This little troper finds that when one has to talk a lot back when this troper was a charity collector, that this troper's voice lasted far longer using a slight Scottish accent when delivering the charity spiel.

This troper always lapses into a bad Scottish accent whenever saying the name Sean Connery.

That's not just you, that's everyone. I have yet to meet someone who says the name "Sean Connery" or the line "Bond. James Bond." in anything but a scottish accent, except for Daniel Craig on the latter.

Same deal with Antonio Banderas. Just try to say it without rolling that R.

@/LooneyToons: My wife is an unconscious and eerily-accurate mimic who "absorbs" accents from the people around her. (And from TV shows as well.) When we visit the South, she is frequently mistaken for a local by other locals, and then there was the time she horribly confused the Turkish jeweler who made our wedding rings...

Finally, someone else who does it...This troper spent maybe three days visiting family in Tennessee (I live in Florida...) and by the time we had to leave, I sounded like I had lived there all my life, or at least a good portion of it. Also, sometimes I lapse into, of all things, a British accent.

This troper does it too, and has offended many a person by unconsciously mimicking their accent and word choice. It's called a 'musical ear,' by the by.

This troper also. I generally use it to my advantage and blend in when I want to blend in. It's also great for acting.

This troper can not hear an accent of any kind without thinking and occasionally mimicking said accent for quite some time. It does not help that many of this troper's favorite actors, movies, and tv shows are foreign in origin. This troper's sister is the same way for English/New Zealand/Australian, and I guess by default, South African accents. It's a good thing we don't have BBC America anymore. We both also lapse in and out at odd moments unprovoked.

This troper has this, and had a friend who had it too- once we were at a bus stop, talking to eachother, and randomly picking up bits of stray accent from eachother and people walking by. After about 20 minutes, someone stopped and asked "where the hell are you guys ''from''?"

This (Northern British) troper managed to greatly aggravate her parents by doing that when they visited America. And when she comes home from her boarding school, which is in the South.

This troper went to Poland for a church conference, and within two days had an accent so strong she was ''physically incapable'' of speaking with an American one again. What accent you ask? '''COCKNEY.''' (She was in a group of heavily-accented Brits at the time.)

The only way to cure this was to use a word that DOESN'T EXIST in the British English lexicon. Such as "twinkie".

This (American) troper is so glad that she isn't the only one that does this. She moved a lot during childhood to places with all different dialects, so now she has more of a Midwestern accent that mixes with Southern and a bit of Wisconsinite. To make things worse, she unconsciously imitates the speech patterns of the people that are near her. Occasionally, confusion ensues.

Yes, this troper ''isn't'' the only one that does this! This troper, despite not having traveled much, has the musical ear mentioned above. She can mimick a variety of British accents, Russian, Eastern European (justified in that the older generations in her family are from Croatia), Scottish, Australian, Yiddish (she speaks some, actually, and uses "Oi!" and its modifiers quite a bit), New Yorker, and a Southern accent. She has, on several occasions, been mistaken for ''being'' British, and has been approached and asked where she's from. Hilarity and confusion ensues. She also has the very strong urge to begin mimicking the accents of those around her... And she gets "stuck" in accents, where she physically can't stop talking in them. This happens most often with any number of my British accents, much to the annoyance of classmates and amusement of friends. The funny thing is, they impressed the actual Englanders this troper knows. Oddly, despite speaking German with near-fluency, trying to speak with a German accent in English has proved ridiculously impossible.

This troper ended up mimicking Mei Ling's accent after playing {{Metal Gear Solid}} for a little too long.

On another note, same troper as above (who has been mistaken for British) apparently slips into this accent when vexed.

This other troper picked up a Russian-ish accent from the same game for a couple of days. (From a different character, of course.)

This troper had to read and reread ''The Yearling'' for a report; eventually he sounded like he was from the DeepSouth

Who doesn't just for fun? I do. I want to have a little fun since I have a lame Midwestern NewscasterEnglish accent.

This troper, despite having lived in New York for his entire life, occasionally may fall into a southern drawl when talking while tired or lazy.

Yew mean whal taird 'r' laizee. Yassuh, Ah does it tew.

So do ah.

naht may. wait...

After having stayed up for 36 hours straight and watching {{Bottom}} literally all night, this troper found that she'd adopted one character's speech and inflections.

Too much Rik and Ade can be a dangerous thing. This troper still says "I beg your paaaardon?" and "Only joking, it's good for ''morale''" like Eddie.

If you're going to do this, ''practice''. Anyone who wants to do an Irish accent without collapsing into Scottish had better do their homework.

Truth In Troperisms. This troper is born from Scottish parents (i.e. Glasgow, minus the violent part), but raised in Australia, and so for some unknown reason speaks quite "posh" ("Cultivated Australian English", I believe its called). Due to being subjected to the accent for 100% of his life, he can understand even the most confounding Scottish accent fine, and can replicate it...for about a ''minute'', maximum. After that, if I use it in the presence of true Scots, it slips into Scotirish, and then I'd get punched.

This Troper has the exact inverse problem: she is Scottish but finds Australian accents peculiarly catching. Once she was waitressing at a banquet where all the other waiting staff actually ''were'' Australian, and by mid-evening the guests were asking how long she'd been over here. She also tends to pick up a Glasgow accent when talking to someone from Glasgow. It's the sing-song rhythm.

That is genuinely bizarre, and fascinating! My parents have been here (Australia) for ''30+ years'', and still get asked "How do you like Australia so far?", much to their bewilderment.

This Troper is routinely asked if they're Canadian or American, due to some days waking up with a North American accent for no good bloody reason. Oddly, this never seems to happen on days when I wear a cowboy hat.

This troper, as well. She blames too much American TV.

I once met a girl in drama class who would speak in a generic British Isles accent whenever she was angry or making fun of somebody. And she was both NewMeat and TheLibby, whose goal was to grab all the attention by bullying all the senior members so they'd quit. I managed to last the year by thinking of how ridiculous her fake accent was.

That one troper managed to pick up his Lehrerin's Heidelberg accent after about three weeks of class. Same troper who brought you the setup for "im internets?".

This troper knows of two people who acquire accents when they're drunk: an Aussie who ends up sounding vaguely American, and a English guy who ends up sounding vaguely French (much to his annoyance).

This American troper does this himself, except depending on what he's drinking the accent is either British Received Pronunciation, or Irish.

This American troper is very similar. When he studied abroad in Belgium, he once bet a (very proper, mind you) British friend that he could imitate his accent perfectly while inebriated and playing a 2-hour chess match. The friend swore it sounded just like back home in England. He has also done the exact same thing with an Irish (Galway) friend and gotten the exact same reaction.

This Aussie troper also speaks with a British accent while drunk. Several British accents, and an American, and a Scottish, and an Irish, and a Russian accent. And French once, I'm told.

This Troper occasionally slips into some sort of Scotirish accent when drunk. He can do it while sober, but drinking makes it easier for some reason. The rest of the time he just slips in and out of assorted bad British accents. Oddly, he cannot speak in a Southern or stereotypical Asian accent despite living with those for twenty years.

