This troper has a friend from Seattle whom we suspect is a {{Straight Gay}} that pronounces words like bag, as "Bayg" with a long A. It is especially humorous to us from Southern California who, as the great friends we are, insult him with idiotic psuedo-homophobic references to him being a "Fayg" with a long A.

This troper was mainly raised in the UK, with some time spent in the US, by an American mother and a British father. As a result, Americans accuse her of being a Brit trying to sound American, whereas Brits accuse her of being an American trying to sound British. Having learned Italian from her Italian-American mother, this troper is accused by Italian people of sounding like a 1930s Sicilian gangster's moll. This troper cannot win.

This troper was raised in New Hampshire, picking up some of his mother's Philadelphian and father's Vermont vocabulary. The only glaring distinction is his speech is the use of the New England "Tammarah" instead of tomorrow and "Catamount" instead of cougar.

This bilingual troper finds his accent slightly European when speaking English and somewhat American when speaking Dutch. Interesting...

"European"?

This troper finds her accent

What, did you lose it at one point?

This troper has been questioned about her accent a variety of times, and has been told she sounds like she comes from the American Midwest or Canada. she was born in Britain and was raised there by British people, and is genealogically one-quarter Irish, the rest English.

This Californian troper can speak in a variety of Southern and Northeastern American dialects, but cant speak in a Californian dialect.

Cha, brah? That's because there's, like, nine of them.

This Troper speaks like the product of an orgy involving a Texan, a New York Jew, and a teenager with an overdeveloped vocabulary. Yup.

I, ''@/LynxRunner'', have declared that there is no Florida accent in the South. The Northerners sound like something out of New Jersey, maybe Boston (Do ya know where yer meh-up [map] is? Want some eh-uhpples? [apples]), but the Southerners have either a Spanish accent or just sound like bland "general Americans". I have never heard of a Floridian accent either, so I guess I'm not the only one to note the lack of a distinct accent...

This Floridian agrees.

This one agrees as well. I'm from central Florida, and have a "generic" American accent.

This one disagrees- once you get up in the rural areas and the panhandle, you can get some really distinct and thick Southern accents.

This central Floridian dissagrees as well. It tends to be a case of how soon you come down here (if you came down here at all, some people have been living here for generations), where you live, and how rich you are. I certainly have a non-midwestern accent, since people often comment on it when I leave the general area, and often people ask me to say things like "Hockey", "Orange", and "there" over and over.

''@/TsukasaElkKite'' is from Minnesota, but her Minnesota accent only comes out when she's tired. However, she can do Cajun, Philly, Southern, and California accents with ease.

This troper is a native of Louisiana. Although there is ''definitely'' a noticeable accent in this state, it has never, ''ever'' been accurately used on TV... except by a person who is also native to Louisiana. Most characters who try to speak with a "Cajun" accent end up sounding more like they're from Civil War-era Virginia. Some, such as Gambit from the 90's X-Men cartoon, can be excused. But the absolute worst offender to date is Adam Sandler in ''The Waterboy.'' People have actually reacted with surprise, some even refusing to believe I'm from Louisiana, because I ''don't'' sound like that.

Obviously, those people don't watch CNN.

After helping at a homeless shelter in Baton Rouge, I can attest that SOME people from Louisiana have an accent about like the assistant coach from The Waterboy. But as for Adam Sandler... nope.

This troper has lived in Minnesota his entire life, and he has NEVER heard ANYONE who actually speaks with this accent. Aside from the occasional lapse on the word ''roof'' prevalent to most peoples in the region, I have never heard a Minnesotan who does this with vowels. Putting an R in the middle of ''wash'' is oddly common, though...

I know! Although, when pressed, most Minnesotans can do a pretty good false Minnesota accent...

Ditto! Wow that's odd... There IS no Minnesota accent.

Disagreed. There is most definitely a Minnesota accent. It's rather noticeable whenever visiting with this troper's family from Minnesota.

Doubly disagreed. This troper from Wisconsin spent a semester in Texas and then a semester abroad with Texans, Mississippians, and Minnesotans, and not only did the northerners get their accents picked at, the Minnesotans had an accent distinct from mine. It's the o's that are the strongest.

Triply disagreed. I'm an out-of-state student going to university in Minnesota where 85% of the student body is from in-state, and the accent drives me up the fucking WALL. Not only is it the o's, it's the ag combinations as well. Like flag. And bagel.

Well, no one thinks THEY have an accent, it's the other goons. In my experience, all Minnesotans speak NewscasterEnglish, though. *beams in perfection*

Minnesotans pronounce "coupon" as "kyew-pahn". Your argument is invalid.

I say "koo-pahn". Your counter-argument is flawed.

I'm not from Minnesota (or even the Midwest) and I say "kyew-pawn." Your counter-argument is...no more or less valid than before? But yeah, EVERYONE has an accent, and the stereotypical Minnesota one certainly isn't identical to newscaster English, so yeah, in both the technical and idiomatic sense, y'all have accents. A few gems from my Minnesota relatives; Paast-uh, taack-oh, sorey... need I go on? Also, just because not everyone has any given pronounciation doesn't mean the accent doesn't exist.

This troper is from the Midwest and has the blandest NewscasterEnglish ever. Except it's been pointed out to me that South Dakota shouldn't have the O so pronounced. Well, it's my homestate, I can say it how I want...

South Dakota is also this troper's home state, but I was also raised in N/S Carolina and Hillbilly Virginia by an Irish/Californian and a Hispanic/German/Canadian. I have very little accent in normal speech, but can fake several. Watching Top Gear has introduced British words like 'rubbish' and 'bits' into my vocabulary, though.

Personally, this troper is a born-and-bred Philadelphian and has noticed that only a handful of people there really have a noticable Philly accent, aside from perhaps a few idiosyncrasies. Not hearin' da Philly accen' objectilly, howevah, I rilly couldn' say...

Apparently, you are from the suburbs as this native Philadelphian knows we have a noticeable accent.

To the above claims, obviously if you were raised in a particular area you're going to have trouble hearing the native accent of that area. Combined with the exaggeration people use when they're imitating an accent, of course you can't hear noticeable accents in your home region. I assure you, there ''is'' a Minnesota accent.

This troper is from New York but does not speak with a standard New York accent. (In fact people pronouncing Long Island as "Lawn Guyland" is a BerserkButton of sorts). Most people mistake her for being from somewhere in the midwest because she has affected a "flat" accent for using on the phone.

