# Take the online accent quiz **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 29, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344 "2012-02-29T14:52:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/101 "2012-03-01T08:48:20Z")
Midland, which is fine for someone raised in Kansas City who lives in Chicago. I usually describe my accent as the same one Johnny Carson and Walt Disney had. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/102 "2012-03-01T09:54:35Z")
Some of you may be misunderstanding this test. It’s purpose isn’t to tell you where you are from, but to relocate you on the basis of your dialect. The papers will be coming through shortly. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/103 "2012-03-01T11:16:44Z")
Inland North. I don’t even know where that is. I’m certainly not from there. And I’d sooner die than call soda “pop”. ---
**Author:** ![Barrington\_Trout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@Barrington\_Trout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrington_Trout)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/104 "2012-03-01T12:55:33Z")
It thinks I have a Boston accent. Even though when I was in Boston the locals thought I was from Ireland. I’m Scottish. ---
**Author:** ![Waxwinged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/105 "2012-03-01T13:21:02Z")
Midlands/no accent, apparently. Which is hilarious, since I have a strong foreign accent otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/106 "2012-03-01T14:21:14Z")
> [@Alka\_Seltzer](#): > > Some of you may be misunderstanding this test. It’s purpose isn’t to tell you where you are from, but to relocate you on the basis of your dialect. The papers will be coming through shortly. I can hide very, very well… ---
**Author:** ![timid1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9a28c/32.png) [@timid1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/timid1)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/107 "2012-03-01T14:36:30Z")
It tells me that unless I’m a SoCal surfer dude(?) that I have no accent and could hail from the West or Florida. The latter is correct. Although I’ve lived in MA for quite a while, I have inexplicable escaped the pahking of my cah in Hahvahd Yahd. Wicked. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/108 "2012-03-01T16:52:43Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I can hide very, very well… I see what you did there. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/109 "2012-03-01T20:09:40Z")
> [@kittenblue](#): > > 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. Ditto on all counts. ---
**Author:** ![geneb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e4f/32.png) [@geneb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/geneb)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/110 "2012-03-01T21:00:04Z")
Inland North. Which is really weird as I was born and raised in Central/Southwestern Virginia to parents who were born and raised in the same going back to when my distant ancestors came to the USA. And I don’t call soda “pop” by any means… That’s just plain stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Rich\_G7subs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Rich\_G7subs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_G7subs)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/111 "2012-03-01T21:24:26Z")
Only off by 800 miles due west! My results said inland north (Great Lakes) and I’m from north west New Jersey…or should I say Joisey? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/112 "2012-03-01T22:14:20Z")
Whoa. I got Midlands, which seems odd for a So Cal surfer chick who lived briefly in North Carolina. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/113 "2012-03-01T23:16:14Z")
> [@Dr.Woo](#): > > Whoa. I got Midlands, which seems odd for a So Cal surfer chick who lived briefly in North Carolina. It seems a lot of us West Coasters are getting Midlands. The two accents seem to be close. Can anybody explain the differences? ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/114 "2012-03-02T01:14:22Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > It seems a lot of us West Coasters are getting Midlands. The two accents seem to be close. Can anybody explain the differences? Likely the entertainment industry. It brought a lot of people from a lot of places and taught them to speak in a newscaster’s (inland) accent. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/115 "2012-03-02T03:27:16Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > It seems a lot of us West Coasters are getting Midlands. Another Californian who got Midland. Strange. (I was told that the way to identify a true Californian is that we pronounce the vowels in law and stop identically. Which I do. So.) But reading some of the questions, I can see how it would definitely peg midwestern accents (particularly the pin and pen question). ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/116 "2012-03-02T03:39:45Z")
I’m from Montreal, part French Canadian, part Irish, part English, part Portuguese, but I fool quiz people into thinking that I hail from the West. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/117 "2012-03-02T05:15:51Z")
> [@timid1](#): > > It tells me that unless I’m a SoCal surfer dude(?) that I have no accent and could hail from the West or Florida. The latter is correct. Although I’ve lived in MA for quite a while, I have inexplicable escaped the pahking of my cah in Hahvahd Yahd. Wicked. It pegged me as west coast, and actually my lingo is somewhat surfer having grown up in the San Fernando Valley and having lived in Santa Barbara for half my life. I do own a surfboard, even though I’m not a surfer. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/118 "2012-03-02T05:26:26Z")
Midland and from California ---
**Author:** ![dzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@dzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzero)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/119 "2012-03-02T05:30:09Z")
Hmmm. Haven’t looked at other responses, but I have my doubts. It pegs me as from the NYC metro area which is where I grew up, mostly, but I’m originally from southern Alabama and have been told I have a vaguely UK accent. A professor I once had was visiting from Oxford and had no discernible accent of any kind, which according to him was “proper” English pronunciation. Wonder how he would have done. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/120 "2012-03-02T09:25:49Z")
> [@dzero](#): > > Hmmm. Haven’t looked at other responses, but I have my doubts. It pegs me as from the NYC metro area which is where I grew up, mostly, but I’m originally from southern Alabama and have been told I have a vaguely UK accent. A professor I once had was visiting from Oxford and had no discernible accent of any kind, which according to him was “proper” English pronunciation. Wonder how he would have done. Sounds like he had what we would literally call an ‘Oxford English accent’, or BBC English. And he would probably have come out as a New Englander, like all the other English people in this thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344.md?page=7)