This troper, who has family in Manchester, England, is not allowed to speak to them after watching ''Life on Mars'', as she has a tendency to lapse into an imitation of Gene Hunt, profanity and all. Her relatives find this annoying, except for her 10-year-old cousin, who wants to know what the word "nonce" means.

This troper lived on the border next to Canada for years as a child, and occasionally slips back into a Canadian accent without realizing it. She was often confused for a foreigner especially after moving down South...

After playing {{Fable}} for a week and a half without stopping, this troper developed an Albion accent.

Uh, that would be ''British'', right? Or a specific British accent? I haven't played ''Fable'' in a while.

I can't remember if this is mine or not, but this happened to me, too. For clarification, the accent was basically how the three people voicing the game sound/ed.

This German Troper had most of his English practice from video games. As a result, I literally have a few fictional accents mixed in with my German one and people sometimes wonder what the hell im talking. My English teacher identified it as vaguely Australian...

This Troper is Canadian, but after living in the US for quite some time she's picked up a few quirks, though she still says "sorry" the same way. She also has an aunt from Australia whose accent she tends to imitate when talking to her over the phone, a very bad fake-Cruzan patois accent, a rather good stereotypical British accent (i.e., not Cockney), and apparently her French sounds like Southern France french. Strange.

This troper has a tendency to slip into a bad Russian accent at random times.

@/{{Hremsfeld}}, too, though he's usually able to control it (except while singing; as an American, he occasionally receives funny looks during playings of the Star Spangled Banner). He occasionally plays along with it; at one point, despite having repeatedly said he's not Russian, he'd managed to firmly convince a group of around 20 that he was born and raised in St. Petersburg. Including a native Russian speaker.

This troper had just finished a long day at work and was very tired. Someone with an accent asked him a question, he responded and realized that he had, wholly accidentally, imitated his speech pattern. His interlocutor believed that he was drunk and this troper was mortified. He is, definitely not racist and does not care about race or speech: the incident was a result of fatigue.

This troper had a classmate who spoke without an accent. She gave a speech and in a thick Rwandan accent. This classmate later explained that she had trained herself to disguise her accent but when she was very nervous, her accent reappeared. Racists should be ashamed of themselves for forcing immigrants to disguise their accents.

It's possibly more a result of trying to "fit in" than racists forcing her to speak differently; many immigrants disguise their accents anyway (unless they are incredibly fixed on keeping their original accent).

This troper generally can imitate any accent, and has on a bet spoken in a British accent for three days straight. However, when speaking normally, she is often accused of having, by random strangers and usually at work, an unidentifiable but thick and hard-to-understand accent. Go figure.

This troper normally has an obvious but not thick New Jersey accent. However he can lapse into a very light Southern drawl.

This troper has a rather mixed up accent to start with. However, he will randomly, especially when overwrought or drunk, slip randomly into Estuary English, generic Celtic (pretty much some ungodly Hiberno-Cymric hybrid, despite his Scottish ancestry), or Noo Yawk. When he's ''tired'', on the other hand, some American South creeps in.

This editor, when talking to someone with a definite accent, frequently finds herself involuntarily duplicating that accent.

This troper has a friend who can lapse into speaking semi-fluent Korean, but only when drunk, otherwise he can barely put together a sentence in the language. A few times he's used this to pick up Korean girls, only to be completely screwed the next time he meets them.

Being BookDumb and having a reputation for picking up language easily, This troper can explain this easily. Some people (me being one of them) become really quite nervous when speaking a foreign language for fear of tripping up and saying something wrong (not just ShlubbAndKlumpEnglish, but grammatical errors too) and therefore appear to be much less skilled in the language. Inebriation loosens inhibitions, so you're more likely to not worry about making a mistake and just get on with constructing as good a sentence you can. (The fact I consciously recognise this as being the case doesn't stop me being completely faltering with my Japanese. On the flipside, I worry I'm going to turn into Kamina when I get drunk and try to speak Japanese, given my love of anime.)

This troper, despite frequently consciously using a variety of accents, will unconsciously develop a MUCH thicker Southern drawl when around....people with Brooklyn or Minnesotan accents. Weirdest effect ever. Unconscious spite?

This troper sometimes goes into a vague English-ish accent when reading aloud. Also, for some reason, he has had to keep himself from speaking with a Russian accent now that he just finished reading Crime and Punishment.

Late at night, when this troper goes... somewhat crazy... from lack of sleep, he either speaks in a vaguely southern US accent (much drawling) or a vaguely English accent (no drawl).

This Troper already talked way too fast, but after watching too much Zero Punctuation, he manages to slip into a vaguely British accent while doing so. The fact that This Troper is both Southern American and African-American doesn't help the odd looks I get.

This troper, a native Detroiter, has an exceptionally neutral Midwest American accent with mild hints of Ontario, thanks to several years of CBC Radio Two and a Torontonian significant other. As a result, on a trip to Montreal, I found myself utterly shunned by the locals despite my best manners and fluent French, while my colleagues, who all acted like obnoxious tourists, got on famously. The reason, as I learned when I came home: I had been mistaken for an anglophone Canadian, whom the Quebecois generally detest.

This troper's friend's brother speaks in ''nothing but BriefAccentImitation''. He has a multitude of different ones that he switches between every few minutes. Even his family aren't sure what his normal, unaccented voice sounds like.

tha' moight be moi.

Dr Who and Torchwood mess up this troper's accent. Weirdly, this only applies in his head - he thinks with a bad imitation of David Tennant's accent or a bad imitation of a Cardiff accent, but it's yet to slip into his speech.

Same here. I could tell I'd watched too much ''Doctor Who'' one weekend when I realized I was thinking with an accent.

This troper developed a strong English accent as a child (she was born and raised in Australia) which, at eighteen years old, has not yet faded. She has been told by a Sussex man that her accent is perfect Sussex - this despite never having been to Sussex, or, for the matter, to England.

This troper has adopted a very annoying girly American accent (that she tries in vain to control) due to watching too much American animation.

This troper has started slipping into a heavy Wisconsin accent sometimes. He'd also like to point out that, as a native Texan, only about 45% of us actually speak with a southern accent. Just, y'know, so you know. (In fact, while he doesn't have one, his mother does despite the fact that she grew up ''in Idaho'')

Feh. The term "southern accent" is a complete misnomer; it's all over the place up here. Perhaps it would be better referred to as a "cowboy hat accent", because those are the types who are most likely to have it.

This Troper, a native New Yorker, has the most perplexing accent in the world, mostly due to the fact his family is Jewish, Chilean, Catalan, Quebecois and Greek, and all of them speak with their respective accents around him. He can single out one individual ethnic accent for a short time, but he cannot do a convincing NEW YORK accent, despite living there all his life.

This troper, when refuting an argument or pointing out something obvious, or when annoyed or in any number of situations, or at random, will speak suddenly in an apparently quite convincing British accent. Note: I have neither been to Britain nor have spoken to a British person, but I do watch ''Series/DoctorWho''.

