matrixrefugee | Voice Post

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I think that Ranger needs his hearing testing. To me you sounded distinctly American. It wouldn't be the first time someone's got their accents mixed up mind you. It happens to people from my neck of the woods all the time. Usually people think we're from Newcastle (the home of the very distinctive 'geordie' accent), despite the fact that to us (and Geordies) the two accents are completely different (according to a Geordie friend of my cousin's, we sound like farmers, whatever that means). I also had someone ask if I was Irish once. I'm still a bit mystified about that one. I'm not really sure how to describe my accent, probably because I'm too used to hearing it. There are a few noticable local variants though, the most well known one being more or less the local version of a 'country bumpkin' accent (and the butt of many a joke) which sort of mushes 'to' and 'the' together and then clips it down to the 't'. Example: "I'm goin' t' shop" (in my accent, it'd be more like 'I'm going t' the shops'). Eh, I'm waffling again aren't I?
~Weaver