I was born in San Francisco, and lived there until just before I was 7. My accent was very strongly Californian until about 12/13 when my voice began to break, and when it finally changed it went all the way quite quickly, in less than a year really. It's very odd seeing home videos of me as a child and having a completely different accent.

I do still have some hangovers though - mostly that the English "oh" sound I pronouce as "oar", for instance in words like orange or forest. And I alternate between tomAYto and tomAHto without realising it.

although it was a fair bit softer than that

living with three scousers. im back to my old mancunian, now. i'd like an american accent. then i coud pull of such all time classics as rad and gnarly without sounding like keanu reeves circa speed.

I wish I had an interesting accent. I pick them up really easily, though, just after a couple of days. I'm sure I've got some Geordie inflections from my ex-boyfriend (though you can barely detect his accent).

I read somewhere that picking up accents really easily is a sign of sociability. Not sure this is true.

what's wrong with it?
you should be saying TOO BAD you don't speak like that :)
can you find a clip of what you do sound like now?

except i don't know these people and i have the voice of a girl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6QnQfRV__0
ps that looks scary eh?

What's yours turning into?

I grew up in Bristol and had a definite accent which I have since lost by moving to South Africa.

There was a strange time when I had an in between accent when people in SA said I had a British accent (as if there is only one accent in the whole of Britain) and people in England said I had a SA accent (see previous brackets).

Strangely enough I do still have a bit of an accent when I sing, and I have kept most of my pronunciations. (yog-urt as opposed to yoh-gurt or something)

to tell where i'm from, i think, i haven't got a proper leicester accent or a proper leicestershire village accent either, and i definitely don't sound like i'm from Hinckley, as they say it Inkleh which is ugly beyond belief!

lived in the US until i was 18 and besides a brief stay in holland, spent the past 8 years in scotland. people think i'm irish. that's fine by me. i want to move again to confuse my accent some more.

geordie is the best accent i think.

Sometimes a little on the LAHNDUN side

You can still tell that I'm Glaswegian and I think you'll always be able to tell I'm Scottish but since moving to Berlin I've begun to alter words to make them easier to understand. When I tell people this they think it's terrible but I have to because I have to be able to talk really fast and have people of all nationalities understand me.

So for instance I used to say gerdl (the way Aidan Moffat does) for girl but I soon found that people thought I was saying ghetto.

When I talk amongst Glaswegians though, my accent goes back to the way it used to be.

now i sound a bit too middle class...

please never lose your accent. i love your accent. it is so much better than sounding like me.

yours,
middle class wannabe
london

but it's all over the shop now, I'm from Norway and used to sound more American, then changed to a very posh Brit accent and now a more "normal" sounding one, I live in Cardiff so suppose I do pick up a bit of the accent here but the Cardiff accent isn't really that heavy anyway. I've had people think I'm from Manchester/Belfast/the Valleys/London etc.