What American accent do you have?

[Killroy]

This is version 4 of the famous quiz that tells you what accent you have. But it still won`t tell you if you have a Pittsburgh or Vermont accent (sorry)

http://www.youthink.com/quiz.asp?action=take&quiz_id=9827

My Results:

http://www.youthink.com/quiz_images/full_428371978.jpg (http://www.youthink.com/quiz.asp?action=take&quiz_id=9827)

Midland

("Midland" is not necessarily the same thing as "Midwest") The default, lowest-common-denominator American accent that newscasters try to imitate. Since it's a neutral accent, just because you have a Midland accent doesn't mean you're from the Midland.

[AnalBreeze]

Northern

You have a Northern accent.
That could either be the Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland/Buffalo accent (easily recognizable)
or the Western New England accent that news networks go for.


http://www.youthink.com/quiz_images/full_537664926.jpg

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[swivel]

Midland. Which is weird, because when I talk to Killroy on the phone, he sounds like a fucking redneck to me, and my voice sounds neutral, a tad British even. It makes me question the quiz (or Killroy's honesty).

[Killroy]

Midland. Which is weird, because when I talk to Killroy on the phone, he sounds like a fucking redneck to me, and my voice sounds neutral, a tad British even. It makes me question the quiz (or Killroy's honesty).

swivel, seriously, your voice has no hint of British in it. I would say you have a neutral voice with a hint of Southern in it. Aside from particular phrases common in the South, most people who have never met me would not have guessed I am from the South at all.

[swivel]

I beg to differ gov'nor. You can take the trash out of the trailor, but you can't take the trailor out of the trash.

Unless you take it back off of the blocks, of course.

And inflate the tires.

And get a hitch mounted to your El Camino. Maybe then.

[Killroy]

I beg to differ gov'nor. You can take the trash out of the trailor, but you can't take the trailor out of the trash.

Unless you take it back off of the blocks, of course.

And inflate the tires.

And get a hitch mounted to your El Camino. Maybe then.

Fuck you. My trailer has been off the blocks for awhile now.

http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/8030/watertrailerfr1.jpg

[CPL CHUD]

Northern. What a surprise.

[brokenandtwisted]

North Central

What people call the "Minnesota accent." Sounds almost Canadian. You may have even been asked if you were from Canada before.

What a surprise. :)

[apocalypticdreamer]

Northern.

I always found this site (http://www.michigannative.com/ma_pronunciations.shtml) quite interesting and true.

[McVain]

Midland

("Midland" is not necessarily the same thing as "Midwest") The default, lowest-common-denominator American accent that newscasters try to imitate. Since it's a neutral accent, just because you have a Midland accent doesn't mean you're from the Midland.

[gprime]

This is version 4 of the famous quiz that tells you what accent you have. But it still won`t tell you if you have a Pittsburgh or Vermont accent (sorry)

http://www.youthink.com/quiz.asp?action=take&quiz_id=9827

My Results:

http://www.youthink.com/quiz_images/full_428371978.jpg (http://www.youthink.com/quiz.asp?action=take&quiz_id=9827)

Midland

("Midland" is not necessarily the same thing as "Midwest") The default, lowest-common-denominator American accent that newscasters try to imitate. Since it's a neutral accent, just because you have a Midland accent doesn't mean you're from the Midland.

I got the same, which I suppose isn't unreasonable. I was born in Michigan, and I do live there now. But most of my life has been lived in Canada and Boston, so I figured I'd probably get something more to do with the North or Northeast.

[Tolo]

Western. Surprise!

[Doc]

What American accent do you have? (Best version so far) (http://www.youthink.com/quiz.asp?action=take&quiz_id=9827)

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Southern


Yeehaw.

[Athena]

I'm Midland, too. I'm from Seattle, so it makes sense. We sound just like newscasters and vice-versa. Interesting little survey, though!

[kakihara]

According to this, Midland. I suppose that is correct. I really don't think I sound southern. Whatevs.

[ZombieBabe]

Midland. Which is weird, because when I talk to Killroy on the phone, he sounds like a fucking redneck to me

Aside from particular phrases common in the South, most people who have never met me would not have guessed I am from the South at all.I'm sorry to have to break it to you, Killroy my man, but swiv is right. You do sound like a hillbilly. If it helps any, I do too! When I talk to my friends from Richmond, I sound like the hick I was born to be. :D

The stupid test said Midland for me too. I think the test is fucked.

