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What kind of accent do you speak with?

That's not an accent, that's just how it's supposed to sound :p
 
I grew up in Kent which has queens home counties English with a farming twang (think long drawn out r's as in 'barth' not 'bath')

My grandad's side of the family were proper cockney east London types (pearly kings and queens) and my mum has a bit of it - I still start dropping my t's the minute I get through the door.

I went to a grammar school though and then uni and have lived for ten years in posh west London, so I speak 'proper' English most of the time now, with the odd 'innit' slipped in for good measure.
 
furie said:
That's not an accent, that's just how it's supposed to sound :p
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I'll agree it's quite pleasant-sounding, but what's with the whole non-rhotic thing? So many poor R's are often spelled, never said... :roll:
 
R's are for the lower classes and colonials.

Fwee Woderick!

Not actually sure which R's are missing. There's one in Arse that seems to have got lost on the voyage across the Atlantic, but I can't think of any others..?

I will admit though, that like "air" words, I never got the hang of R's either. Though I don't speak how it's supposed to sound and I admit that :)
 
I speak in the "Mike" accent.
It's kinda like a mix of not really knowing what I'm saying with a hint of either irony, anger, or confusion. :p
 
I talk in an average American accent. I am more articulate with my pronunciation of words than most people who have lived in Pittsburgh for their entire lives.
 
^ :p
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57oUeO_OJMg[/youtube]
 
People in New Jersey say I speak with a southern accent and people in Virginia say I speak like a New Yorker, take that for what you will because I can only recognize other people's accents.
 
Sue said:
I grew up in Kent which has queens home counties English with a farming twang (think long drawn out r's as in 'barth' not 'bath')
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Really? Most people I know from Kent sound like right chavs, and it sounds VERY similar to Essex to me.

I don't know what mine is, some people say it's slightly brummy which offends me </3. At least I'm not from a few miles away in Leicestershire, that's the ultimate worst I think <///3. "You're from Rug-beh?" "I'm Happ-eh". Or as the McCanns said, "Where's Madd-eh?"
 
Despite being born and raised in NJ, and coming from an Italian family, I have no stereotypical NJ accent, or really one at all. I've actually been asked if I'm from the Midwest.
Non Americans have said they don't notice anything specific either, just that I sound like general American.

huzzah for blandness.
 
Not that I want to keep on plugging my stuff, but I simply have to ;)

My accent encapsulated here, with an inclusion of the two other accents I sometimes will slip into here and there:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSZV485XdUs[/youtube]

I like to think it's pretty lacking in accent, but it's definitely "slightly Northern English"
 
Haha. Erm, like TinTin, but with less profanity (not much less).

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1F7vtxmEdg[/youtube]
 
There's an entire song about my accent, can't escape this one I'm afraid... :x

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrIqSlt9PXg[/youtube]
 
If I'm in Portsmouth i'm 'posh' but if I'm out of Portsmouth I'm 'Southern'. So depends where I am.
 
Midwestern/Chicago/old-school-Italian-German mix.

So, basically, take the classic "take da sassage outtada truhnk" and make it a bit more subtle. And put it in the pubescent voice of a 13-year-old.
 
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