Gaspanic

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 .

Sansa Stark

If anyone cares, this is my accent:

VEGANGELICA

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!

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VEGANGELICA

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

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Sansa Stark

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

VEGANGELICA

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!

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Burning Down

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

lucifer_sam

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

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littleknowitall

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

VEGANGELICA

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



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

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