[Bobbie416]

Originally Posted by jblum315

Completely wrong about me. Said Philadelphia. I was raised and went to college in the South, lived in NY for 40 years, where does Philly come into it?

Thinking that Philadelphia is geographically somewhere between New York and the south. I have a Boston accent. My children grew up in the New York/New Jersey area. One of them at least definitely sounds more Connecticut than anything else.

[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by red tail

What Kind of American Accent Do You Have? by Xavier Kun

That's really cool as the grandkids would say. Recently we've been told we do not pronounce certain states correctly........oh well.

Florida should sound like "or" not "are".........which we had always called it.

Ditto for Oregon.....which we said in three syllables. Should be ORE GONE.

Who would have known? Being raised with New Jersey accents with many relatives living in New York City with that type of accent, then living most of our lives in Vermont with it's distinctive Yankee accent.........ayup.....we forgive ourselves.

[redwitch]

Trudy, another chameleon here. I can talk to someone on the phone and get off sound like I'm from their area even if I've never been there. You should hear me after I've spoken to an Aussie for an hour!

I think it happens to those who moved a lot as a kid. We would move to another nation or region and I'd sound like a native within a few months. Move to the next place, pick up that language/accent and forget the last one existed. The only two languages that stuck at all were German (my native) and American and American is by where I'm living. Accent doesn't stay Californian, which is where I've lived the longest.

[Schaumburger]

Originally Posted by eweissenbach

You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.

I have a Midland accent also. Spent first 18 years in Eastern Iowa, then next 33 years in the Chicago area. I don't think I have an accent...

[Schaumburger]

Originally Posted by eweissenbach

You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.

I have a Midland accent also. Spent first 18 years in Eastern Iowa, then next 33 years in the Chicago area. I don't think I have an accent...

Spot on with me...Said Boston & I lived 45 miles west of Boston for 52 years!

[TrudyM]

Originally Posted by redwitch

Trudy, another chameleon here. I can talk to someone on the phone and get off sound like I'm from their area even if I've never been there. You should hear me after I've spoken to an Aussie for an hour!

I think it happens to those who moved a lot as a kid. We would move to another nation or region and I'd sound like a native within a few months. Move to the next place, pick up that language/accent and forget the last one existed. The only two languages that stuck at all were German (my native) and American and American is by where I'm living. Accent doesn't stay Californian, which is where I've lived the longest.

Mahalo for the response it makes me feel better to know I am not the only
wacky one out there.

Trudy