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‘An accent can be thick.’

[⟨det accent.n⟩ thick.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I never really noticed my accent, even when I moved and it was different from everyone’s around me (Though when I went to IL for Keri’s wedding her dad mentioned that my accent was not NEARLY as thick as when I first moved to MO).
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I’m from Kentucky and I have a fairly thick accent, it is ripe for a joke.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

So anyway, this prof is a pretty old guy with a THICK accent that I can *n’t even identify.
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In Wikipedia:

) It’s implied that Josie’s malapropisms and thick accent when speaking with Pete or Harry early in the series are a put – on; when Josie is revealed to be more than meets the eye, she is shown speaking to Ben with perfect English and no trace of an accent.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I attended public high school, and the bulk of my classmates had Appalachian accents so thick they make Palin sound like a network anchor.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The first Representative I spoke with had an accent so thick it literally took me five minutes to realize and understand that he was asking for my zip code.
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In Wikipedia:

Madonna swapped the wedding dress for a tuxedo and adopted a Marlene Dietrich-like persona for 1993’s The Girlie Show World Tour, singing the song with a thick German accent and including a quotation from Dietrich’s signature tune, Falling in Love Again (Can*n’t Help It).
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Me: Let me buy you those shoes, baby. hur hur. but you know, the three sexiest words my editor could ever say to me would be – GO TO PRINT. hur hur. he didn’t say that to me today but it gave me immense pleasure to tell my printer that today. wah shiok ah. when I told my boss the magazine has gone to print, he raised his hands and said a prayer. hur hur. so drama my boss. anyway, today a friend told me a boy kissed her while she was talking about something that wasn’t particularly sexy. and it isn’t the first time this has happened. I really need to find out what her secret is – what exactly she talks about because whenever I talk, no one kisses me. or even pay attention to me. those that do only do it so they can interrupt me and ask me to shut up. what am I doing wrong!? hur hur. ah today I was talking to my mother and I realised that she takes on a very thick javanese accent when she says “No problem’ ’.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

It is like something so familiar although originally foreign, like an immigrant neighbor who was in the house next door before you ever moved in, and while he talks in a thick accent, you get so used to see him that you see him just as part of the community… it is like you found that neighbor attacked in broad daylight, he’s not dead, but after the attack he changed, into a reclusive and bitter old man.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Near the end of her column, Noonan told us this: I was at a gathering a few weeks ago for an aged Southern sage, a politico with an accent so thick you have to lean close and concentrate to understand every word, so thick, as they used to say, you could pour it on pancakes.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

He has a very thick accent.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

As his accent was quite thick, I thought he meant pray FOR me, but he apparently meant WITH as he laid on his hands and asked Jesus to heal me.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Quietly spoken, with a thick, friendly accent, dad of three Hollinshead is well groomed and impeccably mannered.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Her accent is thick and her blonde hair, frizzy from trying to escape, is draped down her shoulders.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

You see, LW speaks with an accent so thick you probably need x – ray hearing to understand what she is saying.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I’m the only one without a thick accent, it’s really quite odd.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

When it was my turn, the mechanic who tossed my key back on the counter told me, in an accent so thick I had to ask him to repeat himself: “Not perfect, but OK. “The mechanic who fills out the invoices told me with a little smile, “Stop hitting things! “I was in the middle of reading something else now, a short story about a dinner party, and I was only two columns from the end.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

My Spanish professor has an accent so thick that I already understand him better in his native language, and all I know how to say is’ ’ mas tequila.”
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In Wikipedia:

Doiby (Derby with a thick Brooklyn accent) works as a taxi driver, mostly for the Apex Broadcasting company, where Alan Scott was employed.
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Queried on 2013-05-19.