| 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.
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| Boston | |
| The West | |
| North Central | |
| Philadelphia | |
| The Northeast | |
| The Inland North | |
| The South | |
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November 25, 2011
What American accent do you have?
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My two highest were North Central and Boston. (blogger did not like all the code from the quiz results and i was too lazy to strip out the offending bits) I'm surprised at your results Mike, I've heard your accent ;-)
My mom used to say I had a nice voice! (of course, she had a Texas accent too)
It was the questions like pin vs. pen that gave me my score. I might say them alike, but I do know the difference. There were a few other similar comparisons, but I've already forgotten them. I probably could have answered a few with "they sound pretty much the same", but I know they really don't, not if they're pronounced correctly.
I actually have two speaking voices - one is my normal one when conversing w/ friends/family, then I speak a little clearer when talking to strangers or in a more formal setting. I think quite a few Texans have cultivated a more pronounced accent, esp. when talking around people they do not know.
That's true of a lot of people, though. I know Bush spoke more "Texan" when he was governor, then a lot of his accent went away when he was campaigning in other states. Hillary adopted a "black" accent when she addressed a black audience. (there were a lot of comments about that at the time, remember? Obama has done it too - normally a very well spoken, neutral accent speaker, he's done the same thing.
I know a lot of people made fun of Bush for pronouncing "nuclear" as "nuke-you-lur", but I think that's a Texas thing. Nobody every made fun of Teddy Kennedy for having a good "idear"(idea) though.
My Result: Philadelphia
Interesting ;P
I have some interesting encounters with my customers at Walmart :
I said to guy passing my register
"Are you ready for checking " he heard:
Are you ready for chicken !
then last week a lady said to me she loved French onion soup ,I heard Virginian Soup ....
the one that still makes me laugh was one day I said Vacum and someone thought I said F-ck you ,
There are many more funny ones I just can't remember them all, I do have a lot of fun though with the difference in accents between me and the Americans , they must like mine though as I have a lot people checking out through my register that tell me its 'just to hear me talk '!
That's hilarious, Alison!
Think I've told this story before, but the first time Helen came to visit me, we were driving home from the airport in Amarillo. There's not a lot of scenery between here and there and it's pretty much flat. I said as much to her and she replied, but I didn't understand what she said. I had to ask her to repeat it several times, then it still hadn't sunk in.
Finally, it dawned on me what she was saying; she was saying "It's all so VAHST."
Vast.
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