After Debbie talking about my accent it reminded me of a quiz I took earlier today.

What American accent do you have?

http://www.memegen.net/view/show/2313?page=1

Southern. Love it or hate it, your accent says you're probably from somewhere south of the Ohio River.

http://people.unt.edu/tpk0005/finalsouth2.bmp

Well everyone knows I have a Texan Drawl :rolling: sorry couldn't resist!

I did your test and this is my answer

New York City. You are most definitely from New York City. Not New Jersey, not Connecticut. If you are from Jersey then you can probably get into New York City in 10 minutes or less.

That was interesting.....Inland Northern...Great lakes area...Right on the money!!!

Well everyone knows I have a Texan Drawl :rolling: sorry couldn't resist!

I did your test and this is my answer


New York City. You are most definitely from New York City. Not New Jersey, not Connecticut. If you are from Jersey then you can probably get into New York City in 10 minutes or less.

Now that is funny because I don't believe a New Yorker sounds anything like an Aussie!!!LOL:haha:

Northeastern.

This is how I say it, I have a twang, but I say it like it SHOULD be said. LOL... I'm going to make my dh take it, it should be interesting. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA..... He will get hillbilly. LOL... :evil4:

Dh got western... WHATEVER... he is hillbilly. :rolling: sorry Amanda. LOL... I'm sure that you aren't hillbilly. :evil4:

Emily, my dh was born and raised in Lexington and he got Midland. He said probably because his mom is from Pennsylvania. LOL

Midland. The Midland (please don't confuse with "Midwest") itself is the neutral zone between the North and South. But just because you have a Midland accent doesn't mean you're from there. Since it is considered a neutral, default, "non-regional" accent you could easily be from someplace without its own accent, like Florida, or a big city in the South like Dallas, Houston, or Atlanta.

Midland - Missouri, Illinois, Indiana. Supposed to be neutral.

It really is amazing how many different accents there are and some very subtle and others so obvious...I remember when we would go visit Steph in AZ people would constantly comment on our "Wisconsin accent"...we were like what are you talking about?...they say we say Wisconsin funny...you should hear them...LOL

Emily, my dh was born and raised in Lexington and he got Midland. He said probably because his mom is from Pennsylvania. LOL

Midland. The Midland (please don't confuse with "Midwest") itself is the neutral zone between the North and South. But just because you have a Midland accent doesn't mean you're from there. Since it is considered a neutral, default, "non-regional" accent you could easily be from someplace without its own accent, like Florida, or a big city in the South like Dallas, Houston, or Atlanta.


Isn't that funny how you could be from somewhere w/out an accent? STRANGE. Or maybe you pick up wherever you go. I do, I know that.

I think it also has to do with how you were taught to say things, KWIM? For instance, someone from St Louis would say words different than someone from where I'm from, down here, they would say them more "southern" if that made sense.

It really is amazing how many different accents there are and some very subtle and others so obvious...I remember when we would go visit Steph in AZ people would constantly comment on our "Wisconsin accent"...we were like what are you talking about?...they say we say Wisconsin funny...you should hear them...LOL


I know that I love to hear Rachel and her family talk. And while we were there I was really self concious, and this guy, we were drinking one night, *imagine that* and he said,"listen to your accent, isn't that charming" talking about me. :rolleyes: that made me feel good, because I hate my accent. ACK... :sign11:

well, my accent isn't southern, its more hick than anything... beings that Im from west vergeni :haha:

LOL...that quiz made my brain tired! Of course, that would not take much right now. ;)

I've got the Midland thing going too, I guess....

Okay so i did the test... it says "midland" for me.. I guess thats from all the moving around between the states... (va, wva, ky, and tn)...
I still say the VA and WVA people sound diff than all the others.... thats my accent

I ended up "Northern," which is odd as I'm southern by birth and Texan by choice.

Angela ... where in WV are you from? My mom's family is from WV, and I grew up near Harpers Ferry in the eastern panhandle, just west of Washington, DC.

Princeton, Bluefeild(wva) , and tazewell (va) in the blue ridge mountains...

I guess I should have added where ever the coal was booming because consol sent my dad to mines after mines.
IM PROUD TO BE A COAL MINERS DAUGHTER....
hey my grandmother did grow up in butcher hollar...

I am Inland. Chicago/Indiana and so on. I guess that is right on. I was born and raised in Sauk Village IL and moved to IN by choice. Now I can't get out of here HELP!!!!:haha: .

:haha: i know i am Aussie but I had to do it! I was new york.....

Nic I was New York too, must be the closest accent KWIM?

Rach, always thought New York was a bit "posh". I think our accent does sound posh to most Americans, kind of "british-like"?

Midland. The Midland (please don't confuse with "Midwest") itself is the neutral zone between the North and South. But just because you have a Midland accent doesn't mean you're from there. Since it is considered a neutral, default, "non-regional" accent you could easily be from someplace without its own accent, like Florida, or a big city in the South like Dallas, Houston, or Atlanta.

its funny though my friends all tell me i have a mixed accent mixed between boston and RI i am frrom mass so i would understand boston even though I park my car not pack my caah lol i think i just say things the way i was taught i said boku bucks the other day i say it like bow-koo my cousin corrects me and says no its boo-koo but my step grandmother is Frenck and she says bow-koo kwim its kind of hard to write in your own accent lol

Ok, this is a great test. I took it and I am apparently this...

Northern. Whether you have the world famous Inland North accent of the Great Lakes area, or the radio-friendly sound of upstate NY and western New England, your accent is what used to set the standard for American English pronunciation (not much anymore now that the Inland North sounds like it does).

