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Paperboy
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London. What is usually referred to by foreigners as a British accent.

Gone Gonzo
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Something halfway between Leicester, where I grew up and Nottingham, where I live now.

Copy Clerk
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Joined: 2 Jul 2008

My accent varies depending on how I feel. When I'm angry, my mexican accent begins to appear. If I'm excited, my voice becomes high pitched. When I was younger, people on Xbox Live would think I was a girl.

SUSPENDED
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Joined: 26 Aug 2008

I've got a fairly thick Bristolian accent. Think farmer.

Beat Writer
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Joined: 30 Jul 2008

I have a through and through english accent mate.

Copy Clerk
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Joined: 30 Dec 2008

I'm right on the south coast of England, so I have a pretty posh British accent, which I'm rather proud of. Oh how I do enjoy being fawned over when I travel to the states.

If I ever spend time with my family, I tend to come back speaking with a slight Italian accent which apparently always sounds weird because even though I am half Italian, you couldn't tell by looking at me.

I'd kill for an Irish accent.

Although why any of you lot would care about this is beyond me.

Gone Gonzo
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Southern England. Nearly Queens English with a hint of Irish Pikey.

Beat Writer
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Frater Perdurabo:
I am accentless. Being greek gives me the advantance of speaking english without a confusing accent. Drop a man born and raised in Yorkshire England in south Texas and he wont be able even to order a glass of water to save his life. Also only women should have accents

I can't go to Texas then....damn.....I've got a north Yorkshire accent

Gone Gonzo
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Joined: 24 Feb 2008

Mild to regular Scouse accent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouse) with a tendency to use overcomplicated sentences.

Gone Gonzo
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Joined: 29 Aug 2008

I'm an ambiguous person, anonymity is my shield, acting my sword, I make due with whatever accent I have the capacitry to voice. But... yea.

My original accent is a Western United States mumble, barely audible, often hoarse, with a pleasant tinge of Californian and full of sardonics and shouts. So, Yea. That's it.

Beat Writer
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Joined: 26 Dec 2008

Southend accent. Like a London one.

but i can do an Irish one :D

Press Junketeer
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Joined: 28 Aug 2008

I don't have an accent, I'm American!

Beat Writer
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Joined: 25 Mar 2008

mathias53:

faselei:

mathias53:
Ok so you have a British accent, and i have an American one, do we sound strange and you sound normal to you? Like for us the British accent sounds odd and almost alien (ok alien and odd arent the best words but just bear with me) but to you does British sound normal and American sound odd? Do you notice you have an accent? For me i dont think i have an accent and i think most Americans think the same way because of ignorance but to you do we seem like we have an accent and you dont?

There are tens of accents in Britain and Ireland, mainly based on geography but also social class. Accents can develop within only a few generations and if people don't move around much they stay. My family are from the north east of England, and i can hardly understand them, when i'm drunk i sound like a Victorian cockney chimney sweep because that's where i grew up in London, but i have been living in the South West where they talk like pirates (or rather pirates talk like them) and so sometimes this slips in... you can tell a hell of a lot by how someone talks in the UK, its a bit weird because you drive 50 miles and everyone is talking differently all of a sudden ... :o

but thats not what i am talking about, what im saying is does anybody with a british accent think that americans have the accent and british people dont. Most americans will say that they dont have an accent but british people do, thats because most americans are ignorant. Do people with a british accent think the same way, that british people do not have an accent but americans do, or are americans just snobs?

like i said "alien" is not the correct term. but you did answer my question so thank you. Maybe to you your accent sounds ordinary but my american accent sound not ordinary?

Paperboy
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Joined: 29 Oct 2008

West coast aussie mixed with south east english accent

Infamous Scribbler
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East Coast Australian although I'm regularly mistaken for an American o.O

Paperboy
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Joined: 29 Oct 2008

cossies or togs Cahlee ?

Beat Writer
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Joined: 8 Jan 2009

Bet you never heard a dutch guy speak english. I can do a german accent as well ^^

Anonymous Source
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Geordie :) from Newcastle in the UK. It's the accent that is made fun of a lot here, but apparently it's seen as trustworthy.

Press Junketeer
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I have an increadiblt slight southern accent that comes out every now and then on top of a London accent when I start swearing or am pissed.

Pulitzer Laureate
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I have an Ontarioian accent, deeper and stronger than most. I am told that I have a good voice for news, though I need to pay attention to my speech as I tend to talk quickly and mumble.

Gone Gonzo
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Very british!

Now if you don't mind, i have to go drink some tea and eat bangers and mash. A game of cricket perhaps?

P.S.WANKERS!

Beat Writer
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Joined: 4 Sep 2008

I suppose you could say either Zimbabwean or Rhodesian/Rhodie. They're pretty much one and the same. It's kinda similar to a South African accent but generally not quite as harsh.

Copy Clerk
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Joined: 24 Dec 2008

A hairs width away from BBC English.

On the Record
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Although I'm Polish, many people, including my Spanish teachers, say I have a Spanish accent.

But I can also mimic British, Russian and French accents. Currently learning Australian, so G_d day to you all, mates.

Infamous Scribbler
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Joined: 22 Aug 2008

Well-spoken English.

Pulitzer Laureate
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English Accent. I can't exactly describe it.
Try to imagine a rather royal accent, mixed up with a slightly chavvy accent... I don't know!

Gone Gonzo
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Joined: 13 Aug 2008

English (as in UK) with incredibly faint bursts of Scottish.
I have about a 1/3rd Scottish in me, and i've never been in much contact with the Scottish apart from my gandmother i see very little of, so where this faint accent burst came from i don't know.

I wouldn't change it for the world though, Scottish accent is sexy and the whole world knows it.

Gone Gonzo
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A kind of monotone American accent...some people say it sounds kind of southern, but I can't really hear it.

Muckraker
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Joined: 28 Aug 2008

American accent? Would that be what I call it?

Gone Gonzo
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ThePoodonkis:
Is a lack of an accent an American accent?
If so, I've got an American accent.

Huh?

I have one of the non-posh midlands british accents.

Pulitzer Laureate
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Joined: 2 Feb 2008

I'm Australian, from the east coast. Strangely enough, a lot of people ask me if I'm from Britain at work. It think it's because I don't make every bloody sentence into a question.

Muckraker
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Joined: 14 May 2008

A danish accent, if you want to try it, just put two medium sized potatoes in your mouth and start speaking ye olde english.

Pulitzer Laureate
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Joined: 15 Aug 2008

Californian accent, I've fallen into an odd habit of changing my accent while I'm speaking, sort of fun really.

Beat Writer
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Joined: 2 Jan 2009

I have been born and breed in the South and I do not have an accent. I guess that some get it and some don't. I mean my whole family is from the deep south and all my grandparents have it. Nobody in my part of where I live has it. It is werid.

Pulitzer Laureate
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Depends who you ask really, any Brits here would probably say I sound geordie, Americans just plain British, geordies that I'm really posh and/or camp.

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