Why did Tucker have a southern accent?

[Monroe]

This has always bugged me. Ironically he has a southern accent in Stargate Atlantis beside the fact

all the other Wraith have midwestern-neutral accents

. He's from Florida. An urban part of Florida. Florida is south yes, but it has a standard American accent. It doesn't have a southern American accent so long as you don't go into the wetland marshy areas and even then I don't think it does. Tucker isn't from those areas anyway being from an urban area as the Xindi weapon shot showed.

So I know most foreigners wouldn't have noticed but did they seriously expect American audience members to not notice?

[Tsukiyumi]

He sounds more like he's from Kentucky or Tennessee to me.

[Sionnach Glic]

Given that ENT was clearly aimed at an American audience, it's pretty hilarious that they couldn't even get that right.

[Teaos]

We could imagin accents have changed over a few hundred years...

[thelordharry]

I'm not from the US but I always thought his accent sounded odd for someone from Florida. In general, I think I can broadly tell the difference between a north/south, east coast/west coast accent and if his birthplace hadn't been revealed, I'd have said he was from somewhere like Kentucky.

I've never met an American who can tell the difference between UK regional accents though. We're all from Australia apparently

[Mikey]

He sounds more like he's from Kentucky or Tennessee to me.

Indeed. There are parts of Florida with a pronounced (to Yankee ears) accent, but it doesn't sound like the accent that Sherriff J. D. Pepper had in Live and Let Die. I tend to ascribe it to the fact that Trip was probably created as "generic Southern guy," and only fleshed out afterwards.

I've never met an American who can tell the difference between UK regional accents though. We're all from Australia apparently

Not true. I was better at distinguishing English accents when I was in the practice of dialect studies then I am now, but I can at least tell someone from Reliant's neck of the woods. They're the ones whom I can't understand, even though I know they're technically speaking English.

[thelordharry]

Try listening to our Pete 'Granitehewer' after a few glasses of fizzy pop

[Reliant121]

I dont use my real accent. I sound very posh and polite when I talk now, but I actually have an accent similar to Hagrid's only mines more feminine sounding, and slightly less gutteral. Ironic from someone whose accent should sound like This

[Nickswitz]

I can't understand a word he's saying, I really can't. lol

[Reliant121]

He's talking about policemen when travelling down the M3. I think...

[Mikey]

I can't understand a word he's saying, I really can't. lol

I once watched a BBC documentary on East Anglia. The BBC (NOT the BBC America) had to put subtitles in for English people to watch.

[Nickswitz]

I can believe that, it sounds like a foreign language, it really does

Wow, an Englishman can't understand him, that's impressive.

[Reliant121]

I can only understand it after a lot of practice, and living with my grandma. My grandmother is WAY worse than that, especially when drunk. I have a few people on other sites that want to hear what my accent sounds like, i might record a vid or summit.

[thelordharry]

I dont use my real accent. I sound very posh and polite when I talk now, but I actually have an accent similar to Hagrid's only mines more feminine sounding, and slightly less gutteral. Ironic from someone whose accent should sound like This

Oh Jesus. Please. Nobody I know actually speaks like that, it's all put on. Somebody give that young man a slap (the guy in the video, not you Kieran )

[Nutso]

I dont use my real accent. I sound very posh and polite when I talk now, but I actually have an accent similar to Hagrid's only mines more feminine sounding, and slightly less gutteral. Ironic from someone whose accent should sound like This

Sounds Jamaican.