Which American accent do you have? ?

[forty6]

Test your accent and share your results
I thought this might be fun

Here is a short quiz to test what you accent is. Please share your results (if you want to).

http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?action=go_detail&sub_action=take&obj_id=9827


By the way, this quiz thinks I'm from around Boston.

[rucky]

1. Neutral

it even got my region right, even though I've only lived here for 5 years.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. Neutral

You`re not Northern, Southern, or Western, you`re just plain -American-. Your national identity is more important than your local identity, because you don`t really have a local identity. You might be from the region in that map, which is defined by this kind of accent, but you could easily not be. Or maybe you just moved around a lot growing up.

[lumberjack_jeff]

31. Me too.

But I've always lived on the west coast.

[cascadiance]

41. This neutral was also me and I was born overseas! :)

And never lived in any one spot more than ten years. Though interesting they show this segment of the country as I lived in the midwest, and my Dad's roots are from Missouri and Pennsylvania, and my Mom's were from Iowa and Chicago.

I think I recall that many television and radio announcers have over the years had roots in areas like Missouri (I think that was the state), because they have the most neutral accent in that part of the country, and for national telecasts they would appear the least biased when speaking.

[newfie11]

3. Interesting and fun Thanks

my moving every 3 months show up on this lol.

[Sherman A1]

4. Cool

I came up neutral

[boston bean]

5. Test says Midland and I'm from MA.

And I have a strong NE accent.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. It thinks I'm western

Wrong. LOL

[BlackHoleSon]

7. I'm from Virginia

and most people pick up some Southern in my speaking even though I haven't lived there for 20 years. This has me pegged as Northern.
During the test I noticed there didn't seem to be many questions striving to discern a Southern or "country" accent.
Pretty cool though.

[dixiegrrrrl]

77. Another online accent test I took

had choices between "crick" and "creek", which really showed up my Ohio born grandmother
idioms that I picked up. That test had more "country" and "southern" accent words, too.

[Blue_In_AK]

190. My Ohio relatives always said "crick," too,

but I never have.

[dgibby]

94. Same here,

and I'm from the Alleghany Mts in Va, with a decided accent unique to that area. For instance, when we say "where", it almost always sounds like "whir", but this quiz pegs me with a Northern accent. Maybe that's coming from my mother's influence (WV panhandle).

[City Lights]

8. Northern.

You have a Northern accent. That could either be the Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland/Buffalo accent (easily recognizable) or the Western New England accent that news networks go for.

[MiddleFingerMom]

9. Northern, which makes sense (raised in Michigan) although...

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...I've lived all over (Northeast, East, South, Southwest and Bavaria/Germany).
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People who pride themselves in placing accents usually can't place me.
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After spending over 3 years each consecutively in Germany and Tennessee, my family
would tease me by saying, "Ach, y'all."
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[Motown_Johnny]

88. maybe you answered how you think things should be said, not how you say them

so it pegged you as northern because that is what you were raised hearing

[Kalyke]

176. The "y'all" comes from a failure in the English language.

There is really no definitive plural second-person pronoun.

"Y'all" is simply a contraction of "you all," which is technically accurate and far nicer to the ears than, "y'uns" or "youse guys."

:hi: from Tennessee, btw.

[a la izquierda]

10. Northeast...

one from Jersey. I grew up there, but have lived all over since my early 20s.

[elifino]

11. South and I am from Georgia

[delightfulstar]

12. Northeastern...

Long vowels and very subtle "Rs." I have lots of family on the East Coast. People here (AZ) think I sound like a snob when I open my mouth, LOL. I'm a theater girl, so maybe that explains my phonology too. ;)

That was fun, thanks!!!

[Cirque du So-What]

13. Neutral

I'm not from the region drawn on the map, but very close.

[Harry Hope]

14. New Yorkese

[lonestarnot]

Nootrle.

[Cassandra]

15. Northeastern...

but definitely not New Joisey. ;-)

[etherealtruth]

16. Northern

Accurate

[cali]

17. wow. that couldn't have been more off.

