| 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. | |
| The Midland | |
| Boston | |
| North Central | |
| The Inland North | |
| Philadelphia | |
| The South | |
| The Northeast | |
| What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz | |
Thursday, March 20, 2008
What's your accent?
Found this on another blog. My result was right...
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Hmmm, I also got "the West" as my result, with Midland as a close 2nd.
I come out north central and it says I probably get mistaken for a Canadian a lot. Right on!!!
Thanks for posting this.
That was fun. I've got the inland north accent going for me. I did learn to talk in Illinois.
I've got a Western accent. Not surprising since both my parents were raised in the West, even though we lived all over the place (Saudi Arabia, the deep South, Texas). My new midwife asked me if I was from Utah within a couple minutes of meeting. Apparently "us Utahns" have a distinct accent. Who'da known? Of course, I think these Midwesterns talk funny. :) Who ever heard of Missouri being pronounced "Missour-a?" Whatever. :)
Wow...I just made D take the quiz, and he came up Midland...which freaks me out just a little, because I don't actually think we sound different?! Crazy.
hey Jen, your expert linguist here :)
This would have been a perfect game to play in section in Language and Society that I used to T.A.! We cover all these. I clicked all the answers to get Northeast, and then I did it all over to get North Central. (Or whatever the quiz called it.) I "won" both times, heehee. In our classifications, we didn't really have a specific diagnostic for a Western accent, which is not surprising since the West was settled comparatively recently, by people speaking a variety of American dialects... I'm not sure how the quiz is set up to reflect that. My guess is the diff btw you and Dan is that he would have had to answer 'Same' to one or more on nos. 3-6 and especially 'Mary/merry/marry the same' on no. 8? That one is what surprised my students most, they were not aware of it at all...
Kelley I'm so curious what are some features of a Utah accent?
I can totally spot a Utah accent in about 2 seconds flat. It's hard to describe but I can always pick it out.
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