it. Can't imagine why? :evilgrin:

[Zuni]

119. Maryland--Baltimore

My father had a REAL heavy baltimore accent, (pretty is purdy, water is warter etc.) I have I guess a Midatlantic/Maryland regional dialect, with a slight touch of Baltimore.
People who come from up north say that we Marylanders sound like rednecks, but I don't really hear it.

[Ignis]

120. Move much?

Played musical chairs? Try musician parents!

Los Angeles / Cambridge / Blackpool / Belfast
(Listed along an alcohol/stress-induced reversion spectrum rather than chronologically.)