[Mudoria]

18. Southern

[forty6]

19. It's kind of amazing, right or wrong. Some of the questions were

things I never think about, or just sounded kind of stupid.

I can understand "Pasta" or "roof" being said differently. But I never say "bother" like "father"

[Speck Tater]

32. Odd.

How could one NOT say "bother" like "father". The two are perfect rhymes for each other. :)

[Chorophyll]

44. They are perfect rhymes!

How else would you pronounce these words? Bawther? Fayther?

[CrispyQ]

36. ~lol - I always say 'bother' like 'father.'

When I read that question, I thought, "How else would you say it?" How do you say it?

[forty6]

46. To all those who are asking, not just you....

I say "bother" with an o like in the word "odd"

I say father with an a like in the word farther (but without any R to follow the a in father)


a short "O" is different than a long "A" for me and my fellow Bostonians. LOL

[DireStrike]

158. Those are pronounced the same too!

Odd and farther have the same vowel sound for me.

Do you say odd "awd"? maybe?

[Kalyke]

177. Sounds more Canadian than Bostonian.

FWIW, I've never heard "bother" pronounced any differently than "father" until I started watching all the Canadian hosts on HGTV (which, ironically, is headquartered in my Southern city of Knoxville). LOL!

[xor]

60. I'm thinking it's a new england way of saying it, aye?

[Madam Mossfern]

66. I do

[The Backlash Cometh]

95. I do.

bother like father.

[Matariki]

97. I always say bother like father. How do you say them?

[WinkyDink]

134. And why not? They are pronounced identically!

[Spider Jerusalem]

155. Not necessarily

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English_low_back_vowels#Father-bother_merger

[jberryhill]

145. Uh... How do you say them?

[npk]

162. Do you think mother and father sound alike

I don't.

[jberryhill]

181. No

But mother sounds like brother, and father sounds like bother.

[Papillon]

20. Northern

You have a Northern accent. That could either be the Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland/Buffalo accent (easily recognizable) or the Western New England accent that news networks go for.

I was born in Wisconsin and lived there until I was 12. I have lived in Washington ST for the past 40 years, but haven't lost that Northern accent.

[elocs]

56. When I was a little boy I most likely had a hodge-podge of accents.

I was born in western NY state, lived in Washington, D.C. when I was 3, and then in Memphis when I was 4 before moving to Wisconsin when I was 5. My dad was from Mississippi and had an accent that you could cut with a knife.

[freshwest]

21. Neutral

It says I identify with the nation and not a region.

But I use an accent when I want to.

[alphafemale]

22. western.

really?

I was born in OH and have lived in GA/SC for the past 25 years.

:rofl:

[bullimiami]

23. Neutral. My accent is from North Miami but people often ask if Im from NYC.

[grahamhgreen]

24. Nuetral

[onehandle]

25. Neutral. Born and raised in Georgia, but in Atlanta which is not so much Georgia.

However, I do have a slight Southern accent. I just pronounce and enunciate properly.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

26. Accurate for me (souothern). Keep in mind most of us have grown-up exposed to media

(television, radio, film, music, etc.) that have a strong influence on our speech.

[Speck Tater]

27. "You have a Northern accent. That could either be the Chicago/Detroit..."

I was born and raised roughly midway between Detroit and Chicago. Interesting.

[baldguy]

28. Buffalo English

http://nycbbb.com/features/buffaloenglish.htm

http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/Buffalo_English

[CBHagman]

168. Great links!

I never learned to speak Buffalonian myself, though I will say pop on occasion. ;-)

[CitizenLeft]

196. hmpf.

We say pop and fish fry here in Cleveland, too. :P

However, "youse" is said in Pittsburgh (and Jersey too, isn't it? - never been to Jersey)

[SmileyRose]

29. Stupid quiz

they should have asked

Is it "pop", "soda" or "coke"?
Is it a grocery cart or a buggie?
Is there an R sound at the end of window?
Are you going to do the laundry or are you fixin' to do the laundry?
Are they weiners or hot dogs?