To the above: do not talk to @/{{raekuul}} face to face if Lawn Guyland is a BerserkButton, since that's exactly how he says it. For the record, he has very rarely been more than twenty miles from Cincinnati, Ohio.

This troper is from Long Island, and he ''does'' speak in a "Lawn-Guy-Land" accent. What makes it different from a "Noo Yawk" accent is that it's not as rough. It's more at the halfway point between "Noo Yawk" and the Standard American accent (if there is one).

There is one. It's the one they use on any TV station that broadcasts nationwide. Nobody actually speaks it natively, and actors usually have to learn to use it instead of their normal regional accents.

This Troper is from Delaware, and his accent is conditional on where in the country he is. While in New York, he is told he has a southern accent. While in Virginia or below, he has a Philly accent. He will admit to saying "wooder", but "crik" pisses him off to no end.

This troper is from new York, and currently lives in Delaware, and so understands what is going on here. Moving here made me wonder why there weren't more Cracker Barrels and country music stations around. I don't really have a New York accent, but I just know that I sound much different from my Delawarean neighbors. (Crik for example. Most annoying thing I've ever heard, besides the mispronunciation of Reese's (even though the commercials here say it right, the people insist that they say it the Delawarean way.)

This troper is also from Delaware, but has lived most of his childhood in Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore, and his accent is something of a bastard child of both accents. I've always pronounced "straight" as "strite" (It's one piece of my LES/Tidewater accent that'll never go away, and I've come to embrace it) and "water" as "wooder", but I've NEVER heard anyone pronouce "creek" as "crick" (Who the hell says "crick" anyway?). During my time in Maryland, though, I occasionally heard some people pronounce "wash" as "warsh" (And, to a lesser degree, in Delaware), but I never heard anyone pronounce "yacht" as "yawart". I also have always pronounced "folks" as "fallks", with a backed A. Since moving back to Delaware, I've been called out on it more than a few times. Sometimes I've even been mistaken for Australian. Add some full-blown Canadian raising, an occasional Scottish lilt, and a Turkish accent that comes out when I'm angry or excited, and I'm even more of a vocal mutt.

Bear in mind that, because of migration, a lot of cities don't quite fit the accent tropes. I attend school in Georgia, for example, at a university with a lot of students from the Atlanta area. Very, very few people have discernible southern accents, partly because many of them have moved during their lifetimes and become exposed to different kinds of accents. (I've been told my accent is "weird," although people can't seem to tell where exactly it seems to be from. I think someone guessed Delaware once. In reality, I've lived in Virginia, Kansas City, and Atlanta, and I have fairly strong family influence from northern New York (not the city, the rural parts) from my mother's family.)

This Trooper's high school english teacher had an astoundingly pronounced stereotypical Boston accent. This was strange, because she had to have lived in Virginia for long enough to loose the accent. It was bad enough to be the most made-fun of thing when talking about said teacher, and classes could turn hilarious if you asked her to say 'father'.

This troper lives in Houston, and despite frequent use of "y'all" ("you" is almost ''always'' singular), I don't really notice any other exaggerated DeepSouth speech patterns. I have noticed them (''very'' vaguely) on trips to New York and such, but only in the form of a bit of a slower rhythm and slightly less... sharp... pronunciation.

This troper lives near Houston and has traveled all over Texas, and can tell you that accents in the big cities tend to be a lot less strong than elsewhere in the state. With that said, the "Texas" accent is different from the "Deep South" accent, at least to someone who's been around both. It kinda differs depending on what part of the state you're in. It's pretty much the same in the east, but from the Hill Country westward you really get that Texas accent rather than a Deep South accent. West Texas is not generally considered part of the Deep South, though.

This troper is also from Texas (think of a metropolitan area somewhat southerly and centrally located to the state that's ''not'' the state capital) and she uses "y'all" on occasion, but aside from the faintest of vaguely "Southern" accents that occasionally pops up when she's tired, she has pretty much a very midwestern, newscaster-like accent, and has been told as much from people from other regions of the United States. By the way, her parents were in the first generation of her family to be born here in the United States as her grandparents and their families came from Mexico and her grandparents spoke little English, while her parents talk(ed) in a "Chicano English"-type accent.

Texas troper here too. I've never said y'all except when purposely putting on an accent. I say "you guys." I have an accent like the troper above, very neutral, but my parents have lived in Texas since they were young kids. So, I don't know why I don't have an accent. I've been accused (very rudely, I might add) of being a "damn Yankee" despite the fact that I've hardly even been out of Texas, and have never been out of the Deep South.

The strength of this troper's drawl directly correlates to his proximity to his cousins and his distance from Houston.

This troper's father is from Pittsburgh, and she hasn't heard much of an accent from him. Now, his parents, on the other hand...

How yinz doin', n'at?

I'm just gonna dahn to the bar and watch the Stiller game, them I'm gonna check aht the new Primanti Brothers on the Sah' Side. But seriously, the Pittsburgh accent is a unique one. A few times that I've traveled out of state, I've had someone say "you're from Pittsburgh, aren't you?"

This troper lapses into a slightly Southern accent when she's feeling lazy. Despite being ''Canadian''.

This troper has an accent that has variously been attributed as Southern, Northeastern, Midwestern, Californian, and Canadian...which is pretty much what happens to 3rd generation military brats who have never lived anywhere long enough to sound local. She also majored in sociolinguistics in college and had to take her (Inland North) professor's and classmates' word that some people really COULD produce and detect a distinction between caught/cot and marry/merry/Mary.

Mexican troper with Middle West accent...At least, I could have future in the media XD

This Georgian troper grew up in the backwater of the state and attends college in Atlanta. She's been called out more than once for having a very thick Southern accent. Must just be the city, as another troper mentioned above.

Despite living in eastern Massachusetts for all his life, this troper hears very few people actually speaking with Boston accents.

This troper lives in Illinois, and has a typical accent for the area. Mostly. To the confusion of all her friends, she firmly believes that "root" rhymes with "foot", and certainly not with "boot"- this is different from every single person she knows that she's asked. Her family speaks like this as well, but she's not quite sure where this accent came from, since her parents and grandparents were all born in the area.

This North Carolinian troper does not have a North Carolinian accent. The North Carolinian accent, however, irritates her to no end. Strangely enough, years of Faire work and voice acting for fandubs has given her a bit of a Scotirish twang. Even though she can distinguish Scottish and Irish accents very well.