[Killroy]

I'm sorry to have to break it to you, Killroy my man, but swiv is right. You do sound like a hillbilly. If it helps any, I do too!

That's only because I am a master of disguise...including voice manipulation. I quite frequently change my accent to match who I am talking to. It takes tons of skill and concentration on a super-human level. All of which I possess.

Ya'll.

[Athena]

Man...I had this MySpace buddy I exchanged phone numbers with once. At that time, I was SO addicted to politics that we switched numbers just so that we could call each other on our commutes home from work and debate issues (sick, huh?).

Anyway, he was from Alabama. Now, here on the West Coast, everyone sounds pretty much the same, from Seattle to San Diego and east halfway into the country. I've got some family from the east coast (MD, mostly), but I'm really not exposed to any significant accents. Shame, too, because I love every last one of them (probably because I'm not exposed to many).

This guys accent was SOOO deep South that I found myself saying, "Excuse me? What was that?" or some variation of that every couple of words. It was crackin' me up. It amazed me that I could not understand someone that lived in the same country as me.

[kakihara]

MD huh. Where about?

[Athena]

MD huh. Where about?

Bethesda, mostly. Rockville and the Silver Spring area, too. My mom grew up in Bethesda and had 7 siblings, all but one of which are sprinkled in that area. I try to get back there often, but I haven't been in a couple of years. I was there for Reagan's funeral...at The Mall...On a 105 degree day...I must say, I don't miss your summers. :p

[kakihara]

VERY close to me. I am in Germantown (per my location under my AV;) ). I am actually siting in my office in Rockville right now.

Small world indeed.:)

I could do without the summers here. I much prefered the summers when I lived in Utah.:cool: I LOVE the spring and fall here though. SOOOOOOOO beautiful.

[Athena]

Yep, you're right down the road, practically. :)

When I was a kid, my parents used to ship me off to my Aunt Cynthia's in Bethesda during summers...

I thought they hated me after awhile. :P

[kakihara]

HA HA HA!

The ultimate torture! A D.C. summer!:D

It has been fairly mild so far. Yesterday was around 97 with the hummidity. Of course, we have not reached August yet.:(

[Athena]

LMAO...A world where 97 is "fairly mild"... :p

Yesterday in Seattle it was about 75. That's comfortable.

[kakihara]

No no no. It has been in the 70's/80's thus far. It has just started to heat up and yesterday was probably the hottest so far. August is always the worst month and it will go over 100 for sure then if not soon.

75 IS mild. Those are the types of summers I enjoyed in Utah (I lived in Logan, about 2hours north of SLC), unless I went south to the desert. Even then it was not as bad because it was a dry heat.

[Athena]

How do you do it? I mean, as if the heat isn't hard enough to acclimate to, you guys can get some pretty wicked winters over there. Of course, coming from Utah, you're probably a lot more used to snow than I am...

It's a lovely place to visit with the architecture and history and whatnot, but I don't know that I could live there. Having been there during the 17 year cicada cycle and all, I mean, we just don't have anything like that over here.

[kakihara]

Actually, I grew up here. I have lived here for 29 years. I moved to Utah when I was 22 and lived there for 2 years.

I am used to it. We can get harsh winters and the summers can be brutal, but to tell the truth, with the climate getting all fucked up, the winters have gotten easier and the summers have gotten milder the past 4 or 5 years.

I have been through the Cicadas twice. It was fun the first time when I was a kid and spent most of that summer at my grandparents cabin in the mountains. A kid can't ask for anything more than a wiffle ball bat, a large field to run in and thousands of Cicadas flying around.:D

Ultimatly I really want to move back out west. I LOVE Utah but the wife will not move there. Arizona, specifically the Flagstaff/Sedona area, has become our middle ground. We both really like that area. It is beautiful up your way as well. I had a friend in Sequim and I absolutly loved the peninsula! Especially the parts of Olympic I explored.:cool:

[Athena]

Well, that makes sense.

So they wife doesn't care for Utah, huh? Any reason in particular?

My boyfriend wants to move to Montana (I call it "Montucky"...gives people a sense of how I feel about it). Frankly, Montucky doesn't have a city big enough for me. I was born and raised IN Seattle. When I was a kid, I could hop on a bus and be downtown in 20 minutes. Everywhere I've lived, you can throw a rock and easily hit the neighbors house. I'd rather contend with neighbors than not have any. If I spend time away from Seattle, it's either D.C. or San Francisco, typically. I like camping occasionally, but that's as sustained as a trip to the sticks gets, for me.