[Speck Tater]

33. Or do "pine tree" and "pantry" sound the same? nt

[Matariki]

98. A bag or a sack for your groceries?

Hoagie or submarine sandwich?

[SoCalDem]

161. Those things are all VERY regional:)

in Kansas, we ate:
breakfast, dinner & supper

[Tx4obama]

184. Ya'll, I'm fixin to go put some coke in the buggie after I close the window & eat a hot dog.

The quiz said I have a 'neutral' accent but when I go up north everyone makes fun of my 'southern' accent, so I guess the quiz isn't for everyone ;)

[jberryhill]

30. Sagittarius /nt

[Brickbat]

34. Got it right on: North Central. The "Minnesota" accent.

[blockhead]

91. same here. I'm in ND

[Brickbat]

107. I'm in the MN Arrowhead.

Love your sig pic. Solidarity, brother! :hi:

[blockhead]

113. likewise!

:toast:

[dflprincess]

147. I got Northern

"You have a Northern accent. That could either be the Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland/Buffalo accent (easily recognizable) or the Western New England accent that news networks go for."

Which is interesting as my dad was transferred out to Buffalo when I was very young but we moved back to Minnesota when I was 12 (a long, long time ago). Not long after we moved back here, one of my teachers had me sent to the school's speech therapist. After having me read a few sentences she said to me "You've lived back east. I'll let your teacher know you have an accent, not a speech problem." (Really, even Minneapolis was still a God-awful backwater when we came back here.)

When I was in NYC last spring I was looking at some prints and the dealer did tell me he could send them to sans sales tax. But after we exchanged a few sentences, he corrected himself and said - "I can only ship without sales tax if you live out of state if you're from upstate, I can't". I knew then I hadn't completely lost the accent.

[MannyGoldstein]

35. Northeastern

Born in NYC, living in Boston for many years.

[hobbit709]

37. Neutral

But then I've lived midwest, south, west and TX.

[NNN0LHI]

38. Chicago and it is very obvious I have been told

[delightfulstar]

138. Sounds like my hubby and my MIL...

Both native South Siders. They've both been away from there for 6 or 7 years, and neither has lost a bit of their dialect. In fact, his has gotten thicker since we moved to PHX - many of the more recent transplants here are tend to be either from Chicago, Canada, or Mexico/Central America. I lived in Chicago for 7 years, and KS for 6, and didn't really pick up either accent.

[marmar]

39. Michigan (heavily influenced by the proximity to Canada)

nt

[Chorophyll]

40. Northeast.

No surprise. New York born-and-bred.

[Exilednight]

42. Northern. But people always peg me as midwestern. n/t

[TBF]

43. Northern accent - I live in Texas now but I grew up in Wisconsin. nt

[AsahinaKimi]

45. Neutral

My mother was an English Teacher. My father is from Osaka, Japan so he still sounds like he comes from there! On the other hand, when my mom speaks Korean and Japanese, you would have thought she was born in both places!

[forty6]

47. For all of you interested in Accents, Here's a Youtube project going on...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8VTuM129HA

The Worldwide Accent Project

If you have a Youtube account, you can participate!!!

Cheers!

[tilsammans]

48. Northeastern

I'm from North Jersey, so it makes sense.

And I like how it's emphasized that people from Jersey don't say "Joisey."

[elleng]

78. Right, just people from da bronx, right???

:rofl:

Like 'oil' and 'earl!'

[OnionPatch]

49. Western.

Makes sense since I'm in California, I guess, but I spent most of my life in the east.

[Sanity Claws]

50. The test is so wrong

It said I have a Southern accent. Haha. I have a New York accent. No one would ever confuse the two.

[Codeine]

51. Neutral, but I knew that. nt

[lunatica]

52. Western

I live in California in the Bay Area but I grew up in Mexico.

[spinbaby]

53. Northern

I'm in Pittsburgh, so that makes sense.

