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I wouldn't call the Maine accent sexy:-) Endearing but not sexy. His accent is seriously watered down now, but when he spends a lot of time on the phone with peeps back home or we go back for vacation, he starts up again with the "Ayuh" again. It drives me crazy!

http://gonewengland.about.com/od/maine/a/aa-speak-mainer.htm

hubby doesn't have much of an accent, but some words he does. He moved to NYC from Hong Kong when he was 6 and mostly he doesn't have any Asian accent. He does have a slight Brooklyn accent for some words though, like he says yestaday instead of yesterday and he says ball odd, but I'm not sure how to type that out. bwal? idk lol I'm from Northwest Indiana and I've been told I had a Chicago accent (I say Chicahgo and not Chicawgo I guess lol and pop too instead of soda and the way I say mom). I do love me some accents though! I don't even care where from, they're just so fun (well, actually, I don't really like Asian accents :x but the rest I do). I should have taken a class in linguistics or something, I think I would have LOVED it

My guy was an Army brat so he has lived in Kansas, DC, Missouri and Texas. It's subtle since he spent most of his older adolescents in San Antonio (too metro to have too distinct an accent) but his singing voicing has much softer consonances then I'm used to growing up in PA. So with a lower tenor (right on the verge of bari) and the soft sounds- it’s really quite nice. Like TexasGalah said, there are variations in the accent and I am very grateful his father wasn’t stationed anywhere that would pick up an East Texan accent- it just drives me nuts, and not in the good way. I have great friends from Tyler and Longview but its nails on a chalkboard when they speak (even Mansfield can get bad.)

My PA Dutch dialect drives him batty though. While I make a point to include it in my writing, but “to be” does not exist in my speech, and I form my sentences much closer to the mid-late 19th century model (ie, "Throw over the fence some hay" rather than "Throw some hay over the fence")

Hahaha Knubbsy-WWubbsyu--I am a victim of the PA Dutch speech too.  I have had to work *so hard* to start using "to be" because everybody at college would look at me like I was nuts when I'd say something as natural to me as, "That car needs washed!".  FI calls me out on so many other central PA weird dialect things that I would have never realized were regional, but all of them are completely slipping my mind atm!

FI is from Brooklyn and I knew this before I ever spoke to him, because I met him at college and everyone has a sign placed above their dorm door which lists their name, class year, and hometown.  The first time I ever spoke to him, I had drunkenly barged into his room on a Friday night and I believe the first thing I said to him was, shocked, "You don't have a Brooklyn accent!  You're from Brooklyn!  Why don't you sound like you're from Brooklyn?!".  Not that I was disappointed--dear god would I hate it if he sounded like everyone else who lives in his neighborhod hahaha.  No offense Brooklynites but I don't exactly find the accent sexy. :P  FI, despite having been born and raised in NYC, hasn't the slightest hint of a NYC accent.  It's from a combination of his parents both being non-natives, having been raised in Connecticut, and his conscious attempt to avoid sounding like a New Yorker and just sounding like a normal, educated American.  Whatever!

I've got to say that Spanish accents drive me craaaazy...if FI had a Spanish accent, I wouldn't let him stop talking to me. Ever. 

so, it's not my DH, but the other day on the sidewalk an older man said "go ahead love" in an Aussie accent. I was in a bit of a hurry, he was chatting with a friend, and I needed to get past them but the sidewalk was a bit narrow so he let me pass. He wasn't hitting on me at all, but I loooved hearing him say it with that accent. haha