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[quote=Anonymous]I have no tips, but I wonder what makes some people shed an accent more easily than others? I had a strong Boston accent when I went to college in the DC area and then remained here after college.  I did not actively try to lose my accent (in fact, I liked having a recognizable accent), but by my mid 20s it was pretty much gone. It's been literally decades since anyone asked me if I was from Boston.

But it does pop out occasionally--yes a bit if I've been drinking, but also when I'm around a person with a Boston accent, I start to slip back to one, completely without intention. And there are certain words from childhood that I just don't say much in adulthood so they never got rewired, so to speak. E.g., the candy Starburst. Unless I concentrate, I still say it with almost no R at all, lol.

OP, do you hear your own accent? There was a time in college where my ear had become attuned to the mid- Atlantic and gentle Southern scenes all around me and I could actually *hear* how different I sounded. It was very disorienting, and I think it was the beginning of the end of my accent. [/quote]

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