I was taught that I had no accent. I went to school with people from across the country and compared to them I had no accent. I still believe that I have no accent, but I am wrong.
Yes. It’s true that people in the Northwest don’t have an overbearing accent like you might see in the Northeast or the Southeast, but they have one.
“Everybody has an accent,” the chief editor of the Dictionary of Regional English Joan Houston Hall says. “It just depends on what you’re comparing it to."