Sequim, huh? Weird little town. Grandparents had some property over there. I was just over there in January staying at a condo at Discovery Bay (between Sequim and Port Townsend) and visiting my grandparent's friends. "Small world" is beginning to look like an understatement. The Olympic National Forest is spectacular. Did you know that it's technically rainforest?

Incidentally, the first bar I ever got drunk in underaged was in Rockville. Good times. :)

[kakihara]

Honestly, I don't really know exactly why she does not want to live in Utah. It's ok though...I really like the Flagstaff/Sedona area and I have two friends that just moved out there. Contacts are nice to have.;)

Montana is beautiful! I don't know that I would want to live there either though. I once got drunk at 7:00 in the morning in a little park in Billings with a Native American named J.R. My buddy and I had just left Idaho on the Grayhound and were headed to Denver. We had a 4 hour layover in Billings. I went outside to catch a smoke when we arrived and J.R. approached me and asked for beer money. I said "Shit man, I got 4 hours to sit around. Lets go get drunk!" To my total shock J.R. informed me that he had been kicked off the reservation...it was a dry res.:D

I liked Sequim a lot. I kept wanting to pronounce it see-kwim though. :o :D I had Thanksgiving dinner at a shelter there. That is where my friend was working. It was way cool. Met a lot of nice people that day. I am aware that Olympic is a rainforest. It is amazing. It really trips you out to not really see bark on the tress because they are totally covered in moss. Crescent lake is spectacular. As is Marymere Falls.

My first underage drunk in a bar was in Georgetown. I love living 25 minutes north of D.C.:D

[Alphonsus di Ligouri]

Southern

People used to hate Southern accents but now everyone wants one.

It's not fair to include Texas as part of the South. To my way of thinking, you're only southern if you born in a state that was a part of the original Confederate States of America.

[Tobe_Romero]

What American accent do you have? (Best version so far) (http://www.youthink.com/quiz.asp?action=take&quiz_id=9827)

My Results:


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Southern

People used to hate Southern accents but now everyone wants one.

Why do yunz talk so funny?

[dop]

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Southern

People used to hate Southern accents but now everyone wants one.

Not surprising as my only regular english interaction is with Texans.

[AnalBreeze]

Northern


http://www.youthink.com/quiz_images/full_537664926.jpg

You have a Northern accent. That could either be the Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland/Buffalo accent (easily recognizable) or the Western New England accent that news networks go for.

[Universal_Vagabond]

My Results:


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Neutral

You're not Northern, Southern, or Western, you're just plain -American-. Your national identity is more important than your local identity, because you don't really have a local identity. You might be from the region in that map, which is defined by this kind of accent, but you could easily not be. Or maybe you just moved around a lot growing up.

This is great considering how much time I actually devoted to changing the way I speak. I remind myself that no matter how intelligent I may actually be, if I sound like a redneck or a backwoods-cousin loving South Carolinian, then no one will listen. Of course, no one listens anyway, looks like they've learned to ignore the madman's lullaby. It's so good to be back :D

[swivel]

It's so good to be back :D

Weird, I read that with Eminem's voice.

[Universal_Vagabond]

Weird, I read that with Eminem's voice.
Well, you know, what goes in, usually resides there and becomes that little voice inside our heads. So, with that being said, what exactly have you put in your head, swiv? I never thought of you as a Marshal Mathers fan, but, then again, I do know of your affinity for gangsta wannabes.

Jebus it feels good to be back. I got to thank Hank for this. Well, Hank and my usual appreciation for self-depreciating conversation. Even as I write this, I have a smile on my face and a serious thought in my head on how to rebuke this monster.

[dop]

Heya UV, nice to see you back.

[beautiful_tormentx]

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Northern

You have a Northern accent. That could either be the Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland/Buffalo accent (easily recognizable) or the Western New England accent that news networks go for.

[Peeperann]

Southern, no surprise, I did just move to Iowa from Bowling Green, Kentucky!!

[Mr_Vindictive]

Leave it to me to dredge up a dead thread.

You're not Northern, Southern, or Western, you're just plain -American-. Your national identity is more important than your local identity, because you don't really have a local identity. You might be from the region in that map, which is defined by this kind of accent, but you could easily not be. Or maybe you just moved around a lot growing up.

http://www.youthink.com/quiz_images/full_428371978.jpg


I can have a southern accent when I want to. Hell I was born and raised down here so I do have a tint of it. I work technical support on occasion and have to speak directly to customers over the phone. I've noticed that I can drop my accent at a moment's notice and I'm starting to use my neutral accent more often.