Fellow North Carolinian here. Mostly sound like my mother (Westchester County, NY, boarding-school educated). Then add a stage-English rhythm, a slight Celtic singsong that comes out more when I'm drinking or excited, and randomly scattered New Englandish flat vowels and dropped r's. No one ever guesses where I'm from.

Another North Carolinian. I have a newscaster's General American accent and pronounce a few words in a contracted British style ("factree" instead of "fact-or-y").

I'm from Southern California. People here do say "like" a lot, but most people only ever do the rising inflection thing under severe pressure and very few people actually have the stereotypical Valley accent, even in the Valley. The only person I know who does is, well, so far in the closet that he's in Narnia.

Agreed. I enjoyed that section of the Main article as much as anyone else, but the Valley girl accent is overdone and not realistic. However, it is true that Californians ''will'' put an upward inflection on the end of sentences that don't necessarily call for it more often than the rest of America. But it sure isn't at the end of every sentence and you have to really listen for it. Now that I have, I get such a kick out of it, it makes me smile when I nail someone somewhere else in the country for being Californian and they can't figure out why.

The upward inflection is used often and not limited to being under pressure. It's annoying. I moved here from Philly and I hear that inflection on a daily basis.

This troper has lived in Chicago for my entire life. Whenever I go downtown (I actually live in the suburbs), I get some people who think I'm from New York. It's true, I don't have a Chicago accent. I say "chi-cah-go" where most people in Chicago say "chi-caw-go". Even weirder is that my dad, among others I see a lot, say the W so strongly that you would think it's spelled that way, but I just don't have it, and these things make people honestly ask where I'm from, and they USUALLY say New York (which, by the way, I' never been to). I'm also starting to sound slightly British/Australian, mainly because I watch a lot of Monty Python and Zero Punctuation (I picked up fast talking too). I don't have a problem with this because accents are awesome and I always dreamed of moving to Australia anyway. Oh and I have started to use British spelling instead of American spelling. And I say the letter Z as "zed" (the right way) rather then "zee", so some people think I'm Canadian, which is weird because most of the people I know sound Canadian to me. This is because the parts of an American accent I still have are mostly a mild southern accent. I was watching the news about something that happened in Alabama, and they had less of an accent to me than my family. Even Brits and Aussies have less of an accent to me than my family. By the way, my Grandmother and aunt also have southern accents like this, but they live in the Cleveland area, so that makes it weirder and I should probably shut up.

This troper has been mistaken for Canadian as well- her mother being English probably doesn't help.

This troper has several friends from Texas, and none of them have even a slight Southern accent.

This troper has a rather generic American accent, so few have correctly guessed where she's from. What clues people in is her slang of choice, which includes "f'reals" and "hella". She's from the San Francisco Bay Area, specifically the East Bay.

This troper having lived in Alabama my whole life has an odd accent due to a speech impediment I had as a child, or more specifically the treatment I got for it. It's best put by one of my friends: "You'll switch between British and Southern in the same sentence." Needless to say, I confuse people.

Norbert}} This troper is what's known as Pennsylvania Dutch. Most of the older people in the region speak what's called "Dutchified English," with a vaguely German accent, and even the younger generations who don't have the accent still have the odd speech pattern. Essentially, Dutchified English is a literal translation, with the words in the exact same order that they would be in the original German -- but in English, they don't make quite the same sense. Hence Troper's Mother is fond of shouting, "Throw me down the stairs my keys!" We also say things like "The coffee's all," meaning all gone, and "Want to come with?"

This troper grew up in New York, but ended up with a hint of an accent that many mistake for "English" thanks to years of dating an English woman, and then dating and marrying an Australian women. This generic "English" accent becomes stronger if he gets angry, due to his tendency to enunciate more carefully as a means of keeping his rage on a leash. If he sounds like Christopher Lee and says, "I look forward to attending your funeral", tranquil fury has arrived.

This troper has lived most of his life in rural New Jersey (yes, there ''is'' such a thing), and what little formative years came before that were a few years in the shadow of NYC (first in southwestern Connecticut, and then commuting back and forth in between the home there and Grandma's house in Bergen County, NJ, because it was easier to live there during the week due to the location of my father's job), and then a one-year stay in southwestern Georgia. So what type of accent do I have? I don't really notice any, but people say I sound...British. What the heck? (My best guess is that somehow I ''did'' end up with the Connecticut Prep, although that doesn't really make sense. If anything, my time in Connecticut would make me ''more'' likely to end up Noo Yawk or Joisey, since we always had Italian landlords, in one case an actual family of Mafiosos. .) Really, though, I suspect I'm just a blend of so many influences--Noo Yawk (father's side of the family, via Brooklyn), Dixie (the time spent down there; still have family down there, and completely of the belief that the rest of the country should adopt "y'all" as the second person plural, because unlike other languages, the singular and plural are exactly the same in English), Pennsylvania Dutch (mother's side of the family), Philly (current location, closer to Philly than to Northern New Jersey), Jewish (heritage--and proud of it!)--and that the resulting blend has created something that is wholly impossible to tie to any one place. I suppose that I am probably one of the few people who can truly be said to have an "American" accent, in all of its melting-pot glory. Or, to put it in a more negative light, I'm a vocal mutt.

Crap, I forgot one! Yeah, there could be some Boston accent in there, too; although I rarely notice it nowadays, my mother tells me that my father had a full-blown Boston accent back when she first met him, as he went off to college up in Massachusetts and decided to stay awhile after he'd graduated. I'll occasionally affect a Boston accent just for effect when talking about baseball, as one remnant of those days that my father has ''definitely'' passed on to me is devotion to the Red Sox. So what is that now, six? Oy...what a confusing person I am.

This troper knows a young woman, though born and raised in Australia, who has a strange American accent sounding a little like a New Yorker-ish accent. Justified trope: She has Asperger syndrome and had copied dialogue from the TV show SesameStreet when she was a small child (this troper who also has Asperger syndrome, however, had copied dialogue from ThomasTheTankEngine when he was a small child, and had a BritishAccent for a very long time...)

