I got the inland north, too. You'd never take me for a cheddarhead
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Really? Accents make you pronounce words like 'dawn' and 'don' the same? Feel and fill? (That's ghetto!)

Yeah, no. That's just bad diction. Not one of those words sound the same.

Of course I'm inland north.

I don't pronounce don and dawn the same.

Ok. Did I imply you did? :confused:

I've heard people pronounce them the same but these people are uneducated mushmouths. ;)

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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.
Result Breakdown:
100% The Northeast
87% Philadelphia
85% The Inland North
60% The Midland
54% The South
44% Boston
18% The West
2% North Central
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I'm Midland.

But a close second is the West, and Boston and the Northeast are way down at the bottom. Weird. I grew up in Lewiston Maine, but never picked up the Lewiston accent. Most of my friends were associated with the college there, and the college people came from all over the country.

I like the Boston/Northeast accent. It reminds me of home. But I don't have it at all.

Ha! I'm from Georgia and live currently in Florida. I did live in Pennsylvania for about a year once. But maybe all my world traveling erased my accent(s)?


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.
Result Breakdown:
95% The Midland
76% The West
62% The South
44% Boston
41% The Inland North
39% North Central
33% Philadelphia
27% The Northeast
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I pronounce them the same. In fact, I can't imagine how else they might be pronounced, mushmouth or otherwise. wth?

How do you say them?

*snickers*

Look at the letters. dAWn. dOn.

Figure it out, genius.

I'm with V on "dawn" and "don"

IM: If they are different, do you have some rhymes that illustrate ?

For me, 'dawn' rhymes with 'morn'.

Dawn---awning--lawn---pawn

Don---Jon--bon-bon--

Soooooooooooooo different. I hear people call women named Dawn DON.

Sounds dumb.

Wow Dana... that's remarkable for me... I would have never gone there.

do "pond" and "aw" like "aw, man" have the same sound?

yawn, dawn, awning, faun, and awe all have the same sound

pond, on, don all have the same different sound.

eta: like infi said. I just got interrupted making that post.

Just sounds a different accent to me.

It doesn't matter how many times you show the different pronunciations, if that pair of letters represents that sound in an accent, then that's how the person will read it.