After this troper started watching ''Series/DoctorWho'', her British accent imitations have much improved. Before I started watching it, I tried a Cockney accent and an Australian and a New Zealander said I sounded just like an Aussie. In the middle of the summer in '08, I was quoting Time Crash with my little sister and when I said one of the Tenth Doctor's lines, I sounded just like DavidTennant (in his affected Estuary English accent). However, I cannot imitate a Northern English accent (like from Manchester, Yorkshire, or Salford) to save my life. I demonstrate this every time I try to quote Christopher Eccleston.

Having watched a fair bit of Series/DoctorWho, ZeroPunctuation, and Sarah Jane Smith, tends to pick up British accents and word usage. Much to the confusion of my fellow Americans.

It took five years for this troper to stop saying "y'uns" and "annat" after moving away from Pittsburgh, annat. Now she lives in CanadaEh, and has picked up the local accent, eh?

This Troper was actually born in Pittsburgh. When he moved to Buffalo at a very young age, people constantly asked him about his accent, even though he never, consciously or otherwise, used "y'uns" annat. Of course, now that he once again lives in the Steel City he's found himself incessantly using those words-- even though nobody else around him actually does (except the one guy from Cleveland who's just doing it to be sarcastic).

This troper knows more than one person with the same speech impediment that makes for an interesting accent, and stumbles unusually often on words they have trouble with too when talking to them.

When agitated, This Troper begins spontaneously adopting random accents, sometimes in mid-sentence.

While at work at a Starbucks (near Philadelphia), this troper's fellow barista repeated a British man's order to her in a British accent. He was confused and she was mortified.

One Portuguese troper speaks with a general mishmash of accents from all over the country, depending on occasion. When speaking English, he just adopts the accents of the people participating in the conversation, or else the faux-Russian accent from the MGS series.

This troper picks up anybody's accent in about five minutes of exposure. Now, imagine living in the dorm that had all the international students...

After being overexposed to MontyPython, ZeroPunctuation, and certain books on tape, this troper occasionally lapses into a British accent whenever he tells long jokes. This is entirely subconscious, and when I consciously try to sound British, my accent tends to randomly jump around somewhere between British and Australian.

This troper has this happen to his inner monologue after watching Zero Punctuation.

Try listening to the BBC Podcast while on a traffic jam. Da_Nuke tried it, and while his English is American, he had no problems imitating a London accent afterward.

This troper went to high school with a kid who was very good with accents, and liked to take advantage of that fact. Apparently he convinced an entire (out-of-school) contra dancing class that he was Scottish, and kept up the charade for an entire year - complete with an elaborate invented background and fairly colorful personal history.

This troper (who is Australian) often lapses into foreign accents for no good reason while speaking, and his "generic" voice for nobody-in-particular is Midwestern American. He once got huge laughs for reading Shakespeare's ''The Taming of the Shrew'' in a variety of accents in English class. "See-nyor Bayap-teest-uh!" In addition, he knows a guy from England who does an Australian accent so damn well that nobody can tell he's British.

This troper, being Norwegian, can speak English with a fairly convincing Indian accent.

This troper, possibly due to DID, jumps around between accents bizarrely. Due to Sod's Law (or some subconscious masochism), of course, this always happens when it's entirely inconvenient or just dangerous (Russian accent in the middle of [=MacBeth=], French at England vs. France matches whilst in the English stands, and so forth). And, just to put the icing on the cake, they're ''bad'' accents too. Ugh.

This troper tends to mimic the accents and speech impediments of whoever he's currently talking to - including changing grammatical structure at times. It has gotten him in trouble on more than one occasion where someone with a lisp thought he was mocking them. Said troper also cannot intentionally mimic any accent but a random British one, except for specific phrases.

This troper is Swedish, but speaks English with a good RP accent. Until he tries to speak English to someone with a different accent. Then he mimics that instead. He also used to mimic a new accent every week in high school to piss off his English teacher.

This troper has a couple of interesting stories that are accent-related.

The first is a result of her mother being French-born; therefore, after years of listening to her mother's slightly French-influenced English, she now pronounces all 'a's in a new word by default as 'aah' (as in 'aardvark'). She also has no trace of the Hoosier or New York accent that she should, by all rights, have... her English is perhaps the most 'neutral' or 'newscastery' she has ever heard. She pronounces Versailles as 'Versai', New Orleans as 'New Orleyahns', and Terre Haute as 'Terreh Haught'. She also speaks Spanish with a slightly French twist, which tends to make class interesting.

Wait, do people actually pronounce Versailles another way and not get corrected? I always figured it was proper to do your best to do the actual pronunciations of foreign names.

The second comes from spending six weeks in and around the UK - when she wasn't touring the UK itself, she was on a Cunard liner. She came home with a slightly British lilt to everything she said - and it got worse when she got excited. It had happened before when living with a very British camp counselor. She also recalls one specific instance in Inverness when her brother ordered, "Stop speaking with a Scottish accent!" Caught completely by surprise, she declared, "But I wasn't!" only to be informed that she had, in fact, been using the Inverness brogue. She tends to pick them up rather easily, she's noticed.

This troper is British, and speaks with a non-specific British accent. When he speaks German, his faux-German accent is ''that'' good that it has fooled native German speakers in the past. He has also received praise for accurately mimicking accents while speaking French. He is currently studying Japanese. £5 says that at some point, his faked accent (Japanese) will be extremely dissonant from his appearance (tall, well-built, white), possibly leading to some amusement.

Update: Said troper's Japanese tutor is rather impressed with the troper's pronunciation. Oh boy...

This (British) troper and her friends speak almost ''entirely'' in this. When she's tired, she'll lapse into a Southern-American drawl. Sometimes she'll go into Irish if she's particularly pissed off. Sometimes she'll just go off on some sort of caffeine induced BreathlessNonSequitur, incorporating a veritable road trip of accents along the way. Often, she'll very subtly change her accent - which is usually a vague assumption of RP with hints of west London - depending on who she's with at the time. She also adopted an Australian accent after reading The Last Continent, and a Glaswegian accent after reading The Wee Free Men and watching too much MockTheWeek.

This troper constantly receives flak for being unable to speak in anything but various Brief Accent Imitations. Having grown up with French grandparents who speak English with an immaculate British accent (having learned the language in Great Britain) an Irish grandfather, and a Scottish grandmother, he finds it incredibly easy to slip into any one of them. He is known for being stereotypically "British" when sullen or serious, a little more South Eastern English when sarcastic, a Western Scottish accent when appropriately bitter, and if riled enough, a thick Northern Irish accent. He's never left California.

This Troper is a literal sponge for accents, languages, speech patterns and everything in between. When speaking Italian (mothertongue) she tends to start off as accentless, and will randomly slip into accents/figures of speech typical of various cities/regions. When speaking English, accent is usually north-eastern American, since the language was learned in Connecticut; however, Doctor Who and Torchwood have caused this Troper to sometimes find herself trying to replicate either a Scottish burr, a London Cockney, or a Cardiff Welsh. When speaking French, the accent jumps around from Paris to Canada, the former being where the troper has learned the language and the latter simply because the troper can't bother to tell her brain not to default to English. The troper loves being told "Wow. You don't sound Italian." The troper blames this on the fact that she is the poster child for being adaptable, so much that the first thing she does when in a new place is study the locals and act like them, all in a very subconscious and automated manner.

