111 Quotes About Accents

I've always had facility with the German accent.

I toned down my accent at school; otherwise, people would pick on me.

Yum-O! I say this if something is so good that 'yum' just isn't enough of an exclamation. The accent is on the 'O' as in, 'Oh! That is so good!'

The accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You can't build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a shack.

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that when you spend a lot of time in your formative years around an accent, you're going to pick it up. I had been living in LA for a bit and that's what happened.

We used to do sock puppet shows for my auntie back in the day. Me and my friends would do accents of Englishmen, and we would sip tea and act like we were rich in front of the family, and they thought it was just hilarious, the level of perception that we had about things that we'd never experienced.

By making the tests standardized, regional accents will be removed, pauses between sounds would be constant and overall consistency would vastly improve.

I'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent.