Does your accent reveal where you grew up?

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People can rarely guess the country where I was born.

How about you

Oz.

Oi, mate, and all that jazz.

However, I sound more like your slower country types than those from the suburbs; I spent my childhood and teenage years in suburbia, but I still had the slow drawl, which was mainly due to a lack of inflection and just my natural way of speaking (speech therapy taught me to keep a rather even pace so I could pronounce words correctly and not fumble, which made my natural way of speaking).

It's more noticeable when I'm talking to people. When I'm by myself (camera) or talking to my mother, I tend to talk a little quicker (I fumble more, but ma understands me well enough).

When I speak, people instantly know I'm from Chicago.

people in other parts of the U.S. say I have a southern accent, but people here in the south think i'm from elsewhere.

No, it just reveals that I have Asperger's.

I grew up and live in a part of the Appalachian chain but I just have a slight drawl and twang. I know people who sound just like Boomhauer on King of the Hill. When I went far out of the territory, like across the country or overseas, people thought I was English.
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When I was in England, it was guessed that I was from the northern States. Secretly (well not so much ) I am from southern Ontario.

I was born in Wales but I lived most of my early life in Northern England. There is therefore no Welsh accent but a very strong Lancashire tone to my voice.

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My parents had a southern accent that I picked up but lost in speech therapy. I now have a Buffalo accent which means I drag my vowels. Such as caat or baat. I do not notice it but when this other kid from Buffalo went to basic training people would comment on how they knew we both came from the same place.

When I was a child, I had harsh Urukhaian/Klingon accent. Later I learned to speak more distinctly. People from f.e. Central or East usually think I come from Silesia. Kashubian and Silesian accents are very similar, they have only little differences in ablauts/umlauts. Even Silesians think I'm Silesian.

There is a saying Kashubians are Silesians who were late to the ferry to Sweden.

No or at least I try hard not to let it.

My accent is very standard American, like a news caster, though it can fluctuate a little. When I get tired, it sort of relaxes into how I learned to speak as a child - with a mild Hawaiian accent and grammar.

With a little effort I can sound like a diction marm with very precise, standard American English. Or a Brooklyn Italian accent. Or a very convincing southern US accent.

It's hard to tell where I'm from with my natural accent though.

Anytime I speak I immediately identify myself as a hillbilly bashtid!<-- (When I lived in Kansas, that is what my boss called me)

I sound a lot like Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove.

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I confuse people a lot with my accent. I grew up in California, but my family is from Pennsylvania. Add to that, my mother spent 12 years living in Germany with the US Air Force. So I learned Pennsylvanian English with about 1/3 German slang words. Most people from the East Coast, think I'm from Pennsylvania... Germans are confused, since my conversational German isn't so good, but I know a lot of German slang that you wouldn't learn in American schools in a German class.

My wife's accent is just as unusual... Born & raised in Dallas, Dad born & raised in Texas, but her Mom was raised in California, and her Grandma was an Indiana farm girl with a Midwest accent.

Charles