American English speakers: Which accent do you have?

[Arátoeldar]

Midland - Neutral

 

Which makes sense since I grew up as a military brat.

[Negative Sun]

I'm Belgian, I live in Scotland, and apparently, my accent is:

 

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.

 

Go figure...

 

PS: Liking my post count, so I'll shut up for tonight and go play some JO since I feel like some g_saberrealisticcombat action

[REDJOHNNYMIKE]

@Astro, hey man I keep forgetting, are you in Turkey, Australia, both or what?

[RedHawke]

Told me I was from Boston! (I can't even imitiate the way a Bostonian talks!)

 

I have no accent, and the person who made this test has failed for the last time!

[Caius Fett]

Told me I have a Philly accent wich is funny considering I'm from Maine and should have more of a northeastern accent.

[Lucied]

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.

 

haha makes sense im from pittsburgh and we have our own words >.<

[spinkle]

I scored full-on for a Philadelphia accent.

 

See...although I'm *from* Philadelphia, I've always been roundly rejected as having a "Philadelphia" accent...I'm more accentless than anything; I think I may just enunciate more than other people.

 

And one key question was conspicuously absent in the determination of the Philly accent: Do you pronunce "water" as "wah-ter" or "wooder" (The keynote of the Philly accent is the latter =)

[Uilleand]

"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."

 

That's frickin' hilarious, cuz I *am* Canadian.

And yet...I still thought the folks in Fargo sounded hella weird...

[True_Avery]

Pretty neutral, but more midland than anything else.

[Char Ell]

96% - The West

90% - The Midland

50% - Boston

46% - North Central

38% - The South

4% - The Inland North

 

Works for me. I moved around a lot in my childhood and teenage years but all within the southwestern U.S.

[HerbieZ]

That's 324 percent...

[Meowster]

I got midland myself, which I guess is right.

[Char Ell]

That's 324 percent...

That is correct, sir. You'll have to take up what I assume is your concern with a result >100% with the creator of the poll though as those are indeed the results I received.

[Q]

Pretty much Midland here. Ever since I moved to Virginia people have told me that I sound like a news anchorman.

[Gavroche]

Interesting test... as far as I'm concerned, since I'm French. You're right Stoffe, I got the North-Eastern too. A friend got the Southern, though.

[John Galt]

I got West, which is kinda ironic. I'm from Eastern Kentucky, and I've never been farther west than Cape Girardeau, MO.

[Serpentine Cougar]

I got the same exact score as Jae...

And I didn't do the second quiz.

 

I've heard people saying "wooder" and my grandparents (midwesterners all of them) always say "warsh," but I don't....

 

I'm still the only Philly boi in this crowd. I feel so lonely...

 

Well I was born in Philly-town...

[Mandalore76]

actually, if you guys heard me talk, you'd say i was from boston! there are just a few words i say that sound weird..