This troper has lived in New York all his life, and due to his accent is constantly pegged as being from upstate, the Midwest, and even Canada. No clue to this day why.

This (English) troper apparently slips into an American accent when angry.

This troper slips in and out of every kind of accent - the only unifying feature seems to be that it's whatever accent makes what he's saying sound interesting or flow smoothly, meaning that in a sentence with a lot of sound variation he'll slip through American, British, Scottish, Scotirish, Spanish, and finally French before finishing the sentence with Classical "In Soviet Russia, Accent Slips You". And any repetition of ANY stand-up act gets done in the voice of Mitch Hedberg, complete with mannerisms, which leads to hilarity like "EddieIzzard as Performed by MitchHedberg" or "RobinWilliams Live On Broadway as Performed by MitchHedberg."

This troper absorbs a Canadian accent every time she visits Manitoba, and slips into her mother's Philadelphian accent when narrating or reciting anything.

When this troper was younger he would commonly imitate the way people were talking to him (without realising he's doing it usually). Rarely happens now though.

This Troper is a natural mimic. His Japanese accent is perfect from the MASSIVE amount of anime/j-pop he watches/listens to. He tends to slip into any of the U.K. accents (save Wales - he doesn't know what a Welsh accent sounds like), and can imitate nearly anybody who has a unique voice perfectly if he does it enough.

This troper mimics some accents well, others terribly. During a card reading this troper often puts on a Miss Cleo-style Jamaican accent, but with one catch. This troper's Fakey Jamaikey accent slips clear across the globe into Scottish. And this troper's not even Scottish. She's North Carolinian.

This troper frequently slips into random accents, most of which he has no idea what they are of. He also seems to slip into a Japanese accent whenever talking about Japanese stuff, and a British accent when talking about European stuff.

This troper would first like to comment to everyone who feels they do a "good" imitation of an accent with no proof (fooling a native): It's probably not doing as good as you think. He includes himself. His drunken Irish accent is passable, to non-Irish. His South Boston accent (easier when drunk) HAS fooled native Southies, somehow. They were usually drunk at the time as well, which may account for it. Wicked pissah, wicked pissah.

This troper is a francophone (her second language) and will occasionally speak French to her customers, especially if they have a French sounding accent. Her boyfriend speaks German.

This troper has had something of a knack for accents. When I'm tired, I tend to do it without thinking about it. Usually, this amuses people. On at least two occasions it's almost gotten me killed by people who thought that I was mocking them.

This troper, on a school-sponsored visit to Disneyworld with forty of her closest friends, decided that she would speak in a (bad) British accent whenever anywhere inside the parks. Her friends caught on, and we got some stares, especially lapsing in and out of British and Pittsburghese (our "native tongue"). Whenever this troper hangs out with her best friend, the two (again, native Pittsburghers) inexplicably lapse into a pidgin-Eastern European accent consisting of Polish, Russian, German, Spanish, and British elements. We have no clue where it came from.

Also, when speaking normally, neither of us have any discernible Pittsburgh accent.

Possible subversion: This Canadian troper, no doubt as a result of a childhood spent reading predominantly British novels, writes the King's English automatically. And that's King ''Edward VII's'' English (with a few more contractions, perhaps), since most of the aforementioned novels are set during either his or his mother's reign. As for the effect this has had on her speech... think Turn-of-the-Twentieth Century British Upperclass Schoolboy, toss in some Bertie Wooster-era slang and Python-esque swearing rhythms, and add a few Americanisms. Then ''lose the accent''. The number of times she has been mistaken for Australian would knock you out. It probably doesn't help matters that she plays this trope straight when she quotes television and film characters, to the extent that when someone once told her little sister a joke that hinged on the teller's affected Scots accent, said sister, all of ten, dismissively replied, "(Troper's Name) does it funnier."

This Yorkshire-born troper went to University in the south and thus peppers his reasonably un-inflected English accent with all kinds of "thees", "'aves" and "You Wots?" with the occasional 'Mockney' "Awright dahling, 'ow you doin?". And has also picked up Americanisms like 'Gas station' 'A-dult' and 'Tomayto' from visiting an American-based sibling.

Wow... some of the people here do it way worse than I do! Yeesh. For me, though, it goes way beyond accent imitation. I have to be really careful when watching a movie or TV show, because I'll start acting like the characters if their behavior is significantly interesting. And the accents... phuh. David Tennant's English is the most addictive British accent ever, followed closely by Camille Coduri. Basically every time I have to examine something, I'll start off with the "Let's see what we have here..." and then it's all accent-slinging and eyebrow-popping and funny things like that. Try doing a Scottish accent, on the other hand, and I hit Czech territory, turning into Radek Zelenka for the duration. Tennant's British and US Southern are the only ones I do on accident, though.

This (Chinese) troper tends to speak in a Singaporean accent when hanging out with Singaporean friends, only to revert to an Australian accent when with the Australian mates. Doing a Hong Kong accent is pretty easy as well, though that's because my parents speak Cantonese.

Rabbit}} This troper tends to pick up a bit of a Malaysian accent when visiting his relatives. Thankfully he doesn't pick up the {{Verbal Tic}}s as well lah!

This troper has been complimented for his accent while reciting Christopher Eccleston's first line (the 'Baseball is Boring' comment) from ''Gone in 60 Seconds''. He's also done a near-perfect 'Homer Simpson' ''d'oh!'', but only once.

This troper, a Texan then attending the state's eponymous University, once had a conversation with a girl from South London while in the social room of a dormitory; she started out with a mildly BBC-flavored accent. After about fifteen minutes, someone came up to us and asked us ''what language we were speaking''. Apparently, not only did I pick up the accent she was using, but as I did so she apparently felt more comfortable and slid further into her home dialect, and by the time we were interrupted I'd followed her straight through RP and halfway into something the people around us didn't recognize as English anymore.

This troper once worked at the K-Mart International Headquarters, in "Store Support". Late one night, he received a support call from a store in the {{Deep South}}; somewhere in Kentucky. I managed to avoid speaking his accent back to him, but as soon as I was off the call, I proceeded to speak in his accent for the next two hours to all of my co-workers. Only threats of physical violence got me to stop.

This Troper subverted that. He often tries to speak with a Brazilian accent(he was born in Brazil) but he really has no idea what a Brazilian accent sounds like. Before he learned how to speak English fluently, his friends told him his accent sounded more Russian than anything. He now wants to learn how a Brazilian Accent sounds like.

This little scamperer others would call a Troper tends to inexplicably speak in a British accent whilst saying certain words, such as "nasty", "right" or "bathroom". Dinnit know why, exactly.

This troper has family in the Heartland and the Southeast. Whenever she and her mother talk about those places they sound like native southerners. And we live in the Silicon Valley!

This Troper was born in New England but spent his formative talking years in Tennessee because dad was in the military. Thanks to my mother, though, I almost don't have a trace of an accent because she was VERY insistent that I speak properly... until I get angry. Then I get all southern.

