This is really very interesting...
What part of and where in the U.S. is your accent from?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl3/amer...cent-quiz.html
It correctly tagged me as being from "the Midlands" (Midwest).
This is really very interesting...
What part of and where in the U.S. is your accent from?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl3/amer...cent-quiz.html
It correctly tagged me as being from "the Midlands" (Midwest).
It thinks I am from the North East and it is correct. Odd that vowel differentiation should distinguished a New Yorker/North East accent as the region tends to get mocked for its accents and yet the vowel differentiation is actually proper.
This is the quote from the results:So they were close, though I don't have much of a NYC/ North Jersey sound. Most of the questions concerned vowel differentiation and my responses match the dictionary pretty well. I think their were only 2 questions that were not vowel differentiation so I am guessing a far longer and far more accurate test is probably out there.Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.
Also I have taken this before or something very close. My wife had stumbled over it.
Tried it, even though I'm Canadian, and it gave me the same answer as EH, which makes sense -- he's really not that far away, geographically or culturally.
Gave me Midland too. I guess the years of living in big cities has drained the WI/MI out of my accent.
Oh, this got me all kinds of wrong! It says I have a Midlands accent, and it's less Southern than anything.
So, I'll whisper in the dark, hoping you'll hear me.
According to this I also have a Midland accent. I debate the accuracy. I think I sound pretty Californian with an occasional twang of Arkansas.
Mine is "Inland North," which is pretty much dead on. I have a very typical Chicago accent, though not QUITE as bad the Superfans from SNL:
"Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak."
Midland. Apparently, the 5+ years in Texas and 10+ in Utah are dragging my accent off the Eastern Seaboard, kicking and screaming.
(Before living in Houston, I would never have believed that anyone pronounced "bag" in a way that rhymed with "vague," but it's a very typical Southern black thing.)
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Non-accented Midland. Fine by me; most any accent that Utahns peg as "not from here" (I get asked fairly often where I'm from, though I am more or less a native) would be.
Gave me a 'Midland' (I'm in the California Midland area). I always liked this map, even if it appears more precisely drawn than it should be, as the location data points are actual samples of speech you can compare.
Inland North.
Okay.
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
A section of California is considered to be "Midland" (See the map I posted previous.) I think the accent is similar enough in most respects. Although there is definitely a dialect variation — take a look at the Harvard Dialect Survey for extensive results and you can see that some questions reveal the "actual" midland.
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Apparently I have an inland north accent. Whatever that is...
Inland north = where most of the Americans who immigrated from your country ended up.
"You laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at you because I'm on nitrous."
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"You laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at you because I'm on nitrous."
find me at Goodreads
Mine came up Shikaguh
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
I got the Midland accent as well and I never noticed any distinct differences between how I speak and how you or yours speak. A certain friend of yours who grew up not far from me had the same accent as well.
However, up in the northwoods I'm told I sound "angry" and "southern."
So now they are just dirt-covered English people in fur pelts with credit cards.
It correctly identified me as being from the South.
Political correctness will be the death of our country.
Tried for a laugh: Apparently I'm from the Northeast. Then again, it is close to the UK as you get.
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Like apparently the other L2 speakers here I got "Inland North". Perhaps that's what you hear on TV?