Take the online accent quiz

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.

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.

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”.

It thinks I have a Boston accent.
Even though when I was in Boston the locals thought I was from Ireland.

I’m Scottish.

Midlands/no accent, apparently. Which is hilarious, since I have a strong foreign accent otherwise.

I can hide very, very well…

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.

I see what you did there. :slight_smile:

Ditto on all counts.

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.

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?

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?

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. :stuck_out_tongue:

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).

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.

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.

Midland and from California

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.