When I get drunk though, it's full southern.

[Kathy]

Southern

People used to hate Southern accents but now everyone wants one.

It's not fair to include Texas as part of the South. To my way of thinking, you're only southern if you born in a state that was a part of the original Confederate States of America.

I agree. I got Southern too. I was born and raised in Texas, but live in SC now.
Compared to these people, I may as well be from outer space.

[Hippiepoet]

I have to admit, this was fun to do. My results were...

Neutral

You're not Northern, Southern, or Western, you're just plain -American-. Your national identity is more important than your local identity, because you don't really have a local identity. You might be from the region in that map, which is defined by this kind of accent, but you could easily not be. Or maybe you just moved around a lot growing up.



Well, this is probably about right. I was born and raised in Missouri. I met a man from Pennsylvania around 9 years ago, and wow did he have an accent. LOL He is a painter and until this year, we traveled pretty much 9 months out of the year, with his job. (Crazy fucker painted electrical steel towers, poles and cell phone towers). We've spent a lot of time down South; North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, usually every winter. Well, last winter we were in California, but that's the only time he's painted out West, farther than Iowa, anyway. We've spent summers up North in Wisconsin and Iowa both. It was a great experience traveling and meeting so many different peoples, but it's also good being at home on the farm in Missouri. :D

[Morbid]

Athena says I do have a hick accent, even though I don't hear it. :)

[kakihara]

Of coursn' ya don't heer it! Nun yalls reeleyes whut yalls sounds like!

God damned hicks.

[Barbara]

Southern :D

[Athena]

Athena says I do have a hick accent, even though I don't hear it. :)

Hey! I specifically differentiated between your accent and a hick accent. You sound like your from the Carolinas. Hick accents, in my opinion, tend to originate in states like Arkansas, Oklahoma and Alabama. Geez. Twist my words, will you... ;)

And, what do you mean, you don't hear it? You don't notice the pretty significant difference between how you pronounce things and how I pronounce things? :p

[Nyrak]

Northern.

[mammasweets]

I know this is an old thread. I have no clue how I ended up here.

But mine says I am Neutral.
Neutral
You`re not Northern, Southern, or Western, you`re just plain -American-. Your national identity is more important than your local identity, because you don`t really have a local identity. You might be from the region in that map, which is defined by this kind of accent, but you could easily not be. Or maybe you just moved around a lot growing up.
http://www.youthink.com/quiz_images/full_428371978.jpg

[TheLittleFriend]

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My Results:

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Northeastern This could either mean an r-less NYC or Providence accent or one from Jersey which doesn`t sound the same. Just because you got this result doesn`t mean you don`t pronounce R`s.(People in Jersey don`t call their state "Joisey" in real life)


Hummm....interesting.

[Nell]

Neutral. Not surprising, since I did move around alot. I went to 13 different schools in the 12 years of schooling.

[Dakota_Valkyrie]

It nailed mine!
North Central
http://i26.tinypic.com/33mxvk6.jpg
What people call the "Minnesota accent." Sounds almost Canadian. You may have even been asked if you were from Canada before.

that said, It is not as thick as the Skandahoovians further north... Yeah, shure you betcha :)

[lisaznola]

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Neutral You`re not Northern, Southern, or Western, you`re just plain -American-. Your national identity is more important than your local identity, because you don`t really have a local identity. You might be from the region in that map, which is defined by this kind of accent, but you could easily not be. Or maybe you just moved around a lot growing up.

[celtic friend]

I got the Mid-Atlantic, also known as the Philadelphia accent it says. Right on the money for me since I grew up in Philadelphia.

[Mom of 4]

Well that was interesting considering I live in Ontario Canada!

http://i28.tinypic.com/2livqz6.jpg

Does this mean nobody in Ontario understands what I am saying?? LMAO All this time I thought folks were ignoring me. :p

[Dakota_Valkyrie]

Well that was interesting considering I live in Ontario Canada!

http://i28.tinypic.com/2livqz6.jpg

Does this mean nobody in Ontario understands what I am saying?? LMAO All this time I thought folks were ignoring me. :p

Since I came up as sounding almost Canadian, I can translate for you.

[TheMorningStar]

I scored:
Neutral You`re not Northern, Southern, or Western, you`re just plain -American

I grew up in Pittsburgh, so I guess they are right that it does not work if you are from there. Strange, it is ( was ) a strong accent. Goes to show 10 years in NJ can pollute anything.