What's your accent?

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The accents thing is going crazy recently, at least for me. It's popping up everywhere. So let's pull up some random words. Copy and paste the words, say them out loud and tell us how you say them normally. Include any slang or alternatives. They're in the spoiler.

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Courtesy
Brisbane
Vandal
Lemonade
Esplanade
Fish and chips
Notebook
Mountains
Water
Food
Butterfly
Ice block
Soft drink
Alternate
London
(the letter) Z
(the letter) H
Smiley
Hair
Limbs
Dinner
Elephant
Bowling
Fight


Here's mine ;) I'm from Aus

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Courtesy - Cor-tessy
Brisbane - Brisban
Vandal - Van-dal
Lemonade - Lemon-aid
Esplanade - Esplan-ard
Fish and chips - Fish and chips
Notebook - N-ote-book
Mountains - Mount-ans
Water - Wa-tah
Food - Fooh-d
Butterfly - Butt-er-fly
Ice block - Ice blo-k
Soft drink - Sof-t drink
Alternate - Al-ter-nat (as an alternate choice)
London - Lon-don
(the letter) Z - zed
(the letter) H - hay-ch
Smiley - Sm-eye-lee
Hair - h-air
Limbs - Lims
Dinner - Dinna (aka Tea)
Elephant - Eleh-fant
Bowling - Bol-ling
Fight - f-eye-t


Please post words you think would go well on the list!! :D
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I have no idea how to do accents so... um... youtube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osh8WtOXWkw
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I really wasn't sure how to spell some of the pronunciations...

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Courtesy - Caw-tessy
Brisbane - Bris-bane
Vandal - Van-d(e)ll
Lemonade - Leh-moh-naid
Esplanade - Esp-la-naid
Fish and chips - Fish-n-chips!
Notebook - Note-book?
Mountains - Moun-tins
Water - Wa-tuh
Food - ...food?
Butterfly - But-teh-fly
Ice block - Ice block
Soft drink - Soft drink
Alternate - Al-tur-net
London - Lahn-don
(the letter) Z - zed/zee
(the letter) H - ay-ch
Smiley -smi-lee
Hair - hair
Limbs - limms
Dinner - d-innah
Elephant - eh-leh-phant
Bowling - bo-ling
Fight - figh-t
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xD I love it! Here's mine (Bostonian/New Englander here):

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Courtesy - Curtissee
Brisbane - Briz-bain (what is that?)
Vandal - Van-dull
Lemonade - Lemun-aid
Esplanade - Ess-pluh-nad(e) (again, what is that?)
Fish and chips - Fish 'n' chips
Notebook N-Ote-book
Mountains - Moun-tins
Water - Wah-ter
Food - Food ;)
Butterfly - Budderfly
Ice block - Ice block
Soft drink - Soft drink
Alternate - ALL-ternet
London- Lundun
(the letter) Z - Zee
(the letter) H - Aytch
Smiley - Smylee
Hair - Hare
Limbs - Limms
Dinner - Dinn-r
Elephant - Ell-e-fent
Bowling - BOW-ling
Fight - Fight


Normally, people from or around Boston pronounce their r's (as in "car") as "cahh" but I never really picked that up, and it's not very prominent, unless I'm talking fast. :P But I DO say wicked. As in "This thread is wicked awesome!" ;)
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My accent makes me sound like a five year old roughian with a learning difficulty, but hey, it's funny. Oh, and I epically suck at writing down accents, so sorry if this is totally wrong... not that you'll ever know... Mwahahaha... EDIT: Actually, you will if you watch the video... Darn.

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Courtesy - Curt-see
Brisbane - Briz-bain (Never heard the word in my life. :P)
Vandal - Van-dull
Lemonade - Lemun-aid
Esplanade - Esp-la-nad (Once again... no idea what I just said)
Fish and chips - Fish 'n' chips
Notebook - Note-book
Mountains - Mount-ins
Water - Wa-tur
Food - Food
Butterfly - Buttuh-fly
Ice block - Ice block
Soft drink - Soft drink
Alternate - Al-tuh-nut (That's a funny way to pronounce it... :lol:)
London - Lun-done
(the letter) Z - Zee (Even though it should be zed considering I'm British...)
(the letter) H - Huh (I can explain! I'm bilingual, and in Welsh, you say H like huh... I always say it in Welshiness for some reason...) It's the only letter I do that with though, weirdly.)
Smiley - Smile-ee
Hair - Hair
Limbs - Limms
Dinner - Dinn-uh
Elephant - El-eh-phunt (Sometimes el-ee-phunt)
Bowling - Bo-ling
Fight - Fite

Something interesting about my accent is that it involves cutting out the last and first letters of a lot of words, especially 'ing' words... That, for example, changes to tha. What changes to wa, loving changes to lovin, dreaming changes to dreamin. Hang on changes to ang on, haven't changes to aven't. e.t.c.



Or in simpler terms... I more or less sound like the guys in this... Just with a higher voice, considering I'm not male.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw0-1VXx ... re=related
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I didn't know what to put here so I put this.




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(Brisbane is a city in Australia and esplanade is a street in a park. Sheesh. :P)
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D'aww. Demi beat me to that post.

