Monday Morning Question?

I was born and raised in New Jersey and although I swore I didn't have an accent, I DID say "cawfee" or "dawg". Then I moved to Wisconsin and got teased for my accent there. I didn't exactly pick up "bo-at" or any of the other words that they say using two syllables, but for the last 14 years in Florida, I have picked up "ya'll" and "all ya'll", but not with a southern accent. My voice is not real high or real low, but I do have a certain nasal quality, and now that I have a cold, it's a bit worse, though not nearly as bad as Fran Drescher!! Jan

Jan, No one in Florida is really From Florida are they? When trying to imagine a Floridian Accent "All bets are Off!" It's that displaced New Yorker/Southern/Cuban Thing that is very hard to figure out. Have a Great Monday Morning! Best Wishes- Dx

My ex is a Florida native and very proud of it. No one knows why.

I am a vocal chameleon, adapting to my environment as I hear it. I was born and raised in rural Iowa, far enough south of the MN border to escape the grip of the land of 'You betcha' and 'Don 'cha know', yet far enough from Missouri to not be tainted with the a drawl. But I can affect an accent in a heartbeat. With regard to pitch, it is above norm for a male. At All-State Choir as a HS kid, I was stuck in the rafters in a section of 1st Tenors, and I swear I was the only straight one in the bunch. It is not shrill, but it certainly not the sonorous radio voice of AM land. However, I can do the AM radio voice (known the business as 'puking'). What marks my speech pattern more than anything is volume and, for lack of a better term, 'burst rate'. I grew up in a large family where volume was necessary to ensure being heard, fed, being attended to, whatever. We called it the the BCM, Booming Cannon Mouth. The other thing I do is speak rapidly, with pauses between bursts. The pauses are used to figure out how to avoid dangling prepositions and other grammatical faux pas, which I loathe. When speaking in public, I have to really focus on pacing, phrasing of thoughts, and allowing listeners an opportunity to stay in sync. For an external opinion, ask Lei or Joann, with whom I have spoken in the past.

jay sounds like he writes..very witty, smart, sarcastic and he should have a talk show with his voice.. kinda like a letterman.............

Arnold Horshak (From sweathogs of "Welcome Back, Kotter"), but not as lilting and subtle. Tek

My goodness--Arnold Horshak, that would be almost like a woman saying she shounded like Fran Drescher. Not as lilting and subtle? You are just too funny. Somehow I find it appropriate that someone who's nickname is Tek would sound like Arnold. LOL

Mmmmmmmmmm hard one this for me!!!! Guess I sound Scottish Not like Sean Connery or Mel Gibson (Breaveheart) I cannot think of any Scottish female actresses you might know. I am generally quiet spoken, especially on the phone, I am always getting told to speak up I say things like "Aye I ken and naw I dinnae" Now can you imagine a soft spoken lassie speakin like that Jackie

I am from the South, but live in Oregon ... raised all over the world..... So I learned to adapt very young.... I sound like a Southerner now cuz I'm talking to you!!! I think I sound like Mary Chapin Carpenter only not when I sing.... My real voice? it's pretty loud and almost deep for a woman... I sound down right sexy after the flu.... otherwise, it can get loud and shrill when I'm po...ed... like this morning at the gym...no heat in the bathrooms again!!!! Oyie Vay...Aye Caramba, su madre...dagnabbit... yeah... I've lived all over for sure!!! Hope you can hear me... I imagined your's just like you described it..... except maybe more Kelsey Grammer than Tater Salad...... Laurie - minus 174 lbs!!

I have a very soft Southern voice. Apparently it is also sexy based on the fact that I've had many men come to the office on some pretense over the years to meet the person with the sexy phone voice. Imagine their disappointment when they found this severly obese person instead of a sex kitten. I didn't lead them on I was just doing my job as an accountant, whi*****luded collections at that time. Sometimes the imagination is better than reality.