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by Gabstar on September 21st, 2008
yup [aussie], and therefore, to be abit more suspicious, i speak in a french accent :p
just kiddin, the moment called for it ;)
by Ed the Jetpacking Headbanger on September 21st, 2008
No, I was born and raised in New Jersey but I don't have a 'Jersey accent'.
by Talimze on September 21st, 2008
I don't think most people could, but my Georgian relatives say I have a "Yankee accent." Shit, I'm from a border state...
by Amphetamine is alone again on September 18th, 2008
No, they can tell I'm from the north (UK), but not pin it down to a place. I think its because I pick up other peoples accents
by DwarfClown on September 23rd, 2008
Being from the NJ/NY area, at times my accent is detectable. My bf says I say "kawfee" instead of "coffee". HE'S the one with the accent! Not me!
by JaySurf on September 21st, 2008
nope, i don't really have an accent....and other times i can grab on to accents easily...
by Brian I on September 21st, 2008
People from Spain, where I live, can tell that I'm British. I'm sure Americans and Australians could tell that, as well. My wife is from a different part of the country and I've picked up bits of her accent. Also I have lived in so many parts of England that I have picked up bits of each area, so I think the best that most people could come up with is that I'm from somewhere "Up North".
by Sixty B - Commander Topcoat on September 21st, 2008
Yes. A NY accent will do that to you :)
by Carolann on September 21st, 2008
Canadian,A.
by Marguerite on September 18th, 2008
Yes, and when I moved I acquire the accent of the area and sometimes don't even notice it, until my friends tell and kid me about it. There are different accents in the different regions of Texas.
by .....----- on February 9th, 2009
hmm i dont know maybe.
by Arisztid on February 7th, 2009
I am certain that if I went somewhere outside of America most could guess me as American.
In the States nobody guesses it. I have a very neutral Californian accent, not the valley accent or any well known Californian accent and had some training in speech classes.
When I am intoxicated I have this neutral accent dipped in a "55 gallon drum" of Romanian Gypsy. I picked that up from my father.
Most people just think "slavic."
by DwarfClown on February 6th, 2009
Most people can tell I'm American by my accent. Americans can tell I'm a Latina, but not from my accent, but because I look Latina.
by - M.C.S. - Dave on February 5th, 2009
You mean that Golden Voice of the Ozarks, they hear from time to time over the air waves.....Naaa I don't think they do....LOL.
by Little Miss Dangerous on February 5th, 2009
No. I get Pennsylvania more than anything else. In Germany some people didn't even know I was American.
by Misplaced_Diamond on October 3rd, 2008
Yea I have a fairly thick aussie accent =]
by Ann on a Moose on September 23rd, 2008
If I'm in England people can hear very easily that I'm from "The North". The funny thing is I only lived there for a couple of years when little - but my parents were from Leeds - We moved around a lot so I'd pick up and loose accents a bit! But the older I get the more the Northern accent seems to surface.
by Scott D - ex-QnA on September 21st, 2008
ABSOLUTELY!
While in the military, on a basic training post, a friend and I thought it interesting to guess the origins of the new recruits. We perfected our "craft" so well that we would ALWAYS guess the State that the individual was from. After a while, we were able to isolate a dialect to within 100 miles ... unless the individual had moved from one State to another.
It was a fun game that I still practice from time to time. Unfortunately, without a steady flow of people from all over the country to use as baselines, it is virtually impossible to maintain.
by Route 66Truckerman on September 21st, 2008
No ,I'm from the Netherlands people think I'm British !
by Professor StacieJ on September 21st, 2008
People usually think I'm from Chicago, when I'm actually from Detroit.
by Galeanda on September 21st, 2008
From as in where I was born? No, since I speak some kind of English and live in the USA :-)
by RElise on October 24th, 2009
Yes, Australian. But some people do sometimes think its english accent.
by AliasTJ on September 2nd, 2009
I sound a bit like an educated hick, so people usually know I'm from one of the southern states.
by l_l on April 20th, 2009
No, not a chance, not even a hope in hell....!