[Matariki]

99. Pittsburgh was on the Neutral map

:shrug:

[elocs]

54. Northern, which would be exactly correct since I am from Wisconsin.

You have a Northern accent. That could either be the Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland/Buffalo accent (easily recognizable) or the Western New England accent that news networks go for.

To me the network newscasters have always sounded like the people where I live.

[RegieRocker]

55. Nuetral

Quiz very good. Accurate. As with anything only as good as the operator.

[rosesaylavee]

57. Northern (Chicago area born/raised/current)

"You have a Northern accent. That could either be the Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland/Buffalo accent (easily recognizable) or the Western New England accent that news networks go for."

[Autumn Colors]

58. Northern (nt)

[DavidDvorkin]

59. Mine is the English South African American accent

Johannesburg-area flavor.

[forty6]

61. Did the test tell you that? I'm just curious, because

the name of the test talked about American accents, not foreign, (to America) ones.

[DavidDvorkin]

72. No, I didn't

That's my own identification of it.

I consider any accent to be an American accent, if the person speaking in it is now an American, as I am.

[forty6]

81. Sorry, didn't mean to offend. AND It's true, all Americans are

speaking with an "American" accent, it's just the curious nature of regional differences that this was pointing out.

[DavidDvorkin]

92. I wasn't offended. Sorry if I gave that impression.

Regional accent/language differences are always interesting, in every country. Of course there is a neutral accent that's generally accepted as the standard American accent; I've been told that the standard accent here in Denver is the perfect example of it.

I guess I've just become a bit touchy after decades of having some people imply that I'm not really American because of my accent. Otherwise sensible people, at that.

[forty6]

62. From some of the results here, I guess the test is better at

picking out some accents more than others.

The person from NY who was pegged as from the South, that's really weird.

[elleng]

80. Wonder about how they responded.

[handmade34]

63. Northern

born and raised in the lansing Michigan area... no surprise but I have picked up a bit of the dialect from the Northeast having lived in Vermont over the past 30 years... aunt(ant) is now aunt(awnt)





You have a Northern accent. That could either be the Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland/Buffalo accent (easily recognizable) or the Western New England accent that news networks go for.

[Madam Mossfern]

64. Northeastern

Right on the money.
Now do I get a lollypop or something?

[elleng]

82. Sucker!!!

:rofl:

[Harry Monroe]

65. Quiz says I've got a Southern accent.

I'm from New Orleans, but my accent is nothing like the standard southern. And I do not pronounce those words drawn out like Southerners. All my life, people have mistaken my accent as being from Brooklyn or Long Island. I'm suspecting this website's cookies delve deep into your privacy settings and deduce where you live to give you the results!!

[Madam Mossfern]

68. OMG!

They're looking at my cookies, thank goodness I've showered already this morning.

[Concordia]

170. Not a surprise

I've found that this is a pretty common mistake, thinking someone from New Orleans is from New York. I lived there for a couple of years as a kid, and I've always since been able to pick out the difference - but it's surprisingly very slight!

[DefenseLawyer]

67. It says mines neutral

It's obviously not calibrated to detect Hoosier.

[Tom_Foolery]

69. Martian!!! WTF?

:shrug:

I left the red planet years ago...too Repuke!!!

[pipi_k]

70. Northern "accent"

Northern

You have a Northern accent. That could either be the Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland/Buffalo accent (easily recognizable) or the Western New England accent that news networks go for.





I live in Western Mass. Lots of people from other parts of the country think everyone in Mass has the Boston accent, but we in the western part don't.

[mrmpa]

71. Northern

Which makes sense, born in Mass, grew up in PA.

[donheld]

73. Neutral

[Andy823]

74. Western

The majority of my life I have lived in the west. My dad was in the Air Force so we traveled, but lived in most of the time in Idaho, then Washington, and 5 years in Arizona, then back to Washington while I was a child. Spent 6 months in Texas. I was drafted into the army back in 1970 and when I got out I went back to Washington sate and have lived there since then, 37 years!

[elleng]

75. Northeastern, y'all!!!

Quite right!