Hahaha...I have an accent, but it''s not northern, it's foreign...Russian or European, not thick, but it's there, but I learnt to speak English in NYC. So, that might have something to do with that.
But, Amanda, thanks, this is fun!

Mine was right on! It says I am from the Midland

That was fun - Midland for me too - right on.

New York City. You are most definitely from New York City. Not New Jersey, not Connecticut. If you are from Jersey then you can probably get into New York City in 10 minutes or less.

K, it says I'm Western, but anybody who hears me talk will say OMG, you are sooooo from the south. But, I answered completely honestly. Even read them outloud.

K, it says I'm Western, but anybody who hears me talk will say OMG, you are sooooo from the south. But, I answered completely honestly. Even read them outloud.


She is speaking the truth! I can vouch for her. Her accent is totally Southern and totally cute!:party0049:

It said that I sound like to people in the movie Fargo. It said people often mistake me for canadian, and I gre up on the Canadian border, and when we lived in California people always thought I was Canadian, so I guess it was right, but I don't agree with the Fargo thing.

It said people often mistake me for canadian

Katey, say "about" :razzing:

I used to take the Ferry into work in San Francisco and everyone would ask me how I got to work, so that they could make say boat. And I have always been teased about how I say 'about'

Katey - do you say yaww - like the lady in Fargo?

LOL

Western. Like Midland, Western is another accent that people consider neutral. So, you might not actually be from the Western half of the country, but you definitely sound like it.

Thats what they said about me lol.. and thats funny because people tell me all the time that i dont have a southern accent.. my mom is from ohio so maybe thats why..im a nurse and i swear i've had three patients in the past 3 or 4 months ask me if i'm from the west.. im like what??? Lol i think its funny.. when i went to college in Georgia they all said i was from the north.. lol..

how do you say about like aboat or aboot? like mrs doubtfires accent?

North Central. This is what everyone calls a "Minnesota accent." If you saw "Fargo" or "Drop Dead Gorgeous" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Some Americans may mistake you for a Canadian.
Katey - I am with you NO WAY to sounding like FARGO !!
and I LOVE the Australian accent gotta love Curtis the take home chef on TLC

How funny! My accent is from around my city, Buffalo!




http://people.unt.edu/tpk0005/north.bmp

http://people.unt.edu/tpk0005/north.bmp
Northern. Whether you have the world famous Inland North accent of the Great Lakes area, or the radio-friendly sound of upstate NY and western New England, your accent is what used to set the standard for American English pronunciation (not much anymore now that the Inland North sounds like it does).

This was fun!

Northern. Whether you have the world famous Inland North accent of the Great Lakes area, or the radio-friendly sound of upstate NY and western New England, your accent is what used to set the standard for American English pronunciation (not much anymore now that the Inland North sounds like it does).

Southern. Love it or hate it, your accent says you're probably from somewhere south of the Ohio River.

Not surprised. I'm from northern ohio but raised by southern parents. The dialect from where I was raised is used in news broadcasting and journalism classes because it's considered the most nuetral. I guess I'm just a hillbilly at heart no matter what.

I hope my mother never sees this. She would be appalled to know that her child had a "Midland" accent. LOL (She was raised in Brooklyn and Manchester, Vermont.) Probably the result of my family moving 4 times while I was growing up. It's pretty much what I figured it would be.

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Okay I followed the instructions and it didn't work.

Okay I followed the instructions and it didn't work.

That's because they gave you the results in html and these boards are in bb (img) code. I just happened to copy the picture for mine. LOL

http://people.unt.edu/tpk0005/nc.JPG
North Central. This is what everyone calls a "Minnesota accent." If you saw "Fargo" or "Drop Dead Gorgeous" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Some Americans may mistake you for a Canadian.

Western. Like Midland, Western is another accent that people consider neutral. So, you might not actually be from the Western half of the country, but you definitely sound like it.

DONCHAKNOW! ok like oh my god! lol this is false. i sound like the people on the tee veee! Caluhfurniuhhhn. lmao...Fun quiz though.

http://people.unt.edu/tpk0005/nc.JPG
North Central. This is what everyone calls a "Minnesota accent." If you saw "Fargo" or "Drop Dead Gorgeous" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Some Americans may mistake you for a Canadian.
http://people.unt.edu/tpk0005/west.JPG
Western. Like Midland, Western is another accent that people consider neutral. So, you might not actually be from the Western half of the country, but you definitely sound like it.

I came up Northern, even though most people here (Chicago area) are more "Midland". I tend to enunciate more than my neighbors.

There's also the "South Chicago" accent/dialect..."Da Bearsss!"

That one annoys me to no end because it makes Chicagoans sound like such idiots!

My answer:

Northern. Whether you have the world famous Inland North accent of the Great Lakes area, or the radio-friendly sound of upstate NY and western New England, your accent is what used to set the standard for American English pronunciation (not much anymore now that the Inland North sounds like it does).

I grew up in Chicago until 6th grade, then moved to Montana. It makes sense I guess!

Western. Like Midland, Western is another accent that people consider neutral. So, you might not actually be from the Western half of the country, but you definitely sound like it.

Right on, since I'm from Seattle. I'm an English major and I remember when talking about dialects in college, the prof said that West Coasters aren't considered to have an accent, since movies/television etc are mostly shot on the West Coast, so that is the "accent" of English that is most heard around the world, so it is considered "standard" English. I don't know - that could be a bunch of bs like most of what we learn in college, but I like to think I don't have an accent LOL....

This is what it said for me, but I am a southern girl.
Western. Like Midland, Western is another accent that people consider neutral. So, you might not actually be from the Western half of the country, but you definitely sound like it.
I wish I didn't have a southern accent. People think we're dumb. :box2: