What accent do you have??

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."

I actually say soda a lot but it is mostly because I rebel against the stereotypes...lol.

I also don't put an S at the end of Meijer and Labatt...lol...'cuz there isn't one there. [/i]

Okay---- I really don't think I have an accent, but I definitely have fallen into the "new orleans " way of speaking... like..
IMA- for I'm going to
RUM- Room
Whatcha- What do you want
Those are just a few... Are there any words typical to where you gals are from?
Oh... and I think it's crazy because when we order sandwhiches here we say "I would like it dressed... meaning tomato, lettuce, cheese etc etc..." Is that really not used elsewhere????? Tell me you have heard that before!

I just found this test and thought I'd try it out, even though I'm Australian.

Apparently I would come from the Northeast, if I was American! Are our accents really so similar, I wonder? I don't know much about the differences between accents in the States, so could anyone comment as to whether they think a Northeast accent would be anything like an Australian one?!

And on the topic of accents, but really tangentially, has anyone ever watched a Brian Kest yoga video? His accent is kind of hard for me to understand - it sounds like he's in a gangster movie or something, whatever that means!

[PrincessFiona]

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."

I would not say that NE accents are at ALL similar to Austrailian accents ... but what do I know.

Oh - and Clevelanders do NOT say "GAHD". The guy from Euclid was wierd. The one that bugs me is the Pittsburgh "GAWD". Funny --- it always seemed to me that from Canton down people started to sound more "southern".

[Stella]

Well, everyone from Pittsburgh talks funny. My mom's entire family has lived there for YEARS and i still laugh.

[Ravenclaw]

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.
The West

Boston,North Central,The Inland North,The South,Philadelphia,The Northeast

I'm from New England but not Boston but I guess close enough. Funnily enough, I went to college in Boston and everyone assumed I was from New York. :huh: I grew up close to NY but I definitely don't have a NY accent. DH says I have a LI accent, which I don't at all! And I've asked friends I've made down here and they say I have no accent at all.

[Ravenclaw]

Also DH thinks I don't enunciate some words enough; the biggest one we squabble over is Manhattan. I think he OVER-enunciates the "tt"'s and he thinks I just skip over them. Then I tell him he doesn't know what he's talking about; we're like Green Acres - I'm the city gal and he's the little country bumpkin.

[ides]

The midland, followed by West, Boston, and North Central.

I grew up in washington state but have spent 7 years in the north east and five in the south. Additionally dh is from Ireland and I've picked up a lot of words from him over the past ten years. The few times people have asked me what my accent was they all thought I was from canada. Go figure. :huh:

[alison]

The midland, followed by West, Boston, and North Central.

I grew up in washington state but have spent 7 years in the north east and five in the south. Additionally dh is from Ireland and I've picked up a lot of words from him over the past ten years. The few times people have asked me what my accent was they all thought I was from canada. Go figure. :huh:

Similar story!
I grew up in Seattle, and have been living for the past 6 years in Chicago. Dh and I speak a lot of German at home and I speak mostly German at work. When I talk to my parents, I use a lot of German intonation laced with hearty, Midwestern vowels.

There is this lady from the burbs here and she says "bekwause" (for because). It's like nails against a chalkboard.

[kaseymarie]

I have a "midland accent" and they are correct. I am from nebraska. They never commented on saying pop.....which I DO say pop. It has always seemed so odd to me to call it coke or soda.

[Auspicious]

"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)

I just want to say whoever wrote this has had a very different experience of Southern Illinois than I have.

[MissCrabette]

"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.

Wow, really? And here I thought I had a very defined Eastern European accent. To think I could've been a TV person with my impeccable pronunciation.

[Deebs]

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."

The results are right on. How do they do that with just a few questions? It's amazing - and for the record, it is "pop", so of course that is what I call a carbonated beverage.
-Deb