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So DH and I are watching that "You Don't Know Dixie" show on History and they were talking about the different Southern accents and dialects (Appalachian, Cajun, etc) and that had me wondering what accents the Bees normally speak with. I know we all read each other in a certain way and there is some inflection we can put in our writing but that doesn't tell everything.

So bees, what do you speak with?

I have a slightly bizarre mix of Lancaster County/PA Dutch (DH hates that "to be" has no place in my speech), General American, and a dash of general Southern because of the mix Baylor brings together.

I have a midwestern accent...meaning no accent pretty much:)

@JewishBride: My family in the Northwoods of WI has the thickest Midwest accent ever. It's horrible whenever my family goes to visit or my mom is on the phone with them. Lancaster County and Midwest is not meant to mix

@helenberrycrunch: Our officiant was going to use an East Tennessee accent for the reherseal to scare my parents (he grew up there but now has more of a slight Texan than anything else normally). It is very interesting

I have a General American accent.

What is "General American"? Lol, people always think they don't have accents but then you go somewhere else and realize you do.

I live in Wisconsin so I have a Midwest accent, but it's not "ya der hay" extreme or anything :P

@helenberrycrunch: I have to do that myself with somethings- LancCo was primarily populated with German Anabaptists so some bits of language get mixed around and it greatly affects how we stucture our speech.
"It's really making down" = " It's raining really hard"

@galloway111:  I think of it as what you hear on most television networks/news programs.  English speaking countries outside the U.S. sound very different.

@galloway111: What is normally accepted in theatre. Not perfectly correct but without regional slang or emphasis

@Miss Biner: including a video is a great idea!

This is what some of my friend growing up's grandparents sound like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWR7_PkyJ2M

Most of us can understand bits of it

I have a mild Southern accent (South Carolina) that gets worse when I get "riled up" (or so I've been told). 

@petitfour: East, West or South? We had a girl on my team in Guate who slipped into East when she was tired or upset, she got to the point where she was barely understandable. (she was from just south of Texarkana)

**edit** I remembered you are San Antonio

@Miss Biner: My southern accent isn't as bad as her's but she sounds so cute!

@piglet_625: Awesome! DH is realizing he has to get used to it a bit more in the next few years- hopefully we're moving to near Philly next summer and that means more trips back to see the area, and maybe visit the Brethren church I used to go to- LOTS of thick accents there

You forgot Valley as in San Fernando Valley:)  It is an actual accent and when I took a linguistics class my professor asked us to guess which accent made the speaker sound the least intelligent.  Most of us guessed Southern (sorry!) but in fact, it was Valley, dude that sounded the "dumbest". lol

my accent is mostly very general, but there are a few words, especially with lots of a's, that slip me into a very midwestern, nasal accent. like, "salad" (which sounds like "saaaaylad when i say it), "caramel," and my name, "anna." i grew up in michigan, but haven't lived there in almost 10 years, and since then i've only been in nyc or dc. my parents are originally from texas, but lost their accents during college when they moved to the east coast. my mom slips into a sweet texan accent though when she's been drinking, and my dad speaks hebrew on Jewish holidays and such with a texan accent, which is all kinds of awesome :)