Which American accent do you have?

Northern: grew up in the Chicago burbs.

I got neutral. :confused: 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. :stuck_out_tongue:

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 :slight_smile:

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 :slight_smile:

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.