Official Post Your Accent Thread (while the rest of us guess what city/state/region you're from) (move to, Russian)

[BVitamin]

NatashaH, West Coast with a hint of a foreign accent, not quite sure which though.

[BPerone201]

Originally Posted by NatashaH

I hope this thread is not dead yet. Here's mine.


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Please Excuss the ums and likes, I'm not a airhead (well 75% of the time), I just didn't know what to say, lol.

West NY/Buffalo?

[NatashaH]

BVitamin: No I'm not from the west coast

BPerone201: West NY/Buffalo? I never got that before, interesting, but not I'm not from there either, but you're getting close.

[David Alleyne]

Originally Posted by NatashaH

BVitamin: No I'm not from the west coast

BPerone201: West NY/Buffalo? I never got that before, interesting, but not I'm not from there either, but you're getting close.

Are you Canadian? That's close and I've heard some of them who doesn't sound like what you'd think a Canadian would sound like.

[NatashaH]

Originally Posted by Scott Summers

Are you Canadian? That's close and I've heard some of them who doesn't sound like what you'd think a Canadian would sound like.

yes, born and raised.

[BPerone201]

Originally Posted by NatashaH

BVitamin: No I'm not from the west coast

BPerone201: West NY/Buffalo? I never got that before, interesting, but not I'm not from there either, but you're getting close.

Toronto?

[David Alleyne]

Originally Posted by NatashaH

yes, born and raised.

Well, to be honest, I thought that you were from somewhere out West but you said pasta like Frank Carbonni (who everyone believed was Canadian) & I just ran with that.

[QweffL]

Originally Posted by NatashaH

yes, born and raised.

Never would have guessed. I wanted to say West Coast.

[QweffL]

Here you go

[houstoner]

Originally Posted by migol84

that's one of the biggest reasons why many texans get annoyed when the media portrays texans as "cowboys" and speaking with thick southern accents. there's many people from texas, born and raised, that do not have southern accents except that they use "y'all" as bout as much as anyone from here.

Exactly! And I'm a fifth-generation Texan. Many of us don't have Southern accents, which shouldn't be mystifying at all if people would remember that, along with California and New York, Texas is one of the biggest states in the nation in population. There are way too many transplants here for all of us to sound Southern, or even Texan. I'm in my thirties and I'd say that's been the case with Houston at least since the 1980's, if not before. You especially won't find these accents much in the major cities, unless they're on people from smaller, more isolated Texas cities. Even in some of the small towns, people have been too influenced by TV and media to have much of an accent, though if you travel the backroads you will find them more frequently. I may not have an accent, but I will continue to say "y'all" till my dying day.