'This could either mean an r-less NYC or Providence accent or one from Jersey which doesn't sound the same. Just because you got this result doesn't mean you don`t pronounce R's.(People in Jersey don`t call their state "Joisey" in real life)'

PS, 'grew up' in Brklyn>Long Island, college + grad school OH>Chic, father NYC, mother Conn/Boston area, living DC area since '78.

[dixiegrrrrl]

76. Western. which makes sense, since I was born on the West Coast.

Except no matter which part of the country I have lived in, people have always said I have
"an accent", even when living on the West Coast!

Down here in Ala, I am just " a yankee".

To southerners, a Yankee means " not here for at least 5 generations"

[treestar]

79. Mid-Atlantic

Makes sense, includes the area I am from.

[Motown_Johnny]

83. it got me right, Chicago/ Detroit/ Cleveland/ Buffalo aka Northern accent

and I am from Detroit



Although I have lived in Colorado and New York (and Ohio)

[11 Bravo]

84. Neutral, which makes sense because as a Navy brat, I grew up on Naval Air Stations all over the US

(plus a stint in London).

[Richard D]

85. Neutral

But grew up in California.

[Parker CA]

86. Neutral.

[Marnie]

87. Neutral but I have a pronounced N Central Texas twang that is destinctive

and unique to that region

[susanr516]

131. The quiz said the same thing about me,

and I have the world's worst Dallas drawl.

[AmandaMae]

89. lol I got Western. I live in Iowa.

[Zebedeo]

90. Western

Western

"Western is kind of neutral, but not quite since it`s still possible to tell where you`re from. So you might not actually be from the West (but you probably are). If you really want to sound "neutral," learn how to say "stock" and "stalk" differently."

Actually I grew up in Eastern Kansas, just outside of the "Western" region as depicted in the map from this website.

[The Backlash Cometh]

93. This is freakie.

I grew up outside the U.S. so my accent is neutral. But it did say that my regional area could be in the area where my father came from.

[Skittles]

203. I moved constantly growing up

but the regional area included my birth state :D

[Matariki]

96. That was pretty accurate.

[Lucian]

100. Northern.

But when I talk, I distinctly sound Minnesotan.

[Matariki]

101. Did anyone get a Northwest result?

[HarveyDarkey]

102. Neutral

[ohheckyeah]

103. Nothern....

really? I'm from VA. Of course, most Virginians don't use the long i in words like some southerners do.

[TheKentuckian]

104. Southern, though a lot of people from here think I *must* come from the north

They usually seem to think Chicago, I can't imagine why, maybe word choices? Oddly people in Florida always know I'm from Kentucky.

I'd tend to say the true neutral accent is carried by folks from Nebraska.

[bluestate10]

105. Mostly Bostonian. nt.

[Bunny]

106. Mine is Western, which is plain dumb since I'm a born, raised, and lifelong Yinzer.

:shrug:

[devils chaplain]

108. Either very accurate or very inaccurate...

There were 2 questions where I really wasn't sure which answer was appropriate -- and depending on how I answered them, I ended up with either a "southern", "northern", or "neutral" accent. Which made the test sound really arbritary, until I realized that I lived almost exactly where those three regions meet on their map (mid-Maryland). Hmm.

[Cleita]

109. I'm neutral but it states that I could have moved

around a lot when I was a kid which is true.

[The Hitman]

110. Why was Yinz not a choice?

Western PA baby!

[name not needed]

111. Northeastern.

[Rob H.]

112. Neutral

Makes sense, considering I was a Navy brat and we moved around a lot when I was growing up.

[southerncrone]

114. Neutral. NO WAY.

If you heard me speak, you'd KNOW what accent I have! It's predictable. LOL :rofl:

[stevedeshazer]

115. Western, which I am.

[surrealAmerican]

116. Northeastern.

If they had asked a few questions about those "r"s they could have probably pinned it down to Brooklyn.

My accent has gotten much more subtle since moving to the midwest, though.

