Northern: grew up in the Chicago burbs.
I got neutral. Damned odd, since I speak with a thickish texas drawl. Not at all shocking considering I was born and raised here. Something ain’t right with that quiz there.
Neutral. Not unexpected.
Western, which is spot on. I’ve lived in California almost all my life, and have a distinctive Northern California accent.
Western, but I’m from East TN. Question 12 asked if all four words were pronounced the same (prize, pride etc.) which I do, but it didn’t take into account that they all sound more like “rat” than using an “i” sound.
I think tdn is right…how many syllables in each word affects the sound, too.
I took the test.
I got “Canadian.”
And I am Canadian.
Got Northeastern. I didn’t grow up there but my parents were from Long Island and Newark.
eh?
Neutral (or Midlands, which is what similar tests usually give me). I grew up in a rural Louisiana town, as did my parents. Even when I was a kid, though, people there thought I “talked funny”. I suspect that my accent is actually a mishmash, and just doesn’t score very high in any particular regional accent, so I wind up with a sort of default answer.
Neutral, which seems to be from Kansas to Pittsburgh.
(Not really sure why that is, as I’ve never been there)
Me too.
Where at? I lived in Maplewood in Bethesda, and Lux Manor in Rockville.
Northern. Born and raised in suburban Chicago until age 10, then moved to the South… late enough to fend off a Southern accent, it seems.
My younger brother was not as lucky.
Western. Lived in California all my life, so that fits.
Neutral, which I expected since I’ve lived in Indiana all my life.
Neutral. With just a hint of Norwegian as most everyone who lived in the little town where I was raised does.
I’ve more than once been asked if I’m from Norway.
Northeastern. I’m from the southeast corner of the great southern land, so I’ll give it a half-right
Yeah. I’m TN raised, but time in Maine, Ohio and Arizona softened some of my southern, enough that others in the south think I sound from away, but non-southerners hear the accent for what it is. And alcohol or family time will kick it right up.
Neutral accent my ass
There’s a difference?
I assume there is in some families, which is why I separated them.
Neutral. The area it covers does in fact include all the places I’ve lived for my whole life. I spent twenty years near the northern border of it, though, and there are certainly people just north of there with a different accent.