first post here.

I am from New Orleans, and we have many different accents here. I speak with a pretty standard, rhotic (for those of you who know what that means) American accent, but in New Orleans, you can usually tell what neighborhood of the city people grew up in strictly based on their accent. And none of us sound like that tool from the movie "The Big Easy."

Also, I say y'all. And a tip from anybody who ever wants to come down here and fit in- it's not a median, it's a "neutral ground." But that one is excusable. However, don't ever call it New Orleens or, even worse, N'Awlins. This makes us want to slap you.

My favorite accent, ever, was two girls from Memphis I met at spring break in Florida one year. Good god- just to hear them talk, I could taste their sweetness. Sexiest things i have ever seen.

mmmm new orleans,.......someone pass me the crawfish and boudan

MMmmm....boudin...so good.

I am so fucking glad I take after my (English) Mother.

That means I don't have to suffer having a Guernsey accent like my Dad does.

isnt it though,......when i was a little girl we had a beach house in destin florida that my dad's side of the family would vaca at,.....dad, my step mom, her mother, and i would drive out there and the first thing we would do when we hit la was stop and get boudin and crawfish,.....i remember my step mother would bitch because she hated the smell of it,.....but to me, its just not summer without it you know?

Welcome.

He sounds like Spike Milligan acting daft?

In the last year or so, I've become a fan of England in general. :p:

I like to think I've had a part to play in that :soapbox:

I'm from Georgia. I sounded like foghorn leghorn until I moved to St. Louis - where all the kiddies made fun of me, I dropped my Georgian accent like a bad habit in public. When I talk to my family... it returns.

That would have been me, and you're right, I live just out of manchester in a town called Stockport. A little to the Southeast.