[Lucinda]

117. Western

Grew up in California :)

[Irishonly]

118. Neutral

Which American accent do you have?
Neutral

You`re not Northern, Southern, or Western, you`re just plain -American-. Your national identity is more important than your local identity, because you don`t really have a local identity. You might be from the region in that map, which is defined by this kind of accent, but you could easily not be. Or maybe you just moved around a lot growing up.

[seabeyond]

119. western. they are right. and that was fun. thanks. nt

[B Calm]

120. Mid West / Neutral

[WCGreen]

121. Northern....

[mcar]

122. I'm northern

[WiffenPoof]

123. I'm From CA...

...I don't have an accent.

-PLA

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

124. It says neutral, but my accent is VERY southern

very. I have relatives in Australia and they think I have an "Elvis" accent.

On the phone, people from non southern states often ask where I'm from, whether
its Texas or South Carolina or Georgia.

I'm in NC, but have lived in WV, VA and also KY.

[sakabatou]

125. Western

[gateley]

126. Neutral - I always knew I didn't have an accent! My parents were from Boston

and although both their families had the "typical" Boston accents, my dad lost his entirely, and mymom kept hers which was always the 'upper crust' Bostonian --" I cahn't do this".

It amazed me that my dad was able to become neutral, because his family, of the two, had strong accents.

[CTyankee]

127. Neutral. Lived most of my life in NE but born and raised in Texas.

[Orangepeel]

128. What's the neutral way to pronounce "stalk"?

My accent is western.

"Western is kind of neutral, but not quite since it`s still possible to tell where you`re from. So you might not actually be from the West (but you probably are). If you really want to sound "neutral," learn how to say "stock" and "stalk" differently."

Is it like stahlk?

[alcibiades_mystery]

129. Nailed me cold for a Northeastern/NYC accent

Nice.

[WolverineDG]

130. I got neutral

although I've lived my entire life in South Texas (where Spanish vowel sounds tend to flatten out English vowel sounds).

dg

[bengalherder]

132. It thinks I am 'north central'.

I did grow up in N. Ill, and several friends were from Minneapolis. I've been all over and now living in WA state for a long time now. They mention the Canadian accent, well, there's a lot of that up here.

[WinkyDink]

133. Bwah! This Eastern-PA'er is "Western"! (P.S. "Bag" and "Vague"?!)

[Number23]

135. "Which American accent do you have? Southern"

"People used to hate Southern accents but now everyone wants one."

LOL! Too true. As a Southern girl living Down Under and wondering if she was losing her glorious accent, this makes my day. :)

[forty6]

136. This thread got more responses than I would have imagined ! Thanks!

Must be a lot of people on their computers on Christmas day, non-Christians, lonely Christians, and Christians getting away from their families for a few hours of fun.

Glad most of you enjoyed this little test. (I still think some of the questions are weird, who says "tint" for "tent"?)

[MrSlayer]

137. Mid-Atlantic. Also known as the "Philadelphia" accent.

What a shock. I come from Philly.

[Cutatious]

139. north central

but even number of years living in vermont and verginee will do that.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

140. Neutral--How about that?

You`re not Northern, Southern, or Western, you`re just plain -American-. Your national identity is more important than your local identity, because you don`t really have a local identity. You might be from the region in that map, which is defined by this kind of accent, but you could easily not be. Or maybe you just moved around a lot growing up.

[salin]

141. "Neutral" and on the money (per the answer)

featured a swathe of states from Missouri to Pennsylvania (straight across, not including those north or south for the strip). Indicated that I could have grown up in this area, or have moved around a bit when growing up. Grew up in Indiana (where outside of urban areas or college towns there can be a bit of a lazy twang that extends vowel syllables into two instead of one - ala "go-od" instead of "good". While I didn't move around a lot until I graduated from college - both of my parents were from different parts of the east coast.

Fun little quiz.

[Lionel Mandrake]

142. Neutral, and I've lived in California all my life.

So much for the silly map on that web site.

[SteveG]

143. Mid-Atlantic

Figures, since I grew up in Wilmington, DE.

