Has your accent changed over time?

[turkeysandwich]

I have a pretty flat general American accent now, but I was watching some old home movies yesterday from when I was 4 or 5 years old and I sounded very Southern, almost like Honey Boo Boo. I've never moved from the south, but I did go to private school and I watched a lot of TV growing up, plus as I got older I wanted to perform, so I guess I quit sounding country at some point. There is a tape recording of me around 12 or so where I sound essentially like I do now, except with my voice cracking. In fact multiple times people have asked where I grew up, because they didn't think I was from around Memphis.

I don't know why but I'm always intrigued by accents and it is interesting to me how language evolves. When tracing my family tree all of my ancestors came from Ireland or England in the 1700's, it is strange to me how a few generations later were my grandparents who basically sounded like the Beverly Hillbillies.

[Mochi Lone Wolf]

I'm like you. I used to have a very thick southern accent being born and raised in Alabama.

However, Living in Wisconsin and the East Coast as an army brat has made it more neutral. Now, I have the kind of accent you would hear from Brian Williams. It isn't distinctive in any way.

[ayumidah]

I have a general American accent but sometimes a random southern twang really comes out. I have no clue why, I've never been out of Illinois, and yet I've always spoke like that.

[Phil Parent]

I used to sound like GSP when I spoke English.

Now I sort of sound like a southerner.

Watched too many Cornette shoots and old NWA shows, I guess. And JR play-by-play.

I don't mind it, having that accent when you speak English in Montreal usually gets you better service because they think you're a tourist.

[Eunös ✈]

Sounded a lot Posher as a Kid

But now I have the typical Medway/South London accent.

[Evil Homer]

yes I had general american accent , but now have developed a NY- Brooklyn accent, even though ive lived in NY my entire life - the accent just sort of appeared when I was in my early 20's

[Urethra Franklin]

Accents FASCINATE me. I don't think I have one, but nobody thinks they do.

Anyway, my GF is from the Niagara region in southern Ontario. We will often go visit her parents and when we do, we will head into Buffalo because it's only about a 20-minute drive from her family.

What amazes me is that here you have people who live 20-minutes from one another and sound COMPLETELY different. It's unreal and I don't think there's rhyme or reason.

I guess our UK posters can speak to this phenomenon, too, considering the variety of dialects in close proximity.

[Zombie Mod is not a ghoul.]

The closest poster to me would be square, (if he's still in Preston) which would be 12 miles or so and our accents are very different, same with most other local posters.

I'd say my accent is close to most of the northeners in game of thrones, but not so Yorkshire

[Amazing Kitsune]

Still pretty Southern, but not extremely thick. Which is great, because if anything I'd feel terrible if I lost it completely.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

I'm from Nottingham, but my parents are from Kent so I have always had a bit of a bizarre non-accent. If I'm back in Nottingham that comes out, but to this day I have no set sound for my vowels. I can use both an 'ah' and an 'arr' sound in the same sentence.

[The Sam]

Like all Australians, my accent only goes into overdrive whenever I'm on an American TV show, then it's all "STONE THE CROWS AND LIGHT A STRUTH! SHAZZA IS IN THE DUNNY WITH THE VEGEMITE PLATYPUS and so on."

[Deleted]

Mine is strange now from moving all over. I sound mostly like a California guy, but mixed somewhat with a slight southern accent and outdated ghetto slang.

[Sephiroth]

I actually had a speech impediment as a child-according to my mother, I talked like Elmer Fudd. I took several years of speech therapy classes, and as no small result I am told I speak very articulately to this day, though you would not know it based on my spelling and punctuation. When I was going through that magic period in a boy's life where hair grows where it didn't used to be and you suddenly become obsessed with sex, I was often told I sounded like I had a British or Aussie accent, I assume because my voice was changing. Today I have a rather basso voice, though I am prone to getting shrill when I am upset or worked up about something.

[Wailing Fungus]

Nope, mine has never really changed to my knowledge. Still pretty devoid of a Norfolk accent despite living here my entire life, minus the odd twang that even catches myself off guard.

[Mozenrath]

Ne'er yoo mind that, luv, ah've always talked like dis.

[Deleted]

My voice can be described as "nasal", kinda flat. (Think something similar to Fran Dresher.) Unless I'm saying certain words, then I have a distinct Southern twang to it.

[Deleted]

Mine changes a lot, actually. I generally sound like an average American but being from eastern Kentucky I can switch back to that accent with ease. I can also match accents whenever I'm singing something from pretty much any artist.

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

I'm not sure if I really have an accent (I'm from St. Louis). I sometimes say "hurr" as opposed to "here" by accident, but that might have been something I subconsciously picked up from friends/family.

[CATCH_US IS the Conversation]

I speak mostly "normal" with a very slight Southern twang due to having spent my childhood years in South Carolina.

[Brother Nero....Wolfe]

I remember having a thread here some time ago where people tried to guess where my bizarre accent came from. It was pretty fun. I have a bizarre accent backstory due to moving around a lot of different countries as a kid. I think the consensus was that I sounded like Bryan Alvarez.