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Yo! Aneh Noo Yawkerz up in heer?

I'm not actually from NYC, but rather from a suburb just outside the city. Because of that my accent's not very thick so I get the "You don't sound like you're from New York" comment a lot. It's funny, but also frustrating at the same time.

Maain. ye need ta get chi accent ryte! down here in NC we pronounce tha letterrr R rreeal harrd. and wirrr bad ta use made up words n expression's lyke

Piddlin: wasting time or doing nothing
Yunz: you all
cuttin up: playing around or behaving comically
fixin ta: about to
Gommin: preforming a task poorly
Gom: noun for a mess or a poorly constructed building
Cobblin: constructing something without proper equipment or shoddy materials usually out of necessity
Sheet Rock: dry wall
Holler: can be a noun for a place in the woods where two hills meet or a verb for calling out loudly

How I got detention:

"Chew. I C dat you're raw-ful, tea-cheer!"

HelloIamfromMichigan.Nicetomeechya.threequarterspast7,gottago.

Luv is in the seven---fur brea---ffffff

Scooby?



I speak with a Michigan accent. Similar to Canadian.

Yeah I ram scooby...

*whispers*

Helloo, my name is Michelle.

Harlow...

Nice to meat U.

the so called english accent is not an accent, it is the correct way to speak the language. it is the americans who have an accent

Instead of an accent sample (who hears him/herself accurately?), three comments:

(1) Odin gives the most accurate analysis of the"North Central US" sound that I ever remember seeing in print. To get my native accent, move his description a little to the east from Wisconsin, so that it sounds a bit more like a "neutral" accent from outstate New York or even southern Ontario. Leave the first vowels in Mary/merry/marry identical, though. Note that we do not necessarily aspirate some intervocalic "t"s:: we can distinguish between waiter/wader in our own speech, although Easterners can't always do that when they hear us. "Root" and "roof" have a longer version of the vowel in "put." The Canadian "eh" is used, but aspirated to "hey." The plural of "you" is "you guys" (any gender).

(2) Michigan is made up of two peninsulas: by land, one (the upper one, or "U.P.") is connected to Wisconsin, the other to Indiana and Ohio. Amateur linguists claim that the two have different accents, but the accent actually changes in the northern lower peninsula. There are various sample words, like "sauna" ("saoo-na" up here [as in Finnish--that "aoo" thing is supposed to be a diphthong], "saaw-na" elsewhere) to demonstrate this. "The" can become "da." Vocab is sllightly different too. We do not merge "cot" and "caught" and, most importantly, do not participate in the Northern Cities Vowel Shift as they do even 100 miles/160 km south of here..

(3) My job required a lot of public speaking (yes, horror). In Seattle, I was praised for speaking clear American English. In the NYCity metro area, complaints were made about "that guy with hay in his hair that we can't understand." My wife is from that area and complains that I am "going native" when I use my natiural accent here.

jef

No. English is a language spoken in many countries around the world. The regional differences in pronunciation (in any language) are called "accents". More extreme regional variations are called "dialects".

Example: I'll fix it.

Northern US: Iyul fix et.

Southern US: Ahhl fi'ahx at.

New Zealand: Ah'il fux et.

Australia: Oil fex ut.

South Africa: Uhl fex et.

Ireland: Ile fixit.

Canada: I uhl fixet.

^ Just rough estimates, and sorry for omitting England, Scotland, Belize, Guam, etc.

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Cockney: Gizzit 'ere

People question where I am from. Some say Australia, others say Africa. Those native to Africa and Australia will not think so.

My mother has a London accent which somehow uses 24 letters of the alphabet. H and T are missing.

I like to speak proper English. And I don't have an accent...

quote of the year...

I have a very thick American accent. People over here, and from my own state, even think I have an accent. They all say I have a surfer's accent.

"c'n you fetch me u tawco?

I spent 6 months in Australia. Everyone thought I was Canadian (I had never even been to Canada).

Best quote: "You're so articulate - are you really American?"


After I got back, I did spend time in Canada, coincidentally to visit people from Australia and Greece. So I didn't really get a chance to see if the Canadians thought I was Canadian.