This troper has almost no accent whatsoever, except for that I apparently emphasize the first vowel a little bit more. That's it. I live in the north part of Southern Illinois. The thickest southern accent I've ever heard {and I've been to Alabama quite a few times, as my brother goes there for college}, was someone pretty near to where I live. Her accent was thicker than even the most stereotypical southern accents, and has lived in Illinois all her life. She can do a normal accent, but it hurts her voice. She was raised by her Uncles, who lived in Tennessee most of their life, so that may be it.

This Troper seems to have no accent (aside from puberty-induced voice cracking), but he seems to be developing a slightly Japanese way of pronouncing things from his Japanese class. Actually kinda cool, since I sometimes try to pass myself off online as being Japanese. (Check my wiki handle for an example :D). Though always in text, because 1) this Troper has no microphone-type technology, or compatible systems (darn 7-year-old computer), 2) this Troper's parents would never allow something of that sort on the internets, and 3) if I freak out at being filmed on public TV or for Youtube (onscreen text + game character filming = [=WIN=]), there's no way I can do online voice chat.

This Troper has lived in northern Virginia most of his life, and he can't for the life of him even imagine how a person would say "yawart" (although he admits to being guilty of unprovoked cruelty to the "ir" in "Virginia," so maybe it's a suburban thing).

Northern VA is in a strange position. Most of the time our English is as standard as standard American English accents go. We don't care whether we say our "r's" at the end of each vowel (sometimes we do sometimes we don't). Half the time we hear "ya'll" and half we don't.

This troper grew up in Georgia, and soon after moving to Texas, was told he had a northern accent...

This troper has a flat midwestern accent, her sister has a thick texan accent, she is older than me by 12 years, and we moved to Colorado soon after I was born.

This troper has a fairly common accent normal to the southern part of the lower peninsula of Michigan but was amused at the reaction an online friend from the UK had when they talked on the phone together. Apparently this troper was the first person they've talked to that had a "REAL American accent." she was quite excited, to the point of squeeing, that she finally got to talk to someone with one.

This troper usually defaults to the Valley Girl accent when cornered. For example, in fourth grade, I was forced to do a presentation in front of the class, with no notes. Like, the Erie Canal was, like, important, 'cause, uh, they moved things from, like, Buffalo, which people called, like, the city of good neighbors, and, like they moved the things from Albany to Buffalo, like, like ... in that song? Omigod, and, like, the boats were pulled by, like, muuuuules?

This troper has cousins in Vawjinyaaaw, does not need CAWWW inshu-ance and has ri-in her final report in a coll-j class.

The north and south of this troper's state have such different accents that she has actually had to spell things when visiting the south, despite having lived in the state her entire life. It's a two-way thing, though. She couldn't understand them, either.

This troper was raised in a working-class family in one of Connecticut's poorer rust-belt cities. That area has a distinctive, kinda thuggish accent that's somewhere between Boston, Jersey, and NYC. (For example: his Canadian boyfriend will never let him live down the fact that he pronounces Toronto "Tuhrannah.") He's noticed that better-off Connecticut natives have a different accent, maybe weaker, more nasal, more refined, but he's never heard anything like the Connecticut accent described on this page. He's never been to the wealthier parts of the state, though.

This troper while from South Central Pennsylvania does not sound like I am from Pennsylvania. When I was younger he had a little bit of a Boston accent. When I got older, I ended up with a Mid Western accent. My uncle's girlfriend agreed with me and said that I do sound like I am from the Mid West. This is odd because I've never been to the Mid West.

Partly ShamelessSelfPromotion here, but it's easier to understand @/{{Raekuul}}'s accent by listening to one of his Lets Play videos.

In one of my college classes, I met a girl who was visiting the school from Maine, and spoke with an incredibly thick Down East accent (the letter "r" did not exist in her vocabulary). Combine that with her stereotypical "New England preppie" clothing, and I had to hold back snickering. As for myself, I've also been told by two people in high school that my accent sounds British (I'm from New Jersey). Probably a result of having Asperger's and watching a lot of PBS when I was little...

This troper lives in Arizona. As far as he can tell, there's not really much of an accent there; it's basically standard Midwestern English. Although he supposes that would probably depend somewhat on what ''part'' of the state you were in...

I'm still not sure what accent people would consider me to have. Probably some weird mishmash, with how much we moved around as a kid.

This troper was once accused of being an Iraqi butler, despite having never lived outside north-central Indiana. (Probably because I speak...''precisely.'') The person who said that also lived in north-central Indiana. I must not have ''any'' of the normal American accents. Go figure.

This Troper lived in the Baltimore area, and has to admit that he finds the movie {{Hairspray}} all the more funnier because he knows people who talk exactly like the characters in movie.

This Troper has a rather strong New Jersey accent.

This troper has a very strong Texan accent as a result of living there 99% of her life. She did not realize just ''how'' thick it actually was until headin' up to New York for a computer camp a year ago.

This troper is from Montana and has never heard anyone with the western accent that is portrayed in media.

This troper, who is from western Montana, agrees. I can count the number of Montana natives with cowboy accents that I've met on one finger. Montana is pretty close to General American accent-wise, and has more in common with the Pacific Northwest than anywhere else.

This troper, who is originally from Wyoming (yes its a state) and has difficulty explainin' to people there such thing as a western accent.

Even though she was born and raised in West Virginia, thanks to this troper's Illinois parents and family, she has a nonregional dialect that will sometimes lapse into midwestern. In fact, she's noticed that only the very rural southern part of WV has the stereotypical hillbilly/appalachian accent. The rest of the state ranges from nonregional, to midatlantic, Pittsburgh, and some Baltimore/Bostonian in the panhandles. The easiest way to pick out a non-native West Virginia however, is how they pronounce some local terms. For example, "Kanawha" is properly said with two syllables, "Ka-NAW", rather than "Ka-naw-WAH".

This troper has tried very, very hard to typify her own accent, as well as the regional accent where she lives. She can't really do either. She's supposed to live in the Inland North region, but knows ''no one'' who actually speaks with that accent. "Wicked" is a common slang term in the region (local lore says that it actually ''originated'' here, and spread to New England), and the accents between the main city and the outlying rural areas are markedly different--the rural accent is a mild version of the "Southern Midlands" (or "Appalachian") accent, while the city-dwellers seem to have an accent that's a combination of the "Hudson Valley" and "Northeast Pennsylvania" accents. She lives in ''Upstate New York''.

To be honest, this troper doesn't even think he has an accent. He really hasn't a clue to what his accent could be. He fits none of the AmericanAccents examples and is certainly not British/Aussie....