This Californian troper is in an acting class, focusing a LOT on Shakespeare, and has been with roughly the same group of people for 2 and a half years. All of us, every last one, are incapable of reading more than a few lines of Shakespeare without gaining an inexplicable english accent, generally without realizing it at all. Taken to its illogical extreme, when this troper and two other girls tried to do a skit that had absolutely nothing to do with Shakespeare, we STILL couldn't get rid of the accent. As in, we couldn't hear it ourselves, but everyone else could, and had to point it out every couple of lines.

And on a completely unrelated note, this same troper tends to notice her own accent after spending any length of time reading the works of a british author, and once swiped the speech patterns of the kids from To Kill A Mockingbird after reading it for school.

This troper (Canadian), after visiting Pittsburgh with his family, was quite surprised when his sister, one morning, woke up with a thick accent. And not just an American accent - we're talking deep south style. Inexplicable, to say the least.

And on an unrelated note, this troper's class, while in grade 8, once performed the Merchant of Venice... all in terrible, cheesy Italian accents.

This troper's normal accent is North-Western English (Liverpool if you want to be precise), but for some reason, he becomes a lot more coherent and even sounds a bit posh when he's angry.

This troper sometimes gets asked what country from, and has at different points been told she sounds American, English and Scottish. This despite having lived in Australia all her life, having both parents and all four grandparents who lived in Australia all their lives, and had never even left the country up until about six months ago when she went to Italy for three weeks. Occasionally she does realise she's sounding British again, though. Usually when she's been talking for a while.

I once watched the first series of the new Doctor Who in two days or so. For about two weeks thereafter, my internal monologue was in a Northern accent, and I occasionally switched to a more generic British accent when I was feeling silly.

If we're talking changes to internal monologue, that happens to me virtually all the time. My current one is Cornelius Fillmore.

Occasionally me and a friend will just lapse into an Australian accent for an hour or two. Especially fun if it happens in a store or something.

This troper listens to a very large amount of Irish music, and it's gradually slipped from imitating the accent when singing the songs, to imitating the accent when singing anything (though not all the time), to randomly slipping into it in real life. (Actually, I tend to curse a lot with 'Bloody hellfire!' in a thick Irish accent. It's fun).

After eighteen years in Cleveland and six years in Houston, this troper is often accused of speaking with the accent of wherever he isn't. He also has a friend who forgets how to speak English (his native language) and lapses into German (not his native language) after enough drinks.

This troper uses the accent of the last series / movie / video he's seen: Southern, Yiddish New Yorker, British, Californian...Currently, I'm with some mix between Middle West and Deep South accent

After just one week at camp with an eastern Finnish girl, This Troper subconsciously adopted parts of the eastern Finnish dialect, but snapped out of it soon enough. Also, this troper's English accent varies on depending what he's been watching and listening to recently. At two incidents, has momentarily adopted a bad Irish accent and Ebonics.

After a two- or three-day stint of several hour marathons of RedDwarf, this troper started talking like Lister. ''In his SLEEP.'' Smeggin' 'ell.

This troper has done something similar; after watching far too much RedDwarf as a child, she accidentally picked up the accent, despite normally having something near to the archetypal 'posh' English accent, and had to train herself out of it.

This troper cannot say the word "lummox" without it being inflected with some sort of Scottish accent.

This troper acquired a slight New Jersey accent after watching many AVGN episodes.

This troper occasionally dips into Deep South or South Boston. The latter has become more common since watching the Departed. He is British. His Southie accent was cultivated with the help of Tawmmy from Quinzee.

This troper finds it impossible to quote anything said by Pavi Largo- whether in his canon or on his MySpace or even in someone else's fan fiction- without lapsing into an exaggerated Italian accent. Same deal applies regarding Aziraphale's Britishness.

When this troper is mad or excited, he goes into a really bad Cockney imitation.

This troper must avoid watching ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' marathons or she ends up accidentally speaking like Starfire. Not necessarily an accent, but definitely distinct and startling for unsuspecting listeners. This troper also slips into bad grammar periodically from non-native English speakers (specifically Chinese, Japanese and French) whom she works/lives with on and off.

This troper has no natural accent, due to reading more than talking to people. Accent mostly depends on mood, and occasionally who he's been listening to lately, whether it's any of three English accents, a Scottish accent, Australian accent, or one of three American accents. His normal, unemotional voice is dead-center in the UncannyValley. He thinks mostly as either Nigel Planer or Stephen Briggs (whichever does the Discworld audiobooks without making every voice a nasally whine or a guttural moan), or, if he's been watching Doctor Who, David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor. He used to speak Spanish with a thick (and surprisingly accurate) Russian accent, and, if he ever imitates a dramatic villain or (non-super)hero voice without aiming for a specific accent, it ends up as Sean Connery.

This Canadian troper, who does not have a particularly strong accent, has a tendency to slip into a Newfoundland accent when talking to other Newfoundlanders.

This troper's got a good one. Went to Puerto Rico for a swimming training trip and was ordering at a KFC. I ordered entirely in English (most fast food places down there understood English). But the guy who was actually bringing up my order asked me, in Spanish, whether I wanted the food for there or to go. Without missing a beat, I answered in Spanish, accent and all, and didn't even realize I'd done it until I sat down at the table. So, maybe a bit less Brief Accent Imitation and more Brief Language Imitation.

This pageless troper sometimes slips into what she likes to call her "Helena B. Carter" accent, in which she talks with an accent much like the said actress. It's incredibly easy for me to slip into. I've never had a chance to try and fool someone with it, but I do know a woman who's British accent imitation sounds distinctly Irish.

This troper tends to accidentally lapse into accents, apparently I can do a few, when annoyed or surprised. It happens so often that when it occurs, I pause before turning and asking someone next to me: "Did I speak with an accent again?"

This troper's best friend moved to the middle of nowhere in Indiana. When she arrived, she convinced at least one person that she was from Ireland. The troper, on the other hand, will slip into a terrible pseudo-British accent when reading aloud (especially from the classics). Like many of the previous posters on this page, she watches Series/DoctorWho -- but this started ''before'' she got into the show. It's just gotten worse.

While filming a school video project in which he plays an Australian, this troper and his filming partner ran into some friends of his that this troper had not met before. I remained in character, speaking in an Australian accent through the whole encounter. I now apparently have a FanGirl who thinks I'm an Australian exchange student.

In a truly bizarre example, this troper has been mistaken for ''british'' because he sounded like Hugh Laurie faking an american accent like he does on House. (For the record, this troper makes a point of keeping his voice carefully accent-less, but still pronounces about and other "ou" words in a New England fashion. This annoys him greatly.)

This Troper absolutely loves the Australian accent, an' 'as th' 'elp of a good Aussie mate t' smewth it owt. To the Aussie's amazement, I was able to put one on and hold it, barring a few slipups, indefinitely. I've also spent a few days speaking in nothing but it, including my inner and exterior dialogue. Said "good mate" also seems bloody intent on melding me inta an' 'onorary Aussie.

This troper constantly slips into a British accent on the drop of a hat. A lot of the times he does it when he pokes fun at something, and after he listens to anything with a British character in it (like anything from Monty Python) he starts speaking in it for hours on end. Sometimes he doesn't even notice it, and he suspects that his family has just given up on calling him out on it.

