I got Midlands, which seems accurate. I’ve lived in Detroit, Chicago, and Atlanta, which somehow ended up neutralizing my accent altogether.
“Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.”
Central Jersey - born and raised.
Midlands here. I guess it kinda works, I grew up in the Quad Cities area and an old roommate of mine tried to convince me that, regardless of where it was, if it was in Illinois and was not in the Chicago area, it was Southern Illinois.
I guess he was right.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a radio station to apply to.
I got Midland?!? I’m from DC, and I rarely go off the coast and I’ve never been to the Midwest.
I got Philadelphia/Northeast. Makes sense, because I’m from DC.
I have lived in the Boston area for 9 years.
The results:
Least close match: Boston
Real Result:
“That’s a Southern accent you’ve got there. You may love it, you may hate it, you may swear you don’t have it, but whatever the case, we can hear it.”
I am from Louisiana and it is good to see that I have still got it after all this time.
So, how the hell does “bag” NOT rhyme with “vague”??
My accent is south side Milwaukee all the way, and I cannot for the life of me think of anyone ever (even on TV) pronouncing those words differently.
And it’s soda, people. And you drink from a bubbler, water fountains are those things in front of office buildings and such. 
“The West - Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you’re a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta.”
Born and raised in northern New Jersey, and currently residing in NYC, so while not geographically accurate, at least I can sleep easy knowing I don’t harbor a Joisey accent? :dubious:
And this argues against your being confused how?
Have you lived upwind or downwind of Haight-Ashbury?
In the same way that hag does not rhyme with Hague (or Haig), Dad does not rhyme with Dade, mad does not rhyme with made, lad does not rhyme with laid, bath does not rhyme with bathe, lath does not rhyme with lathe, ban does not rhyme with bane, bat does not rhyme with bait, and so forth: easily.
That’s confused in the context of being a Northern or Southern Californian. And while I have lived in S.F. proper, it was south of the Haight - neither upwind nor downwind.
“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
Raised in Florida by an Ohio native.
Airyagarmay.
Looks like, as was the case with the other Aussies, I have a Notheast accent. I am also 76% British, peacefull, 91% in highschool test and have 50% ADD.
Your Result: The Inland North
You may think you speak “Standard English straight out of the dictionary” but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like “Are you from Wisconsin?” or “Are you from Chicago?” Chances are you call carbonated drinks “pop.”
Weird. I was born in Wisconsin but I’ve spent most of my life in other parts of the country. Maybe I picked it up from my parents. And it’s soda!
Next you’ll tell us that Don and Dawn sound the same.
I’ve always pronounced bag with a short a, and vague with a long a. Sounds very different from my mouth, then.
Exactly what I got, and I am from Wisconsin. But therefore, I call it “soda”.
I also say, “Come here once”, drink from a bubbler, and use a rubber band to bundle papers.
Regards,
Shodan, ain’a?
Bag rhymes with sag and tag, but vague rhymes with leg and egg. To you, do sag and leg rhyme?
Don’t be so ridiculous! “Vague” has an A sound, “leg” and “egg” have an E sound.
Did the Pilgrims forgot a few vowels when they set sail, or what? Seems you lot over there have to make do with about three vowel sounds for the whole English language 
Well, I’ve never surfed, but I probably sound like a surfer to the tourists. Granted, I don’t interact with tourists much anymore, now that I live a good 15 miles away from the beaches they like.
There are several of them. People from El Paso speak differently from those from San Antonio, who speak differently from those from Dallas, etc.
Of course it does. BC is California with more rain and fewer minorities.
Me too. I’ve never been to Philly, BTW.
I can’t figure any of them out, except for pen/pin and feel/fill. (I associate that speech pattern–both of them sounding the same–with black people, which probably just means it’s a Southern thing.) My aunt from Minnesota pronounces “bag” like “vague”. What is “about” supposed to sound like, if not “loud”? Aboot? That’s Toronto or something, ain’t it?