<p>Oh lawd the Roe D’ylin (Rhode Island) accent. It’s sort of a mix between Boston (pahk the cah) and Brooklyn (cawfee).</p>
<p>Thank the greater force I don’t have that accent. I hear my family/other people talk like that and it drives me insane. I consciously avoid talking like that.</p>
<p>If I’m really mad though, I’ll slip, and be like, “Give me back my cah keys you fongool!”</p>
<p>I was once told I have a slight Finnish accent- what? Haha. I’m not from there and have no family from there. Maybe I’ve been listening to Nightwish and Sonata Arctica too long.</p>
<p>I’m from socal and apparently i have a californian accent to my cousins in the midwest, and then i picked up their hoosier/chicagan accent when i came back to CA, lol.accents are cool though, so i’m excited to hear them in college! =]</p>
<p>ha. i’m from minnesota, but i don’t have as big of an accent as others around here. my parents have lived all over the states, so i’ve picked up random phrases and pronunciations. </p>
<p>btw, does anyone call the thing one uses to put hair into a ponytail a hair loop? wondering where i picked that up from… no one understands it, but i can’t get out of that habit.</p>
<p>Growing up in Georgia with a total New Yorker family does funny things to your speech.
Some words that sound northern when I say them are for, forward, care, all/always/awful. Then there are southern things I say, but I can’t really think of anything right now…
My uncle thinks I sound southern [though I think he’s just trying to bug me :P] but people here definitely wouldn’t say I do.</p>
<p>I’m gonna be a New Yorker going to a 95% NJ school next year, at orientation I noticed all your funny accents immediately! They say things like schedule (skej-yal).</p>
<p>Something we Italian New Yorkers do that seems normal to us is the -or sound.</p>
<p>Most (weird) people say the word forest as if theres an “or” in it. for- rest
We say it like fahrest! Ahranges! Chawcolate! Not Chahhhhclate!</p>
<p>One thing: in Jersey, no one says “Joisey.”</p>
<p>If anything, south Jersey has a slight Philly accent, and north Jersey has a slight NYC accent. In SJ, “on” rhymes with “dawn” and most people pronounce “coffee” as “cawfee.” And many people pronounce “water” as “wooder.” I am guilty of all of these. :)</p>
<p>I don’t have an “accent” but I slur some things when I talk and say certain words, like pop. Though I did hear a person talking once and though, he has to be from Pittsburgh. Turns out he was.</p>
<p>Making fun of people’s accents is seriously one of the best bonding experiences EVER when encountering a group of people from different parts of the world or country. As weird as it may sound, I definitely developed a stronger relationship with a lot of people this way - there was always something to talk about/criticize, ha.</p>
<p>that’s a very interesting thread… i’m an international and i just wanted to ask if it’s OK if i can’t understand different accents sometimes? like when i was watching The Departed i couldn’t get a thing sometimes, although i’m quite fluent in english… is that normal? would a person be offended/irritated if i asked him or her to say things slower again? i’m worried now cuz here in russia we have different accents too, but they are never a problem even for internationals…</p>
<p>When I started going to college people were telling me I had a Boston accent because I’d emphasize the 'a’s in words…I only lived in Boston for one year during high school so it’s probably gone by now.</p>
<p>i grew up in miami my entire life and my english is way better than my spanish! regardless of that fact, my friends from class at uf noticed right away that i had an accent! it’s really weird, i never thought i had an accent, but people from miami, sometimes not even spanish speakers, have a distinct rhythm to their speech. i learned something new about myself ^_^</p>
<p>I’m from Delaware and I previously had “no” accent but since going to school in VA I’ve got a little southern twang thing going on, or so I’ve been told. </p>
<p>My roommate last year was from the chicago area and she said pop instead of soda, and sucker instead of lollipop. Which I thought was so weird.</p>
<p>I live in NJ, but my family is all from the Midwest. So here I get told I have a Midwest accent, but when I visit cousins in Ohio I get that I have a Jersey accent (cawwwfee, et al). It’s funny because my roommate next year is from Minnesota, and the first thing we both wanted to know was whether the other had the stereotypical regional accent.</p>
<p>And I agree with kelliebm, the regional slang thing is so much more bizarre to me. Soda is not pop. Soda will never be pop. (Or coke, for that matter. Coke is a brand name, not generic.)</p>
<p>Im from socal and people are sayin that californians have accents. what do they sound like b/c ive never noticed any accent? the only thing different is that we have weird slang words that no one knows haha.
and ya i find it really strange when ppl say coke or pop instead of soda. good thing im moving to chicago next year where pop is apparently what ppl say…</p>
<p>I’m from the South and have lived here all but about 2 years of my life (and those were early on), but I really think I have no Southern accent. I live in Georgia now, and when I went to CA for a camp they expected me to have come from the middle of a cornfield and drawl like Scarlet O Hara or something : )</p>
<p>People from the more metropolitan areas of Georgia really hardly have an accent at all…at least I think so! The ones from further south or in more rural towns are the ones with the real accents. Not that there’s anything wrong with a nice southern accent! : )</p>
<p>I always wanted to meet someone with a real Boston accent…</p>