# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/121 "2012-03-02T10:22:28Z")
Well done - it picked me for a Philly accent, and I did in fact grow up right across the river in Trenton. Joe ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/122 "2012-03-02T10:29:28Z")
Creepiest experience I ever had accent wise was with my son’s pediatrician. (Although I grew up in Houston I do not have a stereotypical “Texas accent” and am often identified as Canadian etc) I don’t remember what we were talking about while she was prepping a vaccine or something but I mentioned how people think I am Canadian based on my accent(I had never given her any info aside from that I was from the USA). And she said oh no I can hear the Texan accent but there is something else there mixed in with it…kinda European like British or German or something mixed with a Texas accent. :eek:My mother is from Germany! Creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/123 "2012-03-02T11:14:34Z")
The Northeast, the one part of the US from which I am emphatically not. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/124 "2012-03-02T12:51:03Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > Dopers, Can I ask something? Do I have an accent in writing? Can you tell by my word usage I am from the Netherlands? Other than you write English better than most of us? Not a clue, as some of my weird construction comes from a Dutch priest I knew in the 60s. And you’re a girl? Count me in the “slow on the uptake” column. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/125 "2012-03-02T17:01:55Z")
Oh, and Midland appears to be what you get when you take a Minnesota boy, raise him mostly outside Chicago, but dip him in Virginia for a few years. ---
**Author:** ![Cheerleading\_Dropout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac8455/32.png) [@Cheerleading\_Dropout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheerleading_Dropout)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/126 "2012-03-02T21:27:47Z")
I got The Northeast. Which makes sense, because even though I’m Canadian (I have a sort-of Canadian-ish, sort of American-ish, sort of neither type of accent) I lived in Connecticut when I was really little (as in, learning-to-talk age) so I guess that would kind of influence my accent. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/127 "2012-03-02T21:32:43Z")
Midland, just like pop and strawberry cassata cake. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/128 "2012-03-02T22:57:49Z")
> [@perfectparanoia](#): > > I am Canadian and it pegged me as North Central for which one of the comments is that ‘Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.’ > > This amused me greatly. Same here. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/129 "2012-03-02T23:10:13Z")
I got Midland, which they say is the same as not having an accent. That part I believe. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/130 "2012-03-03T01:27:11Z")
It said I was from the inland north. and that is one of few places I have not lived. Vermont, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, Mississippi and now Missouri. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/131 "2012-03-03T01:42:24Z")
Midland here. Makes sense because I speak with a conglomeration of Chicago nasal and New Orleans drawl. > [@Laggard](#): > > How could pin and pen ever sound the same? Those with a Southern accent tend to pronounce “pen” with a short-i as opposed to anything resembling an e. This is why one can hear some specify “ink pen” when asking for a pen and why John Fogarty sings “pin-eh” as opposed to “pen-nee” on “Down on the Corner”. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/132 "2012-03-03T02:34:01Z")
I was unable to complete this at work due to blockage at the final scoring page; don’t ask me why. Anyway, I’m Canadian and apparently I have a Boston accent! Whey’s my chowdah? ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/133 "2012-03-03T03:20:26Z")
“Inland North” There’s something wrong here. I mean, like, if they had asked how far it was to the beach, I could have told them, like, maybe 20 minutes if you take the 405, dude. ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/134 "2012-03-04T04:20:17Z")
“Northeast: Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island.” Born and raised in RI. All the words in the quiz sound different to me. ---
**Author:** ![dzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@dzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzero)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/135 "2012-03-04T04:37:48Z")
> [@vix](#): > > “Northeast: Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island.” > > Born and raised in RI. All the words in the quiz sound different to me. Yes. Precisely. And it just so happens that they all are different. So I wonder which questions pegged me as NY metro. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/136 "2012-03-04T05:09:03Z")
I got Midlands. Which is kind of crazy, because I’m definitely Inland North. I mean, I hate it, but I sort of _sound_ like I’m from Chicago. But it looks like it was about a tie, so… ---
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/137 "2012-03-04T06:12:57Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > Heh, me too. I also answered ‘they sound different’ to every question. wow, i answered on all but the last one that they sounded the same (bag and vague pronounced the same? really?) and I got Midlands even though I am from the South and think I definately havr a Southern accent. And the question about Mary and merry and marry was strange because it didn’t offer that merry sounds differnt from the other two.and Y’all is always plural I have never hear a real Southener refer to an individual as y’all unless speaking globally(addressing one person as representing a category of people) “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. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/138 "2012-03-04T06:32:55Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > I got Minnesota, even though I have a deep Boston accent. (that was way down) I got Minnesota too, despite having only lived in NH or MA my entire life. It did guess Boston second, though. “The North East” was the second to last guess it offered. OTOH, I have had three people - one just this week, actually - ask if I was from one of the great lakes states or Canada, though. None of them are north east natives themselves. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/139 "2012-03-05T01:02:49Z")
I got Midlands … eh. I grew up very close to southern IL but I think I sound southern. ---
**Author:** ![Critical\_Mass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@Critical\_Mass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical_Mass)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344/140 "2012-03-05T01:36:00Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > > [@perfectparanoia](#): > > > > I am Canadian and it pegged me as North Central for which one of the comments is that ‘Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.’ > > > > This amused me greatly. > > Me too. > > I’m doing such a good job at pretending to be Canadian that I fooled my parents into being born there! 🙂 And me. And I thought I didn’t have a discernible accent. It’s interesting that it’s been accurate about us even though we seem to span a large geographic area across Canada. I wonder if there are such observable geographic variations in Canadian accents. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-online-accent-quiz/614344.md?page=8)