okay, this will prove where you're from

[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.

[Kitsune06]

Inland North. Oh come ON, Chica, you've got da accent. It's not livin' with da yooper, it's just you. Aren't you thrilled?

I'll never completely be rid of mine, either. It's like a plague or something.

Taking the State tests, tho, I'm %49 Wisconsinite and 88% Oregonian. Woohoo!!!

New Yorkers and folks from Jersey cause me physical pain, talking to them. And sometimes folks from the deep south. Sorry. If I can't understand you, or you maul english with such violence that I can't tell we speak the same language... wellllll....

I do really like some dialects, though. the ones that soften some consonants and just gently affect the vowels.... I really like the sound of PNW speech, but can't copy it. Oh well.

[chickwhorips]

Inland North. Oh come ON, Chica, you've got da accent. It's not livin' with da yooper, it's just you. Aren't you thrilled?

i just figure i'll blame you for it too! now i feel better.

[Kitsune06]

i just figure i'll blame you for it too! now i feel better.

Thanks, sweety, much appreciated. Glad you feel better....

[bcipam]

I was born and raised in California. Never lived out of it. I took the quiz and it first said North East... huh? No way. Tried it again and got North Central like Minnesota... huh? Although close second was West. Does a California accent ( or lack of any thereof) sounds anything like a Minnesota "Don' ya know..." Fargo like accent?

I think not!

[Haudlady]

My favorite is this... my dad grew up in a town called Weare (pronounced "where")... "Where are you from?" "Yes." Just imagine all of the possibilities... "Where are you going?" "No... I'm going to Boston."

Silly, I know... but fun!

[Fredwina]

My favorite is this... my dad grew up in a town called Weare (pronounced "where")... "Where are you from?" "Yes."

Reimionds me of some town near where I grew up. Like Versailles (VER-sales), and New Madrid ( new MAD(not MAH)-rid), MO and Vienna (VI-anna, not Ve-anna) and Renault(RE-noat), IL

[DebW]

Reimionds me of some town near where I grew up. Like Versailles (VER-sales), and New Madrid ( new MAD(not MAH)-rid), MO and Vienna (VI-anna, not Ve-anna) and Renault(RE-noat), IL

My personal favorites: Campbell (pronounced Camel), MO, the town next to Holcomb (Haw-***) where my grandmother was from. And the Courtois River, locally pronounced Codaway.

[SouthernBelle]

Well, mine said the New York, etc. Which is hysterical. No one would ever mistake me for anything but Southern, a mix of Middle and East Tennessee and Mississippi.

[HappyAnika]

I came up as The West, it fits. I was born in CO and have lived about 70% of my time here. About 12% in AZ and 13% in CA. I'm one of the people who thinks I have no accent and everyone else does.


So I have to ask, does anyone here from PA say "beautiful" like beauty-full? I have a friend from eastern PA and the first time I heard her say that I thought she was joking, I'd never heard it pronounced that way. To me it's butte-ih-full (butte as in mesa, not your backside ).

[IFjane]

My personal favorites: Campbell (pronounced Camel), MO, the town next to Holcomb (Haw-***) where my grandmother was from. And the Courtois River, locally pronounced Codaway.

We have them here in Virginia, too. My favorite is the town of Buena Vista - (Beeyouna Vista)...and then way down in Southwest VA there is Dante (Dain't)....and Fries (Freeze)....and locally an intersection where there once was the community of Zeus (Zayus)....