Quiz: What American accent do you have?
 

Learning Spanish so I've been reading up on accents and came across this quiz. Post your results.

[url=http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have]What American accent do you have?[/url]

[quote]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."[/quote]

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This quiz blows......
Its says I'm from either Philly, Baltimore or Jersey.
I've lived in the Grand Rapids, Chicago area since 1973.

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I came in at Midland, but South was a close second. not bad

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Midland...basically no accent.

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Loud and proud, baby.

[QUOTE][B]Your Result: Philadelphia[/B]

Your accent is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak! If you're not from Philadelphia, then you're from someplace near there like south Jersey, Baltimore, or Wilmington. if you've ever journeyed to some far off place where people don't know that Philly has an accent, someone may have thought you talked a little weird even though they didn't have a clue what accent it was they heard.[/QUOTE]

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How about the word "water".

Most in the country say the first vowel the same way a doctor would say open up and say "ahhh". Not Philly. We say wooter.

We're weird. And we're assholes. Sorry!

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LOL it says im North Central. I have no idea where that came from.....

Your Result: North Central


"North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.

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Southern Redneck.

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It's just like in the word "whore."


[QUOTE]What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland


"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.[/QUOTE]

Philly accent second, makes sense since I've lived in PA almost 3 decades since moving from MD.

No real accent is accurate because I like to pronounce everything properly, intentionally.

Good voice for radio? Yep, I have been the voice of a phone system before (recorded the greeting/menu system/options for my company once).

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The Inland North...yeah, i've never lived anywhere near Chicago or Wisconsin.

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[quote=saden1;808701]The Inland North...yeah, i've never lived anywhere near Chicago or Wisconsin.[/quote]


Funny I was also Inland North. I did spend two week in Chicago in 1994 so maybe thats why. LOL

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[quote=saden1;808701]The Inland North...yeah, i've never lived anywhere near Chicago or Wisconsin.[/quote]Same here. I've lived in Murrland, from All-neey, to Sal's-Bury, to Bahlmur. If anything I think that when I've had too much to drink or not enough sleep I drag out my Os or add Ws to them. But I definitely have never had someone tell me I sound like I'm from Chicago or Wisconsin.

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Thankfully, Boston was at the bottom of my list. I think that could be THE WORST accent in the nation, almost the world...down there with the French phlegm-speak.

Also, ever notice how many British women sound great when they speak, but the British men sound annoying? I even had a British woman voice on my GPS for a while, until she started mispronouncing too many street names.

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Lots of the Philly thing going on, that's where it put me too. Midland was second. I grew up in MD, in Mont. County.

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Inland north for me too? I'm from Appalachia, pure bred hill jack. I've lived all across the country except the great white north.

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The south, but I swear that I do not have a southern accent or any accent at all.

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Everyone has an accent Angry. What you deem as "no accent" is viewed as an accent from another perspective.

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Inland North? Um, nope. Born and raised in DC.

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[quote=GMScud;808758]Inland North? Um, nope. Born and raised in DC.[/quote]


Now this is a story
all about how my life
got twisted upside down
and id like to take a minute
just sit right there
ill tell you how i became the prince
of a town called Bel-Air

In west Philadelphia
born and raised
on the playground my momma said
most of my days
chilling out, maxing
and relaxing all cool
and all shooting some b-ball
outside of school
when a couple of guys
they were up to no good
started making trouble in our neighborhood
i got in one little fight and my mom got scared
she said your moving
in with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air

i whisted for a cab and when it came near
the license plate said fresh
and had dice in the mirror
if anything i could say that this cab was rare
but i thought nah, forget it
yo home to bel-air!

i-pulled- up tp a house about seven or eight
i yelled to the cabbie yo home, smell you later
looked at my kingdom i was finally there
to sit on my throne as the prince of bel-air

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[quote=Monkeydad;808761]Now this is a story
all about how my life
got twisted upside down
and id like to take a minute
just sit right there
ill tell you how i became the prince
of a town called Bel-Air

In west Philadelphia
born and raised
on the playground my momma said
most of my days
chilling out, maxing
and relaxing all cool
and all shooting some b-ball
outside of school
when a couple of guys
they were up to no good
started making trouble in our neighborhood
i got in one little fight and my mom got scared
she said your moving
in with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air

i whisted for a cab and when it came near
the license plate said fresh
and had dice in the mirror
if anything i could say that this cab was rare
but i thought nah, forget it
yo home to bel-air!

i-pulled- up tp a house about seven or eight
i yelled to the cabbie yo home, smell you later
looked at my kingdom i was finally there
to sit on my throne as the prince of bel-air[/quote]

Wow. I need your free time.

