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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.
The West
The Inland North
Boston
North Central
The Northeast
The South
Philadelphia
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[Edited on October 3, 2007 at 5:11 PM. Reason : . ]

10/3/2007 5:10:52 PM

same

10/3/2007 5:14:01 PM

the midland

[Edited on October 3, 2007 at 5:14 PM. Reason : ]

10/3/2007 5:14:09 PM

the one that makes me pronounce do with an "f"?

10/3/2007 5:14:49 PM

southern/eastern NC


with a slight bit of texas


according to my friends

10/3/2007 5:14:58 PM

i took the harvard dialect survey back in the day--it was interesting to see how the geography played out

10/3/2007 5:15:27 PM

Southern/Slavic/Christopher Walken

10/3/2007 5:15:31 PM

Quote :

"Christopher Walken "

haha

10/3/2007 5:16:09 PM

I don't have an American Accent.

10/3/2007 5:16:55 PM

What American 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."
The Northeast
Philadelphia
The South
The Midland
North Central
Boston
The West
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aha, I totally call it pop

10/3/2007 5:17:38 PM

Mine is mostly "Philadelphia", which makes sense.

10/3/2007 5:17:58 PM

fo?

10/3/2007 5:19:36 PM

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The South   That's a Southern accent you've got there. You may love it, you may hate it, you may swear you don't have it, but whatever the case, we can hear it.
The Midland
The Inland North
Philadelphia
The Northeast
The West
North Central
Boston
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10/3/2007 5:19:53 PM

YEAH

WHAT ONE FO YOU HAVE

10/3/2007 5:20:14 PM

^

10/3/2007 5:20:30 PM

midland followed by inland north

10/3/2007 5:21:22 PM

Your Result: The Northeast

10/3/2007 5:21:38 PM

I am Inland North, and I call it pop as well.

10/3/2007 5:22:04 PM

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.
The West
The South
Boston
Philadelphia
The Northeast
The Inland North
North Central
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Born in Colorado but moved immediately; lived in the DC area for a couple years, then TX for ~3yrs, NC ever since. My mom is from Minnesota, and my dad was born in NC, and moved to Africa when he was 13, and came back for good when he was 17.

[Edited on October 3, 2007 at 5:24 PM. Reason : fajslkj]

10/3/2007 5:22:11 PM

It's weird that the west is second on mine, but I've never been over there. I guess I'm just THAT cool

10/3/2007 5:22:33 PM

http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/maps.html

how the rest of the country really speaks...

10/3/2007 5:22:46 PM

the thing is, even in this state

there are quite a few different dialects


go to Murphy or up in Avery County


then go down to Hyde County, or "down east" Carteret County

I can almost tell what county people are from by their accent

10/3/2007 5:23:32 PM

midland



[Edited on October 3, 2007 at 5:24 PM. Reason : whoops]

10/3/2007 5:24:02 PM

midland followed by inland north and south

10/3/2007 5:24:41 PM

nvmd

[Edited on October 3, 2007 at 5:25 PM. Reason : ]

10/3/2007 5:24:52 PM

I can't stand southern accents except on really hot white girls.

Everyone else, it makes them sound retarded.

10/3/2007 5:24:56 PM

i'm from the south...but i've been told by relocated northerners that i "don't sound like it" and that "i must have gone to a good school"

but also ive travelled around the country plenty and have listened to enough hip hop to be able to speak fluent northern lol

10/3/2007 5:27:17 PM

Quote :

""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. "

Southern almosts tied it.

10/3/2007 5:28:42 PM

White people are always surprised when black people have deep southern accents.

They hear Randy Moss talk and think he's borderline Downs.

10/3/2007 5:29:08 PM

Midland

10/3/2007 5:29:33 PM

people from southern virginia have a very distinctive accent, you can hear it a little in denzel washington

[Edited on October 3, 2007 at 5:30 PM. Reason : &]

10/3/2007 5:29:51 PM

^^^I'm more surprised when I hear a black dude like Tony Gwynn's accent

he talks like black comedians impersonating white people

10/3/2007 5:30:39 PM

^

10/3/2007 5:31:18 PM

I think that thing is stupid... and I think it has a messed up view of what a southern accent is...

