Identify the English accent you most naturally speak with.

I guess Ontario English, but my dad says I speak weird. I would like to hear myself and determine what are the factors because I was always good at noticing slightest changes and differences with people speaking.

when i lived in colorado, i was 'teased' for having such a strong accent, which i didn't hear until i lived there...think 'fargo'

i have had many many guesses as to my accent. if i knew, i would tell them.

Also, you need to specify between different types of Australian accent. They talk very differently in Sydney compared to Melbourne, and there's an even greater discrepancy between Brisbane and Sydney.

I would have to go with either a standard American, or possibly a NY Bronx, thought the first 6 yrs of my life was in Georgia, and I did have a southern drawl... I guess that's what happens when you're raised by New Yorkers.

MANY of these I'm clueless as to what they are supposed to sound like...WTF is Utah / St. Louis / PA / Maine / Apalachain Englishe(s) supposed to sound like ?!?!?!

It leans towards Midlands English I think (thanks to my mum) but with Yorkshire elements in there too (thanks to where I was born and raised).

English - Other.

I speak with a watered down North Staffordshire accent. It's sounds vaguely northern (even though Staffordshire is in the Midlands) but it's nowhere near as nasal as the Lancashire accent.

Is that Midlands as in a Dudloi or Burmeengum accent or Midlands as in a Lesstah or No'inggum accent

Neither really. It's the Northamptonshire one from the 50s/60s which is very different from the way they speak there now, with a couple of years of Cheltenham Ladies College elocution lessons (thanks a lot, Grandma...) thrown in. I think of that as being a Midlands accent, but I suppose it could be something else. But in me, it's combined with Yorkshire vowel sounds and other Yorkshire cadences, so it's pretty hard to pin down exactly.

I guess a midwest type. While I lived in Louisiana for about 7 years I picked up a slight southern accent but it didn't take long to lose it once I moved from there.

I'm guessing that mine is a standard American English accent

I had someone ask me recently if I'd been hanging out with people from Ontario. In fact, I had just spent some time in Ontario.

mumbly

Standard American with occassional Maine, New England and Boston, generally from mocking those accents.

USA- Wisconsin/Midwest

I picked New Orleans accent b/c it's closest to where I am.

Dutch accent

I guess, according to this, it would be the Canadian - British Columbia accent. I disagree with the link however. Urban Canadians, with some exceptions, tend to share a certain accent, distinct from their rural counterparts.

One exception is the Toronto accent, which is very easy to distinguish.

Chicago, Illinois accent. "Illinois" is spelled incorrectly in the answers.

Well, I didn't check, but I'd say it's probably USA-St. Louis and vicinity English since I live 2 hours from there.
But I DO NOT say "Farty-Far" for 44.

Check my comment above on the St. Louis accent.
Not only "farty-far" but "arn" for Iron.
It's about as bad as a Boston accent.

I think it's just standard English accent

I'm actually pretty good at picking through accents and dialects, but I had trouble "hearing" many of the differences for the circumstances provided is all. Plus I haven't traveled much at all, only Georgia, New Jersey, Philadelphia, and to Kentucky.

Being in Florida, we get quite a few Candians, and a few Brits, but I'm just not good enough to be able to tell the difference in the sense of where in those countries they are from.

other: my accent is very much the accent of an Italian person speaking English and I'm proud of it. Oh and Italian doesn't mean I talk like a Sicilian gangster.
when I sing I think it's different but I dunno.

I speak English with a foreign accent. You'll guess easily which and why...

I don't know if it is of interest: I have good friends in Warwick - Coventry - Leamington Spa, and I thoroughly enjoy their English. I have been in many parts of England, but for my German ears the most enjoyable English is found in the Midlands.

UTAH ENGLISH!!!!

I just chose standard American accent.. although Michigan, Illinois, St. Louis and Pennsylvania are similar.

USA-Midwest (Ohio) We say things like "How come" for why....we call soda pop "pop"...

Probably northern England English - but half lancashire and half scouse.

but now with a touch of london thrown in.

USA - Southern. I noticed cerealkillers comment in qualifying about the texas accent. While I agree that Texas has a unique southern flare, many of the furthest southern gulf states have the same sound. I, being from Alabama, have been mistaken for a Texan many, many times. There's only a very subtle difference. To me, the prettiest southern accent is the old south accent where girl would be pronounced "gul" and dollar would be pronounced "daal-luh" and mother would be pronounced "muu-thah". I love those long vowels!!

I spent some time around Richmond, Virginia and they had a strange accent there....where the people would pronounce things like "abote the hose" with barely a "u" in there to be found when saying "about the house". That used to drive me crazy!!!! a,e,i,o,U, and sometimes even Y people! Use them ALL!!!!!!

USA Southern drawl.

"Jeet yet?"

Okay, when you pronounce stuff, do you pronounce right as 'roight'? I stereotype that everyone from the North says that, and that they pronounce my as 'me'.

So Mr Smarty Pants, how would a British Columbian Canuck as yourself distinguish Torontonians?

What does Canadian accent sound to you like?

I speak eclectic nutcase

Standard American with a bit of Southern on various words. I always use a Georgian "y'all" to refer to people, and "wild" always gives away my time in the Carolinas. Because of my time in Brazil, I also occasionally roll my "r"s for emphasis and pronounce Portuguese vowels in some words.

It's strange that over the entire Australian continent the accent is pretty much the same.

There are some differences but it isn't anythink like the UK or US.

