Do people recognise your home town/city from your regional accent? And how often do you get asked to say x word?

[19magic]

Like not your general national accent but regional. It happens to me all the time like I spoke to a policeman before in a city 3 hours from home and I said 5 words, 5 words, and he knows which city I called home. I also work for a disability charity on the payment lines and every couple of months someone guesses my hometown - once I had to listen to a lovely story of this guy, assuming everyone in my city has fished in the river and gutted them and ate them for supper, he was quite sad to hear I've never done it. Because it was such a X city things to do - despite never hearing this so called tradition before.

How often do you get recognised?
Also how often do you get asked to say certain words? (For me again it's all the time)
Lastly is there any songs that people purposely play cause it's the song for X city?

As for the five words it probably sounds something like: "wots go-on 'ere then?" so while i was stupified in the moment it's quite obvious how he knew after I thought about it.

I always get recognised by my accent

Sometimes I get recognised

Occasionally I get recognised

I've never been recognised

[CrazyGirl2]

Absolutely not! I have been told I have a US Southern accent, which makes sense given that I now live in North Florida, and spent my adolescence in the Orlando area. But either way, nobody ever pegs me as being from England.

[CrazyGirl2]

@19magic, where are you from? Yorkshire?

[19magic]

Haha I won't say on here but definitely not

[CrazyGirl2]

I completely understand. I just tell people I lived in the Cheshire area. I just thought the "wots go-on 'ere then?” sounded very Yorkshire’ish.

[19magic]

Nah I'm much more south than that 😹

[CrazyGirl2]

Okay, so in other words, I could not possibly have been more wrong. LOL 😂

[itsannalee]

Well i speak 5 languages, and sometimes i mixed all the languages when i talk to people and it confuses people.

[Dargil]

I moved from South Boston (Mark Wahlberg) to East Tennessee. I adjusted my accent to be like old Victor Davis Hanson.

[Ladsin2]

Near the mountains?

[Dargil]

@Ladsin2 foothills.

[Ladsin2]

I think we're neighbors!

[Dargil]

@Ladsin2 Chattanooga

[Ladsin2]

I wasn't going to call you out! Yeah we live close though. Pretty wild. Small world.

[Dargil]

@Ladsin2 I like Tennessee. The ocean is just too far away. The river doesn't do it for me

[Ladsin2]

It's nice. I grew up on the ocean so it's a bit different. Mountains are pretty cool though. The taxes are a nice plus.

[Dargil]

@Ladsin2 Why I would prefer Asheville. Both the Smokies and the ocean are nearer (ocean not by much)

[Dargil]

by the way I lived next to Ladson SC on my way here.

[Ladsin2]

I grew up in Charleston. You following me?

[Dargil]

@Ladsin2 how about Athens Georgia along the way?

[Ladsin2]

Aunt lives in Athens. AK?

[DrPepper12]

If I travel outside region yes. It's a guarantee. And songs? Yeah, NY has a few about it

[MrOracle]

I'm from California, which is essentially the accent you get in nearly all American media, so, no, people don't normally think anything of it - they're so used to it. Your accent has to be something other than this in order to geo-locate you based on your accent.

[whereismyjohnny]

Nope. I've been told that I don't have an accent. 😅

[DJB72]

Once in 20 years, but to be fair I don't even live in the country I grew up in.

[Levin]

I don't think so. I don't really sound like the town that I'm from.

Obviously I sound 'northern' but not in a stereotypical working class way.

[Iron_Man]

Nope, they have no idea where I’m from many people think that I’m European, but I live in Florida

[Kelly6]

@19magic people mostly confuse me with Latin American, rather then Spain

[Ladsin2]

I don't have any accent really. Due to my lexicon people tend to know the region I'm from.