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

[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.

[El Kabong]

People from Buffalo speak a lot like the "Youpers", it can really throw you off

[RP33]

leftylee and tam seddon don't even speak english as far as i'm concerned.. i see their status and stuff on facebook and i seriously don't even understand it.. it may as well be a different language. If i wasn't at work i would be able to post some examples but facebook is blocked on my work network.

i live on the east coast of the states, in RI, and i can happily say that i don't have the typical RI/Boston accent that about 90% of them have. I pronounce my R's.