okay, this will prove where you're from

[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.

[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?

[Eden]

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?

Hah - I thought the same thing about the Mary, marry, merry one - they didn't really have the answer I wanted Mary and marry the same, but merry - a little more like mirry?.. not quite the "i" sound, but definitely distinct to my inner ear from the other two..

[Mr. Bloom]

Totally missed me...born in Massachuesetts, raised in Alabama. Lived in the south most of my life...quiz said I was "Inland North" If I was from the "Inland North", I'd sound like it...don't ya' know now derhey?

"Hmmmm...pretty close. I live in southern Indiana, ... 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"

Silver, you're also forgetting the lousy subject/verb tense around here...you know...everyone around here says "I done this" or "I have went to the store"... It's so common that it's almost accepted grammar

[snapdragen]

I came up as Midland I grew up in California.

[Veronica]

I came up as North Central and I'm from Maine.

I do NOT talk like the people in Fargo.

V.

[kelownagirl]

North Central. It says most people would mistake me for a Canadian. Good thing - I am one.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

My result was the same as Mimi's.

[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!

[Meaux]

I ended up as North Central. Oddly enough, I have lived in Texas my entire life. However, my parents are both from Ohio. Maybe that's where it came from? I've had people ask me if I'm from England before too. Weird!

[Fredwina]

I got Inland north, even though I'm From Southeast Missouri. and my parents were from Tennessee.
Silver, when I lived in South St. Louis, the joke was that you had a southside accent if you warshed your Farks in the zinc after driving down highway Farty! I can also remeber my cousin being surpized when her son told her wanted a toy Fart for chirstmas (will that get past the moderators?)

[Crankin]

According to the test, I have a Midland (i.e. no accent). I guess all those years of living in AZ cured me of my Boston accent (and 5 years in southern FL). I am sure i definitely sound like someone from the northeast, but I do pronounce my "r's" although it is still not natural. When i used to yell at my kids, I would lose all vocal control and scream "get ovah heah!" to everyone's amusement...

[five one]

According to the test, I have a Midland (i.e. no accent). I guess all those years of living in AZ cured me of my Boston accent (and 5 years in southern FL). I am sure i definitely sound like someone from the northeast, but I do pronounce my "r's" although it is still not natural. When i used to yell at my kids, I would lose all vocal control and scream "get ovah heah!" to everyone's amusement...

Once when I was in college in Colorado, an tourist came up to me on the street and asked where the nearest "pack" was so his kids could play. I was a bit confused and asked him to repeat what he was saying a couple times. I was about to give him directions to the North Face store for backpacks when I figured out he meant "park". That was probably my first experience with a Boston accent.