What American accent do you have?

[JohnnyB]

take the quiz

www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have


My results:

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Northeast

Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.

[Jack]

That was cool. It said that I have a Midland accent. I guess that means that I have no real accent. The West and the South were next on the list.

[annienormanna]

Inland North...which doesn't make any sense, since I don't call soda "pop" and I'm not even from there. Never even lived there. Don;t know anyone from there

It alleges that once I move away from the Great Lakes, people ask me if I'm from Wisconsin or Chicago. This is absurd.

Anyway, it gave Philadephia as most likely. lol

[tyrannos]

*Annie,maybe like you said once, New York is its own country? LOL


My results werent surprising really.

Your Result: The Inland North

The rest were as follows-


The Northeast
Philadelphia
The South
The Midland
Boston
North Central
The West

[Yankel]

Midland, which is accurate.

"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.

[Liz]

I got The West....which makes sense, since I live in the West.

"Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks that you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta."

Other answers:
The Midland
Boston
North Central

[imaginarypallies]

this thing is wrong!
i got inland north! nobody round here calls soda(soder) pop! you hear Soder,Soda and even coke(genrically) but not pop!

Don and Dawn sound totally diff
Caller and coller totally diff
stock and stalk totally diff
Mary,Merry,and Marry all very diff (Mary and Marry have diff syllables emphasized)

[Liz]

When I took that test, all the words sound the same to me - except pin/pen and fill/feel. LOL

[imaginarypallies]

liz said:

When I took that test, all the words sound the same to me - except pin/pen and fill/feel. LOL

wait Don and Dawn sound the same to you? lol I remember this one time this guy was talking about his girlfriend "don" I thought he was a fruit, he wasn't he just couldn't say Dawn correctly.

[Liz]

Yes, Don and Dawn are the same. How do you pronounce them?? I wish we had sound files we could upload to hear all the different pronunciations. That would be interesting.

[Liz]

imaginarypallies said:

he just couldn't say Dawn correctly.

That's all just a matter of perspective. ;D

[tyrannos]

Dawn and don do not sound alike to me. Think thats when accent comes into play.

[JohnnyB]

tyrannos said:

Dawn and don do not sound alike to me. Think thats when accent comes into play.

they don't sound the same to me either

[Dodona Underground]

Maybe I screwed-up this test. When I first took it i got Philadelphia. When I read or speak slowly and deliberately, I don't rhyme Don and Dawn or cot and caught and I don't consider them to rhyme. But then I noticed that in my normal fast conversational speech, I do rhyme them. So I retook the test and got the West which is probably true--Nobody would confuse me with a Philly guy.

[Anodyne]

I think I have a slight North Joisey accent, compared to people I've known in Jersey City. ________________________________________________
NEW JERSEY ENGLISH

For a small state, New Jersey is dialectally quite diverse, with two regions of the state overlapping with other dialect areas, New York and Philadelphia, and several autochthonous dialects.

Generally, only the European American residents of areas immediately closest to New York City are New York Dialect speakers.

European Americans in much of southern New Jersey generally speak with an accent that is similar to that of Philadelphians. The southwestern section of New Jersey along the Delaware River is a suburb of Philadelphia and has large numbers of transplanted Philadelphians who moved to the growing area during Philadelphia's decline. The situation is very similar to the Northern New Jersey-New York City relationship.

The so-called North Jersey accent spoken in northern New Jersey is found in the northeast quarter of New Jersey. This is the part of the state which is in New York City's metropolitan area, including communities such as Rutherford and Rahway, but it is not part of the New York Dialect area. For instance, it is rhotic and lacks a short a split. New York City shibboleths such as hero are less used than the less regionally distinct sub (sandwich on baguette style bread). A curious example of a speaker of this dialect is the founder of variationist sociolinguistics William Labov. An exaggerated version of this accent is spoken by many characters on the television series The Sopranos, the best example being mob boss Tony Soprano (who is played by New Jersey native James Gandolfini).

The present accent of the Jersey Shore, from Cape May to Belmar, is heavily influenced by the populations of summer visitors from North Jersey, New York, and Philadelphia from which it was principally settled. However, prior to the influence of the tourism industry on the area, the situation was different. Presently the beachfront communities north of Atlantic City tend to have a heavy New York influence and those to the south have a Philadelphia influence due to the large number of residents from those areas who spend their summer "down the shore".

The "Piney" accent of the Jersey Pine Barrens and parts of the Pine Belt has a unique vowel formation of its own. "House" is pronounced [hʊ¢°ɔs] much as in today's Cape Breton accent. Some have said that it is due to lingering Dutch and Swedish features, but the heavy Irish and Scots immigration may be a factor as well.

Cape May was first a Dutch town, which is still reflected in the Dutch names of some local businesses and streets. The only road to Cape May was from Philadelphia, so Philadelphia English mixed in with the Dutch. The Cape May accent is fading away now as more residents from North Jersey, New York and Philadelphia populate the area.

Contrary to popular belief, no one in any part of New Jersey refers to their state as [dʒɒɪzi], typically written as Joisey. The pronunciation of middle vowel as [ɒɪ] instead of the standard American [ɝ] has its roots in New York English but it is only residual in the NYC dialect area as described above. Nevertheless, the use of the bare term Jersey is common in New York City, although it may also be a mistaken attempt by non-New Jersey residents to use what they believe to be the local term.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_English