<p>Hey, I like saying pop. I’m from NorthEast Ohio but my accent is a little ‘off’ for here. My senior English teacher once put “pool, pull and pole” on the board and when I asked her why she said it was because people in our area have the tendency to say them the same way. And, sure enough, I overheard a girl or two trying to say them out loud and they sounded the same. They’re all different when I say them though.</p>
<p>I’m really bad at hearing accents it seems. I hung out with people from all over the world last summer and no matter where they were from it all sounded the same except for two or three (one Bulgarian and one Belizian). I was quite disappointed haha, because I’ve always loved accents and was hoping to actually hear some.
When my mom met my friend from Texas one of the first things she did was put on a really overstated Texas drawl and ask “Where’s your accent?” Pretty embarrassing.</p>
<p>Bag = Baig (Rhymes with Vague)
Wagon = Weigh-gun
Root = Roo-t (Rhymes with toot)
Roof = Roo-f
Pin and Pen DO NOT sound the same
Merry, Mary, and Marry DO sound the same
Minnesota = Miny-Soooda</p>
<p>Sprinkle in a few ‘pops’ and ‘you knows’ and ‘you bets’ and you’re almost there. :)</p>
<p>^^yeah, we do! We also say “you guys” instead of “y’all”</p>
<p>Just wondering… what does everyone think of MN accents? Not the really strong, I’ve-lived-on-a-farm-all-my-life accents, but accents of those in the suburbs or cities.</p>
<p>I haven’t read this whole thread so I may be responding to nothing. However I am from Baltimore and the Baltimore accent is pretty much dead. 40 years ago there probably was an accent but today it is only really found in one area. (Dundalk/Essex. If you’re from Baltimore you know what I mean lol.) Everyone I know talks normal East Coast.</p>
<p>^Then Minnesotans have a very sexy accent indeed. (I always wanted to say something like that. Darwin Bless Rose Nylund.) Eh, I have a thing for various American accents (especially TEXANS). How are flat British accents (like BBC, but without tonal rises) received in the US? Any stereotypes?</p>
<p>Ha well, I have a British accent (difficult to place more specifically since I moved around a lot during the 5 years I was there), and it’s only been an asset in America. As opposed to the Indian accent that I would have had had I moved directly from India to New York.</p>
<p>EDIT: Ha. I didn’t even read your ^ post before I wrote the above.</p>
<p>British accents are probably recieved differently in different parts of the US, but in the midwest and south, to be blunt, are kind of associated with snobbiness and elitism. The same could be said of certain New England/Northeast accents which are quite similar to British accents.</p>
<p>British accents vary just like American ones do - a lot of British celebrities have “sexy accents” while lots of Brits have not-so-sexy accents and some I can barely understand!</p>
<p>I’m from the Northeast and most of us have mainstrean American accents, the kind you hear on TV. There’s also the NY accent (esp in Brooklyn!), NJ accent, Boston accent, New England accent, etc. I notice lots of Southern/Midwestern/West Coasters also have this mainstream accent, so you can’t really tell where they’re from. My boyfriend’s from South Carolina and he has a slight Southeastern accent which I think sounds nice. The worst accent imo is the “Dr. Phil” accent a lot of Southerners have, because it’s often associated with being a hick or sounds “trashy”. Most West coasters i’ve met also have the mainstream accent, NorCal folks say “hella” a lot and SoCal girls often talk like valley girls. Some Hawaiians also have slight accents or different slang which I think sounds nice. Haven’t met any Alaskans but I kind of like Palin’s accent, she sounds like she’s from Minnesota. I love the Minnesota accent, it sounds so down-to-earth and frank…“you betcha!” </p>
<p>I’m from NYC/Long Island and have a mainstream “TV accent” but what gives me away is I talk pretty fast. Everyone else talks a lot slower!</p>
<p>I used to live in England so I might be biased but I love British accents. I am also a sucker for New York accents and Southern accents (cowboys. yummy). <3</p>