What is your favourite Accent...

[wolf_Q]

Irish, Scottish, Brittish, Australian...I LOVE listening to cool accents!

Erm I'm not sure how much of one I have...I'm sure I speak a bit of Hickish, as I'm from Utah.

[carole]

I think the Utah accent is very pretty, I spent sometime there, and loved the way you speak, but I adore the NEW YORK accent, possibly because my best friend online is from there, and when we do voice chat, it sounds so darn cute.

I used to think Canadians and Americans sounded the same, just like people think aussies and NZ'ers sound the same, but My american friend pointed out the difference, and now I can pick it up,It is quite different, and you don't have to listen hard to hear it, I love both the canadian and american accents, BRING EM ON!!!

[Karen]

I don't really have a favorite, honestly. One really nice accent that everyone loved was my old boss's daughter. Her Dad (I'll just call him Boss for this story) is Scottish (pale white guy) and met and married her mom while serving in the British military in Jamaica. Their kids grew up in both places, so mix Scottish with Jamaican, add a bit of American influence, and that's her accent. Kathleen strongly resembles her beautiful Jamaican mom, but with cafe au lait skin and dark curly hair. She's a very pretty young woman. Years ago, she spent a summer working at the newspaper her dad and I worked at. One of the publishers didn't figure out she was Boss's daughetr for a month or so. When he finally learned Kathleen's name, he came down and asked Boss - "Where'd a guy like you get a good-looking daughter like that? Boss, to his eternal credit, immediately pointed at himself and replied "Chip off the old block!"

[popcornbird]

Originally posted by Cataholic


As to Canadians sounding different from Americans...I think the difference is easily remarkable. You Canadians...you all sound so funny! (he he he..come on down and get me, come on!)

You're right Johanna! Canadians all sound so funny!

Just Kidding.........

He he he

I want to hear Logan's Southern accent sooooooo bad!

[Miss Meow]

Originally posted by Ally Cat's Mommy
I ADORE a nice Scottish accent - like Ian Hannah or David Coulthard.
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I ADORE David Coulthard!

[GoldenRetrLuver]

I don't notice a difference at all between Americans and Canadians. I'm part Canadian, and have been there a couple times, and can say I don't notice *any* difference between them and us.

[captain]

Irish!

[Kater]

Originally posted by lat192004
My all-time least favorite accent is the Local Pidgeon, I have been in Hawaii almost 17 years and can only understand bits and pieces. Major culture-clash here.

Ooooh, I love Hawaiian 'pidgin'! As well as pretty much all the other accents mentioned! Variety is the spice of life!

lat192004, check out this site to learn some pidgin words/phrases : http://www.extreme-hawaii.com/pidgin/vocab/

I hope I'm not a getting a Wisconsin accent!

[wolf_Q]

Canada is a large country. As many have mentioned there's several varieties of an "American" accent, so I bet there's several varieties of a "Canadian" accent too.

So I'm sure there IS a difference, just depending on which variety you're comparing.

[Killearn Kitties]

Nothing to do with accents, I just have to tell Ally Cat's Mommy and Miss Meow my David Coulthard story.

When he was competing in the Scottish Karting series as a young boy, my husband, Alec, was racing in it as well. Alec wasn't doing it seriously, he had previously raced in the national Formula Ford 1600 series and he and some friends were karting for fun. When David Coulthard was in his senior year and had the sponsorship together to compete in FF1600, he asked Alec for any help or advice he could give him, because Alec was the only person he knew who had raced in the national series.

The fact that David Coulthard sought advice from Alec causes no end of amusement in our house. I can only assume he ignored it!

Back on the subject of accents! We had an Australian guy working on a project with us once. I can't remember exactly where he was from, but he had a very gentle accent, nothing over-the-top, but he did say "G'day"! This tickled us no end, because none of us had realised that people actually said that. The girls practically queued up to say Good Morning to him, just so we could hear him say "G'day". One of the girls working with us was called Sheila, but he resisted the temptation to say "G'day Sheila" even though we were all secretly dying to hear it.

[lynnestankard]

Diane (eldest D.,) went over to USA to marry Jason with a normal English accent - now 5 years later she's gotten an American accent!!!
Funny thing is - as soon as she speaks to me, her Dad or her sister - she's English again!!! Jason can always tell when she's recently spoken to us - 'cos his English bride is back again!!!
The very first time I called her at work I asked to speak to Diane Glick and after a little pause heard 'Mum is that you?' I hadn't recognised her American accent!!!
The last time she came over with Jason he was tickled to death - the moment she stepped off the plane - her English accent flooded back!
What makes me giggle is most people say a British accent is their fave., but there are so many different regional accents - Liverpool, Birmingham, Newcastle, Manchester, London, Devon, Cornwall, Norfolk etc etc etc etc!!! Even we can't understand everyone all the time!

My favourite? I have to vote for Scottish!

Lynne

[davidpizzica]

Some people say that Pittsburghers have a strange accent! When I go out of town, people ask "what kind of accent is that?" We use phrases like "read up my room" and words like 'gumband" and "pop".

[Vio&Juni]

Originally posted by Miss Meow
I'm going to set up a 1-900-DIAL-AN-AUSSIE-GUY line and make a fortune out of you lot!

I would lose all my savings on that

BTW, I love how Steve Irwin speaks. They show this short video about him on Animal Planet (I think, or is it Discovery?) where he tells about how he met his wife. I love it

I like British accents, at least some. I met a Scottish football team about 2 years ago in Chisinau. I couldn't understand A THING of what they were saying . Then, I met this really gorgeous, handsome, great Scottish guy, but, unfortunately, because I had to wrinkle my forehead all the time to understand what he was saying... I can't admit to have my forehead wrinkled
He told me once that he thinks I am so pretty and I asked What? that was a bit embarrassing It sounded like I wanted to hear this once again.

[cloverfdx]

Southern American and Scottish.

Will come back later have to feed the dogs.

[Tonya]

Originally posted by dukedogsmom
English or Austrailian. Love listening to them! Sometimes we have English people that rent houses in our county because it's close to Disney World. The other day, woman had to call for an ambulance and I loved her accent. Don't know what this means but she said the guy was "fitting". Anyone know what that means?

He was having a seizure.