I have a NY accent, I've lived in NY most of my life, but then moved down to N.C. But like B.R.I.A.N. said, I don't talk like I don't know what the letter "r" is. People like that get on my nerves.
I don't know exactly what kind of accent I have, but I have a tendency to say words beginning with the letters TR and DR differently. For example I would usually pronounce the word truth like "tshrooth" or "chrooth" and the word drop like "dzhrahp" or "jrahp." What is comes down to is adding a SH or a ZH sound after the T or D when those letters are followed by an R.
I'd say my accent is the same as what people speak in northern Ohio and central Michigan.
yeah i do, my accent is called "Norteño" (people that live in the north part of Mexico)
and what is different is that we do the "spanglish" thing, is very funny.
People who meet me from other states and know I live in NJ are surprised to find I don't have a New Yawk accent although supposedly I say "water" and "yeah" weird
I don't have . I can talk in american accent / british. But as for the middle east region ,people always keep guessing that I'm from another country. I also have a Mariah carey skin ,so you can't guess If I'm black or white.
Mel, if I recall correctly you saw water kinda the same way I do... "wooder" or "worder".
lookie what wikipedia says
General American is a national accent of American English based on speech patterns common in the Midwest of the United States and those used by many American network television broadcasters. It is also sometimes called Standard Midwestern or American broadcast English.
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then there is also....
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