[MtnGoat]

[RayD]

[coldrain108]

When I grew up I lived in : Washington Oregon Ohio Illinois California Connecticut New Jersey Georgia and back to Washington. I've been told I don't have a regional accent. I learned to speak German before I learned to speak English (went to visit relatives when I was about 2 years old) I speak a southern German dialect - Schwabisch - the German equivalent of American English spoken in Alabama or Mississippi. I can barely understand the Bavarian dialect and the Tyrolean Austrians speak a crazy version of German.

[NacMacFeegle]

I've never noticed that I speak with a particular accent, but if I do it probably falls into the Pacific Northwest category, although I think we need a more colorful name for it, Cascadian perhaps?

[Voxxjin]

I don't believe I have an accent of any sort (no one has ever said I do). I grew up in PA and have lived in AZ, VA, CO, NC, TX and now here. I do tend to say 'Adios' and 'howdy' and call my drinks sodas or cokes (not pop as that seems stupid). I do tend to not say 't's' in certain words like kittens (pronounced more like kit'ins as opposed to kit'tens) or moun'ians (as opposed to moun'tins)but I sometime also say it the other way as well. But I don't say worsh but say wash and I certainly do not call water fountains---bubblers. And I don't pronounce the Steelers as Stillers or say yins (essentially it stands for 'you all'. And I don't want a sub, I want a hoagie.

[Hulksmash]

"Muckatymuck" ???? ^ New word to me.

[boot up]

[Ski]

curious. it's always been "muckitymuck" as far as I know. my father used the term often. (he was born in the Texas panhandle in 1910; grew up in northwest Missouri and south Omaha; arrived here in the northwest in 1931.) "muck-a-muck" was the term used by the coastal tribes here for food. (see here - narrative from Gilman expedition.) ("Muckamuck" is also apparently a place name. several posts come up here using the search function.) but then when I check my dictionary: muckamuck: n. (also mucketymuck) Slang A person of importance. Usually used scornfully, often in the phrase high muckamuck. (American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language © 1969) my favorites were always the phrases used by relatives in south Omaha; Albion, Nebraska; and Rockport, Missouri: "didjuz" : as in "didjuz eat yet?" and "jeet" : as in "jeet yet?"

[NacMacFeegle]

I've used muckitymuck in the past to refer to someone in a position of authority, as in: "the high muckitymuck". I had no idea it was derived from an Indian word!

[Ski]

I don't think the usage of it in that context has anything to do with coastal tribal languages. just a weird coincidence. no notes in the dictionary on origin. you'll need to ask a linguist on that one.

[NacMacFeegle]

[Chico]

[Brian Curtis]

[treeswarper]

I've been told I have a Canadian accent. So do my E. Warshington friends. But after my exile in Up Nort Wisconsin, I can also speak with da Finlander accent--I lived next to the Yooper part of Michigan. Maybe that's because of the Scandihoovian side of the family. I shall reveal the mistake made about my user name. Swarp is a term used by the folks who settled here. They came from the East Tennesee area. I used the term in Wisconsin and a guy's eyes lit up and he asked, (in an Appalachian accent) "SWARP! Where did you pick that term up at? I haven't heard it used since I left home!" Swarp is used in various ways. On our fire crew as we ran to the safety zone to hunker, our sawyer began bellowing, "FIVE MORE MINUTES AND WE'D HAD 'ER SWARPED." Meaning in a joking way that if our crew had five more minutes of line digging, we'd have the fire out. Or in the landromat, "You wash the clothes and I'll go swarp out the house." My Cheesehead transplant friend, then queried me about the terms Peaked, pronounced peekid and was delighted to find other similar terms used. Just some trivia. My one yooper expression I learned was "youzguysgoornohey". Meaning: Are you ready to go?

[Bedivere]

I grew up here in the Seattle area so am firmly in the Pacific Northwest zone, though often mix in a little Southwestern to color things up. My mom was from Missouri so I grew up calling sodas "pop" as that's what she called them.