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In reply to the discussion: What is your favorite American English dialect? [View all]OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)until I went back there a couple years ago after having been gone for more than 25 years.
But I actually enjoy listening to most all accents. I don't notice much of a southern accent here in Orlando but when I travel out to the swamps of south Florida I can hear it - it's still way different from Texas southern though.
Since I moved all over when I was young I seem to have picked up little or no accent - wherever I go people ask me where I'm from since I don't talk like them but I don't sound like anything else.
Except the one time I visited Maine to tour the HQ of a company I was working for and the warehouse guy said "Ayuh, I could tell you wah the Flah-da bah 'cause you talk funneh..."
My wife was born and raised in Orlando but I never really heard much accent in her except when we visit her relatives in Georgia - she totally starts talking in a Georgia southern accent and refuses to believe me when I point it out to her. It's pretty funny to me but I think she's annoyed by it.