Take the online accent quiz

What part of and where in the U.S. is your accent from?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl3/american-accent-quiz.html

It correctly pegged me as being from the Midlands (Midwest).

I got Inland North. But I’ve never been accused of being “from Wisconsin or Chicago”. But I do call soda “pop”. Northeast Ohio born and raised.

Apparently I have a Boston accent (although I may be from New Hampshire or Maine.)

I’ve lived in PA my whole life :confused:

Now if you’ll excuse me, I gotta go pawk the caw.

I got Inland North, but I grew up in Virginia and live in Washington.

Apparently, I’m from the Northeast, which is actually correct.

North East England, that is.

But still… heh.

Inland north, which is surprising being from Holland and all :stuck_out_tongue:

Inland … Wisconsin or Chicago :confused:

It seems to be missing the identifier for the broad Rochester ‘a’ I guess :confused:

My accent is generic. The results said most people would say I have no accent, and from my experience, that’s true. I was born and learned to speak in Texas, but I’ve lost the accent over the years. My vocal cords have retained the ability though because it comes right back if I spend any significant time with my Texas relatives.

Philadelphia or thereabouts, which would be a surprise to that guy who wanted to teach me Philadelphia English 'cos he didn’t like the heavy Hispanic aksent I had after a 14h day, of which the last 3h had been spent on the phone with people from Italy, France, Spain and Latin America…

Mind you, I can’t promise that I pronounce things how I think they should be pronounced, all I can say is how I think they should be pronounced.

It seemed to be mostly about vowels. Some of the things which I think should be different use the same (or about) vowel, but longer or shorter; this may be an artifact of having to Pronounce Clearly, Damnit so the teachers could tell whether we were saying “feel” or “fill”. I know that many of my coworkers pronounced many of those “different” pairs the same as far as I could tell.

I’m from the West and I sound like it.

I got “Midland” which is probably right. I was raised in the South, but I don’t have much of an accent in my daily speech. Very cool test. I have to get my uber Southern boyfriend to try it.

My result was Philadelphia, and I spent the first 45 years of my life 90 miles down the road in Baltimore, so it did pretty well on fairly meager evidence.

The Inland North which works since that is where I was born, raised and live now.

And yes, soda is pop.

The quiz correctly pegged me as being from the Philadelphia area, and even mentioned South Jersey as a possibility. Not bad!

There are a lot of similarities between those two accents, so I can see why the quiz lumps them together.

It says I’m from the “inland north” which would be mostly correct. Born in WI and grew up in FL.

My husband (born and raised on Long Island) get in to the Mary, marry, merry argument every now and then. He likes to chastise me about my accent. Which is hilarious and ironic to say the least.

I regret that I have not yet been able to properly mimic a Long Island R sound. My Rs always sound like Wisconsin.

I got “Midland”, the same as Brynda, which makes sense since we were raised in the same house.

Placed me in Philly also, with the disclaimer that included Baltimore, which is where I learned to speak. I don’t have a Bawlmer accent, however, and I think I have a generically vanilla accent.

English, quiz pegged me as NE American

Mine came up as “Midland.” It did come up with “the west”, which I’m from, as #2, and “Boston”, which my father is from and people say I sound like I’m from, as #3.