What Accent Do You Have?

There are so many variations of accents and sayings in a relatively small area in the UK.
I work all over the UK and get to know so many slang terms.

Some parts of Scotland can be hard work though, like when someone calls you "hen" (which I think means "mate", though I'm not sure for definate).
The word "ken" means "do you understand?"

Could any scots here verify this?

I was working in Teesport just two months ago and heard a few of the sayings you mentioned.

 

I have an undifferentiated middle-class british accent.

I've lived in various places, and I haven't picked up an accent from any of them.

 

I have a generic "Western" U.S. accent. It is the newest accent in the U.S., since the West was the last area to be settled. I've noticed that people here in L.A. sound no different than people back home in Denver.

Here are some ways to illustrate it:

I pronounce "marry", "Mary", and "merry" identically. "Cot" and "caught" are the same for me, same with "Don" and "dawn". I pronounce "pin" and "pen" differently. I say the word "food" more like "fewd" with a fronted more rounded /u/. I call soda "soda"

Slang terms I use:
sick (cool)
totes (totally)
kosh (kosher/cool)
dope (cool)
tree (marijuana)
O (ounce of marijuana)
sup (what is up)
dude (I even call females this)
for days (a lot of)
bomb (good)
legit (good)
bombskies (good)
donezo (done/finished)
jank/janky (trash/low class)
the shit (something that is cool)
like/all like (said)
bank (money)
flip a bitch (make a u-turn)
trip balls (freaking out)

 

I have a tinge of a scouse accent mixed with... Something. Definitely not my local accent though, so I'm not sure where I picked it up from.

I do recognise the majority of the slang on your list, but not all. I'm not really too entrenched in any of the slang round here, so I don't know much and I don't use too many slang words myself, in fact, so few that I can't think of them now.

 

Same

 

Well, I'm not a stereotypical redneck. I'm more articulate and tend to veer away from country people whenever possible. I think I speak more northern. But you will hear these things in the South:

Ain't: Contraction of are not(The English teachers hate this word).
Air-Up: Pressurize or inflate
A Larking: Harmless fun or mischief. To play a prank on someone.
Arkansas Toothpick: A large knife.
Bowed Up: Marked by impatience or ill humor. Refers to the way a snake bows up his head before he strikes.
Bread Basket: Stomach.
Caddywampus: Askew.
Chief Cook and Bottle Washer: A person capable of doing many things.
Fit To Be Tied: Angry.
Grab A Root: Have dinner. Refers to potatoes.
Hankering: A strong or persistent desire or yearning -- often used with for or after.
Horse Sense: Smart.
Hunkey Dorey: Everything is great.
Like To: Almost.
Out of Kilter: Out of sorts.
Tarred and Feathered: Used to denote great surprise.
That Dog Won't Hunt: That idea won't work.
Walking On A Slant: Drunk.
War Between The States; War For Southern Independence; War of Northern Aggression: The American Civil War.
Washiteria: A self-service laundry.
Y'all: You all.
Yaller Dog: Coward.
Yankee: Someone from the North.
Your Druthers Is My Ruthers: We agree;Your preferences are mine.

So yeah, I'm kinda out of place here. Also, I put everything in alphabetical order!

 

Cultivated Australian. My dialect and accent are so standard to the point of being nearly identical to textbook language. Of course, I still use (largely US) slang from the internet and other pop culture for the sake of humour and so on, but they don't really naturally fit.

Australia has different vocabulary (and of course our own words to describe things that don't exist outside of the country) to the US or Britain, but I can't even remember any specific examples.

 

I have an American accent. It's pretty generic, but I do say things like "pitcher" instead of "picture" I don't really know what that really falls under, all I know is that my friends get pissed and I can't help it.

 

Mine is a mixture as I come from somewhat mixed backgrounds. Some parts of my speech sound like a well-spoken upper class British accent and some are more South-London working class due to the area I grew up in. As a child I had a very strong French accent as my mother is French, that has mostly faded now but occasionally a little bit will slip through.

 

West coast accent I guess, probably pretty similar to MintberryCrunch. Most of the slang here comes from the surfer/stoner culture. Stuff like legit, hella, beast, bro, dude, man, etc.

 

Southern drawl (I'm from the Deep South, Dixie as heck).

A few sayings:
"Devil's beating his wife."- Means it's raining but sunny.
"Go hog wild."- Have a good time.
"Well I do declare."- Literally nobody knows what this means, it's just said sometimes.
"Over yonder/yander."- Over there, across the street, over the hill, etc.
"Fixin' to."- About to.
"Sweet talkin' thing."- A person (usually a young guy) who is good at complimenting. Best to watch out for them.
"Cow lick."- A hair that sticks out of place.
"Well, shut my mouth."- Surprised, shocked, etc.
"Well bless his/her heart, she/he just don't know."- This is something you don't want to hear about yourself. If a Southern lady says "Bless your heart, you just don't know" you best watch your tongue.
"Reckon."- I guess so.

There are many others, those are just a few.

 

Yeah I also basically have this accent

 

I'm so grateful that I don't have the Boston accent. I don't think I have much of an accent at all, but some quiz I took online a few years ago said I have a Canadian accent. I'm not entirely sure what that is though. I know one of my grandparents doesn't pronounce the letter H (huge => uge) but that's probably a French influence.

I'm sure I use plenty of slang but nothing immediately comes to mind. I know when I was a kid I used to say "wicked" all the time which is pretty stereotypical around here but that stopped a long time ago.

I remember we had a similar thread several months ago where everyone was pronouncing the same list of words on ####### -- I don't know if I was more shocked that some people pronounce "marry" the same as the other two or that it was possible to pronounce "Mary" different than "merry". Similarly, I didn't know

I'm with you on all of these though, with the possible exception of "food". I don't know if I've heard them pronounced differently. Calling "soda" "pop" seems to be common in Canada (although my grandparents say "soft drink") but I've always said "soda" which is typical around here.

 

I basically have the same accent except I call soda cola. Literally all soda is cola to me

 

I suppose to people not from where I live I have an accent.

but to me I sound like every one else I know. lol

I live in Illinois.

 

I have a "Southern" accent, but thankfully mine isn't as heavy as some down here have

 

A southern English accent. More or less Home Counties, but perhaps with a few words and sounds from elsewhere.

 

Stereotypical west coast accent. Lots of us say " 'member" instead of "remember" and "yah"/"yeh" rather than "yeeaah." "Dude," "bro," "man," "girlfrand," and stuff like that. Pronounce "putting" like "pudding." ("Are you pudding it there?" x3) Though I can't recall if that's a slur everyone does or not.