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27 Mar 2019, 5:53 pm

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I speak with a southern/RP/public school British accent.
Does everybody in your household speak with this sort of accent?


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27 Mar 2019, 6:06 pm

I have a slight southern accent without the dialect. Although I do say "Ya'll" a lot.



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27 Mar 2019, 6:11 pm

I have a slight-to-moderate NYC accent.

I speak more like Woody Allen than like Robert DeNiro.



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27 Mar 2019, 6:33 pm

MaxE wrote:
Prometheus18 wrote:
I speak with a southern/RP/public school British accent.
Does everybody in your household speak with this sort of accent?

I live alone, so it's vacuously true that everybody in my household speaks with the same accent as me.



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27 Mar 2019, 9:54 pm

I got Northeast (north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island), with Philadelphia and Boston not far behind. For reference, I have a mixed New Zealand/Australian accent, which out of all the US accents sounds closest to a Boston accent to me. So, close enough.


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27 Mar 2019, 10:38 pm

Rhode Islanders speak Boston.

The NYC accent is really confined to a rather small area around NYC—but it extends farther out in Long Island.



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27 Mar 2019, 10:41 pm

Mid-West American.



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27 Mar 2019, 10:54 pm

I ended up with Northeast.


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27 Mar 2019, 11:43 pm

I was told many times that I speak with a Cockney accent. I was asked if I was German when I was 11. I was asked if I was Scottish at the age of 10. Someone told me nearly 20 years ago that they could tell that I'm from London.


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