My accent is a strange mix of Indian and American (well, I don't know which American. I'm easily influenced by TV.)
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Courtesy - Cur't-essie
Brisbane - Bris-ban
Vandal - Van-dull
Lemonade - Lem-uhn-aid
Esplanade - Ess-pluh-naad. (I don't say -nade, and what I say is probably wrong but yeah.)
Fish and chips - Fish - ANd - Chips. (I stress on the and.)
Notebook - NO't-buk.
Mountains - Moun-tens
Water - Wa-ter or Wah-der (it varies. I pronounce the 'T' often but then, I do say it with a d too.)
Food - Foo-d
Butterfly - Butter-fly.
Ice block - Ice - blok
Soft drink - Sauft - Drink
Alternate - All-ter-net
London - Lon-don
(the letter) Z - Zed. (Though, I do say Zee sometimes. Like in math, I say 'zed' while I talk about the alphabet or the channel, I say zee.)
(the letter) H - Here, we were taught it as 'hetch' but then, when I was 13/14, I switched to ay-tch.
Smiley - (Huh?) Sm-eye-lee
Hair - H-air
Limbs - Lims
Dinner - Din-ner.(I never miss out the r.)
Elephant - Eleh-ph'nt
Bowling - Bow-ling
Fight - F-eye-'t

Yay!
Now, this would be so much easier if there were those pronunciation letter things.


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Midwestern Twang. Turn on the TV in the states or whatever American shows you receive, that's what you're hearing.




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Yaaaaaaaay! It's really awesome to read what you guys sound like, it's really different ^^ *gives everyone a massive love-huggle*
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I'm from the southern United Sates, so I guess I have a southern accent?

Courtesy - kurt-essy
Brisbane - briss-bay-n
Vandal- vand-al
Lemonade - lemon-ayd
Esplanade - es-plain-aid
Fish and chips- fish ain chips
Notebook- note- book
Mountains - moun-tins
Water- wah-tur
Food- fude
Butterfly - buttuh fly
Ice block - eyes block
Soft drink- soph- dreenk
Alternate - aLL-tur-nat
London - lun-dun
(the letter) Z - zee
(the letter) H- aich
Smiley - sm-eye- leigh
Hair - hay- ur
Limbs- lims
Dinner- dinn-ur
Elephant - elay-faint
Bowling - boe-wu-leeng
Fight - feyet

I guess. I mean, like most of the rest of the people above me, I'm not sure if I spelled the pronunciations correctly, but whatever. :)

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eab10 wrote:I'm from the southern United Sates, so I guess I have a southern accent?

Courtesy - kurt-essy
Brisbane - briss-bay-n
Vandal- vand-al
Lemonade - lemon-ayd
Esplanade - es-plain-aid
Fish and chips- fish ain chips
Notebook- note- book
Mountains - moun-tins
Water- wah-tur
Food- fude
Butterfly - buttuh fly
Ice block - eyes block
Soft drink- soph- dreenk
Alternate - aLL-tur-nat
London - lun-dun
(the letter) Z - zee
(the letter) H- aich
Smiley - sm-eye- leigh
Hair - hay- ur
Limbs- lims
Dinner- dinn-ur
Elephant - elay-faint
Bowling - boe-wu-leeng
Fight - feyet

I guess. I mean, like most of the rest of the people above me, I'm not sure if I spelled the pronunciations correctly, but whatever. :)

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Here's mine, represented to the best of my ability. Only, how I represent them "phonetically" is going to be different than other accent's representations.... oh well.

For the most part, if a vowel is followed by an 'h', it's the long version.

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Courtesy - kur-teh-see
Brisbane - Brihz bayn
Vandal - van dul
Lemonade - lehm un ayd
Esplanade - Es pluh nayd
Fish and chips- fihsh and chihps.
Notebook - noht buhk
Mountains- mowhnt uhns (I had trouble with this ones. Think of 'ow' as in "Ow! You're on my foot!"
Water - wahter
Food - ...food? Like in boot, and dude, and sued, and rude.
Butterfly- buhder fly (with 'fly' as in 'sky' and 'rye' and 'my')
Ice block- Is blahk (With the 'I' in ice there was in die and tie and rye)
Soft drink- Sawft dreenk (Soda, here.)
Alternate- the noun: ahl ter neht the verb: alh ter nayt
London- Luhn duhn
(the letter)- Z zee!
(the letter)- H aich
Smiley- smy lee
Hair- hehr
Limbs- lims
Dinner- dihn nur
Elephant- ehl uh fuhnt
Bowling bohl- eeng
Fight- fiyght
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I have a very loose Vermont accent, which cannot be found on Youtube or the like. It's a distinct accent, a dying one too. I rarely say my T's. So Vermont sounds like Vermon'. Cute eh?

The original dialect sounded like this: Ain't tha' Sad'ay, ri'ot?

Translation: Isn't that Saturday, right?
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I'm Minnesotan, don't cha know?

Kidding, no one actually says that. Well...they don't say it that much.

Generally speaking, it sounds like "normal American" with the exception of never pronouncing the "g" at the end of an "-ing" word, sometimes "d"s become "t"s, and "o"s are elongated. And we like to end sentences with a preposition and a rise in pitch.

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Courtesy- kurt-ah-see
Brisbane - briz-bay-ne
Vandal- van-dawl
Lemonade - lem-ohn-ayde
Esplanade - (I don't think I've ever seen this word before 0_o) s-plan-ayde
Fish and chips - fish sticks (XD)
Notebook - no-t-b-ooh-k
Mountains - mawn-taynes
Water - wah-ter
Food - f-ooh-ed
Butterfly - but-er-fly (>.>)
Ice block - eye-c bl-awk
Soft drink - Pop
Alternate - ahl-t-er-nayte
London - lun-dun
(the letter) Z - sounds like "C" when said aloud
(the letter) H - Ay-sh
Smiley - sm-eye-lee
Hair - hh-aye-rr
Limbs - l-ihm-bah-s
Dinner - d-ihn-uhr
Elephant - l-eh-f-aynt
Bowling - bow-lin
Fight - fi-i-huh-t
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