Accent-o-meter
 

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com...nt-do-you.html

its just a dumb online quiz but I've heard it's pretty accurate. It got me wrong but to be fair, my accent is a little... scattered. Southern parents, maryland upbringing, new england lately, grew up in asia...
How does it fare for you?

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I'm also totally curious what it does for foreigners. Brits! Aussies! try it!

dead on.

I remember doing one of these years ago here, but it was much longer than 13 questions.

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.



hahaha

Childhood in LA, with parents from KY and TN,
adult times in IN, TX, MA, NY, OR.

How does it know? It's like a god or something!

I swear I am the only person in Ohio that can properly pronounce sc-ALL-ops.

Dead on.

Got my "accent" right.

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Goddamn right I do.

and for dessert, I took the "how Washington State are you?" quiz.

Nope. I'm from England.
(yes I know it's specifically American)

Apparently I'm from the North East.

I got Northeast, with the same text as Sundae, eh?

My accent is western, but if you were to hear me talk for a few seconds you would know that.

Inland North?

I got the inland north, too. You'd never take me for a cheddarhead
irl

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. ;)

From the global village! In the age of communication!
New York City!


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
Quiz Created on GoTo Quiz

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.

Absolutely good point, Dana.

I have an ear for these things, I think. I'm like Henry Higgins. I can 'hear' the slightest differences in the way things 'sound' when I'm reading them...and I think this contributes to my spelling ability too.

SHE'S A WITCH!!!! Let's burn her!

Let's boin 'er!

No --- Not at all. I just don't get how that makes me a
Cheddarhead. :)

My friend in Louisiana (born, bred, still there smack dab in the middle of cajun country) got a Philly accent response. I think it's very accurate: never noticed any sort of south in their accent.

Same friend said they could hear Wisconsin in my voice. I didn't know that, but I guess it's sort of true. :)

Ask a serious question....

Whatever.

True dat.
For both Dani and I, bath rhymes with path and has the same vowel sound as laugh and graph.

But she could also include faff in that list.
Whereas I would include par.

I do not have a good voice for TV and radio. When I speak, it's a mix of southwest, Philly, and I don't know what.

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:
90% The Midland
80% Philadelphia
70% The Northeast
70% The Inland North
69% The South
38% Boston
33% The West
15% North Central

Some of my Brit friends would crack me up when they said "Pass the Pasta"

I would say "Pass the paahsta", they'd reverse the intonation of the a and say "Paahss the pasta"

Paws the pesto.

Pees the penis.

Pace the pessimist.

The long winter evenings must just fly by...
That's a quote actually. Not me being a bitch. Much.

The 'Mary, merry, marry' question did not give me the choice I wanted: Mary & marry sound exactly the same to me, merry sounds different, which wasn't an option.

Kinda/sorta accurate.

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I love Kentucky...accent and all. :)

BTW, God and Gawduh and Gawaduh shoulda been on there.

uhm... no.... pond, and don do. On sounds different to me. pond and don have the ah sound. dahn = don. pahnd = pond.

on rhymes closer with pawn. to me.

but then I'm from philly, yo.

I say Ah-fiss for office. shelby used to mock me.

It's phonetics, folks.

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: Philadelphia
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.
Result Breakdown:
100% Philadelphia
85% The Northeast
80% The Midland
73% The South
70% The Inland North
38% Boston
18% The West
2% North Central
Quiz Created on GoTo Quiz

You people all sound funny. I don't have an accent.

snort

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I can read between the lines. ;)

Go back and select the bb code

Or control print screen and trim the result.

or if you have a mac just use the area screengrab hotkey clover-shift-4 and select the area you want to cap. (another reason I like osx better than windows...)

FTFY. ;)

What American accent do you have?

Your Result: The Midland

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: Philadelphia
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.
Result Breakdown:
100% Philadelphia
88% The Northeast
80% The Midland
70% The Inland North
69% The South
44% Boston
18% The West
2% North Central
Quiz Created on GoTo Quiz

I just want to say, Zippy types with an accent. Stoopid machine.

A good question for that quiz would be:

"Does your pronunciation of the word 'on' rhyme with 'Ron', or 'zone'?

I've been told I speak with an accent. I'm sure they weren't talking about my "American accent."



:p: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.

I often pronounce machine as mash-in-A.
It must have amused me once, but I used to curse our mainframe system quite roundly when I worked for a large mobile phone company. Before I left it was common parlance in my department when someone was frustrated with their computer.

Stupid mashina.