Does anyone else have a really stupid accent?

[latteromden]

Mine is somewhere between the typical Minnesotan accent and an actual Norwegian accent. It's especially noticeable when I say 'o's as in 'soda' and the letter r, because I roll them. I hate it. :P

And I KNOW I'm not the only one with a ridiculous accent.

[yellowdogintexas]

1. pretty hard core Southern accent here, not ridiculous

but definitely Southern, no mistaking it

[Straight Shooter]

2. I do. I sound like an American.

:P

[Cha]

3. Don't "hate it"! Everyone has an accent to

someone of a different region..I'm crazy for accents.

It's your own little unique way of speaking..but if you don't like it so much..change it:D

[Padraig18]

4. Somewhat, yes.

:shrug:

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

6. Ach now Paddy, I love Irish accents,

with one noticeable exception: Dublin...

[auntAgonist]

5. I'm told I have an accent ..

It's a combination of Scottish and Canadian.

I don't 'hear' it, but others comment on it all the time.

[CubsFan1982]

7. I don't know if I do or not.

I'm pretty sure I don't, my voice is reasonably neutral, flat in accent, much like a lot of Midwesterners. That is, after all, where most of your news anchors come from. :)

[Solly Mack]

8. southern drawl heah

[aQuArius]

9. Utahn

I tend to drop the t's and the -ing ending. For example: "Layton", I have pronounced "Lay'un". And "something" and "nothing" I have pronounced "sumthun" and "nuthun"

AND I used to use words like, "heck", "flip", "shoot", "gosh" and "darn". Then I moved out of the state and started swearing.

[LizW]

10. I grew up with one

The really flat, Southern Appalachian accent. You probably haven't heard it because most people get rid of it as soon as they get into the outside world and realize how awful it is, and how other people automatically assume you're stupid when you speak.

Fortunately, my mother was a high school English teacher and did not tolerate bad grammar, so I didn't grow up saying "hit" for "it" and "yourn" for "yours". When I went to college, girls from Georgia made fun of me. Georgia! Needless to say, I got rid of it. I still have a southern accent, but not that one.

[steve2470]

11. I'm told mine sounds like Ohio/Michigan but I know that I still

say "ya'll" and other Southernisms, since I grew up in Florida.

[aQuArius]

12. btw...

Thanks for calling me a cute mom. :hi:

[steve2470]

13. My exquisite pleasure :-)

[Anarcho-Socialist]

14. I grew up speaking a rustic north east England dialect

Many people from the South of England can find north eastern dialects difficult to understand.

Here is an examples.

"I'm going out, you know."

Would be in a rural Durham accent:

"'am gannin' owt, y'narr".

I would speak the dialect at home and with other children. When I got to about 18 years old, I was speaking little or no dialect, but with still a north east accent. By the time I was 21, people told me that I didn't have the regional accent any more, although I didn't consciously go out to lose it. I just speak in a standard English accent with a hint of "the north". Although I never considered my mother tongue dialect stupid.

EDIT: in case anyone is interested, the dialect is based upon the ancient Angle language brought by the original settlers from Denmark in 400-600 CE.

[DawgHouse]

15. Southern...

I don't think about it until someone comes up to me and asks if I am from Alabama. (I'm not)

DH calls me on it when I let a colloquialism slip in, like I did today when I told him he "didn't have the sense God gave a goose."

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. Ackchully, latteromden

The Minna-soda aks'nt doen't rrohwl its arrs like in Spaanish. we crrrl arr tungs back wen we pranownse arrz and ellz. The teknikl linguistic trrm fer that is "retroflexing."

I yoosta have a strawng Minna-soda aks'nt, but it faydid away wen I lived owt eeest.

But now that I'm baack heerrr, I find that my ohwulder rellativz dohn't understaand me onless I revrrrt to my formerr aks'nt. :-)

[Taxloss]

17. A sexy English accent.

It's my most attractive quality. Deep and classy.