Is the American accent sexy to you?

[Marilyn. 340]

I find my husband's Mexican American accent sexy.

[TBoneTX 43,060]

My wife also used to say is cheaps. She's about half way to saying it chips now.

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Later that evening I failed at the task of getting her some soup while she did laundry.

Also, ours is not the only household in which we do not say "sheet" or "beach."

[VanessaTony 3,567]

The mid-west accent is the generic American accent that all actors etc are trained to speak with to "sound American". Reason being apparently it's harder to "peg" where the character is supposed to be from and ruin the authenticity of the movie.

I definitely found my husbands accent "hot" when I first heard it. He's lived overseas enough (through the military) he's not ENTIRELY generic mid-west but it's his voice, the timbre, that makes it sexy.

As a general rule though, no, I don't find US accents sexy. I do love hearing a woman from Georgia talk and men from Texas. not because I find it sexy, but because it reminds me of movies and sounds so... awesome

[Protocol417 161]

The mid-west accent is the generic American accent that all actors etc are trained to speak with to "sound American". Reason being apparently it's harder to "peg" where the character is supposed to be from and ruin the authenticity of the movie.

This explains our relatively minimal variations in regional accents. A lot of us were raised on TV (kidding, but only kind of).

[Stressed Out 81]

Well I don't know if it's because my husband's totally obsessed with America in general or what, but he says it's "freaking adorable" when I can't pronounce the word 'twentieth' ('zwanzigsten') in German properly. Everyone here says I generally don't show my American accent when I speak German, but on a few words I literally can't push it out, haha. Apparently the Germans (at least in our area) love it when they hear me speaking English randomly (cussing out my newspaper cart and what not, haha). Only one guy has caught on that I have an accent when I speak and he says it's cool.

Who knows, maybe it's because I've got some weird Okie drawl. I reckon!

[Ozz777 23]

This explains our relatively minimal variations in regional accents. A lot of us were raised on TV (kidding, but only kind of).

I would have to disagree with this strongly. I've driven a truck all around the US and Canada for 20yrs and there are an amazing combination and variation of accents in both the US and Canada. In fact, I noticed several different accents in PA alone when I lived there.

According to the PBS documentary linked below, there are three basic accents of western, southern and new england, but when you break it down, there are more like a minimum of 24 accents and dialects, and most likely many more than that. My wife likes mine, which I call 'news anchor american', so that's all that matters to me.

I'm not really a fan of any foreign accents other than Japanese and French for women. Although I did enjoy my ex's English accent, but I liked it even better when the English grandparents were in town and suddenly my step daughters sounded like little English princesses instead of typical american kids.

http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/

[Protocol417 161]

I would have to disagree with this strongly. I've driven a truck all around the US and Canada for 20yrs and there are an amazing combination and variation of accents in both the US and Canada. In fact, I noticed several different accents in PA alone when I lived there.

According to the PBS documentary linked below, there are three basic accents of western, southern and new england, but when you break it down, there are more like a minimum of 24 accents and dialects, and most likely many more than that. My wife likes mine, which I call 'news anchor american', so that's all that matters to me.

I'm not really a fan of any foreign accents other than Japanese and French for women. Although I did enjoy my ex's English accent, but I liked it even better when the English grandparents were in town and suddenly my step daughters sounded like little English princesses instead of typical american kids.

http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/

With the size of the US, I would expect more, actually. Three basic accents and 24 more-refined accents/dialects in fifty states really isn't that much when you think about it.

I've lived in four states (Florida, Alabama, Wisconsin, and Illinois) and, for the most part, everyone (with a few exceptions) sounded just about the same (yes, even in Alabama). It was very homogenized. You wouldn't be able to, say, pick four areas in the UK and say the same thing, even though it is MUCH smaller. I can't even begin to think of two regional American accents that have as much of a gulf between them as, to choose two, a person from Edinburgh and another from east London. If you wanted to be more general, such as your "three basic accents" in the US, the UK would probably have at least six or seven, all in an area that's a little bigger than the state of Oregon, if I remember correctly.

[Ozz777 23]

With the size of the US, I would expect more, actually. Three basic accents and 24 more-refined accents/dialects in fifty states really isn't that much when you think about it.

I've lived in four states (Florida, Alabama, Wisconsin, and Illinois) and, for the most part, everyone (with a few exceptions) sounded just about the same (yes, even in Alabama). It was very homogenized. You wouldn't be able to, say, pick four areas in the UK and say the same thing, even though it is MUCH smaller. I can't even begin to think of two regional American accents that have as much of a gulf between them as, to choose two, a person from Edinburgh and another from east London. If you wanted to be more general, such as your "three basic accents" in the US, the UK would probably have at least six or seven, all in an area that's a little bigger than the state of Oregon, if I remember correctly.

I think the issue you are having is not noticing dialects in America vs noticing them in England, not land mass or population size. I could pick out no less than a dozen dialects in those four areas you mention, at a minimum. And despite its relatively small land mass, England has 53 million people, over13 times more than Oregon.

[Laura. 90]

My US fiance has a British accent. I feel cheated.