[Odin2005]

144. North Central. I'm Minnesotan.

[shanti]

146. western

natch, since i'm born and raised in cali!

[krispos42]

148. Northern

"Which American accent do you have?
Northern

You have a Northern accent. That could either be the Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland/Buffalo accent (easily recognizable) or the Western New England accent that news networks go for."

Yeah, I'm in Southwestern New England. Not only that but when I lived in Minnesota (and maybe South Dakota, too... the map doesn't quite go that far west) I was still in the yellow zone on the map!

[Scout]

149. Northern: Chicago/ Detroit/ Cleveland/ Buffalo

grew up in Michigan and still live there so i'm not at all surprised.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

150. Northeastern NY

[Lady President]

151. Neutral-- correct

I was born and raised in Columbus, OH. Smack dab in the middle of the "neutral map."

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

152. Western

I have only lived in Southern California and Western Canada, so it I guess it is accurate.

[proud patriot]

153. western ... makes sense since I'm a native Californian

[Spider Jerusalem]

154. It says "Northeastern".

It WAS General American. And is now, after a few years in the UK, "mid-Atlantic". (Which means I sound British to Americans and American to Brits.)

[trackfan]

156. Northern

but I've lived my whole life in Los Angeles.

[eridani]

157. Neutral

Grew up in the Midwest, but was in CA for 10 years, MA for 2, and in the Pacific NW for the last 28.

[DireStrike]

159. Northern. I'm from New York but my mom is from upstate.

Guess I took her accent.

As the test said, it's the newscaster accent. Sounds like no accent to me.

[SoCalDem]

160. Totally Neutral... via KS, FL, Panama, WY, IN, CO, NM, CA

But I enjoy all accents.. well maybe ONE, not-so-much:)

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[forty6]

164. Are you English? If not, I wonder how you got THAT one! n/t

[mwooldri]

182. This Englishman got told he has a Northeastern accent! nt

[forty6]

206. Do you think Northeastern U.S. Accents are closest to any English

accent? I know there's a dozen or two dozen English accents in England, Scotland, Ireland, etc.

But I think some "northern" England, (not Ireland or Scotland) accents are SOMEWHAT like those in parts of the Northeast US, but NOT REALLY THE SAME, of course.

[sendero]

165. The quiz says neutral..

.. but trust me, having lived in Texas 95% of my life and have being raised by native Texan parents, though my pronunciations are correct I sound like a hick.

This works out to my advantage as many people mistake it for stupidity.

[nc4bo]

166. Oh dang I just got shocked! Southern!

I'm originally from NJ, been here since 97.

Guess the south has rubbed off on me more than I realized.

[CBHagman]

167. Northeastern, which is wholly accurate in my case.

I speak a somewhat modified version of a New York metropolitan/northern New Jersey area accent, though I do say my R's now, except in LaGuardia. :-)

[Concordia]

169. Neutral here

But that makes sense considering I DO live in Illinois.

[Sienna86]

171. Neutral

Got it right - from the neutral midwest.

[Arkansas Granny]

172. Mine came up "Western". I was born and raised in SW Missouri, almost on

the Kansas border, and I've lived for the last 43 years in West Central Arkansas, right on the Oklahoma border.

[Little Star]

173. Western. Yet , I've never even visited the western part of

the US. Lived in NE all my long life.

[Desertrose]

174. Mid Atlantic....

which is where I grew up...west of Philly.

[Kalyke]

175. Neutral, as well.

I'm from a mid-sized city in the South (Knoxville, TN).

People often tell me I have a faint Southern accent, but don't sound like I was born here, but I was.

Incidentally, one of our more creative writers, Jack Neely, did a piece on the lack of accent that some Knoxvillians have. I wish I could find it online, but the article, written for a local weekly, is probably too old to remain on anything but Lexus/Nexus, which I don't have.

[Bennyboy]

178. Western

CA surfer dude.

[LWolf]

179. Western/neutral nt

[Zoeisright]

180. North Central. Am I the first one?

Born and raised and lived in Minnesota all my life, so it makes sense.

