And apparently her American accent was giving him a little trouble, too.
The accent gives them a strong regional identity and they should be proud of it".
His accent gives him away as being from Hamburg.
"I was raised in Brooklyn," he said, though his accent already gave it away.
Your accent would give you away at once.
"My accent will give me away at once as it did to the serving woman."
"It's not what it used to be," he said, his accent giving some weight to his observations.
A third person emerged from behind his paper, but the accent gave him away.
On the other end was a man whose accent gave him away as a Palestinian.
She did not know where he had been born his accent gave no clue.