This troper was born and raised in the heart of the Southeatern region of the US, but she has been asked many times by fellow Southerners because apparently she doesn't "sound Southern at all." In fairness to them, however, this troper's parents worked hard to diminish their accents and passed that way of speaking on to her.

This troper lives in Texas and does not have the stereotypical hillbilly accent. I've only heard a few people that speak like that, but I do say "Fixin' to" sometimes. The funniest thing I've gotten out of this accent is that I went to Europe and we had an Irish guide. Near the end while speaking to us, she said "Ya'll" accidentally. To me, it also counts as a CrowningMomentofFunny. My grandmother is also Australian, and the most often demonstrated example of this is that she pronounces "Pardon" as "Pahdon".

Despite having grown up in coastal South Carolina, I've been accused of being from Ohio. In my home area there's not that much of a Southern Drawl (that seems to be more common further inland), but there is a characteristic pattern. Most people from this county don't speak very clearly, and they talk ''very'' fast. I think three things played into my lacking this pattern: 1) I had to see a speech therapist up to about third grade, 2) my parents didn't talk that way, and 3) exposure to TV and radio. I've been complimented on my elocution more than once.

This Troper (who has '''never''' noticed an accent specific to New Jersey) learned an interesting rule from her sixth-grade Language Arts teacher in response to the 'we' versus 'us' (As in, 'The winners are us' VS. the grammatically-correct 'the winners are we') argument. She used it all the time while we were learning that particular lesson; it basically said, 'Whatever you would use in regular speech, use the opposite.' Some kids used this rule for more problems than intended.

This Troper is from Washington State and currently lives in the sticks of Southern Maryland.I don't really have an accent but because I was born so close to the border of Canada,I slip into a Canadian accent a lot. What makes it extra fun, other the everyone thinking I'm Canadian, is that I'm really good at doing accents, so one day I'm stereotypical Canadian and the next I'm British. It's great!

Hi, fellow Washingtonian! Anyway, I was in China for a month last summer and my brother met a group of Canadians on the boat down to Hanzhou. He told me later that they had said, upon discovering he was American, "But you don't have much of an American accent!" Apparently, what they considered to be an "American accent" was, essentially, Dubya, but faster. I know Pacific Northwesterners don't have much of a regional accent from the Canadian perspective, but come on! ''Bush?!'' Oh, and I've never heard anyone use the two slang terms provided on the main page entry.

This troper is from the Pacific Northwest. After reading the main page entry for said accent, I would like to express disbelief at the insinuation that certain words are not ALWAYS pronounced the same.

This Washingtonian troper felt the same way. In the Seattle area, the accent's kind of Valley Girl meets Kurt Cobain a la 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', it's so slurred together. Most vowels sound the same, or can potentially sound the same. I myself have picked up a bit of a drawl from my Southern parents, though I still interspere conversations with the gratituous use of the word 'like', and can't figure out the difference between the words 'caught' and 'cot' without having to lapse into a British accent. Good thing I like faking accents.

This troper's accent is... odd to say the least. Having spent his childhood in Wisconsin and his teenage years in Kansas, his accent is a mix between southern Wisconsin and southern Midwest with southern Wisconsin speech patterns. And no, I don't say "Don't cha know."

Vermont's kinda fun, since it pronounces things like national newscasters, yet develops it accent from words and phrases like "Frosting," "Jeezum crow," "So cold the mercury rolled to the fire," "Cremees," "Ye-up, nope"/"Yeah, no," ah, heck, just check out this page Talkin'.

This Troper is from Baltimore, and has something of a bastard Northern-Southern mixed in. He does pronounce it Bawld-a-mar in good ol' Mar-lan.

From Mer-len myself, just a bit west of Bal-mer and north of Warsh'nten. One thing I've noticed in addition to the other oddities of our dialect is a very unique "Oh" sound. The closest approximation I can type would probably be "eaough". I've never heard it outside of Delmarva.

This Troper tends to have a unique accent made up of a mainly Northwestern, somewhat stoner-ish accent with north-Florida Dixie peeking through (makes sense, being from suburban Orlando, where it can get very Southern-y) set at a motormouth pace (ex. "heymancouldyehputoutthefarr? equals "Hey, man, could you put out the fire?")

This Troper is from Flagstaff, AZ, and has a rather thick Arizona accent (like a very light Texas one). However, from my mother (raised in Tucson and frequently mistaken for ''güera'' Mexican, though she's actually Czech and Irish)dad's Irish and French, I have a slight Mexican Spanish influence, mostly in how I say Ch and Sh sounds (I tend to only say one or the other). From my father (raised in Somerville, Massachusetts), I tend to be very precise with my vowels (marry, Mary, and merry don't sound the same from me). And going to school with Navajo and Hopi Indians (both of whose languages have lots of glottal stops—each is a real-world PunctuationShaker) has led to me biting the ends off my words, pronouncing final Ns as "nasal + glottal stop", and doing very odd things to vowels before Ls ("hill" sounds more like "hyil" when I say it). My vocabulary is oddly Midwestern, though, because my grandmother learned English in Chicago, and my mother passed the words on to me.

This Troper has a friend that has a bit of an American-sounding accent. We're Irish.

This troper currently lives in North Carolina but was born and raised in New York. I haven't lived there in over ten years, but whenever I get upset or say certain words the "Noo Yawk" accent comes out and my wife laughs at me. And to the troper way back up near the top, I do say "Lawn Guyland", but only as a joke.

This Texan despises it when a character has a 'Texan' accent. Yes, I'm sure that there is some Texan somewhere who sounds like a 'Texan' character, but this troper sure as hell hasn't met them. Admittedly, when I say 'y'all' in a passionate moment, it comes close, but I once had a babysitter tell me that I sounded Australian when I did that. Anyways, I can't tell when a non-'Texan' Texan is playing a character unless I look the actor up because they basically have the same accent as other Americans to this troper's ear. It seems like other people would realize, hey, these people are from Texas but sound nothing like all these people playing like they're from Texas.

This troper is Norwegian, and have never been outside Europe, so most people are surprised to hear that I speak English with a heavy Dixie accent. I try to tone it down, I really do, but the accent keeps slipping back when I'm not concentrating. (The explaination? My best friend growing up was from Tennessee, and I learned English pronunciation from her and her parents.)

