how do Folks Talk Where You're From? (Baltimore Accent)

[bcollins]

I'm not as country as this guy, but it's hard not to talk this way when you live in Western Kentucky. He lives about fifteen minutes from me - I love how people underestimate a person with a southern accent. Keep on thinking we're stupid because of the way we talk. It makes it easier for us to take you to the cleaners


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzul5rxd-i8

[Youngblood]

Almost everyone I know has an accent, except the people who live where I do, (Unless they are originally from somewheres else...)

[yvonne]

NORTH EAST ACCENT!this is how we sound before we are drunk!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LJw6PAi5Q8

[Diane]

Don't have an accent in my area, unless you're someone that moved from an area that you had one in.

[leftylee]

I speak scouse, though not broad.

[El Kabong]

Well I am not sure what kind of accent I have, most of the people in the Piedmont region of North Carolina speak with a little southern accent here and there, guys like former Gov. Mike Easley and piece of shit John Edwards are EXTREME cases of people who either try too hard to have an accent or try and polish their accent up a bit to sound dignified.

They'a = There
Own = On
Awf = Off
Supuh = Super
Seve'uh= Severe
Septembuh, Octobuh, Novembuh = September, October, November

I don't speak with much of a recognizable accent, it's probably a mixture of accents.

You Brits would get a kick out of the High Tiders! Check them out...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIZgw09CG9E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXs9cf2YWwg

[BIG H]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO2DRjLuXOg


Something like this

[Andre]

Well I am not sure what kind of accent I have, most of the people in the Piedmont region of North Carolina speak with a little southern accent here and there, guys like former Gov. Mike Easley and piece of shit John Edwards are EXTREME cases of people who either try too hard to have an accent or try and polish their accent up a bit to sound dignified.

They'a = There
Own = On
Awf = Off
Supuh = Super
Seve'uh= Severe
Septembuh, Octobuh, Novembuh = September, October, November

I don't speak with much of a recognizable accent, it's probably a mixture of accents.

You Brits would get a kick out of the High Tiders! Check them out...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIZgw09CG9E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXs9cf2YWwg

Its called a drawl youall.

[Andre]

I'm not as country as this guy, but it's hard not to talk this way when you live in Western Kentucky. He lives about fifteen minutes from me - I love how people underestimate a person with a southern accent. Keep on thinking we're stupid because of the way we talk. It makes it easier for us to take you to the cleaners


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzul5rxd-i8

Wow, I just watched that the whole way through he is great.


Talks like Boxing Gorillas last avatar pic Huckleberry hound.

[Youngblood]

I'm not as country as this guy, but it's hard not to talk this way when you live in Western Kentucky. He lives about fifteen minutes from me - I love how people underestimate a person with a southern accent. Keep on thinking we're stupid because of the way we talk. It makes it easier for us to take you to the cleaners


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzul5rxd-i8

Wow, I just watched that the whole way through he is great.


Talks like Boxing Gorillas last avatar pic Huckleberry hound.

Yea I just watched it all the way through too. I liked that guy a lot.

[Gandalf]

I don't have much of an accent. Well, that is a lie as everyone has an accent of some kind, but I don't really have a distinctive regional accent. I spent too much of my childhood moving region to region to ever get set into talking a set way. I suppose if anything my accent is more RP (recieved pronunciation) than anything else. My parents both have distinctive Sussex accents whilst my sister has a Yorkshire inflection. I don't have either but sometimes find my accent responding to whoever I am conversing with at the time.

[Youngblood]

I don't have much of an accent. Well, that is a lie as everyone has an accent of some kind, but I don't really have a distinctive regional accent. I spent too much of my childhood moving region to region to ever get set into talking a set way. I suppose if anything my accent is more RP (recieved pronunciation) than anything else. My parents both have distinctive Sussex accents whilst my sister has a Yorkshire inflection. I don't have either but sometimes find my accent responding to whoever I am conversing with at the time.

I honestly never thought I had an accent, until just recently, and that everyone else did. As I have started to meet people from other places in the last year, them laughing at me while I talked and calling me a Yooper, well, that was the first tip off I might in fact have a bit of one.

[CFH]

I don't have much of an accent. Well, that is a lie as everyone has an accent of some kind, but I don't really have a distinctive regional accent. I spent too much of my childhood moving region to region to ever get set into talking a set way. I suppose if anything my accent is more RP (recieved pronunciation) than anything else. My parents both have distinctive Sussex accents whilst my sister has a Yorkshire inflection. I don't have either but sometimes find my accent responding to whoever I am conversing with at the time.

I honestly never thought I had an accent, until just recently, and that everyone else did. As I have started to meet people from other places in the last year, them laughing at me while I talked and calling me a Yooper, well, that was the first tip off I might in fact have a bit of one.

What does that mean?

[Youngblood]

I don't have much of an accent. Well, that is a lie as everyone has an accent of some kind, but I don't really have a distinctive regional accent. I spent too much of my childhood moving region to region to ever get set into talking a set way. I suppose if anything my accent is more RP (recieved pronunciation) than anything else. My parents both have distinctive Sussex accents whilst my sister has a Yorkshire inflection. I don't have either but sometimes find my accent responding to whoever I am conversing with at the time.

I honestly never thought I had an accent, until just recently, and that everyone else did. As I have started to meet people from other places in the last year, them laughing at me while I talked and calling me a Yooper, well, that was the first tip off I might in fact have a bit of one.

What does that mean?

People in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan have a distinct accent. They call pop, pap, popcorn comes out papcorn,and so on. It is very noticable. And I guess because of our close association to them it has found its way into our accents just from sheer proximity. I have relatives who live not far away, mere miles who are american, and any time I have visited them I couldn't ever not laugh at how rediculous it was. How goofy they sounded.

So now I am travelling more, and talking to people from other places, and the first thing a number of them have done, is laugh and call me a Yooper, a term for an Upper Peninsula person.