Mine varies. I came from the part of the US midwest where many of the national news broadcasters either came from or trained. Itās normally thought of as a āMichiganā accent though I lived nowhere near Michigan (and the newscasters usually trained in Ohio where I did live). However, neither of my parents were from that area. My mother had an Upstate New York accent which tended to sound like an Americanized British accent due to Canadian influence in that region (Grandma was from Ontario). My father was from southeastern Nebraska and had a cowboy-type drawl like everybody out there. So I grew up with an accent all over the map.
I then spent a couple decades living near Baltimore and picked up the āBawlmerā accent, which includes a slight drawl (Maryland is technically part of the American South). I also have spent many years working with a lot of people who are not from USA, so half the time I sound like someone from India or Latin/ South America or Germany depending on who I have been having the most meetings and phone calls with.
Bottom line is I do not have a clue how to describe my accent. If and when I move back to my hometown in NE OH and retire from work, it will likely revert to being the standard āAmerican newscasterā accent, mostly, except that I probably will always have a bit of a drawl not native to that area. Drawling to me has always indicated confidence and reliability - itās something John Wayne, my father, many of his friends, half the people in old war movies, many people in military service, many airline pilots (who are likely ex-military), did. I am sure there are parts of the USA where a drawl is seen as suggesting an ignorant person which of course makes me want to do it twice as much as I hate that sort of stereotype.
I donāt have a strong accent.