10/3/2007 5:31:54 PM

NC accent = I talk like I am always stoned even though I don't smoke pot.

10/3/2007 5:32:00 PM

What American 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."
The Midland
The Northeast
Philadelphia
The South
The West
Boston
North Central
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I do say pop, although I've been called on it so much I've toned it down. Both my parents are from, and I was born and raised in north western NC. Mt. Airy to be specific which isn't in, but not terribly far away from the mountains.

Although I do have the ocassionally slip up and say something like "are you sure you wont to do that?"

I differ from many in my family in that there is no place for a W in "dog"

[Edited on October 3, 2007 at 5:35 PM. Reason : .]

10/3/2007 5:33:17 PM

scene from my 11th grade physics class

teacher: "lets say you have a pop"
class: "huh"
teacher: "excuse me, i'm from pittsburgh...we call it pop...i guess you'd call it a soda"
classmate: "we call it coke"

Quote :

"I differ from many in family in that there is no place for a W in "dog""

regular "dog"
southern "dawg"
baltimore "doog"
surrey county "I'MA DROWN THAT MOTHERFUCKER"

[Edited on October 3, 2007 at 5:36 PM. Reason : .]

10/3/2007 5:35:08 PM

Richard Jefferson, Tiki Barber, Tim Duncan, Jason Taylor, and Shaun Alexander are all strong candidates for the whitest black voice out there today.

10/3/2007 5:35:15 PM

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.
The South
The West
Philadelphia
The Inland North
The Northeast
Boston
North Central
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10/3/2007 5:35:24 PM

I was midland, then inland north, then southern



the biggest things I have noticed about southern accent is that the words are pronounced correctly but are cut off at the end, for example, Tuesday is more like Tuesde, and of course, leaving the "g" off the end of words. Whereas a lot of northern accents just flat out fuck the word up

10/3/2007 5:36:37 PM

what kind of accent do you think i have jaybee if you recall from our xbox game? you have a southern accent by my ears...not too thick, but southern

10/3/2007 5:38:23 PM

yeah, the describes me, I pronounce words correctly, but have a slight twang to it. People always think I my parents were from up north and moved down here where I then grew up but they are both much more "country" than I am... and I dont remember yours really, nothing that stood out

10/3/2007 5:40:27 PM

yeah i think my shit has been officially cincinattitized (or whatever they say is the most bland, indistinct accent)

10/3/2007 5:41:00 PM

about the only word I had to force myself to say correctly growing up was "on". Almost everyone around me said it like "own" instead of "ahn"

10/3/2007 5:42:37 PM

^^i think you mean general american

[Edited on October 3, 2007 at 5:42 PM. Reason : &]

10/3/2007 5:42:37 PM

^ I would say the majority of americans have an accent... I could definitely tell someone from NY, Boston, Chicago, West Coast etc

10/3/2007 5:43:50 PM

^^yeah that too...dont they almost encourage newscasters to live in cincinatti or study that accent or something like that?

^well the test says that all americans have accents...its just everyone's own accent sounds normal, so nobody thinks they themselves have an accent

[Edited on October 3, 2007 at 5:44 PM. Reason : .]

10/3/2007 5:43:51 PM

I agree with that.


Meaning I agree that people think that

10/3/2007 5:45:25 PM

most (but not all) people who speak general american naturally are from iowa--or that region

10/3/2007 5:47:14 PM

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.
The West
North Central
The South
Boston
Philadelphia
The Inland North
The Northeast
What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

it's funny, everyone i meet up here when i tell them I'm from kentucky but have been in NC for most of my life are like "oh you dont have an accent, weird"

10/3/2007 5:50:13 PM