What accent do you have?

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IMHO your accent is appropriate wherever you decide it will be appropriate.

Typical American one. Not really anything to write home about.

I have a British accent, but unlike most British people, because of where I come from, instead of saying "Ar" for most A sounds, I say it as "Ah," like Americans do. It's how most of us in my city are.

Generically Southern

I have been all over and lived many years in Cali. But born Texan, dad Texan and Grandpa -Texan.

I live in south east for my teen years (NC FL)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNqY6ftqGq0


I'd say the least noticeable accents to technical robotic english are in parts of California/Nevada/Utah/AZ
only idioms and politics give them away.
I can usually tell people from general regions but the accent and phrases.

I would say I don't have an accent but I've been told I have a Canadian accent. I accept that everybody has an accent of some sort but Canadian? 3,000 Miles of people with the same accent?

But I have noticed specific accents for universities within their cities. McGill U and U of Montreal don't speak like the rest of Montreal. An Arts major from U of M is heaven to hear.

I've mentioned this before, but I don't have much of an accent. And I live in a part of the country that is well known for its dialect and slang, such as greeting people by saying "How's she goin', cousin? What's goin' on?"

Born and raised in Northeastern USA so whatever you call what is local to there.

I envy that youtube lady her fluency with accents which generally have eluded me. anyways, I betcha you could tell apart a Seattleite from a Spokaner.

I don't hear much of one, but I've been told I have one when I go to other parts of the country or meet someone from out of the US. I grew up about an hour or so north of Philadelphia, and have relatives from Michigan, so probably a mix of Philly, Midwest, and PA Dutch Country.

I've notices difference between east and west Washington. But it would be hard if they were met elsewhere. I might say to some guy here in podunk "you are from WA?" but not guess exact
Words like Wawshington/Warshington and bag&egg sounded hilarious. But other clues remind me which way of saying it is from larger non urban regions.

And similar to canucks english in general, specially BC canucks, Spokaners I rode with were less likely to get in a flap over anything. Pot was the only political stance they might voice. And they all called me "dude". Idahoans also sound a bit like E.Wa (my neighbor in WA of 3 years was from Idaho)

But if they are looking the same and dressed the same it would take a long conversation to separate E/W. I was there only 6 years with one away deployment. Once they say caught or egg or bag... I got em

My older kids have the subtle accent from mostly being there 9 years.

A "normal" American one.

you sound pretty good at parsing accents for source. can you describe phonetically the bag and caught egg thing?

There is most definitely such a thing as a Canadian accent from the US point of view and it can be quite distinctive if one is attuned to it.

For example, the TV series Halt and Catch Fire has a character who is supposed to be from somewhere in Texas, played by an actress (Mackenzie Davis) who has a Canadian accent you can "cut with a knife". Which is jarring under the circumstances.

I can see how there might be distinctions within Canada, although the only one I can readily distinguish is Newfoundland. I remember reading that people from the Ottawa valley have a distinct accent but I've never heard an example.

As for McGill/U de M, U de M is AFAIK a purely Francophone university where as McGill is historically Anglophone, although I believe lectures there are now given in both English and French. In terms of English, I would think any comparison between the two might be considered "apples and oranges".

Edit: in this Wikipedia article we can read that "Regional English accents are rare in Canada..." which I think reinforces part of what I said.

i just have my variant of the australian accent (which i think i posted), but the accent i like to listen to the most is a south african accent. not the black one, but the transvaal one. it seems so sonorous and carefully pronounced when they talk.

when i was younger (about 10+ years ago), i could not tell the difference between the new zealand accent and the australian one, but when i learned to discriminate the differences, then the south african accent seemed to come quickly into the foreground of my appreciation.

I know American but it gets...weird. I think I have a Wisconsin accent, though...most say California accent though I've never been there.

I don't know. I pick things from all I listen to. Maybe an odd accent in between English and American with twists from here and there (a bit of Vancouver maybe ) and probably a neat French background.