[rustydog]

183. Neutral...I guess my Montanan accent disappeared

when we moved to Washington State!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

185. Neutral.

Native Texan. Born and raised in Houston. Lived in Texas my entire life.

Why neutral?

Mom was from East Texas, dad was from Northeast Ohio, got tired of shoveling snow and moved in with his aunt and uncle in Houston. Also, they both went to college and didn't sound too much like hicks.

However, people up north think I have a Southern drawl. I probably have some.

My dad pointed out to me the North of Boston accent when we saw Norm the carpenter on This Old House.

[AC_Mem]

186. Neutral - which fits

I grew up in the north (Buffalo, Cleveland) and about 25 years ago moved to Memphis. When I'm here in the south they say I sound northern, when I visit the north they say I sound southern.

I have NEVER said "ya'll" - LOL.

Fun test, thanks!
Annette

[LuvNewcastle]

187. It says Southern, but non-southerners who

talk to me on the phone think I'm British for some reason. My father took a trip to the Dakotas several years ago and people asked him what part of England he was from. I think it's kind of odd that I sound like a foreigner to my fellow countrymen.

[Blue_In_AK]

188. Neutral.

Not surprising since I grew up in Ohio and Colorado, teenage years in Texas, then Colorado again, California, then Alaska since 1975. I'm one of those "moved around a lot" people. I never really picked up the Texas accent when I lived down there and always got called a Yankee, even though I knew it was THEM that talked funny.

ed. For the grammar police, of course I meant to say "it was they who talked funny."

[Phentex]

189. I say neutral with southern tinges here and there...

no one has ever claimed I sound southern but I hear it words sometimes. For the most part, I think I do sound neutral.

[NYC Liberal]

191. Northeastern, of course!

[NoPasaran]

192. Northern, which is kind of weird

Because I've lived in Texas for most of my life. But my father was from NY and my mother is from Connecticut and we were a military family and moved around a lot when I was growing so I guess it was their accents I picked up. But I say "y'all", not "youse".

[Quantess]

193. Western. I suppose that's accurate.

[mitchtv]

194. NE

grew up in Jackson Heights ,NY

[CitizenLeft]

195. Neutral - they nailed me, I'm from Cleveland.

But they're wrong about Cleveland and Pittsburgh having the same accent. Pittsburghers have a distantly different way of pronouncing some words. Marsha is Morsha, for instance. Spent a lot of time there, and in spite of the (friendly) rivalry, Pittsburgh is Clevelands dearly loved/hated sister city.

[JHB]

197. A Neutral from Long Island...

...which only became "Lawn Guyland" when the "Toity-Toid Street" accent moved.

I'd met a guy years ago who prided himself on guessing where people were from their accents, and I was one of the few people he couldn't place.

[Swamp Rat]

198. "Neutral" - FAIL!

"Your national identity is more important than your local identity, because you don`t really have a local identity." - FAIL FAIL FAIL!!!

I am from N'walins and have a very distinct, and sometimes very strong accent - AND - I love my city a BRAZILLION TIMES more than this country.

For me and those with a New Orleans/Brooklyn accent, the 'accent test' is a total failure as a test.

[gkhouston]

199. Neutral. No surprise there, as I moved around a lot, growing up. n/t

[Terry in Austin]

200. Neutral

I grew up moving around a lot.

[tishaLA]

201. Mid-Atlantic. I grew up in Philadelphia, so I guess that's appropriate

I know in CA people always make fun of the way I say "sauce" and "frosting." LOL

[Skittles]

202. neutral

"maybe you just moved around a lot" - well yes, I did

[DearAbby]

204. Neutral

Neutral

Nebraska-Colorado raised.

[Hawkowl]

205. Northern (Chicago born and raised)

People can usually only can tell I have an accent when I'm pissed off.

[forty6]

207. Thanks to all who participated in this ! n/t

[babylonsister]

208. Northern, though I'm not really. Fun! nt