What accent do you have?

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Rosetta Stone is the best, and since I'm a really nice guy, if anyone would like to use it free of charge I can show you how.

Go on. I'm interested!

from the book "a dictionary of southern-speak in jimmy carter's america" -
northern definition of the word "smear": a stain spread by friction with another object.
southern definition of the word "smear" - one's organ[s] of hearing.
example:

"what's that unduh mah heh-uhr [hair]? whah that's s'mear!" [my ear]

I wonder if a person from, say, LA can tell the difference between NY and Boston.

think of the difference [in sound] between the actress fran drescher ["the nanny" -very NY] and JFK [very boston-brahmin-y]

lots of actors/actresses in LA who surely know the difference. but it should be noted that there are different areas of NY with different accents. bronx versus long island is reportedly a fair difference.

English. My mum says it's Yorkshire (where I live, but I've had the same accent since before we moved here), but my friend said I sound more southern.

I don't know, I can never tell the difference between accents (except some foreign ones like Italian, French, American, Russian, etc).

I can't really imitate them, either, except when I speak Spanish I can do a Spanish accent fairly well (but I can't do a Spanish accent when I'm speaking English, only in Spanish).

I would assume so. I'm Canadian and I can tell the difference between most American accents.

I can tell the difference between Southern, Minnesota, Chicago, Jersey (argh), and a lot of others. Comes from hearing it on TV and hearing people in person.

ok, here's a nice and subtle one for ya-
eastern washington, and puget sound/western washington. hint- you are more likely to hear "war-shin-ton" in spokane than in seattle.

I have a Virginian accent. i grew up near D.C. Its like a very mild southern accent with not much drawl but slight Virginian vowels. My older family members have much stronger drawl than I do.

I think the sweetest sort of southern accent is spoken in west va. there is something musical about it.

I don't really know, but I'd have to say British Colombian, which is similar, but not the same as general American. I live BC and no one who lives here thinks I have an accent.

Definitely have a bit of a NJ bro sort of thing mixed with burnout sort of thing happening. But I try really hard to have none. When I'm really mad it's a Brooklyn accent though still even though it's bene many years.

I dunno. I don't think it sounds like anything, but apparently I have a verrry slight Southern accent.

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to a Washingtonian, the BC accent is discernable only with certain words.

I lived in Louisiana till I moved in with my girlfriend afew years ago who lives in Vermont. Some Vermonters noticed I have alittle bit on a southern accent but one time I went back down to Louisiana to visit family, my uncle tole me I had alittle bit of a Yankee accent. I kinda wonder where in the US my current accent would be most appropriate.