I can very easily identify when my maine accent comes through. For example hard is pronounced "haad" here. I spent years trying to rid myself of my accent though.

I thought my accent was more muted, but I do recognize it when I talk with people from the Metro Washington, DC area. However, I've had multiple people from different parts of the U.S. think that I sound Canadian.

I was born in the midwest but even people here say that I have some unidentified accent.

I'm told my accent is unplaceable. Some people think I'm from Scotland or Ireland when, in actuality, I'm from Northern Illinois, spent 15 years in Northern Minnesota, and now live in the PNW. I've no idea what I sound like to other folks.

My grandmother insisted her cats in Wales had a different accent to our cats in England.

We all have accents, a liguist can probably pinpoint the county from which each of us hail. But to our own we sound normal.

I'm sure I would recognize my own accent if I had one

I've lived in Washington DC for the last two months. Before that I've only lived in Texas. Im 52. I've noticed that everyone around me speaks about twice as fast as i do. I'd stay and talk about it longer but I left my horse parked on an anthill.

I remember while I was still in high school hearing that many television newscasters were hired from the Pacific Northwest because of their lack of an accent. I also recall that while in high school kids from different neighborhoods sounded different and had different colloquialisms. As for myself, I've heard from others that the quality of my English and my clear diction identify me as someone from the US. Traveling abroad I sometimes hear what I perceive to be someone from the US speaking English but I've found myself to be wrong on numerous accounts.

When I was a teen I had someone ask me what part of the South I was from. I answered Southern Minnesota, I was born there but raised in Iowa and my family was from Southern IA, in fact my first home when we moved back to Iowa (I was ten days old) was the family farm at Birmingham IA, just outside of Fairfield IA. I am not real sure where the "Southern Accent" came from because to me I sound like everyone else around me.

I have a mainly Cockney accent but with some shortened vowels from the time I spent in the north of England. My kids do a good impersonation of me and apparently my accent gets stronger when I'm annoyed. I grew up in London and spent the first 20 years of my life there but I'm in my late 50s now and havnt lived there for coming on 40 years!

I think most of the time I sound exactly like the average American accent - which in TV and movies is considered "no accent".

Though when I was in college I had a roomate who insisted I spoke with a "Connecticut accent" and no I do not sound like Katherine Hepburn.

I can descend into a colloquilism or two though "Wicked awesome!"....

Yes I can recognize it..though nearly everbody can recognize a Boston accent..lol

Of course

Mymother and sister have real Bostonaccents-Idon't.

I am unaware when I have an accent, but American friends tell me I do, after I've been working alongside someone from New Zealand for months here in Thailand, or after traveling in Australia.

I was convinced I didn't have an accent and most other people did when I was a child because I was raised to speak RP ("received pronounciation" ) English - I was very surprised when I found out that RP is in fact an accent, albeit a non-regional one.

I've traveled enough, and lived in enough places, that I recognize my accent, and everyone else's. I used to have a New Jersey accent, since that's pretty much where I was raised. When I first moved to the South, people rode me about my "Yankee" accent. After living in the South for 20+ years, I moved to Maine, and everyone up there gave me a hard time about having a Southern accent. Back in the South again, and a friend of mine says my "Jersey" comes out when I'm pissed off. I guess I'm just one of those people who will pick up whatever accent I'm exposed to for any length of time.