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[quote=GMScud;808763]Wow. I need your free time.[/quote]

He probably just copied pasted it from the theme song to Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

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I think mines was accurate. I lived my first 7 years in DC but then moved to Chicago before I turned 8 so it's no surprise that my accent, or lack thereof, could be traced back to the Midwest seeing as how during ages 8 to 13 your voice is still developing. I actually had a 6 year old cousin that lived in England for two years, had a British accent, and then lost it when he came back to the states.

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I dont have an accent but all you ridgerunners that live south of Dayton do.

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[quote=hooskins;808720]Everyone has an accent Angry. What you deem as "no accent" is viewed as an accent from another perspective.[/quote]

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Below the Mason-Dixon........Squarehead.........

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[quote=mredskins;808764]He probably just copied pasted it from the theme song to Fresh Prince of Bel Air.[/quote]

I know it's the theme to the Fresh Prince, I'm just hoping he didn't really sit there and type the whole thing out.

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[quote=GMScud;808763]Wow. I need your free time.[/quote]

You would have free time if you didn't give them gays special privileges to slack off and parade around town

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I grew up around Chicago and really don't sound like I'm from there at all...so I graded out as Midland. And as of three years ago, I started to become able to tell the difference.

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[quote=SmootSmack;808783]You would have free time if you didn't give them gays special privileges to slack off and parade around town[/quote]

LOL yeah. What the hell am I thinking?

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[quote=GMScud;808781]I know it's the theme to the Fresh Prince, I'm just hoping he didn't really sit there and type the whole thing out.[/quote]


You thought it was the theme song to Good Times. No need to be embarrassed common mistake.

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[quote=GMScud;808763]Wow. I need your free time.[/quote]

Copying and pasting is that tough for you?

Lessons are $50 an hour...PM me to register.


[quote=mredskins;808764]He probably just copied pasted it from the theme song to Fresh Prince of Bel Air.[/quote]

:food-smil


[quote=GMScud;808781]I know it's the theme to the Fresh Prince, I'm just hoping he didn't really sit there and type the whole thing out.[/quote]
If there's a better time for a :doh: , I've never seen it.

:doh:

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Buster why did you change your screen name?

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[quote=Monkeydad;808854]Copying and pasting is that tough for you?

Lessons are $50 an hour...PM me to register.




:food-smil



If there's a better time for a :doh: , I've never seen it.

:doh:[/quote]

Really? You give this entire board facepalm moments on pretty much daily basis.

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[quote=Schneed10;808858]Buster why did you change your screen name?[/quote]

Not to speak for him, but personal situation he may not want to discuss.

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[quote=SmootSmack;808861]Not to speak for him, but personal situation he may not want to discuss.[/quote]

Yep.

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[quote=hooskins;808720]Everyone has an accent Angry. What you deem as "no accent" is viewed as an accent from another perspective.[/quote]

It was kind of a play on this hooskins. I am not that naive.
[quote]
Your Result: [B]The South[/B]


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.
[/quote]
Regardless of what this says I do not have that deep of a southern accent. I just annunciate American English.

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[quote]Your Result: The Midland[/quote]

Philly, The Inland North and the South were all pretty close as well.

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[quote=Schneed10;808695]How about the word "water".

Most in the country say the first vowel the same way a doctor would say open up and say "ahhh". Not Philly. We say wooter.

We're weird. [B]And we're assholes[/B]. Sorry![/quote]
no arguement here:)

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[quote=Schneed10;808695]How about the word "water".

Most in the country say the first vowel the same way a doctor would say open up and say "ahhh". Not Philly. We say wooter.

[B]We're weird. And we're assholes[/B]. Sorry![/quote]

I work with a woman from the Philly area and she says "water" very weirdly.

She says the first syllable as she's going to say "wood" and then REALLY emphasizes the 't' in the second part.

[quote]woo-Ter[/quote]

I agree.

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Born and raised in San Diego.




[b][url=http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have]What American accent do you have?[/url][/b]
Your Result: [b]The Midland[/b]
"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]Result Breakdown:[/i]
100% The Midland
80% Philadelphia
78% The Inland North
77% The South
58% The Northeast
33% The West
25% Boston
19% North Central
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