This troper occasionally slips into what his friends have called a "universal accent". It... defies description, being a weird blend of several major European accents. This troper has no idea how he does this... he just does.

This troper will randomly speak in a fake Indian, British, Chinese, and Mo-Ron accents.

This Aussie troper is well known for toggling accents on the fly, and as a result has sent his friend's sister (a drama student) into a fit of hysterical uncontrolled giggling by switching from Australian to South African to German to British to Scottish to New Yorker to Australian again, in one long sentence. The cherry on top? It was finished with "YEEUH!"

troper, both due to his exposure in some way to virtually every major culture and his own hobby of acting and improv, lapses into a variety of accents, including Scottish, British, Irish, Canadian, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Jamaican, and just about every American accent under the sun. Mostly they correspond to the purpose of his words (Canadian pronounciation of "about" and "out", slight British when being sarcastic toward somebody, New Yorker when angry, etc.)

Another Troper from the DeepSouth (South Carolina, in this case) counts as British for up to one week after watching an episode of ''TopGear''. Bear in mind that BBC America airs the show weekly...

This American has something of the same problem. He naturally speaks in a Pacific Northwest American accent (Which The Other Wiki describes as being very close to the General American (neutral) accent). He grew up watching MontyPython, where he learned to imitate his favorite lines in cadence and tone. More recently, though, was a six-month Series/DoctorWho binge, religiously watching every ZeroPunctuation in the last year and a half, and his recent interest in TopGear. Combined with his AP European History professor (from Sheffield), his word choice, sentence rhythm, and pronunciation is beginning to sound rather British. Even now, as I write this, my inner monologue is speaking in the voice of Jeremy Clarkson. When I get a bit more fired up, my mental voice switches to something between Tennant's Doctor and Richard Hammond.

This troper keeps a "Gimli" Scottish accent prepared for whenever he plays a dwarf in {{Munchkin}}. Not coincidentally, it's his favourite race, and not just for the Hammer of Kneecapping.

This troper speaks in every Portuguese accent, as well as some in English. Japanese sensei once said that she had a perfect Japanese pronouciation, too, that is, before said troper had to leave the course.

This troper finds in impossible to not speak in a British accent when quoting Yahtzee. I'm in my church choir, and occasionally like to sing in an Irish accent. In addition, the words "bloody," "scheisse," and "gorram" are parts of my everyday vocabulary.

When uncomfortable in a situation, This Troper will switch to an eloquent, unaccented speech pattern that makes her sound truly psychotic. However, as soon as she is at ease again, it's back t'tha Midwestern Canadian twang. Brief Lack-of-Accent Imitation?

This troper sometimes speaks lolcat by accident after reading I Can Has Cheezburger for too long. Her family - ''all'' of them, even her ''parents'' - follow her lead without realising it. Although, does that count as an accent or a language?

Depending on the words, this American troper can sound any combination of Japanese, Russian, and Canadian in one sentence. The Japanese can be explained by studying the language for over six years and constantly listening to Japanese music, the Russian could be some collective unconscious genetic thing, but the Canadian...? No clue whatsoever. She's only been to Canada once, thirteen years ago, and she doesn't know any Canadians offline.

This American's mental monologue can be Engrish, Japanese with English subtitles (it just seems poetic... what?), and the Peacekeeper accent. After too much of the ''LordOfTheRings'' movies' Appendecies my mental soundscape was peppered with Kiwi. Sadly, actually ''speaking'' with these accents is rather hard, although I can lapse into some kind of psudo-British-esque thing when talking to people like tellers. I've also gotten into the habit of calling my mom "mum" after reading [=b3ta=] for a few years (oh, f@cksocks).

This troper's voice has no natural accent (other than a slight lisp) As a result of this, as well as a natural talent for picking up accents, I can shift into nearly any accent I know, and sound authentic. (Except for my Russian accent, which I adapted from Freedom Fighters and Red Alert 2, and is thus cheesy beyond belief.)

And here I thought I had it bad...you guys seems to have it much worse than I do. Switching into proper third person form...NOW! This Troper tends to sink into an upper-class British accent when apologizing for something, for reasons completely unknown to him. Purposeful imitations: a computer accent. Both the generic CPU-monotone, and the synthesized stylings of WALL-E. This troper also can do a good Jamaican, Australian, or British accent on purpose...at least, it sounds good to ME...

This troper has a friend who slips into a Southern accent at random times, particularly when she's annoyed. She hates it, we all find it hilarious.

This troper is prone to occasionally switching into an accent, usually something resembling Tennant's take on the BBC neutral accent for whenever he wants something done quickly. This should prove amusing in about five years when the troper finally starts teaching.

This troper has a strange habit of picking up odd speech mannerisms after watching something that has a particular tone in the way the characters speak. This isn't just limited to accents (which actually happens rarely). Thankfully, most of these mannerisms simply stay in her head before she actually says what she's thinking, but she gets really annoyed when she starts speaking/thinking like the characters on TheBigBangTheory, as she sounds more snobbish than she'd like. The habit seems most obvious to her when she's attempting to communicate online.

Never mind, she does briefly imitate certain accents at random times, but she acknowledges they aren't very good or accurate.

This lurker's father has always claimed that, although he moved his wife to Virginia when they first married, he knew it was time to get her back up north when she started saying "Ah" for "I." (They were both from Pittsburgh originally.)

This Irish troper from Ulster puts on a Connacht accent when speaking Irish. ...Does that count? I don't know.

This Californian troper slips into accents from Georgia (Mom), Kentucky (Maternal grandparents), Britain (Father...though he's Californian ''too'', as are his parents) and Ireland. That last one was when she was asked to try speaking English in an Italian accent for a song (something that is usually easy enough for her) and realized it was difficult. She uses most of them for comedic effect, but not British, because though she can slip into British, her intentional British is ''terrible''. (For the record...she has no idea what British. Just that it's not Cockney.) Amusingly enough, yes she has backgrounds in all those areas, and then some. Mediterranean mutt with a dash of Cherokee, as she likes to say.

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This troper slips into Cockney or Irish for whatever reason (he's Canadian). Even worse, while this troper considers himself a good actor, he is not good at accents, which means that an Irish accent will inevitably devolve into a West Indian accent, an attempted New Zealand accent will slip into South African, and a try at Yoda's voice will end up as Jamaican.

This troper occasionally slips into a D10-type British accent entirely by accident, though not many believe him when he says its an accident. Though he will occasionally slip into a Irish/Scottish (never can tell which one he's using while talking) on purpose for a joke.

This (Texan) Troper will find herself pronouncing words the British way after watching too much Doctor Who, much to the amusement of her friends. And when she gets angry, she slips into a Scottish accent, even though she can't intentionally do one to save her life.

This troper and native Californian sometimes speaks (and even ''thinks'') in a British accent. He also speaks Spanish with a good accent (being part Mexican helps) and can do a fairly decent Irish accent after a summer in Dublin, though sometimes it comes off sounding like Colin Farrell in ''InBruges''. Currently working on a Scottish accent (in both the Edinburgh and Glasgow styles, if you'd like to know).

