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Sometimes a southern accent will come through, but most of the time it doesn’t.
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Offline Eh, ye’ve all heard my voice. A lot of people don’t know where I come from but when I mention Ireland they go “ahhhhhhh” (with an ‘oh yeah of course tone’).
I have a teeny weeny bit of a country accent which I absolutely hate, sometime I pronounce ‘t’s in the middle of words as ‘sh’, so water becomes washer, non-Irish people get confused for a few seconds before getting what I’m saying.
As regards do other Irish people know what county I come from? Nope, my county doesn’t have a particular standout accent, so I generally have to say where I’m from.
So, do I sound very, very Irish to you all?
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Offline I’ve never heard you speak before but from the contents of your posts, you definitely seem Irish to me.
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Do people ever tell you that you speak with a noticeable accent?
For me, the answer is yes. When I go out-of-state, it happens. Back when I went to college in Missouri, people would always be pointing out my Chicago accent to me.
If I leave Scotland yes. Probably as no one can understand a word I say as I can speak very quickly.
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Offline I have a naturally fairly high pitched voice so i like talking with a high pitch.
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Necko said
Do people ever tell you that you speak with a noticeable accent?
Yeah, both in Australia and elsewhere. TBH it’s not that unusual in the SE corner of Australia but I spent much of my childhood in Queensland and boy do they notice.
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Do people ever tell you that you speak with a noticeable accent?
No, nobody has ever told me that before because every time I visit a specific area I’m able not only to hide the fact that I’m not a Native Speaker but also to instantly adapt the prevalent accent so that people think I have lived in that exact place all my life. Amazing, eh?
Just kidding, truth is, I’ve got quite a thick accent when I speak, especially words with ‘c’ or ‘t’ in the middle or ‘th’ at the end are nearly unintelligible when I pronounce them because I swallow some letters (like ‘unfortunately’, ‘especially’ or ‘thirteenth’). But I’m very proud it’s not a German accent (that one’s sooo’ ugly, I tell you). You can definitely hear I’m not a Native speaker but no connection to a country. One time, someone had asked me whether I’m from Russia because of my accent.
Also @AppleScruffJunior, do you say ‘tink’ instead of ‘think’ sometimes? That’s what an exchange student from Ireland did who came to our class a while ago.
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Offline Martha said
Also @AppleScruffJunior, do you say ‘tink’ instead of ‘think’ sometimes? That’s what an exchange student from Ireland did who came to our class a while ago.
Oh God ‘s no, I’m not that bad 
That’s a right country-accent that is. No my worst is ‘t’ being pronounced ‘sh’ in the middle of words.
Some other examples of a country/culchie accent include:
Fadder- Father
Mather- Mother
Tie-let – Toilet
An example:
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Offline Necko said
Do people ever tell you that you speak with a noticeable accent?
For me, the answer is yes. When I go out-of-state, it happens. Back when I went to college in Missouri, people would always be pointing out my Chicago accent to me.
Some people say I have a Southern US accent. Some say I don’t. I guess my accent is in the ear of the listener.
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Just kidding, truth is, I’ve got quite a thick accent when I speak, especially words with ‘c’ or ‘t’ in the middle or ‘th’ at the end are nearly unintelligible when I pronounce them because I swallow some letters (like ‘unfortunately’, ‘especially’ or ‘thirteenth’). But I’m very proud it’s not a German accent (that one’s sooo’ ugly, I tell you). You can definitely hear I’m not a Native speaker but no connection to a country. One time, someone had asked me whether I’m from Russia because of my accent.
Awww, but I love German accents (they’re definitely in my top 3 favourites)! I think they’re quite pretty, and kinda cute. 
If I may ask, what exactly about them makes you think they’re ugly? 
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Awww, but I love German accents (they’re definitely in my top 3 favourites)! I think they’re quite pretty, and kinda cute.
If I may ask, what exactly about them makes you think they’re ugly?
Sure you may ask, and the best thing is I’ll also happily answer it!
What I really don’t like is ‘th’ being pronounced as a ‘z’ and the hard and choppy sound in general because I love how soft and fluent English sounds at times. But I have to admit that this was an inconsiderate generalisation by me because there is not only one German accent. But among us students there is this nightmare of a stereotyped strong accent no one wants to have and we just call it ‘THE infamous German accent’ that’s what I was referring to.
Looking back at an interview with Klaus I have to agree with you, though, that a moderate German accent can indeed be quite cute … or maybe I only found Klaus cute, who knows.
If I may ask you now, which other two accents are in your top3?
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Sure you may ask, and the best thing is I’ll also happily answer it!
Ah, thanks much! 
What I really don’t like is ‘th’ being pronounced as a ‘z’ and the hard and choppy sound in general because I love how soft and fluent English sounds at times. But I have to admit that this was an inconsiderate generalisation by me because there is not only one German accent. But among us students there is this nightmare of a stereotyped strong accent no one wants to have and we just call it ‘THE infamous German accent’ that’s what I was referring to.
That’s very understandable. 
I kind of like how staccato it is, and the way ‘th’ is pronounced like ‘z’, myself.
Looking back at an interview with Klaus I have to agree with you, though, that a moderate German accent can indeed be quite cute … or maybe I only found Klaus cute, who knows.
Hehehe, I can tell you that for me, it’s both.
If I may ask you now, which other two accents are in your top3?
I think the others would have to be Scouse and Irish accents (though thinking about it now, I more or less have a tie between Scouse and German accents for my favourite; Irish accents are just simply really nice to me). 
Again, thanks much! 
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I think the others would have to be Scouse and Irish accents
(though thinking about it now, I more or less have a tie between Scouse and German accents for my favourite
Watch a few episodes of One Born Every Minute, and tell me how much you like the Scouse accent after- some variants (particularly by people in their early 20s and late teens) are just painful on the ears.
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Offline Sorry, ASJ. 
Irish is a very very close to the top two, though!
You’re right about those variations on the accent. Some of them aren’t too pleasant. 
Still like Scouse, though (and you know who’s to blame for that).
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Necko said
Do people ever tell you that you speak with a noticeable accent?
No. Personally, I don’t notice that I have much of an accent anyways.
Or maybe everyone around me has the same accent as me and I just don’t notice it
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Or maybe everyone around me has the same accent as me and I just don’t notice it
I think that’s more likely! I never really thought I had an accent when I lived in England, now I live in Northern Ireland and notice my accent all the time
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I think that’s more likely! I never really thought I had an accent when I lived in England, now I live in Northern Ireland and notice my accent all the time
I live in the American southeast and am about to move to the Northwest. Maybe i’ll realize that I have an accent once I hang around people with a different dialect.
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I think that’s more likely! I never really thought I had an accent when I lived in England, now I live in Northern Ireland and notice my accent all the time
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(Greetings from the Republic).
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TED!
He’s my fave.
It’s a Norn Iron member, have we had one of those before?
(Greetings from the Republic).
Hi Republic! I envy your superior Taytos and slightly more normal politics.
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Offline ^ Thank you, no offensive to the people up North but your Taytos are a bit of a joke. I remember my mam bought them for us instead of ROI Tayto, my God !
And slightly normal politics- eh, we have to deal with Sinn Féin too *shudders*. You also don’t have the delight of the Anti-Austerity Alliance or the absolutely idiotic Healy-Rae brothers who advocate drink driving and think Noah’s Ark was a real thing.
He sounds like he’s drunk but believe me, he always speaks like that.
But our Taoiseach was on Time magazine so that’s pretty cool, although I don’t really like him that much and would have preferred if Coveney got the job but such is life.
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