In my travels, one thing sticks out more than any other. People talk funny.

Accents vary from place to place, and most times no one but a stranger seems to notice. So, what I want to do is this. Since no one wants to put their own voice on line for ridicule, I suggest we all post something else we have in common. RADIO stations.

Look around your areas, and post a link to live broadcasting. One that has a fair representation of the accents used around your home.

Now, I will post one myself.. I fully expect you to disregard the music content as most of you wouldn't know good music if it bit you on the ass. Listen to the commercials and whatnot. It will clue you in on mannerisms and colloquialisms.

A local rock station based in Little Rock ,Arkansas.

click on the live broadcast link.. if you have the proper player installed you should be ok.. PLEASE NOTE, that if you are like me and have pop-up blockers installed, you will need to hold down the "crtl" key on your keyboard as you click the live link to get the station to broadcast properly.

Thanx in advance to those whom participate.

Try Radio Devon:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/radiodevon/streaming.shtml

I am sitting here rolling.. listening to all the McCartney wannabees

i bet our accents are just as funny.. a bunch of Jed Clampet wannabees

Peak 107 doesn't have a web version, but there was an mp3 of a news snippet which might give you an idea of the accent round these here parts True, it's a woman but it's the best I can do until I find which box I packed my microphone in during the move...

http://twgnewsdesk.thewebmonkey.net/audio/1996.mp3

Not the most cheerful of news reports either

although i don't doubt you, its rather hard to contemplate an appreciable difference in dialect with so small an island as yours.. proximity would blur the accents.

the states has vast tracts where almost no one lives, and is many times the size as your home. we have multiple accents, but if you remove all of them that stem from other countries, i imaging we only have a few, and these differ due to their distances.

anywho's I'll take your word that your northern comrades speak like McCartney

your campus is into soul music?

somehow that just comes off funny as hell

i heard a couple McCartney's in there though