This American troper got the complete box set of the Monty Python TV series one year for his birthday, and sat through 12 episodes in one sitting. Cue British accent slipping into my normal speech for the next week or so. Something similar happened when I figured out how to talk like Meatwad. Drove my family nuts.

This Troper would seriously like to know how come British imitations of American accents ''always,'' except for Hugh Laurie, make Dick Van Dyke look good? For instance, British people trying to evoke a "gangsta" image (as in HotFuzz), saying "mothurr-fuckurr": hey, uh, guys, you do know the stereotyped pronunciation is "muthah fuckah", with ''no fricking R whatsoever'', right? To say nothing of how not a single British person can mimic the American pronunciation of our nationality: it's "A-meh-ric-a," while the British pronunciation is closer to "A-may-ric-a". But there is not a single dialect out of the dozens of American dialects that pronounces it ''remotely'' like "Amurrica". Seriously, does the water over there cause auditory hallucinations or something?

This (British) Troper would just like to state that he has only ever heard America pronounced as "A-meh-ric-a". Not "A-may-ric-a", and ESPECIALLY not "Amurrica."

This Alabamian troper would like to say that a heavy southern accent, especially Alabamaian or occasionally Texan, quite often results in "Amurrica." She has, however, never heard "A-may-ric-a."

I once imitated an Australian/British accent while talking to an Aussie(or was he a Brit?)

This troper can pull of convincing Irish, British (Quintessential British Gentleman) or Southern accents, even in the same period of speech. He even does characteristics of the nationalities (Tea for British and Redneck for Southern). And he also does an accent when TYPING...

@/{{Ryumaru}}: I once made a SovietRussia joke with friends playing MagicTheGathering. I completely unconsciously slipped into a Russian accent, and one much more subtle than the one I use intentionally. I wish I could remember the joke....

For some reason, whenever someone tells me I sound slightly British (and I'm and Australian, by the way), I tell them, "I don't sound British!" in a British accent. HypocriticalHumor much?

Also, I have a LargeHam of an acquaintance who always seems to feel the need to lapse into an accent whenever he quotes someone in a public speech. He does it very, '''very''' badly.

This American troper is a sponge for accents and HAS fooled locals; to the point when DEPARTING A FLIGHT, she was asked if she was in the wrong immigration line (i.e., instead of the EU/UK line) and the officials did not believe her until she produced her American passport. Even natives (at another university, 3 hours away) thought she sounded rather posh.

This tropers wife tends to lapse into a southern accent when talking to natural-born southerners (we live in North Carolina, and lived in South Carolina before that, she was born and raised in Western New York), I was born and raised in New York and sometimes tend to lapse into a "Noo Yawk" accent (usually when I get angry, excited or watch an episode of ''CSI:NY''), but also being part Mexican and Spanish I tend to lapse into a Hispanic accent when saying Spanish words or phrases and keeping the accent when I switch back to English. And once just for shits and giggles a couple of friends and I decided to mess with people and talk in thick British accents while walking down the street one day.

Thanks to Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear, I can no longer say '...in the world' without mimicking his accent

This troper not only picks up accents and language with amazing speed, but also mannerisms; however, she has a harder time losing them. This resulted in embarassment after returning to the deep south from a trip to Japan, and frequently ends in embarassment/hilarity after long sessions of watching Doctor Who.

Bonus in that being Alabamian this troper has actually been asked where in Louisiana she is from after binging on True Blood.

Da_Nuke would ''really'' like to know where his accents are actually from. His Spanish is a hodgepodge of Guadalajara and Northern Mexican accents with a twist of French (yep), and his English is more or less Boston English with a faint Hispanic accent. The one defined accent he has is his French, which is clearly Parisian.

This troper frequently does this (though often it's not so brief, which pisses everyone off) just to test out a new accent he's been working on; mainly Belfast (Northern Irish), Glaswegian (Scottish), street London, and some kind of a generic Northern English accent which is probably bastardised Yorkshire or Manchester. His family gets annoyed by the Belfast he currently does. Then he switches to street London (not Cockney, but when white kids try to sound like Jamaicans) to quickly remind them that he can do a much, much more annoying accent. Trying to get either Liverpool or South African next. Ironically, one of the accents he can't fake is stereotypical Australian - despite actually being Australian. Australian-English, anyway.

This troper was discussing dinner plans with a friend when I suddenly developed a strange accent (The one that goes best with "I coulda been a contender!")... It degenerated before I could properly reference my accent, and I could never do it again. I probably never watched whatever movie it came from.

This troper has a couple stories. Sometimes, when I get into a series, I pick a girl character as "me" and associate the characters around her as people I know. Now, what happens when the character in question has an accent? Let's just say I sometimes lapse into a southern accent because of too much X-Men. Story # 2: Spending time in the UK, this troper's friend unknowingly lapsed into a Brittish accent when he was tired. Story # 3: This tropers friend sometimes lapses into an unitentifiable southern-ish accent, usually when ranting.

This troper apparently always slips into a slight British accent when talking about HarryPotter. I do it all the time but can never tell at first. But once someone brings it up, it apparently ends up sounding terribly forced and fake.

This troper has been blessed with a voice that allows her an extremely wide range of different voices and accents. My favourite is my "Old Chinese Guy" accent/voice I use when being overly 'serious' about something. Like a troper way up there, my friend has attempted to copy me, only to end up speaking slower, raising in the middle of words and putting on some weird lisp thing.

This Troper has a habit of breaking out in a German or Eastern European accent when tired. I tend to have a refined British accent during the day randomly. And I break into a Scottish accent whenever under pressure. And my Irish accent sounds ridiculously stereotypical even though I am Irish.

Alpha}} This troper does only ALL THE TIME. It's surprisingly easy to slip into a British accent when having to explain something in an intellectual fashion, or a Southern accent when mocking Republicans and their constituents (not ''all'' of them, mind you, just the ones with access to TV and talk radio). Also, having spent six weeks in Ireland, I've fallen into an accent that doesn't sound "like a leprechaun," although for some reason it has me come off sounding like Colin Farrell's character in ''In Bruges''.

This troper is good at imatating voices and accents. Japanese Scouse Russian German Southern Backwards Richard Nixon Zim and Gir my mom the Chipettes Various singers and others she is to lazy to list.

This troper is physically incapable of saying TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy without doing a dead-on PeterJones impression. When reading the anthology to his little sister at night, this habit extends to the phrase "Has this to say on the subject of..." and will sometimes do all of the narrator's lines like this if not told to shut up.

And my father can do the catchphrases of every single LooneyTunes character with the proper voice.

My friends and I have a running gag between us where we attempt to speak either Welsh in a silly accent (Scouse welsh is particularly surreal) or different languages in a silly welsh farmer accent.

This Dutch troper had to have a lenghty conversation in English as a final test for that subject. About halfway through, the teacher commented that I had a very noticable Dutch accent (you don't say...); the rest of the conversation was done in a thick Scottish accent.

I know a guy at my college who wrote an entire poem meant to be sung in the accent of one of the book on tape narrators for ''TheLordOfTheRings''. He also sometimes starts speaking with a Scotish accent for the hell of it.

