Old business friend and his wife when out to dinner last night. They just got back from Kentucky. They been gone for almost a months to taking care of his father estate.
Note: They both are from northern Ohio….. we have no accent.

What the hell, you would have though she was a native breed Kentuckian with that accent. She been listening to Dolly Parton to much.
He had no drawl and twang of the Kentucky accent.


Really can some one establish an local area accent that quickly without being a little of a fake?

I have a SE Ohioan accent that I haven't been able to kick in 5 years living in NEO. Phone, home..any pronunciation where the "o" is pronounced like that you can really tell.

It's widely known it takes 17 days to develop an accent. So, yes.

Not sure. But a lot of Northern Ohio people DO have a Lake Erie accent.

In Kentucky 6 years and no accent to my knowledge. My sister was in NC for about two weeks before she had one. I still think it's fake.

I have a New England accent which people confuse with a Boston accent, until they actually hear the verbal garbage that is a Boston accent.

I was born in Wisconsin but grew up in Ohio and talk with very pronounced O's as if still up North.

BTW - Years working in the training department for Discover Card (listening to calls) you get damn good at immediately being able to tell where somebody is from.

Raw Dawgin' it;1698147 wrote:I have a New England accent which people confuse with a Boston accent, until they actually hear the verbal garbage that is a Boston accent.

A Boston accent is more jewishy.

Uz2Bon36;1698151 wrote:A Boston accent is more jewishy.

lo, what?

Anyone with a New England accent, especially Boston accents sound retodded.

I worked at a summer camp for 9 weeks over the summer when I was younger. The counselors were from all around the world with probably only 1/4 American. BY the time we left camp we had the worst mixed up accent ever. It didn't take to long though to get back to normal though once we got home.

Pick6;1698126 wrote:I have a SE Ohioan accent that I haven't been able to kick in 5 years living in NEO.

Lol. Same here. 10 years later I still get "You're not from around here are you?"

Lived in MN for over four years, didn't pick up a lick of accent. I think people that do pick them up, really want to.

Pick6;1698126 wrote:I have a SE Ohioan accent that I haven't been able to kick in 5 years living in NEO. Phone, home..any pronunciation where the "o" is pronounced like that you can really tell.

My wife and I are not from SE Ohio, but we live there now. My kids go to school in SE Ohio and we are constantly correcting the pronunciations they bring home from school.

TedSheckler;1698194 wrote:My wife and I are not from SE Ohio, but we live there now. My kids go to school in SE Ohio and we are constantly correcting the pronunciations they bring home from school.

Would that be Steubenville slang ... mofo

Picking up an accent after being there for a month? Not a problem, particularly if the person thinks the locals sound distinctly different, and they want to fit in. When I was in my teens I used to do it without thinking when we'd visit my mother's relatives in the West Virginia mountains (Webster Springs), if we were there a week or more. Same thing going to my father's parents and uncles and cousins in Buffalo NY. Took about 2 or 3 days to get back to normal when we'd return home.

Come to think of it, both sets of cousins used to always make a big deal about my "accent". In Buffalo they said, "You sound "Southern"!". In WV it was, "You sound like you're from New York City!". Being from Columbus, I naturally assumed I was somewhere in the middle.

Strangely, I never detected much accent in either of my parents' voices. They were both in the military, and I just figured theirs flattened out from that, plus moving to Columbus in 1960.

Quote "we have no accent", well my buddy Belly, hate to tell you this but from being from southeast Ahia, you do have an accent. All you's folks from northern Ahia has an accent. just sayin'

Not sure what is worse, the Brooklyn accent, or the yinz crowd from Pittsburgh area.

cant stand yinzers or anything pittsburgh. primanti bros is garbage too

Brooklyn has many variations.

The worst for me is Staten Island or the really thick ass Long Island accent.


As far as adopting an accent, I can see how it happens....but in a month? Not really. I had two stints living abroad and I definitely changed the way I talked. I didn't adopt their accent, more so I changed how I talked focusing more on proper pronunciation so others could understand me. I guess you could say I have a hybrid Pittsburgh/Ohio Valley accent. I can't hear it though and I haven't said yinz regularly since high school.

I spent a lot of my youth in rural "country" areas and had that bad. You know, "uh-hi-yuh" for Ohio and "warsh" for wash. It took a long ass time to train myself to say words normally. Blah, fuck accents.

redrocket;1698216 wrote:Quote "we have no accent", well my buddy Belly, hate to tell you this but from being from southeast Ahia, you do have an accent. All you's folks from northern Ahia has an accent. just sayin'

oh no... You where under heavy medication, healing from surgery and delusional... Bro

Since moving to Columbus it seems a lot more people have a country accent down here then I originally thought. Probably why every damn commercial is farmersonly.com.

Clumus, Ahia people ain't got no accent unless theys move-ins.

Ytowngirlinfla;1698249 wrote: Probably why every damn commercial is farmersonly.com.

Did you know that's where Urban Meyer met his wife?