Do you have an accent?

[Spaghetti Cat]

Mostly no (okay, I guess everyone has some sort of accent, but you know what I mean), I have been immune to western Pennsylvaniaisms like saying crick instead of creek, using yinz, etc.  At the moment, though, I have a slight eastern PA accent because I just spent a week hanging out with a guy from Phillie and a girl originally from Yonkers, so now I'm catching myself saying some words strangly, such as "bathroom", "boat", "that", "Nevada", "Coke", etc.

[Sensei]

I have the General American "TV" accent. My sister has a terrible Miami accent, though.

[Colin]

I have been told I have an Ohio accent, whatever the hell that is, however I think I talk with very little or no accent. I would say that I have a pretty standard Inland Cities Northern, or Great Lakes, accent.

[Flying Dog]

No. We do own words though..like pop

[Spaghetti Cat]

No. We do own words though..like pop

Thats also a western PA thing, but I try to say soda when I can.

[Ban my account ffs!]

No.. I don't have a strong accent at all.  I've been told by foreigners that I sound pretty "standard".. that's because my mom grew up in an upper middle class suburb and my dad is from Omaha, Nebraska.

There are a few times though where I catch myself saying "o's" like a Minnesotan though.

[Хahar 🤔]

I speak Northern California, which is quite possibly more General American than the Nebraska accent usually cited as such. One of the most notable traits is the distinguishing of "highway", "freeway", and "expressway". The cot-caught and Mary-marry-merry mergers are complete here, but there is only a slight amount of yod-dropping.

I do speak Bengali with a heavy accent, but I'm trying to work on that (Bengali has a strange, non-phonemic system of aspiration in addition to the phonemic breathy voice).

[Alcon]

I talk like virtually everyone from the Pacific Northwest, which I gather means I don't.

[MasterJedi]

I don't think I do, I sound like people on TV. Rin-chan has said I have a very slight accent though, but it's really the other way around.

[Ban my account ffs!]

I speak Northern California, which is quite possibly more General American than the Nebraska accent usually cited as such. One of the most notable traits is the distinguishing of "highway", "freeway", and "expressway". The cot-caught and Mary-marry-merry mergers are complete here, but there is only a slight amount of yod-dropping.

I do speak Bengali with a heavy accent, but I'm trying to work on that (Bengali has a strange, non-phonemic system of aspiration in addition to the phonemic breathy voice).

We differentiate between highway and freeway, with freeway being a more specific controlled access road within a major metropolitan area... but we don't use expressway.

What is yod-dropping?

[MasterJedi]

I speak Northern California, which is quite possibly more General American than the Nebraska accent usually cited as such. One of the most notable traits is the distinguishing of "highway", "freeway", and "expressway". The cot-caught and Mary-marry-merry mergers are complete here, but there is only a slight amount of yod-dropping.

I do speak Bengali with a heavy accent, but I'm trying to work on that (Bengali has a strange, non-phonemic system of aspiration in addition to the phonemic breathy voice).

We differentiate between highway and freeway, with freeway being a more specific controlled access road within a major metropolitan area... but we don't use expressway.

What is yod-dropping?

Well at least around here a freeway is the interstate and a highway are other major roads with some exceptions.

[The Mikado]

I speak Northern California, which is quite possibly more General American than the Nebraska accent usually cited as such. One of the most notable traits is the distinguishing of "highway", "freeway", and "expressway". The cot-caught and Mary-marry-merry mergers are complete here, but there is only a slight amount of yod-dropping.

I do speak Bengali with a heavy accent, but I'm trying to work on that (Bengali has a strange, non-phonemic system of aspiration in addition to the phonemic breathy voice).

I remember watching my theater teacher in high school torture this poor guy for half an hour because he was saying "'Mary' rather than 'marry.'"  I thought it was hilarious because she pronounced them the same.  There are people who pronounce them differently?

[Lief 🗽]

Not really. I definitely don't have a Texan or Southern accent, except occasionally when I'm yelling or something. I don't say "ya'll" and the only soda I call coke is coke.

[Keystone Phil]

It's a very slight accent. Like "water" is "wooder" to me. 

[Ban my account ffs!]

I speak Northern California, which is quite possibly more General American than the Nebraska accent usually cited as such. One of the most notable traits is the distinguishing of "highway", "freeway", and "expressway". The cot-caught and Mary-marry-merry mergers are complete here, but there is only a slight amount of yod-dropping.

I do speak Bengali with a heavy accent, but I'm trying to work on that (Bengali has a strange, non-phonemic system of aspiration in addition to the phonemic breathy voice).

We differentiate between highway and freeway, with freeway being a more specific controlled access road within a major metropolitan area... but we don't use expressway.

What is yod-dropping?

Well at least around here a freeway is the interstate and a highway are other major roads with some exceptions.

I suppose that's probably right.  There are non-interstate freeways in teh Twin Cities, but they are referred to as highways, like "Highway 100 or Highway 169 or Highway 36"
But then again we also have Crosstown which is MN 62 but is also a "freeway".. Cedar Avenue is also a freeway.

[Ban my account ffs!]

It's a very slight accent. Like "water" is "wooder" to me. 

Damn east coast scum

we say wodder.

We're also very guilty of making words like caught and cot or don and dawn or marry, merry, and mary sound exactly the same.

But we can also make a boat and about sound the same (the second sounding like the first)

[MasterJedi]

It's a very slight accent. Like "water" is "wooder" to me. 

Damn east coast scum

we say wodder.

It still sounds the same as water though.

[YRABNNRM]

No.

[Smid]

I don't have an accent - you lot all do!

[Lief 🗽]

How exactly do you say cot and caught and merry, marry, Mary differently?

[MasterJedi]

How exactly do you say cot and caught and merry, marry, Mary differently?

Easily

Cot and cawt while merry is different than marry and Mary.

[Smash255]

Have a Long Island/ new York accent

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

You can take the boy out of Jersey, but you can't take the Jersey out of the boy.

Yeah, I still carry a little bit of that New Jersey/New York accent with me.  Supposedly, it really comes out when I say the word "water."

Hopefully, after another couple of years in Massachusetts, I'll pick up a little bit of a Massachusetts accent and start talking like Tom Kean.

[HardRCafé]

I have been hugged by Minnesotans who mistook me for someone who had been there, on the basis of accent.

[Verily]

I speak Northern California, which is quite possibly more General American than the Nebraska accent usually cited as such. One of the most notable traits is the distinguishing of "highway", "freeway", and "expressway". The cot-caught and Mary-marry-merry mergers are complete here, but there is only a slight amount of yod-dropping.

I do speak Bengali with a heavy accent, but I'm trying to work on that (Bengali has a strange, non-phonemic system of aspiration in addition to the phonemic breathy voice).

I remember watching my theater teacher in high school torture this poor guy for half an hour because he was saying "'Mary' rather than 'marry.'"  I thought it was hilarious because she pronounced them the same.  There are people who pronounce them differently?

I make a really slight distinction. "Mary" is a little bit more nasally than "marry". "Merry" is the same as "marry", though, more or less.

I have some dialect stuff, but no accent of note. And most of the dialect is Boston that I picked up at college. ("Sketchy", for example, although I don't say "wicked".)