Well done - it picked me for a Philly accent, and I did in fact grow up right across the river in Trenton.
Joe
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.
The Northeast, the one part of the US from which I am emphatically not.
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.
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.
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.
Midland, just like pop and strawberry cassata cake.
Same here.
I got Midland, which they say is the same as not having an accent. That part I believe.
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.
Midland here. Makes sense because I speak with a conglomeration of Chicago nasal and New Orleans drawl.
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”.
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?
“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.
“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.
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…
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.
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.
I got Midlands … eh. I grew up very close to southern IL but I think I sound southern.
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.