a Texas Accent?
 

i grew up in Texas. but barely. waaay west. i have ZERO accent. oddly tho, if i hear a person from El Paso, i can usually call it.

my high school friend moved to Houston, after graduating from Texas Tech. somehow he found my number and called me. wow, it was like talking to Garth Brooks. he had ZERO accent the first 20 years of his life. can the second 20+ burn an accent deep into someone's core?

i havent been to Houston for years and years..i dont remember an accent being so.."accenty".

My wife has little or no accent. When she calls one of her best friends that lives in South Carolina the accent just starts coming on. If she has one of her marathon hour long calls she will start to sound like a southern bell. It takes her a few hours to change back.

There are plenty of folks in Houston with a very HEAVY Texas accent. I suspect you could find yourself in a smaller town in Texas where it was much stronger. Houston is so larger and has folks from all over the US and Intl, so there are also plenty of folks that don't have an accent. I've got a buddy that's from New Caney (small town on the north side of Houston) that has no accent at all. Heck, I was born in FL, and then traveled because my dad was in the Navy, so I had little to no southern accent, but I think I've gained a very slight accent in the almost 20 years that I've lived in Houston.

It doesn't take 20 years to instill an accent. My wife had a friend that was very American, born in Kansas she thinks, and lived in Houston, who moved to the UK. She came back after 5-10 years and actually had a fairly British accent. It was very odd to hear.

Most of my family was from southern New Mexico and West Texas area.
Many times i heard them say "El Paso is darn near Texas"!
Mom still has an accent, I never had one.

Coinky-dinkly, recently I was at the Flying Saucer Draught Emporium in Houston and after a couple hours I noticed my co-worker was talkin all funny like one of them thar california boys.

Flying Saucer, yummy. Sheboygan Side By side is a VERY yummy sandwich.

I'm from California, and, like, totally have no accent, dude.

Ding dangiy ding it you consarn sidewinder!

My daughter grew up outside Houston and attended a very diverse school system. I think over 1/3 the kids were Asian. She as very little accent. After college in San Antonio she worked in the UK for a while. Everyone there though she was from Canada. Go figure.

I think this is normal. I mean, if you think about it, that's how accents are acquired...we automatically start talking like the people around us.

I go back to Minnesota and I'm talking like a goat before you know it.

Ohh garsh..yeah...minasooda.
My mother in law is visiting us right now..she's from Minnesota but has lived in Colorado for 40 years. My wife was raised in Colorado and has no real accent...but..the Minasooda is strong right now in her dialect. Makes me smile.

was there with three co-workers on a "business dinner".
I had the Ruben and some sort of yellow liquid to wash it down. Good stuff.
One of the guys had that sheboygan side by side, two brats with fixins IIRC.

I was senior so I had to pick up the bill .... $191.92
Got the receipt right here for expensin'.

We walked there from the Sheraton but needless to say we took a taxi back. Slept good that night.

I grew up in Big D and never thought I had an accent until I went to boot camp. Everyone from my DI down gave me so much crap I learned to hide it.

I grew up in Dallas and Stephenville. Sometimes around the big boardroom table in the sky, I have the urge to say " Yall aint gonna bleeve this shyte"

The worst southern accents are found in people who moved from the north to the south. I guess they overcompensate to fit in.

I'm losing mine. Lived here all my life, and now I'm with a gal from Chicago. Dadgum if my y'all didn't turn into use guys.

I'm not a Texan, but from just a bit north, and I'm told o lay the southen on pretty thick at times. When I lived in SD I would get asked a few times a day where I was from. Now that I'm in AZ I still get a few questions. I think it's gone away a bit but tweeze says no, and that it gets worse anytime I talk to my dad.

I was in boot camp for 6 weeks with guys from the South - TN, Texas, Alabama, etc.
Afterwords, when I was assigned to my permanent party base in CA (San Joaquin Valley), they all thought I was from the South.
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Met an American woman years ago who spent several years overseas (don't remember the country), and she was then enrolled in the Berlitz School of Language to re-learn English. She said that after being out of the US for that amount of years, she began to think in the foreign language.
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The mind is a terrible thing.

Sorry to burst your bubbles guys. But all Americans have big accents. Different depending on where you are from but all are North American accents.

German GF once said to me...

South Africans sound like a European person struggling to speak English.

Australians sound like, well, Australians.

New Zealanders sound like Australians who have had speech lessons.

And Americans, God only knows why they talk like that.

Sooo many different brogues in America.
Interesting country for that.

No Texas accent, but I've had an okie/country twang all my life. I've always hated it & could never rid myself of it. I was born in Illinois and lived in CA most of my life.