1.5 million voters decree that Texans have the sexiest accent! (Brady: teaching, location)

[Treasurevalley92]

Originally Posted by naterator

Once, when traveling through eastern NM, I was STRUCK by the "Texas" accent everyone had!

I guess I thought you were supposed to talk different once you got 15 minutes east of Muleshoe.

I've noticed at least 3 or 4 distinct native Texas accents.

[KathrynAragon]

Originally Posted by Treasurevalley92

I've noticed at least 3 or 4 distinct native Texas accents.

Oh yes, but they are all Texas accents. Which I happen to love. YMMV.

[KathrynAragon]

https://youtu.be/Dvi8P-lhJmE

Enjoy. Now THAT'S an "alright!"

Alrighty then.

[Trainwreck20]

I'll take a girl with an Aussie accent any day, but that is just me .

[usayit]

One of those entertaining youtube videos I ran into from long ago:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UgpfSp2t6k

Another more centered around American accents


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NriDTxseog


Personally.. the sexiest accent I have ever heard is from a friend of mine. She is Russian but learned/lived to speak English in Australia.

[usayit]

Originally Posted by TreeBeard

New York was number 3. I found nothing all that charming about the Bronx or Brooklyn accent coming from any sex.

Me neither. Kinda cute from little kids though...

I'm from Texas and live in the NYC area. I would not have picked either.

[TXNGL]

Originally Posted by lonestar2007

I remember this one guy who moved down here from Boston. He came into a little bar we all hung out out and he always asked for a bottle of beer with the emphasis being on the first syllable BOT and the last syllable (tle) just seemed to fall off. Sounded something like BOT el. I always got the biggest kick out of it and would even say it myself when he was around - get that man a BOT el of beer!

Have you been watching Six Degrees of Separation or something? Inside joke for anyone who has ever seen that movie. Generic (and it varied of course depending on the speaker) Boston accent sounded to me like this, Bah-tl-a-beah.

[Backintheville2]

Originally Posted by KathrynAragon

Oh yes, but they are all Texas accents. Which I happen to love. YMMV.

I don't remember what the course was called, but in the 1990's I took a linguistics course at a University. The Professor actually identified the county in which I was born and grew up, without knowing any of that information! All that from just sitting down and talking to me for 10 minutes. So there are differences depending upon what county. In my experience, the more rural county you are from, the deeper the drawl.

I'm from Erath County, but did live in Nebraska and Colorado from 1993-2008. Another topic I find most fascinating, Kathryn. Thanks for starting this thread!

[nurider2002]

Originally Posted by TXNGL

And there's more than one Boston accent. Lived there for years and never found any of those accents "sexy". Mostly grating, actually. To me. No offense to any Bostonians. Love that city.

Though I agree there are varieties of both Texan and Bostonian accents; I find them both sexy. Of course coming from Baltimore, which has the most god awful accent I have heard anywhere might effect my feelings about other accents. I also love deep Louisiana, aka Lucinda Williams accents.

[lonestar2007]

Originally Posted by TXNGL

Have you been watching Six Degrees of Separation or something? Inside joke for anyone who has ever seen that movie. Generic (and it varied of course depending on the speaker) Boston accent sounded to me like this, Bah-tl-a-beah.

Guess I missed that one. Your pronunciation is spot on! I couldn't figure out how to get it down in writing. Good job.

I know it always brought a smile to my face hearing him say it.

Accents and dialects sometimes get intermingled I always like hearing the Minnesota/North Dakota Scandinavian accent and with Yah, sher, ya betcha in their dialect. I don't know how sexy it is, but it's sure fun to hear.

I think a lot of Texas dialect is disappearing. I remember growing up hearing phrases like Y'all come back now, y'all hear. Seldom ever hear anything like that now. It could just be me or maybe it's because of my location, but I think the accent is becoming more generic as well. Like I stated earlier, I didn't think I had a Texas accent or drawl or whatever, just knew it was the way I grew up talking and sounded like everyone else (family, friends, etc.), but I can tell a difference in my speech and my daughter's speech (including both accent and dialect). She grew up right here in Texas same as me and same as my parents and grandparents and so on. I attribute it to the influx of the various newcomers to our state and I'm not talking about just recent years, but going on back. I remember how she started changing a lot of her pronunciation starting in late elementary and especially middle school and high school. She started to correct me on my pronunciation certain words, for example wash. She would say, it's not warsh, it's wash and then proceed to spell it for me. lol I guess it was embarrassing to her for me to talk like that in front of her friends (this was in middle school). I just laughed and told her I knew how the word was spelled and knew how it should be pronounce, but I grew up hearing and saying it the way I did. That's not to mean I don't know the proper way to say it and couldn't or shouldn't change, but WTH, I didn't and won't and who cares. She's over it now, but she still talks with a lot of the outside influence she was exposed to growing up and I still talk the same way I always did and we don't sound that much different per se, but there is a subtle difference to our accents.