Accent Tag! You're It.

[Shell B]

Mine changes too. I shall talk to my family before I record my video. However, there really aren't many words on that list that bring out a Boston accent.

[Rokcet Scientist]

Mine changes too. I shall talk to my family before I record my video. However, there really aren't many words on that list that bring out a Boston accent.

Well, they haven't been in the spotlights for while but I remember the Kennedys' drawl!

[thesummerqueen]

Similarly, when I was overseas, I layed on the drawl thicker than my cousin Cletus. The females ate it up, I may as well have been dripping honey from my lips. Probably has something to do with that whole "sense of the exotic" that changes as quickly as you change state lines.

lol, even going as far north as Maryland and laying it on gets a peachy reaction.

[Shell B]

That reminds me, Summer. I will be down your neck of the woods in September!!

[Rokcet Scientist]

lol, even going as far north as Maryland and laying it on gets a peachy reaction.

Differences in accents can be extremely local: I can clearly hear a difference between my town's inhabitants and those of the next village, not 5 miles away!

[thesummerqueen]

That reminds me, Summer. I will be down your neck of the woods in September!!

Awesome - still hot but hopefully not sweltering. Let me know what your schedule is and where you'll be and I'll do the rest.

lol, even going as far north as Maryland and laying it on gets a peachy reaction.

Differences in accents can be extremely local: I can clearly hear a difference between my town's inhabitants and those of the next village, not 5 miles away!

Yeah, after living here I can tell the difference between a Charlotte native, a piedmont backwoodsman, and a mountain-dweller. Sometimes it's just a matter of how strong the drawl is, but there's a difference in inflection and the way certain things get stressed. It's pretty interesting.

Something interesting I learned in high school was that if you wanted to get as close as possible to the type of English in Shakespeare's time, you had to drag out a real bumpkin from the upper middle Appalachians. The English accent as we know it developed I think when the Hanovarians took over.

[Rokcet Scientist]

BTW, Summer, I agree: imo you speak in a fairly general mid east coast accent, with hints of a southern drawl. But not nearly as thick as Aleia's of course.

[thesummerqueen]

Ahh, here's something: it's not the pages I originally found back in the day, but it'll do for anyone vaguely interested:

http://www.bardweb.net/language.html

Which links to this - the page has pronunciation guides and such.

http://www.renfaire.com/Language/

(For the record, while I go to the Faire as often as possible, and have even worn a corset or two, I never got THIS deep into it)

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I can't wait to listen to y'all when I get home. I hate not having sound on this computer.

[The Grand Nudger]

Park the car and walk to the bar, Shell.
(I'm a fucking sucker for that accent btw)

[Faith No More]

Since many of us have discussed our accents, I thought I would make an accent tag video. I am hoping others here will do this too, as I think it would be a lot of fun to hear everyone's unique accents. If not, feel free to make hilarious little comments about mine.

According to my grandparents, you say 'pecan' like a northerner. According to them the true southern way to say it is supposed to be with with the emphasis on the 'Pee' followed by 'Can' as in 'can of corn.'