Midland accent here, with a slight midwestern twang that’s not really Southern and doesn’t seem to be on this test. I keep going over and over this, and I just can’t pronounce any of those words the way you describe. They are all homonyms to me, pronounced kind of like “bang.”
Your Result: The Northeast
Raised in the bayous of South Louisiana.
Moved to New York City in 1969.
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You do realize that for some of us, all six of those words rhyme with each other - which makes the comparison meaningless. I wonder if people from the east coast have an easier time with spelling?
I got midlands (wrong) and then west (right). I then spent time saying “Dawn” and “Don” I say the first at a slightly higher pitch and the tone rises slightly - so you can tell the difference, but its the same vowel.
Hmm. It gave me the Philadelphia one too, followed closely by Northeast.
My parents are from Eastern PA but I grew up in New York State. But I know that my pronunciation is a melange.
I always tease my friend who pronounces Mary, merry and marry all the same. And bury, Barry and berry. They had a dog who I think was named Barry but I could never get them to confirm since they pronounced Berry that way too.
Hmmm … born and reared in Texas. Fort Worth, specifically (so it’s north central Texan).
The test pegged me as “Midland”. But, I have worked diligently to purge most Texan from my accent (I used to lecture, and it doesn’t pay to have a distinct accent of any sort, particularly Southern when lecturing up North).
I’ve been told I have a mid-America radio announcer dialect.
It fell back on “The Midland” for me, too. I’ve made one brief visit (a couple of days) to one of the states they mentioned, and I grew up in a rural Louisiana town, not a big city. I do live in Dallas now, but my accent hasn’t changed appreciably since moving here–people in my home town always thought I talked funny.
Midland, but I see that my basic “Western” accent is being shaded by “Boston,” which is where my wife comes from. Then it gets hit with “The South,” which is where my mother came from. Makes sense.
Almost none. I’ve always been told I sound like a newscaster.
Posted too soon: according to the poll I’m Philadelphia (been there a few times but never picked up an accent). After that I’m equally South and Midland followed closely by Northeast, then a major dip to Inland North and another dip to Boston and The West with no North Central.
Who the hell says bag in such a way that it rhymes with vague (or vice versa)?
It pegged me as North Central and since I did spend my first 24 years in Ontario the last part of their description is correct but I hated the accent in Fargo and didn’t think it sounded Canadian at all.
I was born and raised in Cleveland, but I join you as a proud Inland Northerner. And yes, “pop” is the proper term for a carbonated non-alcoholic beverage!
My friend from Montana does. I have to really pay attention to context when she talks. She also mentioned that us East Coasters don’t say the “t” in words like mitten and kitten and she’s right.
Lifelong Arkie here, tested Midland.
I do try to spit out the grits before speaking to non natives.
Another midlander here. I have lived in West Virginia all my life, but my parents were Australian. They kept us from getting too much of a southern accent.
According to the test, I have a midland accent. This is somewhat surprising as I grew up in Northern VA and have never been west of West Virginia, with the exception of an international flight where I switched planes in Texas.
I got the “Minnesotan, often confused with Canadian” tag, which is reassuring.
The first syllable of “whore” is definitely not pronounced the same as “horrible.” Plus it’s a two syllable word.
The West???
I’m from Northern NY and now live in Upstate NY and while I don’t have that annoying New Yawk accent, I also don’t have that nasally Central NY accent either, so I guess I don’t have an accent.
The only answer I changed was the “about” question. When I lived in Northern NY, I was more likely to pronounce it closer to the Canadian pronunciation. In that case, I was considered “North Central” according to the quiz.
It wasn’t accurate for me except to say that I didn’t really have an accent.
I just took the quiz for Indiana (to which I moved in 2001) and got 95%. After being assured that “[n]o one will confuse you with a Buckeye, a Wolverine, a Kentuckian, or an Illinoisan”, I decided to test my ability to fit in elsewhere in the (greater) Midwest. Here are the results:
82% Ohioan – guess my lack of euchre experience outweighs 40-plus years as a resident of “The Heart of it All”.
31% from Michigan – Indeed, I’ve been to the “Water Winter Wonderland”, but have no illusions of being a true Michigander.
0% Kentucky – My friend Crystal, who’s from Bardstown and proud of it, will be relieved to know that I have no bluegrass in my blood, even though my mother was born in Alexandria and my brother lived in Louisville for a few months.
89% knowledgeable about Illinois – apparently the occasional trips to Evanston and Champaign in support of the Purdue women’s basketball team have familiarized me with the Prairie State to a degree greater than I had realized! Of course, the fact that I’ve been a geography/history nerd since childhood undoubtedly helped…
Born and raised in Texas but the test says “West”. I guess I’m doing it wrong then.
Midland.
I have spent my entire life in Northern California, but that’s mostly the same (and, indeed, my West score was only slightly lower than my Midland score).