Even a dumb online quiz can recognize my accent

[nikkuchan]

http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have

It’s a quiz that will determine what American accent you have. I took it and it told I have the “Minnesota accent.” Is it really that obvious? I wonder what the results will be if an English or Australian person took it.

 

[Fnord5]

I got midlands.

I am from California, born and raised.

 

[thunderball]

I got "The West"....and I'm from Canada. Though I am from British Columbia which is pretty darn 'west'. Not bad, not bad.....

 

[Clockwork John]

I got "The Northeast." Very strange, since I was born and raised in California, and I've never been to the Northeast...

Maybe the fact that I spend a significant amount of time with a lad from Belfast has something to do with it. I think I may have started to pick up a bit of his accent.

 

[cfriend]

"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 suppose it's close enough...

 

[mbrossar]

The West, which I guess is fitting, since I was born and raised in California. Can't say that I'm any too pleased with being told I am the lowest common denominator though.

 

[Luc]

I got Northeast... Originally from Quebec so I guess that's close...

 

[dpm802]

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.


I can see NE Philadelphia from my apartment ... although actually, I am a native Balti-Moron. Close enough.



The first time someone told me I had an accent was when I was 10 years old and went to visit cousins in Chicago. Of course, they sounded funny to me. Same thing happened a few years later when we visited family in Cleveland.


Things really got confusing when I joined the Navy ... it seemed like every other person I met during my tour of duty was either from Texas or Boston.


When I was in retail sales, I noticed that I would unconsciously start to mildly adopt the accent of the person I was waiting on. The manager thought it was rude, but it was a totally reflex action on my part.

 

[ogopogo]

North East... I'm in SoCal

 

[htownmmm]

northeast....from brooklyn.


marty

 

[Legion]

Apparently my Australian accent sounds like I'm from The Northeast. I'm saying that would be Queensland but I think they mean New York.

 

[nikkuchan]

"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent."

There is no such thing as "not having an accent."

 

[rdeakle]

I got midland, but I was born and raised in the south... So south that I've never lived north of I-10. Everyone I meet (even other southerners) comment on how 'antebellum' southern my accent is...

 

[Houndawg]

Midland North. Maybe that's because I grew up in the Chicago area.

 

[rabelais99]

I got the "midland accent" category as well. Considering that I'm a canuck, and my accent peculiarities are not part of the database, I'll take that.

I also notice that the "midland accent" group are noted as being well suited for TV and radio. This could go some way as to explaining why half the top news voices in the US are Canadians!

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[sfbobus]

I got Northeast and it is correct. From Boston.

 

[Stubblefield]

My result: The Northeast.

My location, since birth: West Coast.

It's amazing how smart these newfangled programs are nowadays.

However, the fact that I teach English for a living might have something to do with the result being slightly off.

 

[krissy]

"North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.

But I did see Fargo and I did think they sounded whacked out and not at all how we talk around here. BTW i'm in the same state as Fargo and we don't talk like that around here at all.


but mistake me for a Canadian, i don't think that happens a lot eh.

 

[ClubmanRob]

I got "The Midland" accent. I have what I feel is a pronounced Southern accent, but it seems to only be noticeable if I'm in the North East.

 

[Yushiro]

Took the quiz for a laugh, turns out that I have an 'Inland North' Accent. Standard English straight from a dictionary? Thats the legacy of the British in Malaysia right there. And no I don't call a soda 'pop'. I call it a carbonated drink or a soft drink.