Originally Posted by Randerolf

I was tongue-tied as a child and my speak coach spoke Ebonics, so I've always to be concious of the way I talk. When I worked at a hotel, people would come up with all kinds of guesses to where I was from. I grew up on the coast of northeast Florida.

Here is a link to a site where you can listen to speech accents from around North America and the world. <http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_maps/namerica.php>