This troper has lived in Northern Idaho since he was 1, and I didn't even think that I HAD an accent until a woman in New Mexico wondered what part of the country my accent came from.

I didn't think I had an accent until I spent half a decade around you guys. Apparently a Chicago accent is actually really noticable when you haven't heard it in a long time.

This troper has always lived in North Carolina. She used to not have an accent, but she definitely has the NC version of a southern accent now (the drawl and some speech patterns but not the creaky-door-sounding tone/voice common to TV southerners).

This troper is definitely NOT American. However, the accent she was the most tickled to hear was from a woman when troper and family went to Disney World. "Ow my gawd! You gyser SCATTISH? I'm Scattish too!" She's always thought it cute how Americans can consider themself something because a great-grandparent was it. On closer interrogation, the woman had a Scottish grandmother. (She has no idea where the woman was actually brought up.)

This troper's best friend once knew a guy who spoke with a hybrid of ''Southern and German''. She kids you not.

This Troper, ''thinks'' he speaks with a neutral accent but a Californian and a ''Kazakh'' have pointed out that he has rather obvious New Jersey accent.

This troper, on a teen tour with kids from all over the US (and two from Canada), once got into a day-long argument about how to properly pronounce the word "crayon". Apparently people from Michigan say "krayin" (one syllable).

Confirmed. As a Detroit (Metro) native, I can confirm that we pronounce Crayon the same as Cran in cranberry.

This Minnesotan troper also pronounces crayon like "cran", as do most people he knows.

This troper is from ''northern'' Virginia/DC area and doesn't seem to have an accent or a peculiar way of talking. I've looked around and the way I speak never really seems to match up to anything. I've asked my friends who are not from the area what they think, and they agree that it is accentless and radio announcer-like, but I find that hard to believe. It makes me sad. :(

This Alabama troper only has a Dixie accent when really upset. The other 95% of the time I sound like I have the "Midwestern" accent. This is mostly due to the fact that my grandmother was an English teacher that refused to let me talk like the other kids my age (Urban). Cue all my classmates saying I "sound White" through middle and high school. Fun for me. -_-

This Midwestern Troper thought that she had an accent. Nope. Newscaster-freakin-English. Turns out that I'm just a bit nasal.

This Troper speaks in a Baltimore flavored Newscaster English style. I'm actually from Baltimore originally, and then moved to a small town about two hours from Philly, but I have very little in the way of an accent. I blame it on my parent's and my own high emphasis on proper grammar and speaking. My dad's parents, however, have Baltimore accents so thick you can cut them with a knife. In addition, a large part of my mother's family is from the Smoky Mountains area of Tennessee and North Carolina, so I've become rather adept at affecting Dixie and Tidewater accents.

This troper grew up in Central Virginia (from six months of age on), but was always asked if she was from somewhere out-of-state. If it really counts I was born in Louisiana and am actually here right now, going to school. People here in Louisiana also have trouble placing my accent. For the most part, I speak very clearly and somewhat slowly, just so people can understand me. I didn't start talking until I was five and never really thought I had an accent, I've but come to discover that I speak in a combination '''Urban/Dixie''' accent (I'm African-American, by the way), leading my best friend to dub my accent ''Countryghetto''. And since I've been hanging out in N'AWLINS, there's been quite a bit of '''Yat''' sneaking its way in there, which should make things really interesting when I return home this May...

I grew up in an area where Mid-western and Inland North met. Then, when I was 13, we moved to the Pacific Northwest (Idaho, to be specific) and I had a hard time understanding what they were saying once in a while (example: the guy who used to live at the end of the road had caulk [cock] fights at his house until the cops busted him). Even now, nearly 7 years later I still get pissed off about how they say stuff. Heighth =/= height, Warshington =/= Washington (you'd thing this'd be an easy one to get right since it's a 20 minute drive from where I am now), Crick =/= Creek, and "Drive Truck" (what a truck driver does) is not a proper sentence (these are just the ones that annoy me the most). And for anyone who says there isn't an accent where you live, move to a place that does have a distinct accent for a few years. As soon as you no longer notice the accent in the new place go back to where you are now and notice the huge difference.

This troper has a very Midwestern accent, but occasionally lapses into a more southern one thanks to exposure to it when she was still learning to talk.

This troper doesn't have but a slight Floridian accent, but her speech impediment (She cannot make a "th" sound successfully) makes it sound like English is her second language and along with her quite rapid speech pattern and spoken grammatical errors makes it seems like she spoke Spanish before English (Where it is vice-versa). To imagine the way that she speaks, read the previous sentence out loud quickly while taking out all instances of "th" and replacing it with "d", and saying it with an extremely slight pusedo-Southern accent. Needless to say, not many people can understand her fully.. Oh, for the record, it's Floor-reh-duh. Three syllables. Not fla-rda.

This troper isn't quite sure what region her accent is associated with; "picture" is pronounced like "pitcher", "isn't" sounds like "int", "probably" becomes "pro'lly", G's at the end of words and T's in the middle of words are dropped, and entire syllables are sometimes skipped. However, I throw in "dude" occasionally like the born and bred Californian that I am, and often speak uber-quickly, especially when emotional. (This combination of slurring words and fast talk means that I have to have to repeat myself a lot, unfortunately, but it's a habit that I can't seem to break.)

This troper was born and raised in Northeast New Jersey (a couple stops on the train south of Newark, pronoucned Nork, people). People can tell. From a mile away. It was until I went to art school and started to travel more that I realized I am that obnoxious-sounding. People from Texas and the Midwest were like, "What are you SAYING?" "Cawfee", "Wader", "Dawwwg", "Hrrr-rrr", "you guys", and the f-bomb every other word. A lot of r's and awww sounds and words slurred together. Spoken in MotorMouth. Oh, and my hands flail when I talk, too. I am every bad stereotype of the Jersey accent.

This troper is practically your neighbour, and has lived there his whole life. This troper would also like to point out that thanks to people like you, nobody outside of New Jersey thinks he's from New Jersey. In fact, he's been told he sounds like he's from various places...from people ''from'' those various places, the most recent being Boston.

