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I'm Canadian and the weirdest encounter of English speaking accents I ever heard was in the south of Germany. We were in a rental car and just exploring the country and getting hopelessly lost. We were in the south near Nuremberg and we stopped at a gas station. A young man came up to us to operate the pump. He spoke German at first but then realized we were English speaking so he changed languages.

It was the weirdest form of English accent ... it was English with a strong German accent mixed with a heavy southern American country twang. He even asked "How y'all doin?" in that weird accent of his.

We asked him about the accent and he said he had learned his English from an American military base nearby that had a lot of people from the American south, especially Texas.

my ass cycling through all known English accents every damn sentence.

Me being slavic and just unable to speak nicely so I have a slavic accent.

On the flip side, I was born and raised in London yet everyone thinks I'm Australian since I spent many years as an admin to an Australian community online and heard Aussies for 10 hours per day. I still can't shake a bit of an Aussie accent, yet I've never been to the place!

*YouChube

Howdy my old chap.

I write color as color, and aluminium as aluminium.

I have an Indian accent from watching Indian YouTubers.

Millie Bobby Brown actually has (or had) this going on due to her filming Stranger Things during formative years. It's really fascinating to listen to this weird halfway point between the two. You can hear it well here: https://youtu.be/xhjooxtYf9Q?si=yBpMef4D_vErwFrI&t=50

A particularly interesting point is around ~1:10 where she's been largely using her American accent, but she uses the word after, but instead of starting the word with the TRAP vowel we would expect, she uses the BATH vowel instead owing to her original British accent. But I think what's even more interesting is that when she does this, it doesn't sound like she swapped back to her British accent for a single word - it sounds much more like someone with a general American accent doing an impression of a British person saying the word after!

My wife has an American accent, but she says things like "torch", "zed", and "aluminium" because she grew up with that.

Always felt I had an American accent, that's what most people say I have. Multiple American friends (Californians mostly) have said I sound British. When I tell non Americans this they laugh.

Personal conclusion: most Americans aren't great at identifying accents.

I can't say the word "robot" not sounding like Zoidberg.

That's called a trans-atlantic accent.

Don't forget the australian accent.