I just read a post on speaking with an accent on Not Another Tall Blog, by Angie K., and I want to recommend it to you.
Yeah, it’s true that we all have an accent of one sort or another, but when you’re the possessor of one that stands out, suddenly you don’t just have an accent, you have An Accent, and that changes things. Her post makes me want to write about the issue, but it’ll take me a while to catch up with that. In the meantime, do take a look at what she’s written.
Notes from the U.K. 
Thanks ever so much!
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Wow – thank you for sending us to that post. I have realized – reading blogs of immigrants and ex-pats – how little I understand about their emotions and loyalties, and how hard it is for all of us to find common ground for sharing countries, cultures and religions. Her piece made me sad, and gave me much to think about.
On a lighter note – as you know with our regional accents here in the States – we can have some funny experiences across state lines. I wrote a humorous piece awhile back called Tomato Tomahto and the comments from my readers made it one of my favorite posts so far.
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Send me a link and I’ll put it in the comments.
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It’s http://bemuzin.com/2014/08/01/tomato-tom-ah-toe
Thanks :-)
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I just read the post and it’s well worth reading.
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Thank you, Ellen!
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I live in Virginia and speak with a Chicago accent. Even that gets treated as foreign! As my Alabama attorneys tell me, I speak funny.
It wasn’t any better when I lived in Nebraska and I sure didn’t think I sounded any different than they did.
Nancy
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It’s interesting to hear how many of us feel foreign, and for what reasons. This really seems to have touched a chord.
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Actually, it majorly pisses me off when people whip around and act like I did something wrong. One thing about Chicagoans, we talk fast. I love it when I go back home and I don’t have to wait for people’s brains to turn on before I can talk.
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I love it.
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It is indicative of how large our countryi s that we all have accents according to some other state or region. No wonder we’re not fluent in other languages – we have to speak 4 or 5 kinds of English :-)
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Thanks for starting my morning with a laugh.
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I am glad my post made you think. Sorry to hear it also made you sad – this definitely wasn’t the intention, but I guess this could be expected from serious posts. Thanks for reading it!
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Just read your tomato post, so intriguing! Can’t help but remember a joke. Two newly recruited British soldiers in the US navy. First morning.
– Did you come here to die!!, shouts the commander to all.
– No, we came yesterday.
Sorry, just can’t help it!!
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That joke is so bad I’ll be laughing at it all day.
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Sorry! Ha ha.
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This is why I couldn’t help it.
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Ha ha ha That’s perfect :-) thanks for the Monday morning chuckle !
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;-)
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I’m also completely fascinated with regional accents and can do a pretty good job pegging where people are from in the States. Massachusetts alone has several distinct regional dialects as does Virginia. Fun!
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I don’t have a good enough ear to narrow it down past broad regions.
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