A change here.

[Guest]

I live in the Pacific NW which has "no accent"

 

When I go back to SE Virginia [birthplace & family] I retun with a very thick southern accent and I talk a lot slower.

 

It's gone and I'm ripping along after a week or two.

 

 

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[Worker 11811]

My normal speech accent tends to drift.

 

I grew up in Northwest Pennsyltucky. This is one of the more plainspoken accent areas of the country. (Linguistic maps prove it.)

 

I live within two hours drive of Pittsburgh.... Pittsburgheese.

 

I went to college in Boston, Massachusetts. Spent seven years living there. Picked up the Bahst'n accent for a while.

 

I moved back to Pennsyltucky for a few years then moved to North Carolina and travelled around the southeast USA for a while.

 

Now I'm back in Pennsyltucky. My speech is a mish-mash of four distinct areas of the country.

 

I'm a mutt.