picked up the accent yet?

Now if you were born in america you dont have a British/scottish accent, however have you started developing one now that you have moved to where you are? I havent even moved to Scotland yet but im already starting to develop one it comes and goes but its defiantly there sometimes, me and fiance firmly believe i will get a full time one when i move there

There are loads of threads about this already.  

http://talk.uk-yankee.com/index.php?topic=66538.0

http://talk.uk-yankee.com/index.php?topic=562.0

http://talk.uk-yankee.com/index.php?topic=2711.0

I've been in the UK for about 4 months, and I haven't picked up any accent.  I've picked up expressions and alternate words for things (ex. trunk/boot); however, the accent is not one of them.  Everyone I know has assured me my accent is absolutely not disappearing - I still sound as American as ever.   

oh ok well im freshening up the topic :p like i said i havent even moved yet and sometimes i'll just go right into one for a second and i'll be like O_o ive already started saying things like knackered, bloody, ect lol

Everyone I know has assured me my accent is absolutely not disappearing - I still sound as American as ever.   

Same.  I've been here 2.5 years and don't anticipate ever picking up an accent -- my accent didn't change moving around the US, either.  Although it is funny when I speak with friends back in the US and THEY express surprise that I still sound the same as ever.   

I've changed the words I use (even though I swore I wouldn't...half of it is just habit from hearing it so often and the other half is just being tired of people looking at me funny when I use a different word) but not the accent.  My southern drawl tends to lessen when I'm not in Virginia (it did the same when I moved around the US and when I lived in Italy) but definitely not picking up on the British accent.  For me, I'd have to make a conscious effort to try to sound British in order to adapt the accent...it's not something that would come naturally.  However, picking up on the slang and using different words is something I sometimes do without even realizing it.  This in essense makes me sound more British even though my accent is the same.

I don't think I have anything remotely resembling a Scottish accent. Though I was on the phone to the GP surgery the other day and BF swears I said "fine" to the receptionist with a Scottish accent.  I disagree, but it didn't stop him from chanting "One of us, one of us, one of us..." at me for a good 5 minutes. 

I don't think I have anything remotely resembling a Scottish accent. Though I was on the phone to the GP surgery the other day and BF swears I said "fine" to the receptionist with a Scottish accent.  I disagree, but it didn't stop him from chanting "One of us, one of us, one of us..." at me for a good 5 minutes. 

lol thats cute! i tend to do certain words like that as well

oh ok well im freshening up the topic :p like i said i havent even moved yet and sometimes i'll just go right into one for a second and i'll be like O_o ive already started saying things like knackered, bloody, ect lol

Saying knackered and bloody is not "picking up the accent"...

I don't think I have anything remotely resembling a Scottish accent. Though I was on the phone to the GP surgery the other day and BF swears I said "fine" to the receptionist with a Scottish accent.  I disagree, but it didn't stop him from chanting "One of us, one of us, one of us..." at me for a good 5 minutes. 

One of my friends swore I said something "like an Invernessian" when I thought I'd said my normal way. She didn't chant at me though 

My accent hasn't changed much in the 11 years I have lived in the UK (after the first 29 being in Texas), but apparently my inflection has changed.  Last time I saw one of my friends from uni (5 years ago) he laughed hysterically at my inflection, which I didn't think had changed, but obviously must have done.

Didn't think I developed much accent even after 20 years but wasn't until I'd been back in the US several years I realized I was saying "leisure" the British way (not "lee-sure")

Saying knackered and bloody is not "picking up the accent"...

it does when i have a accent while saying it sometimes

My accent hasn't changed much in the 11 years I have lived in the UK (after the first 29 being in Texas), but apparently my inflection has changed.  Last time I saw one of my friends from uni (5 years ago) he laughed hysterically at my inflection, which I didn't think had changed, but obviously must have done.

heh look at what you said would have said "Uni" or "must have done" if you were still living in Texas? lol its cute though i love the way they say things in the UK and i do pick that up and use it alot

Saying knackered and bloody is not "picking up the accent"...

Agreed.
 

it does when i have a accent while saying it sometimes

You said you don't live in the UK.  If that's the case, then you're not "picking up the accent", you're consciously trying to have an accent.

Agreed.
 
You said you don't live in the UK.  If that's the case, then you're not "picking up the accent", you're consciously trying to have an accent.

  no actually im not trying to do that, it just happens talk to your fiance whos scottish on the phone for a few hours that tends to happen, im not trying to do it on purpose it just comes out

it just happens talk to your fiance whos scottish on the phone for a few hours that tends to happen, im not trying to do it on purpose it just comes out

Exactly. I spend hours every day on the phone with my Mancunian DF, and I find myself picking up his mannerisms, too. I haven't actually picked up the accent yet, but very much the inflections.

I've always had a very malleable accent; I tend to pick up anything I'm around enough. So I've a feeling once I get there, it won't be long. I hope I don't, though. I like that I sound different.