This troper's dad randomly swings between every accent on the map while talking, but normally sticks to the UK. He also goes Irish when drunk.

This (scouse-accented) British troper spontaneously lapses into French and German accents, usually when greeting people or announcing his surprise, respectively. "Gentlemen." "Meine GOTT!"

This troper (@/BertieDastard) would like to point out to all the non-UK tropers that there's no such thing as a 'British' accent, and when you think you're assuming a 'British' accent, you're more than likely affecting a Received Pronunciation tone, an Estuary English tone, or something that's a worse Cockney than Dick van Dyke. However, just to add his own story- he's a linguistics student at university, and an ex-drama student, with a gift for accents and languages; to this end, he finds himself being able to fake pretty much any accent he's given, even going so far as to combine accents in a strange blend (French and Cockney being the most requested). He's managed to fool people into thinking he's a different nationality than he is, with the main example being that for the entirety of the last year at university, for eight hours a week, he managed to convince a girl he was Irish- and consistently Dublin Irish- purely because on the first day of the the first week of the year, he said 'hi, how are you?' in an accidentally Dublin-Irish accent. He's also able to convincingly hold the accent of the person he's talking to, to the point that he caused a Welsh friend of his to doubt whether he was Welsh or not, and managed to hold conversations with a Geordie friend of his, and have other people ask him whereabouts he was from in the area. Also, as a final point, he's going to be making a series of videos of accents, which he'll be posting on youtube, under the name 'EternalSanity'; a littlew bit of plugging, but perhaps he can help other tropers with their accents.

This Belfast troper was spending time with her English cousins who had strong Manchester accents. She came back to Belfast with a Manchester accent, confusing her friends then slipping into an odd hybrid of Belfast and Manchester. It only happens with a Manchester accent though, as I'm known for trying to do one accent and having everyone thinking I'm doing another well (Tried for London, came out Aussie, tried for Californian surfer, came out Mexican.)

This Troper picked up a Canadian accent somewhere between Vancouver and Toronto on a six-week cross-continental trip, but lost it again shortly after returning home. My natural accent is mostly American Newscaster with a slight hint of New York which becomes much more pronounced when I'm angry and/or ranting, but I frequently slip into a British accent of sorts when reading certain things.

This (English) troper often finds himself speaking with a Scottish accent, and usually without meaning to. It's... quite worrying, really.

This troper has a senior who speaks in accents all the time, changing almost everyday. Russian, British, Irish, Chinese, Japanese, German, Southern, etc. It gets worrying when people tell him to speak normally and he asks genuinely, "How?" before lasping back into a Russian accent. The longest he held an accent was when he mimicked a Russian accent for a performance. It lasted a month.

This troper often puts on a fake accent to contribute to jokes but can sometimes inadvertently switch accents as well. For example, after speaking Spanish or reading out Latin (typically when scanning poetry as it helps work out the occasional tough spot from the weird meter) I sometimes switch into a blend of my normal newscastery accent and my romance accent. Also, I sometimes slip into a southern accent I had for the few years I lived in NC. Typically only gets commented upon by my extended family as they all live in either New York or Conneticut.

Ooh! I almost forgot. Any time I hear a particularly amusing accent in real life or on TV, I often reflexively repeat what they say in as close a mimicry of their accent as I can and then laugh. Kind of dickish, but hey.

Forgot something else. I also very frequently pick up the mannerisms and speech patterns of people around me and on TV. To a lesser degree I also pick up literary speech patterns, dialing up my already significant verbosity after reading a particularly posh bit of writing.

This young fellow often slips into a mixture of a scottish and an irish accent when frustrated or absent minded, he calls it the Ambiguously Celtic/Gaelic accent.

This Troper is practicing on how to speak British, and he once tried to imitate it, ending up exhausted as a result. This Troper also bought tea just for this purpose.

This Troper's accent changes several times a day which frustrates her mother to no end. I'm Australian, who lives in Australia, and generally I will talk with an Australian accent when I'm at home but as soon as I talk to someone with a different accent, mine instantly morphs to mimic it. It started a few years ago when I began learning Spanish and it has become progressively worse. Not a day goes by that someone doesn’t ask where my accent is from, and they are shocked when I tell them I'm actually Australian. I actually quite like it though, It's fun to mess with people :)

Thing is that I can't speak in other accents conciously so while I may be able to mimic someone (although they're probably a little off because an American once thought I was Canadian, they're similar at least...), if asked to fake an accent I fail miserably even if I had been doing it moments before.

Virtually impossible for this troper. Spending a lifetime trying to perfect my english gives one an unmistakeable accent befitting no nation and remaining foreign to all. As an ethnic mongrel this does nothing to endear oneself to anyone, always looking and sound foreign. The natives' best guesses usually refer to the major nations, but there's been a shifting tendency to be identified as Australian, then American, lately English and now Scottish. This makes sense, as this reflects this troper's social circles and entertainment media consumption.

This tropette had a history teacher with a heavy Bostonian accent. She can't say his name in a normal voice anymore.

This tropette tends to talk with a slight Italian accent whenever she gets mad at somebody.

When I write, it's invariably English in tone, leaning slightly to Cockney (unless I'm thinking about it, which I am right now). The problem is that if I'm writing in long stretches, afterward people are fair confused when I start spouting English phrases...and it's Generic British, not Actual British As In From England. Guess what. I'm Taiwanese.

This troper apparently lapses into a British accent when she reads aloud for long periods of time. Also, when she was at a conference during her sophomore year of high school, many people (all from Down South) thought she was from England.

This troper normally has a fairly generic Mid-Atlantic US accent. Except when he's been talking to his grandmother, great aunt, or great uncle, all of whom still have fairly thick Irish accents (Kerry gaeltacht, if you're wondering), after which he sometimes has difficulty returning to his normal accent. Cue many, many, funny moments when people ask "Where in Ireland are you from?" and get the response "New Jersey."

This tropette's first language is not English - she lives in Poland. She has English lessons with an Australian teacher, who sometimes jumps into accents at the most random moments, but ALWAYS, when we read a text in my coursebook, if the nationality or a photo of its' author is provided, he'll imitate the accent of that nationality's. I don't know whether he does this for comedic effect, but it makes me laugh.

To quote this troper:

"A cashier once told me I sounded like I had a slight Scottish accent. -turns on accent- I mean, I can do Scottish. -turns off accent- But I'm not."

There is also a guy at her school who she only speaks to in a British accent (he actually think's she's half-British, half-Australian. Long story. She's actually American), resulting in her suddenly switching to British when he's around. Her friends find it hilarious.

This Australian troper will put on a horrible German accent whenever she says something dramatic, and a silly French accent whenever she says something sophisticated and a convincing Scottish accent if she's trying to be funny. Also, when she says something uncouth, she tends to say it in an upper-class British accent.

Whenever me and my sister quote something our Chinese teacher said, we always imitate her strong Sichuan accent since we can't imagine anything she says in any other way. So thanks to her, I now know how to do a horrible Chinese accent flawlessly.

This Windy City troper, when in the South, accidentally slipped into a Southern accent while ordering food. Our waitress wasn't amused.