This troper is also from Northeastern New Jersey, very close to the shore. As for her accent, it's a very noticeable "Joisey" accent. "T" sounds tend to get warped until they sound like "d"s or dropped altogether, which results in words like "Atlanta" being pronounced like "At-lanna" and "this and that" occasionally being pronounced like "dis and dat", much to the amusement of her Southern neighbors. Similarly, "o" is sometimes pronounced "aw". Motormouth tendencies and profanity abound. Strangely, no one in Tennessee or Georgia can tell this troper is from the Garden State, perhaps due to the fact she never pronounces Jersey like "Joisey". Newark is pronounced "Nork", though.

This troper has a friend from Ann Arbor, Michigan, who has the same accent as Iggy Pop. When I told her this, she said everyone in Ann Arbor sounds like Iggy Pop. Can someone confirm this?

This troper has lived in the Tidewater region of Virginia all her life, as has her dad, and her mom has lived her since she was 12 so she's practically a native as well. I have almost no accent (aside from pronouncing Norfolk Naw-fuk) except for when I lapse into a random British accent thanks to overexposure to Series/{{Doctor Who}}. Nobody believes me when I say I've lived here all my life because I have no Southern/Tidewater/Virginia/distinct regional accent. I probably get this tendency from my dad, who taught himself to have a standard broadcasting non-accent because he noticed southern accents = stereotyped into illiterate hicks.

This troper has no discernable accent in most cases...until he starts talking to a Texan or a fellow Deep Southerners.

This troper's accent is bastardized from virtue of where he lives. My hometown sits right on the Texas/Arkansas border, is less than 30 miles/50 km from the Louisiana border, and isn't that far from the Oklahoma border either, and I was raised by an Irish/English family. Other than a tendency to use "y'all" a lot (it's easier to say and sounds more natural than "all of you"), I can't really hear my own accent, but anyone from the North who talks to me on the phone ''immediately'' pegs me as Texan... unless I'm drunk, in which case I sound like I'm from Louisiana. This troper's BerserkButton is when people pronounce nuclear (nu-clee-ar)as "nucular" (nu-cu-lar). ''Nucula'' is a genus of clams, which means "Nucula fission" refers to the action of shucking said clams. This in turn means that anyone who knows how to ''properly'' shuck a clam can rightfully claim to be a "Nucula engineer", and a "Nucula war" is just a food fight with clams as the weapon of choice.

This troper was born in Utah, and the best she can figure out, a Utahn accent is basically your standard western accent coupled with laziness. We never pronounce anything all the way. If there is a 'g' on the end of a word, it gets dropped, and single 't's either turn into 'd's or disappear. So, the sentence, "Whatever, I'm going to the mountain." turns into "Whadever, I'm goin' t th mou'in."

This tropette has a Chicaaaaago accent.

This Troper has a New York accent. I didn't think it was particularly strong, until I went on vacation and everyone knew I was from NYC within 2 sentences.

This troper, despite being born and raised in Texas and with 90% of my family members having southern accents thick as molasses, has no real accent to speak of. "Y'all" is in my regular dictionary, but that's about it. In fact, I kid you not: I've been asked more than once if I'm British. ...the hell?

This Canadian Troper was in a military family, but most of his early years were spent in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. People either claim he has a 'Marintine' accent (Probably true) or an 'Americian' one. Not any particular Americian accent just Americian.

This troper is from Central-Northern New Jersey and I have one of the milder accents the page mentioned. Over here I really noticed that there is a significant minority of people that have the Philly accent. Hearing people with Philly-accents say "wooder" is kind of my Berserk Button, but I won't throw you out of a window. However, if somebody says "Joisey", they risk being choked in the next minute.

This tropette is from Upstate New York and somehow believes that she has a unique blend of an Inland North accent due to the majority of her paternal relatives originating from an area nearly forty miles east of Binghamton in the Southern Tier region, which is probably the easternmost area for people with that accent, and a "Noo Yawk" accent due to some of her maternal relatives originating from the New York Metropolitan area, the exurbs, and Long Island.

This Brooklyn-born troper generally has a fairly neutral accent, aside from slurring some of his vowel sounds and sometimes over-emphasizing the first consonant sound of a word . When he gets emotional however, he slips very noticeably into his native accent. He also currently lives in Pittsburgh and is very familiar with the accent, and can do a very convincing imitation of it. His mother's family comes from Mississippi so he has a good grasp of their borderline trashy southern accent. Last but not least, he can do a Charleston accent accurate enough to fool people who are actually from Charleston due to his two years in middle school there.

My brother has an American accent, which is weird because we are British

This troper lives in California and speaks with an accent that isn't Valley, Surfer, [=NoCal=], or Latino (and is slightly miffed that it hasn't shown up on the main page).

This Troper, who has lived her whole life in or around Boston, will admit to having a very slight accent that gets moderately thick when she is angry. No one really comments on it here, but as soon as she goes out of state she gets people asking her to say "park your car in Harvard Yard", much to her dismay.

This troper probably has a NYC accent, but he hasn't noticed. He's learning (how to speak) Spanish, so he expects to get a New York - Puerto Rican one.

This troper is from the South, but her accent tends to vacillate between New York and Newscaster.

The accent variations around major midwestern cities is sort of a hobby of mine. I've lived in Milwaukee for most of my life (born in Virginia to military family) and my favorite accent is a mixture of neutral Midwestern and Upper Midwestern English found in and around the city of Cudahy, in the southern part of Milwaukee County, WI. There's even a musical comedy troupe that pokes fun at it. The accent itself is a result of a heavy Irish and Serbian immigrant population mixing with the heavily (HEAVILY) German settlers of Milwaukee. Some fun songs from the comedy troupe's Christmas album are "Oh Little Town of Cudahy," "Oh, criminy, it's snowin' like a banshee!" "Ya, ain'a, hey? Ya, ain'a hey?" and the story of "Da Tree Beers" (a.k.a. The Three Bears). For the perfect example of this one, reference the mom on Bobby's World. She could easily have come from Cudahy.

This Caucasian troper befriended a Chinese exchange student, who asked about the origin of my accent. I responded, "I don't know, we all sound alike to me." Bonus points, as she later revealed she frequently asked me about assignments because she could understand my accent, but said that the teacher's accent was very thick. The teacher and I were both from the same part of Michigan.

This troper, whose native language is not English, has the habit of turning the "-ing" at the end of verbs and adjectives to "-in'", for some reason. Example: #QUOTE# '''ThisTroper:''' I've been readin' this fascinatin' book.

That's something most Americans do anyway...

Yeah, I'm just verbally lazy. Verblazy.

