For many in the vicinity where I live, both are pronounced “PEE-un.” Yes, two syllables. No, I don’t pronounce them that way.
“Inland North”. But I’m from Texas, ya’ll.
Add me to that list!
Is it the Midwest accent that is the ‘normalized’ American one for media stuff?
I got Midlands, with South as a close second. I’ve lived in Tennessee my whole life. It’s funny-- a lot of TN folks ask me “where you from?” but people from other parts of the country often say “I love your Southern accent!”
I would say yes to that.
Yeah, whenever any of these accent questions come up on the board, I always find that my answers (from New York) are pretty much in line with those from England. Whenever there is one of those “are these two words pronounced the same or different” questions, I always answer “different.”
Which has led me to wonder, is there one of those pairs that the majority of the US pronounces *different *but in New York is the same? I can’t think of one.
And they correctly pegged me as being from New York City.
Lucky bastard - it told me I’m from the Midlands. Well, I am from Saskatchewan, and that is kind of in the middle…
+1
This, only replace “Northeast Ohio” with “Southeast Michigan”.
Me too.
I’m doing such a good job at pretending to be Canadian that I fooled my parents into being born there! 
I got Minnesota, even though I have a deep Boston accent. (that was way down)
Same here.
Mine, too; Inland North was completely red. The accent groups all cover large regions, so while I agree that there are noticeable differences between Michigan and Wisconsin accents, they still likely have more in common with each other than with other accent groups.
A good rule of thumb is to see if people outside the region would likely guess your accent to be from various places in the region. To Wisconsinites, you clearly don’t sound like you’re from Wisconsin, but I bet people from other areas of the US wouldn’t hear a difference between you and your neighbor.
I worked internal tech support for a financial services company for a few years. We would speak to people in branches all over the country. I kept a list of WHERE AM I FROM? based on what users would guess. The far and away leader was Canada (interestingly, even native Detroit-area speakers have understood that, saying that there is something noticeably different than everyone else). Second was Minnesota, though anyone from Minnesota would instantly know I wasn’t from there.
Oh, and when I say “what users would guess”, I mean that completely out of the blue, they would suddenly ask something like, “So, where are you originally from?” (when they knew I was in the Detroit are) or, “Are you Canadian?”. I got this far more often than any of my coworkers.
I got Northeast with Philadelphia a close second, which is interesting for two reasons:
- I’m from Peru
- I learnt English from 1st to 6th grade from Philadelphia nuns of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
It got me exactly. it said Inland North, and even mentioned Chicago. I’m originally from the suburbs, but that’s close enough!!
I got Boston, I’m from Boston. Nifty.
Took the quiz; it correctly identified me as “Inland North”
I do take one small issue with the result comments, though. Quoting:
Most of this is correct. Am I from Wisconsin? Yes. Are you from Chicago? Well, more recently, I’m from Chicagoland though this is not necessarily Chicago. Close enough.
But “Chances are you call carbonated drinks “pop.”” No, no, no. My dad and my grandmother (on dad’s side) - both of whom I love to death, but both who I would characterize as a bit “countryish” for Wisconsin (dairyish?) - both stopped calling soda “pop” about 20 years ago. Nobody I know calls it “pop” anymore, though I do remember (as a young kid) people calling it that.
Round these parts, it’s “soda”.
It’s always been pop in NE Ohio, and all right-thinking people know that’s what it should be called, dammit.
I got Midland, which probably makes the most sense. I was born in Kentucky and then grew up in Texas, BUT have a mother who has insisted on my being able to speak properly. She still corrects me. <sigh>
But it does help that I can talk just like any local yokel (no offense, I think that accent is cute) and also switch it off to a more ‘professional phone voice’.