Living in Brisbane I notice the Victorians saying 'phoine hoime' for 'phone home', and 'boine' for 'been'. The only thing different in Sydney English is the way they overemphasise their "I" sound like when they say "fish" it sounds like "feeeeeesh" to me.

probably a combination of brooklyn, bronx and southern new jersey. i have a northern NJ accent which is close to that of the HBO show the sopranos!!
it is strange that in such a small area, NY, NJ, PA, there are so many slight difference in accents and that people in the NY boroughs could pick me out as being from NJ and not PA or visa versa.
the US is strange in the accent dept.

i think the US is strange as far a accents/dialects. we seem to have taken a similar course. i grew up in NJ, moved to NY(manhattan) and then moved to florida. i live in norther florida now which has quite the array of accents, mostly sounds like southern georgia though!!!!!

Honestly I really couldn't tell you without hearing it, it's more of an identification, as opposed to a "sounds like". To me someone from Vancouver sounds the same as someone from Toronto, or Quebec, well I guess if it's a predominately French area, they'd be speaking French, or have a heavy French accent, so I realistically would not be able to know that they were Canadian...again, it's more of an accent I can identify when I hear it.

You're the reverse of me My grandparents who raised me from 6yo and on grew up in NJ (Oradel, I believe) and Staten Island. Then my grandmother moved to the Bronx, and so that's where my influence is from. I'm in St. Pete, so we lack the southern drawl, as it's such a mixture due to it being a major retirement locale.

When I sounded more Northern than I do now, "right" would have two syllables - "rye-t" but said very close together so it almost sounds like one. That would be for saying something was "proper right good" or before asking someone a question, as in "Sir, right, when is this homework due in?"

There was also "ray-t" which was used a single word, or with a name, to ask someone how they were or to greet them, as in "Ray-t, Claire."

My dad is from Barnsley which has a very strong accent and there they say "reet".

I'm trying to think whwre they might say "roight" but that seems almost more Cockney to me.

I just ay "right" now, with one syllable. It's strange - I think in more of a Yorkshire dialect a lot of the time, but when i open my mouth, it's much more southern. Although, when I meet up with friends from school who have stronger accents than I do, I fall back into my old way of speaking as that just seems more comfortable then.

I used to say "me" instead of "my" as well, but not any more

Jamaican influenced , I almost feel that option was put there specifically for me and for that this survey gets rated GOOD

um. Yes it is. I've lived in both Melbourne and Sydney and the difference is very noticeable. In Melbourne they tend to soften their i's so they sound almost like e's like "melk" for "milk." Also a's tend to be longer and they emphasise compounds more.

Compare that to the differences in regions in the UK or between Boston and Alabama in the US. You can't be serious when you say the differences in Australia are as profound.

Hmm.... I have a standard American one. But people sometimes say, "Why do you talk that way?", and I say, "Not everyone is the same". And I don't even really have a weird voice or a foreign accent.

I'm not saying that they are "as profound". just that they are significant.

In the Potteries dialect, right is pronounced rate or rayt too. I common greeting is:

Ay up. Y'o rate mar mate? (Hello, are you alright my friend?)
Y'arm o rate, owa thee? (Yes, I am alright. How are you?)

We also pronounce Monday as Mondee and so on. The later H was phased out a long time ago.

I used to go out with someone from Keighley in Yorkshire. It always used to amuse me the way "That's really good!" became "Ay, it's right good is that!".

I always associated roight with Liverpool and Manchester area, since many bands I like come from there, and when I listen to them I just hear them saying it that way.

Well yeah, mon

Whatever.

Wow, there are in fact rude people on survey central. I hadn't found any so far. Congratulations.

Why am I rude? Don't you like other people disagreeing with you or something? If you think the differences between cities are that significant I challenge you to listen to any person on TV in Australia and be able to determine where in Australia they live.

They talk really fast and run all the syllables together!

it was your "whatever" that had the taint of rudeness, actually. The discussion about accents I was enjoying.

I'm told that I dont have an accent when I speak English here in Quebec so I guess I have a Quebec English accent but then I might have one for others who hear me speak.

USA - standard American English, with a bit of Southern California thrown in. Southern California mostly sounds standard as far as pronunciation goes, though.

I speak a fairly well enunciated standard American English, with occasional slips into hillbilly, Chicaguh and S. Draaaaaaaaaawl.

I used to speak with a Londonised Welsh accent as nobody could understand my real accent then sounded African as I lived for years in Zimbabwe mainly in the African community now my accent is back to Valleys Welsh. I can put it on stronger or weaker depending on the people I'm with. I speak Shona with a Manyika accent apparently!!

It's kind of a mix of partly southern but partly northeast something or other mixed in.

I speak with a USA Florida (down sowth) accent.(surprized you didn't mention that one).
and the USA New Orleans accent...is suthern awlso but, honestly, they don't speak like you hear in the movies.,, with that Ohh Soo Suthren drawl....their accent is Cajun. and if you go into the byou. it' very hard to understand them...it's a French accent, but its not True French.
I know because I was born there.

english, ebonics influenced....lmao

Outraged at the precise breakdown of accents from across England, Canada and the 'YOU-ESS-AY', and the assumption of homogenity of 'Scottish', Irish', 'Welsh', 'Australian' etc. ; )

I ticked both West Country and Lancashire English as it is a mix between the two. Kind of like a posh mancunian accent. I dont say droiving loicence like a devonian, but i do pronounce my t's which a lot of mancs dont do. I also pronounce my name kimberley, not kimberleh - which mancs really piss me off with.

Right on, sistah!
Just keep it real.