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The American Accent Quiz

shelliewnj said:
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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Yup. North Jersey is more like Brooklyn and South Jersey is like Philly. Central Jersey is like ... wait, nobody lives in central Jersey. ;)
 
SiempreTuna said:
Who knew the NE US was settled by geordies ..?
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No, I think the northeast US was where they sent all the people with adenoids. At least I can understand what a geordie is saying. ("I watch Inspector Lewis" :tongue:) I can't always say that about New Englanders.
 
Speed Daemon said:
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.
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I have yet to meet ANYONE who thinks their voice doesn't sound weird when they hear it as others do, whether it's on-air or in a video or whatever. I've always found that so strange, you know that we hear our own voices every day as they come out of our heads, but have a completely different idea of what we sound like than everybody else does.
 
Most of the kids I grew up around had Fall River accents (think Emeril). It's similar to Boston by slightly different. And NO, it's nothing like that garbage accent in NYC. ;):p
 
Couldn't be more wrong for me
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I grew up in North Carolina and people always recognize my southern accent.
 
MoodyBlues said:
I have yet to meet ANYONE who thinks their voice doesn't sound weird when they hear it as others do, whether it's on-air or in a video or whatever. I've always found that so strange, you know that we hear our own voices every day as they come out of our heads, but have a completely different idea of what we sound like than everybody else does.
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Yeah, but I had an added problem. I was working with real professional voices at the time. When I was doing rock concerts it was trained singers; when I was in TV broadcasting they were on-air talent. :eek:

It's one thing to seem strange sounding to yourself as a parlor trick, but quite another thing to have to stand in for people who had these deep, rich-sounding voices! "The horror...the horror..."
 
Yeah, it got me, the south, grown in in south west Louisiana all my life.
A lot of people have a very thick Cajun accent but, I like to think I don't have it as bad as they do.
 
Nailed it down to the right city.

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.
 
Your Result: The Midland

95%

"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.


yeah.. i am from Dallas area.
 
Your Result: The Inland North 100%
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."
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Nailed it in one - I was raised in Detroit.

To confuse people, I use Texan idioms wherever possible and if I get a cross-eyed look, I pronounce somethings in NY or Pennsylvanian.

Are yinz fixin' ta git a soda pop? That's a classic, right there. :D
 
I had 95% Midland, probably as a result of my MinnEE-SOH-TA birth being mixed with a Southern upbringing.
 
One problem with this test is that it asks you what you think. I know the proper pronunciation of words, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I actually do it. :hmmmm: Therein lies the rub.

Someone needs to write a web app for the site that does actual voice analysis...
 
I grew up in Fayetteville North Carolina, but haven't been back there in almost 20 years. I've totally and completely lost my southern accent (unless I spend an hour or so with someone else that has a southern accent... then I pick it back up for a few days before losing it again rofl).

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The West
Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta.
Result Breakdown:
96% The West
95% The Midland
75% Boston
73% North Central
33% The Inland North
27% Philadelphia
27% The South
21% The Northeast

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No matter... I'm still a southern gal at heart. ;)
 
Here there, I've always sensed a little flavor of vinegar bbq and red slaw when you typed, Petrah, so maybe you were just fooling with that web page! :)
 
Fuggetaboutit! Brooklynese all the way, according to my daughters "upstate" friends. Born there, raised on "Lawn Guyland".

My daughter is Bari. Rhymes with Harry and carry. Her friends do not hear a difference, and call her "bearie", like a bear. They also do not hear a difference in berry. Cheery and cherry are the same to them. I am "Sherri", rhymes with cherry, and they don't hear difference in "Shari", which rhymes with "carry"! When they try to say "Shari", they pronounce the vowel as the sound in "char", (or car, provided you aren't from Boston....)

I have hair on my head, which us NOT the same as "I hear you" or "I am over here"....
 
In New England "pah-king the cah" is parking the car. Here in PA Dutch country, it's poking the cow. ;)
 
Whatever. Southern New England can sound more like NY. Native Italian speakers could raise hell with the Indian place names. Saug - a - TOOK for Saugatuck.

Out here, the locals mangle Spanish. Pee -eblo for Pueblo? C'mon.

The accent I'm glad they lost is that stupid one you used to hear in movies made in the 40's. It was like fake BBC. I can't give a movie example, but go find a vocal of FDR and you will hear it. (Been watching too many documentaries on PBS)
 
Hmmm, says 96% the west.

I've never been further west than Arizona, so no go there. Born and raised in Western PA, and only permanently lived on the East coast. They didn't have any Pittsburghese in there either.

I'm declaring shenanigans!! :p
 
Granite1 said:
Hmmm, says 96% the west.

I've never been further west than Arizona, so no go there. Born and raised in Western PA, and only permanently lived on the East coast. They didn't have any Pittsburghese in there either.

I'm declaring shenanigans!! :p
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To us Phillies, Eagles and Flyers fans, Pittsburgh IS the west :p
 
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