Do you have an accent?

this is funny....because I do have an accent....and it is a mixture of Illinois and Kentucky (northern and southern) which really sounds like southern IL... When i am in IL people say I sound like i am from the south, that is where I was predominently raised. But when I am in KY people say I have a Northern accent, where I was born and my family is originally from....so I kept it by being aorund them at home. But I have found I can pick up accents quite well....if I am tlaking with someone who has a distinct sound I can imitate it within minutes, sometimes not even realizing I am doing this. I should have been an actress. LOL But I love Irish and english accents....OMG cannot tell you how much.

I'm a Canadian from Ontario. I don't think I have an accent and my American husband doesn't have an accent either but he swears I have one. LOL I have a friend here in Guelph who has a parent from the MIddle East, and a parent from Quebec. He was born in Canada, but he's got the NICEST HINT of an accen, which I know comes from his upbringing/

I hate admitting it but I do have a southern type accent. It doesn't sound typically southern, but I do have an accent that's pretty common to certain parts of West Virginia. I leave in the Eastern part of WV so I don't have the slow drawl that you tend to hear in most southern accents. I don't sound very country-ish or anything, but I do have an accent. I just tend to delete certain letters when speaking so the words generally sound short. Sometimes it's just how I pronounce words and it makes it sound like I've deleted things.

I have been told that I have a southern accent,even though sometimes I do not believe it,even though I know if I get angry or nervous,I start to talk in my souther accent,I was born and raised in the south,and I would not have it any other way.

I'm Canadian and I don't think I have an accent...Americans tell me I do though. I know I say "ou" words a little bit different than you guys do...but that's about it. I don't say aboot or anything like people think we do...but we do pronounce more of the ou than a lot of Americans. Most Americans I know say it more like Ab-Ow-t.

Well I'm from Ohio and I guess I have some sort of accent. I didn't know this until I moved out West and my friends that would make fun of me because the people here pronounce "wader" instead water. But out West (well at least where I was at which was Lake Tahoe) pronounce the word Organ instead of Oregon.

Hi friend, We asians follow neutral accent. So i am good at neutral accent. Also we are influenced by american and british accents. Thanks.

I would say I have a Southern accent, since I grew up in Tennessee, and now currently live here with my family. My husband is from California, and he has a deeper Southern accent than me now. There's nothing rude about asking if someone has a accent. I know I adapted quickly when I was in Illinois for 6 wks, my family and friends said I lost my Southern accent. It didn't come back until we moved away from VA to MS. Now that I'm back in Tennessee, It had to come back, with being around people from the south.

I know I have an accent. Like most Northern West Virginians I actually delete certain letters from a word. lol Like in hunting, it's huntin. Kinda hard to explain if you can't hear it. lol.

take a good bit of british but add a southern twist and i guess thats me i was born and raised in Liverpool england but lived in Mississsippi for 25 yrs untill i moved to west Virginia so i am i guess a heinz 57 variety when it comes to an accent

My in laws that live in a different state say I do but of course I don't hear it. My cousin has a big time southern accent its kind of funny.

I don’t know what my accent is when I’m speaking English. Some people told me that I was ‘near’ but I don’t think I’m that good. LOL. However, I think unconsciously I imitated the accents of people I often watched on TV shows, like Oprah show, for example. My listening is not really good but at least I understand what Oprah said, and I don’t have idea about her accent, because I'm Indonesian. :P

I am from the south of America. I sound "southern" or have a "country" accent. I usually only sound real "country" if I am nervous or upset. I can mask my accent if I wish, I can do New York or Hispanic. I don't do that so much though.b

I'm from Trinidad and i have a Trini accent, they say we sound as if we are singing when we speak.

No, I don't really have an accent, but if your's is a typical California accent, then mine is too. LOL Some days I do hear a little Filipino in my voice, but for the most part it is American! PS I didn't find your question rude at all.

I never thought of myself with an accent until I was getting to know my ex husband years ago. He was living in central Canada and I am in midwestern US and he and I would talk on the phone for hours. One time he was in the room with other people and had to leave for some reason and handed the phone to someone else who I talked to for a few minutes and after I had spoken to him for a short time I was told that I had an accent. Another time my ex and I spoke the friend wanted to speak to me because he liked my accent and wanted to hear it again.........and I never thought that I had one! SO.....I think we probably all have an accent depending on who we are speaking to!! lol

My accent is a cross between Australian and New Zealand. I was born in New Zealand, but have now lived more years in Australia, so it is to be expected that my accent would change. I do still have some Kiwi traits though, which make everyone laugh still.

Some have said that I have a Chicago accent? I don't hear it but we are known to have nasal sounding long A's. I don't know, I didn't realize I had one until someone pointed it out.

i dont have an accent...so i think my accent is a typical american accent...ordinary...but i cant say my r's very well, so most people think i am from the new england states. i also tend to talk fast. what is a california accent anyway? i have lived in california, and people tell me i dont sound like someone from california, whatever that is. recently, someone told me that california accent is talking really slow...and that is definitely not me...i talk too fast...so i guess i talk more like an east coaster probably because i was raised on the east coast, in wva, va, dc, md areas. although i was born in scotland, i dont have a british accent...probably because i was too small to talk at that time.

Of course I don't think I have an accent at all, but when I lived in Florida for a few years, everyone could tell I was from "up north", as they said. I am from NJ but I have to say that very few people from NJ have the stereotypical NJ accent. The ones that do are usually in certain areas close to NYC. What gives me away as being from NJ is the way I say certain words, like "milk" comes out like "melk", and I insist on pronouncing "ferry" differently from "fairy" (or "very" and "vary", etc.). I noticed that in FL they say those words identically. We also do tend to talk a little fast, but not quite as fast as New Yorkers.