Regional accent quiz - do you have an accent?

LOL, they pegged me too. Inland North--great Lakes area. I live on Lake Ontario-can't get much closer w/o getting wet.
 
Yup, they said I'm from the Northeast. They listed Philly or NY. I'm actually from New England but I don't have a Boston accent at all. I think I have a tiny bit of my parent's New York/Long Island accents, mixed in with some native Vermonter, LOL!
 
Here's what they said about me:

"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."

Since I'm Canadian, this is good! :D

Sue
 
Inland North

But, they say, "when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?"

I've NEVER been asked these questions in my life! EVER!

And yes, were were raised refering to soda as "pop" but, since moving here, I've come to call it "soda" because that's what it's called here. When I go back to the Niagara/Buffalo area (wedged between two Great Lakes!) and say "soda" people PAUSE while they figure out what I'm talking about.

Actually, I think it fun to call it "sodapop" because it's a happy word. :wub:

Janine
 
hehehe -- I've always said that I don't have an accent. Everyone on TV talks JUST like me. :USING:

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.
 
We called soft drinks "tonic" when I was growing up in Cambridge, Mass. I saw a research study once that said that there is only one tiny corner of the world that uses that term -- Boston and environs.
 
Originally posted by ellenm
We called soft drinks "tonic" when I was growing up in Cambridge, Mass.
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That's interesting. Maybe that's because many of the older, original formulas, like CocaCola, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, etc., started out as tonics in the 1800's, then when they legally were told to stop being sold as medical cures, they marketed themselves as refreshing beverages.

Janine
 
"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".

Crazy! So my British, slightly posh tinged with Lincolnshire (farming county) accent could apparently be mistaken for a New Yorker. Well fancy that! :wacko:
 
Hit me right on, too.


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.
 
Same as Linda!

Voice and Diction class will do that.

But I can retrieve my native Upper South when needed

Hollis
 
Well, this is interesting, it says that I have a Boston accent!! LOL, I know I spent my summers in Cape Cod before I moved over here but this is ridiculous! :D

Actually, when I lived in Montreal, everyone used to ask "where I came from" and were always surprised when I said "here". My mum and all my family came from Wales in 1956 and so their British accent became warped over the years. When they talk though, their accent is close to what I used to hear people talk like in Massachusetts when they said "car" (sounds like cah) or my mum's favorite mahs bah (mars bar).

I just I just inherited it as people over here don't think I sound Canadian but South African!!!:puzzled:

Harriet, Gary got the same as you so it must be a Brit thing!!

Lei
 
This Western Canadian has been pegged as sounding like I'm from "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 funny thing about accents is that they can be very localized.
I have a southern style of accent but I am a "true Yorkshire man "born and bread and should have a very broad Yorkshire one.
This is because the town I live in is a Spar town and was in the 1800/ early 1900 a place where a lot of people moved in from other parts to take the waters and retire and thus the local accent got very Diluted.
People are surprised when they find out that I come from Yorkshire and I have had a few heated debates as they thought I was winding them up.
As one of the biggest employers in my town is the US government, in the future our accents could be on the change again.
which will confuse people even more.
 
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