Pet Peeve: You Sound Funny!

I usually get the "oh, you must LOVE hearing him speak" referring to his accent while someone (usually a female as well) gushes.  Drives me nuts sometimes.  He's my husband, so I do like hearing him talk, but not about his accent...about what he has to say most times.

Exactly! I told DH it's what comes out of his mouth that's important, not the way it sounds! 

He's my husband, so I do like hearing him talk, but not about his accent...about what he has to say most times.

Besides he just sounds "normal" to you, right?  After a while, you just don't notice your nearest-and-dearest's accents.

Besides he just sounds "normal" to you, right?  After a while, you just don't notice your nearest-and-dearest's accents.

Exactly.  Some people will say "you probably don't hear his accent anymore" and they're right.  He just sound like my husband.  The only time I actually hear his accent is after he's spoken with his brother.  That's when the Yorkshire REALLY comes out.  Other than that, he could sound like Grape Ape and it would be the content, not the accent, which I hear.   

Exactly.  Some people will say "you probably don't hear his accent anymore" and they're right.  He just sound like my husband.  The only time I actually hear his accent is after he's spoken with his brother.  That's when the Yorkshire REALLY comes out.  Other than that, he could sound like Grape Ape and it would be the content, not the accent, which I hear.   

We'd talked on the phone for just over two years before meeting, so by the time we met face to face I really didn't think of him as having an accent. After spending nearly five years in the States, he has this English/Southern Indiana hybrid thing going on, and there are very, very few words I even notice as sounding definitely English in accent.

I usually get the "oh, you must LOVE hearing him speak" referring to his accent while someone (usually a female as well) gushes.  Drives me nuts sometimes.  He's my husband, so I do like hearing him talk, but not about his accent...about what he has to say most times.

The gushing got a bit tiresome while we were over there. We'd be trying to have a conversation and some female would butt in, and on several occasions have it all wrong and be gushing about finding the Australian accent to be so sexy. He'd invariably tell her to go find herself an Australian.

The gushing got a bit tiresome while we were over there. We'd be trying to have a conversation and some female would butt in, and on several occasions have it all wrong and be gushing about finding the Australian accent to be so sexy. He'd invariably tell her to go find herself an Australian.

hahaha...people mistake my husband for Irish all the time.  He gets the occasional Scottish, too.  I don't think he's ever been mistaken for Australian, though.   

I feel like a little kid cause I never know what people are saying so I just sort of try it out myself... Like I thought 'I can't be assed' was 'I can't be asked', as in, don't even ask me right now... I just have to laugh at myself 

DH does NOT like it when I say dude though.

DH does NOT like it when I say dude though.

LOL neither does mine!  and he hates hearing British coworkers say "dude", like they're from California

DH does NOT like it when I say dude though.

Hubby says it himself from time to time, and has a friend who says it all the time (must be an 80's holdover like it is for me) so he doesn't really think anything of it. After calling my nephew, who is six - hubby's brother's kid - dude, without even thinking about it, the kid now insists I call him dude, and will remind me from time to time that he likes it when I call him dude. Crazy kid! 

The only time I actually hear his accent is after he's spoken with his brother.  That's when the Yorkshire REALLY comes out. 

Just what DW says about me when I'm speaking with my sister or my best friend. DW says my sister has a stronger accent than me

Just what DW says about me when I'm speaking with my sister or my best friend. DW says my sister has a stronger accent than me

   My BIL definitely has a thicker accent than DH since he's never left Hull and we've been living here in the states.  Then again, when we lived in LA, DH used to say that my Boston accent came out when I spoke with friends and family back in MA.  Guess all's fair.   

We just got in from a night out with friends. At one pub, a man asked which state I was from, and told me my accent was beautiful, then dropped it at that. It was an interesting, refreshing and enjoyable change from being drilled for info about the States, stories of where a person has been in the States, or having to hear about how 'yanks' just don't  understand life. 

I had someone tell me "don't lose your accent," for the umpteenth time, yesterday. I can't wait to blend in, to be honest. My own voice sounds like a goose honking among the gulls, to me. Actually, I would like to be rid of all traces of my origin. My accent is a constant reminder of the broken dreams and squalor that were my only American experiences. Sorry, I'm rambling, but it is pertinant.

I had someone tell me "don't lose your accent," for the umpteenth time, yesterday. I can't wait to blend in, to be honest. My own voice sounds like a goose honking among the gulls, to me. Actually, I would like to be rid of all traces of my origin. My accent is a constant reminder of the broken dreams and squalor that were my only American experiences. Sorry, I'm rambling, but it is pertinant.

I've lost count of the amount of people who have said 'don't lose your accent'. It isn't like a phone or handbag or remote control that you can physically hang on to. I am neither rushing to sound like the locals nor am I consciously continuing to speak with my Indiana accent. Sometimes I feel I would like to blend in more and not stand out as 'the new kid', but it is part of who I am as a person, so I am in no hurry to change the way I sound, and will let it happen naturally over time. I suppose it is different for me, because I have 97% good memories of life 'back home'. The 3% bad memories are about people who are no longer in my life for one reason or another over the years.

When I was here for 4months studying in 2004, I lost my semi-Southern twang (I'm from KY) and wound up with a generic American accent with the occasional Scottish slant. After going back to finish up my degree, everybody said I talked funny and I was asked where I was from loads of times. I'm hoping being here in Scotland will help me lose the Southerness again. I've only been back about 3 days, and I've already received numerous comments, so I can only imagine what it will be like once I have a job.