Can you tell where someone is from ...in your neighboring states ??

Here in NH...I can pick out the Maine folks...the New York folks...and the French Canidens.

Now does Alabama sound different from Mississippi folks ?

Or does Oklahoma folks sound different from Missouri folks ?

It's weird. As a native New Yorkah, (western, not Brooklyn), who spent a decade in the midwest before moving to MS... down here I find some people have such a heavy accent they're almost hard to understand, while others (that were born here) have none at all, with most somewhere in between.

But everyone here says I have an accent.

If.you don't talk like me, you have an accent

Yes

There's even differences within my home state of Alabama.

My daddy's people are south Alabama soft R and my original accent. Mainly found in the western black belt south to Mobile. Mama's people are the north Alabama hard R mostly found from Birmingham and points north and east.

And then there's the Appalachian influenced add an R, warsh/squarsh, found northwest and into the Mississippi flatwoods.

Georgia has a south Georgia north Georgia split as well.

That split in both is influenced by the route taken into the state with south coming out of the Carolinas down the old Federal Rd with the north coming out of Virginia down the mountain route.

Carolina low country is unique as well and different from the upland.

Then there's Louisiana. Cajun French, Acadian, New Orleans. Heck, New Orleans has accents by neighborhood some that you'd swear was New York or Philadelphia if you didn't know better.

Yes. Sometimes it's more than just accent but also the words / wording, or phrases they use. :-)

I can understand most people in the U.S.A cept those from Mississippi, Louisiana,,.
Yall got some strange way of talking..
Black folk especially. Lots of blubbering.

Don't axe me to describe the black accents because that too has its own variations by region. Georgia has Gullah which is it own language altogether. New Orleans has French, Spanish and Haitian influence. Black belt is different from the delta.

I have a difficult time with anything North of Maryland.

BTW the Haitian influence in New Orleans is all but forgotten but when the Haitian Slave revolt of 1804 overthrew the French colonial power much of the French elite and Free people of color fled to New Orleans bringing Haitian creole to the mix.

I hate hearing myself on voicemail. Trust me it's bad!

Definitely. Do a lot of calls over discord along with just talking to folks from other boats.
Can tell generally what state somones from then what area based off their lil slang terms/ mannerisms.

Odd thing I noticed is some accents can understand each other perfectly while others can't. I know most people I've talked to from Boston can perfectly understand me and I them but everyone else is lost in the sauce.
West Texas vs East Texas vs North and South Texas is definitely a thing too. Louisiana and Mississippi? Can tell if someone is from New Orleans right off the bat.same if there from north MS vs by the coast..more by their language then accents.

Round the world , boi the same French Canadians are easy , Scandinavians, had to explain but not hard to pick out a swede from a Norwegian the people over in the balkens are a bit more tricky.... Aussies eghhh and don't get me started about those in the UK

I sound like a hick n a half on recording or when I catch myself talkin…..

Yes I can tell some by accent but I notice it more by religion. I recently ordered a skid steer part over the phone and immediately knew that I was speaking to a German Baptist. I can generally tell Mennonite and Amish just by sound as well.

I have a uncle and cousins down in PA and always thought they had a accent. They deny the existence of this PA accent but I hear it from many down there.

Can you tell where Kamala is from by her “accents”?

The Mon Valley folks in PA have a distinct accent.
There's some sections of SWPA that have odd ways of saying words. Keller for color. etc.
Same with the difference between the Philly area and the rest of the world. Wooter for water. Plus Philly area people almost sound like Jerseyians and New York citians.

Up where I live the hard pronounce the ooh sound in certain words.

Ofcourse Pittsburghers have a very distinct way of talking, We're going Dahn Tahn to get some Tahn Tahlk bread, Yinz coming with? Then we're going to red up the yard.

Even here on Long Island there were differences, most of that is gone now, the general accent is predominately western long island and NYC, due to the huge influx of people of varying origins moving east over the years, but there's still pockets of those accents that are unique and more New Englandy.

Found it interesting that folks from Great Britain can understand U.S. southern accents more than northern accents...Weird!

Okies say y'all , whereas, Show-me folks say " you ones" shorted to " yuns". There's some others , but I forget.

Californians tend to draw out their vowels with a very heavy emphasis on the first part , such as in " thank you ; sounds like "THANK yooouuuu". They also tend to address you by name a lot during conversation. Even in one on one conversation .