Had some good guesses (Australia, New Zealand - even South Africa). Some sort of right, none correct
by Born In Disguise_x on April 19th, 2009
I'm from New Zealand. Americans often seem to get confused & think I'm Australian but the rest of the world seems to know that I'm a Kiwi.
by Helen of Toys on February 7th, 2009
hoo noo
by ILoveLois on February 6th, 2009
At home in the UK people usually can, or at least tell which end of the country I'm from. Foreigners can tell I'm English, but most of them (especially Americans) think that all Englishmen are from London; I'm from Manchester.
by thewallfly on September 21st, 2008
Nope. I've got no accent, I just sound American. But if I hang out with my family too much I sometimes adopt a strong southern accent (which I absolutely hate).
by HaoieZ on September 18th, 2008
So apparently I have sort of a unique accent.
But some say I have a kiwi [New Zealander] accent.
by -Icy- on August 18th, 2009
yes pretty much my southern drawl is hard to miss +5
by herman on October 24th, 2009
yes, even tho' I have lived in the north of USA for thirty years, most folks know I was raised down south.
by SteAdams on November 15th, 2009
"Orite, om from Wuva-amton, I goh a Black Cuntri accent, I live in uh States no wi mi gir-frend, moh Black cuntri accent's wearin off no tho, yuh cehn still nowiss it if yuh goh a traind e-ya, I ay no Brummie tho, om a Yam-Yam Wuvo boy thru n thru, cum on ya Wanderers!"
"Alright, I'm from Wolverhampton, I've got a Black Country accent, I live in the States now with my girlfriend, my Black Country accent is wearing off now though, you can still notice it if you've got a trained ear, I'm not a Brummie though, I'm a Yam-Yam Wolvo boy through and through, come on you Wanderers!"
That's the Black Country way of saying it, then that's the real way of saying it hehe
Black Country (Wolvo, Walsall, Willenhall, Dudley, West Bromwich, Cannock etc) is different from Brummies (Birmingham) accents :)
by MOB on August 18th, 2009
Yup, NY sticks out...
by Anonymous on August 17th, 2009
Other than I'm American and Middle Class that is as close as most people come. People from my own region have trouble knowing conclusively. Only Southerners with a fine tuned ear can tell but it usually because of a particular phrase I may say.
by Light_of_Cania on February 6th, 2009
No they cant. I have a total different accent , u would never even know where i am really from... ha ha, its great.
by Marlin on February 6th, 2009
You can't miss my accent, I'm French!!!
by ModelMami on February 6th, 2009
I sincerely hope not.
by Rocket on February 6th, 2009
I don't think I have an accent but other people say I do. I am from California :)
by Brian on February 7th, 2009
I think all they could tell is that I'm from the US and that I'm not from the south, the midwest, Bastin, or New Yak. ;)
by East Hill on February 9th, 2009
No.
by cari80 on February 9th, 2009
No not really.
I was born in Urugay and came to America when I was 11.
So my accent is not bad but you can still hear an accent. Is not a Spanish accent. I dunno some people say I talk like a white girl since most people from NYC that are Spanish have that Rosie Perez accent. But I was raised on Long island so that is why I talk the way I talk ;0P
by Anonymous on February 6th, 2009
Pretty much.
by PonderAppreciatively on February 6th, 2009
I've lived in the deep south my entire life, but have only a faint accent.
Funny because my grandparents say things like "mater" for tomato, "tater" for potato "okrie" for okra and "Co Coler" instead of Coke Cola.
Locals that have tried to place my accent, usually guess California.
Only when I've traveled (Boston, Alaska, Vancouver) did anyone realize that I was southern, . . . but they always guess "Texas".
by DreAnna on February 5th, 2009
No :)
by Mikeisha on February 5th, 2009
No.
by Indigo- in the library with the revolver on February 5th, 2009
Sometimes. My accent is fairly faint. Most people here just think I'm from the North (of US).
by Alias xsicajess on February 5th, 2009
No, but after some liquor the Texas comes out
by Countess Crapula on February 6th, 2009
Usually....I'm a New Yorker with a normal accent (not like the bad, affected accents of CSI NY - gag) but in the South, people can always tell I'm from the North, most times they guess New York correctly.
by Smart2 is back! Did you miss me? on February 6th, 2009
It is obvious from the moment I open my mouth that I am from the Deep South. I don't have a Scarlett O'Hara drawl, but I do sound distinctly Southern!
by ALM4 on February 11th, 2009
no, they cant tell where im from lol
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