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The American Accent Quiz

lunatic59 said:
One of my co-workers forwarded this to me.

What Kind of american Accent Do You Have?

It nailed me.
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Can't stop laughing.

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Northeast

94%

Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.
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When I was growing up, we used to take our fillum to the ack-uh-me to get developed. And the first word a baby spoke was most likely "yo". ;)
 
Your Result: North Central

89%

"North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.
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I am Canadian. Pretty spot on. I did live in Ohio for a couple of years when I was little.
 
Your Result: The Inland North 96%
You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."

64%The Northeast

I only ever call SODA "pop" when I'm making fun of people from Ohio (sister in law). The quiz didn't go there but I order a "sub", not a "grinder" or "hoagie".

I'm from around/near Albany, NY so yeah, it is sort of right.
 
I found it uncanny in its description of my results, naming my former vocation right at the end!

"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio."

I was an NPR radio News and Weather announcer for six years before getting my Broadcast Engineer degree.

Only thing it got wrong was where I spent most of my life (S.F., Ca), but I have lived in Nebraska since '88. So.. I think they have something there. ;)
 
95% The Midland? :confused:
Granted, I grew up in MA with neither parents having a substantial accent. I moved to NC when I was 16, lived there for few years and never acquired a southern accent (only picked up a couple words there I use a lot like "ya'll").
I don't know, guess it seems fairly accurate.
 
What American accent do you have?
Your Result: Boston 88%

You definitely have a Boston accent, even if you think you don't. Of course, that doesn't mean you are from the Boston area, you may also be from New Hampshire or Maine.

88% The West

85% The Midland

66% North Central

40% Philadelphia

33% The Northeast

26% The Inland North

23% The South
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Ha! I've never even BEEN to Boston/New England. :eek: Interesting that it scored the same for the West (which would be correct for me--born and raised in SoCal), but chose to tell me I have a Boston accent.
 
Very strange, I'm not american but took it anyway and it said I'm from the north east... which is the part of Britain I am from
 
pbf98 said:
I got midland.. haha, but I am told i have a medium MN accent so idk lol
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Same here. I was born in northern California, and grew up in northern Illinois.

But since my family (that I visited often) lived in Texas and Tennessee, "The Midland" would be where the geographical average would lie, I suppose.

I DO NOT have a good voice for TV or radio! I've been on radio and TV, and my adult voice sounds high like a boy when it goes through a microphone. :puke: Not very flattering to me, or sonorous to the listener.

Take that test with a 5# salt lick...Chris Matthews is from Philadelphia, and he pronounces "talk" like "twahk". :hmmmm:
 
Queens and Brooklyn still have some. Went back east with daughter on a bus. We changed in NYC, and got on a bus with a bunch of people going to a reservation to gamble. Colorado born daughter asked me in all seriousness, "Are they speaking English?"
She grew up watching "All in the Family!"

I'm not sure which area this pertains to - but some forms are distinguished by how you say Merry, Marry, and Mary. Just looked it up - it's New England.
 
Spot on for me.
Your Result: The South

That's a Southern accent you've got there. You may love it, you may hate it, you may swear you don't have it, but whatever the case, we can hear it.
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Though I was born in the Midwest, but parents where southern. Mine is not a thick southern accent.
 
Wilkas said:
Very strange, I'm not american but took it anyway and it said I'm from the north east... which is the part of Britain I am from
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Ditto!

Who knew the NE US was settled by geordies ..? :)

Strange thing is, no-one in the UK ever realises I'm from tne north east. People usually think I'm an Aussie .. which I'm clearly not: I'm nowhere near macho enough :)
 
SiempreTuna said:
Ditto!

Who knew the NE US was settled by geordies ..? :)

Strange thing is, no-one in the UK ever realises I'm from tne north east. People usually think I'm an Aussie .. which I'm clearly not: I'm nowhere near macho enough :)
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From your username, I assumed you were from the Philippines :)
 
Your accent is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak! If you're not from Philadelphia, then you're from someplace near there like south Jersey, Baltimore, or Wilmington. if you've ever journeyed to some far off place where people don't know that Philly has an accent, someone may have thought you talked a little weird even though they didn't have a clue what accent it was they heard.

Is Philly NE USA? And sometimes NE US dialect is standard US English or CNN English, if there is such a thing? Also how did they group the Joisey dialect in there as well? I thought that's one of the more destinctive regional US dialects.

BTW I'm actually English, but don't think I have much of a regional dialect for any part of the UK.
 
mikedt said:
Your accent is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak! If you're not from Philadelphia, then you're from someplace near there like south Jersey, Baltimore, or Wilmington. if you've ever journeyed to some far off place where people don't know that Philly has an accent, someone may have thought you talked a little weird even though they didn't have a clue what accent it was they heard.

Is Philly NE USA? And sometimes NE US dialect is standard US English or CNN English, if there is such a thing?

BTW I'm actually English, but don't think I have much of a regional dialect for any part of the UK.
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There must be something to that as when I was in London two years ago, we met up with an internet acquaintance and she remarked how easy it was to understand me, where some other people she had met from the U.S. (most notably the southern states) were almost unintelligible.
 
wyndslash said:
From your username, I assumed you were from the Philippines :)
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Close but no cigar :)

lunatic59 said:
There must be something to that as when I was in London two years ago, we met up with an internet acquaintance and she remarked how easy it was to understand me, where some other people she had met from the U.S. (most notably the southern states) were almost unintelligible.
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I'm surprised - most Brits are pretty familiar with US accents because we get so many of your TV shows and movies. There was a time when I could surprise tourists by telling them which part of the US they were from - not quite as cool as it sounds as I was in Israel at the time so it was essentially 50/50, NY or NJ.

While I was there, I got a job in the kitchen of a French resto in Eilat and was introduced as Belgian (different, even longer story). The Swiss/Israeli owner spoke to the chef in Hebrew and the chef and I spent all day trying desperately to communicate in our mutually lousy French.

At the end of the end of the day, when we finally got to kick back and take a moment, I asked the chef where he was from and he said, "New Jersey".

I then discovered I understood his French better than his English .. :)
 
I'm from southwest Ohio, so pretty good:

"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying
"you don't have an accent." You probably are from the
Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana,
southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you
could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big
southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good
voice for TV and radio.
 
mikedt said:
Is Philly NE USA? And sometimes NE US dialect is standard US English or CNN English, if there is such a thing? Also how did they group the Joisey dialect in there as well? I thought that's one of the more destinctive regional US dialects.
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Yes, Philly is NE US. And south jersey people on the western side have a tendency to speak like those from philly. Us ny/nj peoples got a different answer. TOTALLY different accent. :D
 
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