This troper is from inner-city Baltimore and has, oddly enough, been mistaken for being from some part of Africa (Or the South.) due to this odd thing that happens to her voice when she is forced to slow down (She speaks fast, apparently.) and speak clearly for the benefit of other people. Of course, this troper has also been learning German for four years and whatever neutral accent she used to be able to use has been shot to hell by her mistakenly using German pronunciation. Strangely, this does not affect her Baltimorean accent. ALSO: She will swear that these three words are key indicators of whether someone actually lived in Baltimore City: Hotdug. Oinge. Rid. (And if you don't come from Baltimore at all and understood those words then give youself a clap on the back. . . Or somethin'.) She would also love to point out that 'hun' is not an all-over Baltimore thing and you don't hear it much unless you go to Hampden (Pronounced without the 'p'.).

This Troper has lived in Chicago her whole life but for the most part speaks Newscaster English with a slight Chicago accent. She is jealous of those who do have the accent. Aksent? Whuht Aksent? English'as meant tubbe spoken wid da Chicawgo Aksent.

This troper from North Carolina has a hard time pronouncing her t's in certain situations, so she usually ends up saying 'the' as 'da', 'butter and water' as 'budder and wadder', and 'don't' as 'don'. Pretty weird. Is there any other North Carolinians who do this? This troper thinks that she's just horrible at speaking.

Guilty as charged, and I'm from South Carolina. I suspect that's a habit that comes with age and/or laziness. The 'd' and 't' sounds are formed the same way, except that one has the voice activated and the other doesn't. I often hear ''the'' reduced to ''th''' (voiced th sound, completely dropping the vowel.) I frequently treat an ending t as a stop rather than an enunciated letter, though singing with a choir has mitigated that somewhat.

This troper definitely has an Upper Midwest accent. She has never heard anyone pronounce "coupon" and "root" like "koopon" and "rewt".

This Troper used to live near Chicago, and had a fairly normal accent for the area. However, she moved down to southern Indiana when she was nine, and over the six years she's lived there has slowly developed a southern accent. It's not as bad as many in the area, but it's enough for people to notice when I visit back up north.

This troper was born in Ohio and raised in Virgina on Doctor Who by Northern parents. Her accent is very, very, very strange when tired/angry/excited/upset. It seriously befuddles her Michiganian colleagues.

This troper is from the Ozarks in Missouri, yet has a "newscaster accent" excluding the fact that he pronounces "sorry" and other words with the "orr" like "orr" rather than "arr". He also frequently slips into a stereotypical Canadian accent, a posh English accent, an Australian accent, and a German accent; this troper confuses people.

Another from the Missouri Ozarks, and I ''do'' sound like a hick. (Well, technically hillbilly, there's actually a distinction. Believe it or not.) I have a friend from ''Texas'' who thinks it's bad, and, well, Texas. (Granted, Frisco, Texas, which is a pretty damn nice place.) I pronounce for as fer, your as yer, I'm as ah'm, and get as git, as well as dropping g's and drawling near everything. It makes it hard to get taken seriously by anyone not from here, more commonly known as "those damn Yanks."

This Oregonian troper isn't sure how else you would pronounce "exit" than "eggs-it".

This troper's aunt, originally from Long Island, New York, has lived in Northern California for a long time. Yet she still has a very pronounced Long Island accent.

This Troper would like to thank whoever decided to put NorCal in the California accents. It's awesome to know this troper actually has vocal tics worthy of being defined as an accent.

This troper is from North Carolina but is constantly asked by other Carolinian's if he's from "Up North" but when he's speaking to strangers over the phone who are from up north, they hear the southern accent and always guess correctly where he's from. What's weird is that living in the city, you don't hear the traditional southern accent from most people.

This Australian Troper has an American Accent because I watched about 5 hours of TV a day five days a week when I was 4 till 11 that were American cartoons, cue "are you american?" for the rest of my school life.

This troper is from the DC area which has a lot of people with foreign accents and thus we (the people we live with whose families came from anywhere ''but'' the south) don't have the white-southern-style accent typical in southern Virginia (Yes we do say "ya'll" frequently, but that's a different story), and we also speak slowly. But I found my mother's (who I haven't met in almost 3/4 a decade) accent as unusual because I wasn't too used to the southern-style American accent ("nu-cu-lar" comes to mind) and MotorMouth.

This troper's accent is.... weird. For one, he was born and raised in Oklahoma, and while there, people would often note how I seem to ''lack'' an accent, yet when I moved out, or when conversing with Non-Oklahomans, It's been brought up that I ''have one''. As far as I've heard, I'm a mix a light-to-medium strength Texas drawl, Midwestern, and Pacific Northwest (due to the latter being where I live) :I may have also possibly adopted some of the Baltimorean/Mid-Atlantic accent due to living there briefly, but have yet to really be called out on it. The Oklahoman part of my accent is the most notable, and apparently I sound like a huge freaking redneck if I say "Mall". Bizarrely, this troper occasionally lapes into ''a Canadian :Toronto/Ontario/Generic Canadian accent'', occasionally pronouncing "Against" as "Uh-Gain-st" and "About" as... well, however they pronounce it there; I can't seem to adequately describe it. :and yes, I'm ''NOT'' talking about the "aboot" pronounciation. I have no idea why so many people think that's how many Canadians say about. I'm talking about the distorted "ou" sound I've even said "Sore-e" a few times! Another addition to this is that I know a ridiculous amount of Canadian slang. I blame my near-constant consumption of Canadian TV since childhood for this.

I live in West Virginia and no one I know from WV has the stereotypical west virginian accent. Oddly enough, I know dozens of people from Virginia that have it. In fact, I've found that the most common West Virginian accent is much more mild than most people from other areas think. The only exception to this that I've found is the Southern West Virginian accent, because of the wild "r" sounds in some words, like wash which is pronounced as "warsh."

This troper's cousin is an American who was raised in England until he was 11. Because of that he still had an English accent (not sure of specific type) when he and his family, who all have midwestern accents, moved back to america. In a desperate attempt to sound more American he started pronouncing his r's as "ur" instead of "uh," which made him sound more like a pirate than an American. He has since accepted his accent, and started using it to pick up women.

This troper, who is from New York, lived in Texas for two years and was told she had a New York accent. She'd never noticed before.

This troper, for the most part, has a neutral accent, despite being born in New York. When I moved to Georgia and came back, I'd developed a slight Southern accent that I soon lost.