okay, this will prove where you're from

[mimitabby]

http://gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have


here's what I got:
what did you get?

Your Result: The Northeast

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.

(born and raised in NJ left when i was 18)

[Eden]

I got this one

"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.

- pretty well on. Grew up in Pittsburgh, PA and have lost some of the regional accent that comes from there. Though I doubt I have a good voice for radio or TV.....

[SheFly]

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.

Friends from where I grew up claim that I have always lived in MA - aka having a Boston accent. Funny thing about both - I grew up in Toronto

SheFly

[five one]

The quiz identified me as being from the West. I was actually born in Baltimore, but we moved to Colorado when I was four. Except for two years in Alabama when I was 14-16, I've lived in CO or CA. I never thought I had an identifiable accent. But I was back East a couple years ago and several people asked if I was from CA, so I guess I do .

[Bikingmomof3]

Well, this definitely makes logical sense.

"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.

I really did enjoy Fargo. Anhway, this above is extremely accurate considering I was born and raised in MN.

[chickwhorips]

The Inland North - 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."

dang and i thought i got rid of the accent. see what happens when you live with a yooper! i don't call my carbonated drinks "pop". my grandma did and i thought it was funny. always called it soda. though does anyone know where the bubbler is?

dontcha knowder ey?

[Offthegrid]

Guess it got me dead on.

"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.

[Bikingmomof3]

though does anyone know where the bubbler is?

I know. There used to be a joke (growing up in MN) about why some in WI call a drinking fountain a Bubbler. I no longer recall why.

Do you know what a two four is?

[Eden]

The Inland North - 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."

dang and i thought i got rid of the accent. see what happens when you live with a yooper! i don't call my carbonated drinks "pop". my grandma did and i thought it was funny. always called it soda. though does anyone know where the bubbler is?

I grew up in Pittsburgh - got the midland accent too - but we always called soda - pop, never soda, heck I think I used to wonder how soda was different from pop. Of course we had a whole lot of very, very regional words that no one else knew anyway - chipped ham anyone? Not to be "nebby" but btw - what's a bubbler??? - one thing I never picked up though was the habit of saying yins (short for you-all, equivalent to yall in the south)

found a good website www.pittsburghese.com
should be a hoot if you didn't grow up there - may just make me nostalgic

[Offthegrid]

Here's one not in the quiz.

People are waiting to check out at the supermarket. New Jersey/New York folks say they are "on the line." Pennsylvania people say they are "in line."

[silver]

"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.



Hmmmm...pretty close. I live in southern Indiana, but I grew up in Alabama. Maybe that's what it means by I may be from a southern city. But the most recognizable local pronunciation around here (that i do not say) is to pronounce the word "WASH" with an "R" so that it sounds like "WARSH" People who grew up around here don't seem to have much of an accent until they say that word. It's really odd if you ask me

On the soda/pop issue, in the South we say "Coke" no matter what, could mean a Pepsi, Sprite, or Dr. Pepper.

[DebW]

"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent."

Gotta laugh about "don't have an accent". People from New England think I have an accent. People from the upper midwest think I have an accent. Whenever dh and I used to disagree about the pronunciation of a word, we'd look in the dictionary and both pronunciations would be there, but mine would say (esp. south). Never thought of Missouri as the south until I moved away from it. People around here object to the way I pronounce "adult" (I accent the first syllable). And they get confused when I pronounce "pin" and "pen" the same. But I've finally learned to (sometimes) say "aunt" so it doesn't sound like an insect.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

My result was the same as Mimi's.

[Duck on Wheels]

Hah! I got Inland North, but I'd never even been there for more than a week until last year on sabbatical. Born and raised in California and never left the state 'til I was 16. Maybe it was that one question that got me off track, the Mary, merry, marry one. I couldn't find an answer that fit how I pronounce (or hear myself pronounce) those three. To my inner ear I say Mary and marry the same, but have a tighter vowel sound for merry. Otherwise, I wonder what I should sound like to place me correctly in NoCal?

[Cyclo Kitty]

Inland North

Are you from Chicago?

Yep, I sure used to be. I thought that the multiple years in Missouri & Rhode Island would change the way I speak but no. A guy from Boston pinned my Chicago origins in about 15 minutes one day....when I said a napple instead of an apple.

Fun!