What Kind of American Accent do you have?

**buttercup132** · 02-11-2007, 08:09 AM

Originally Posted by Miss Z

Ha ha, I did this purely out of interest to see what a Lancastrian accent would sound like with an Ameican twang! For all the questions, I answered that none of the words are pronounced the same and it seemed really odd to me that someone would pronounce stock (stok) and stalk (stork) the same, or how 'on' could rhyme with dawn (dorn)!

I got a Northeastern accent, cool!

While I was doing it I was thinking to myself how could anyone say these different they sound the same! Most of the words sounded the same for me.

**GreyhoundGirl** · 02-11-2007, 03:39 PM

Originally Posted by Miss Z

Ha ha, I did this purely out of interest to see what a Lancastrian accent would sound like with an Ameican twang!

I got a Northeastern accent, cool!

Me too! I didn't even know how to pronounce most of the words. lol that's probably why...

Funny... Québec/russian wasn't an option. haha.

Zara... I did it for the exact same reason. lol!

**Felicia's Mom** · 02-11-2007, 03:44 PM

Inland North.

**jenluckenbach** · 02-10-2007, 07:37 PM

Your Result: Philadelphia

Your accent is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak! If you're not from Philadelphia, then you're from someplace near there like south Jersey, Baltimore, or Wilmington. if you've ever journeyed to some far off place where people don't know that Philly has an accent, someone may have thought you talked a little weird even though they didn't have a clue what accent it was they heard

HA!!! I never realized I had a Philly accent (But I DO live very close to Philadelphia)

**jazzcat** · 02-10-2007, 07:51 PM

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.

How true it is!

**borzoimom** · 02-10-2007, 08:12 PM

Originally Posted by jazzcat

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.

How true it is!

AMEN!! But west was pretty high on the scale behind it.. YA'ALL... LOL

**Freedom** · 02-10-2007, 08:18 PM

"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.

I think that makes sense based on all the moving I've done all over. First 20 years or so I had a strong Boston accent, then I moved and got taunted and teased and reallyworked to soften it. Guess I succeeded!

**Christiansmommy** · 02-10-2007, 08:25 PM

Your Result: Philadelphia

Your accent is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak! If you're not from Philadelphia, then you're from someplace near there like south Jersey, Baltimore, or Wilmington. if you've ever journeyed to some far off place where people don't know that Philly has an accent, someone may have thought you talked a little weird even though they didn't have a clue what accent it was they heard.

Being that I lived 20 minutes from Philly most of my life...that is right on. I am a Jersey girl!!

Close enough to Philly!!

I went on a cruise for my honeymoon and was told that my accent was "stronger" than my husbands. Which I guess is true ( he grew up a little more morth than me)...but I had never thought of myself as having an accent. Especially since the girl telling me this was as southern as southern can get!!

**Pam** · 02-10-2007, 09:12 PM

Philadelphia accent for me! No surprise there as I was born in Philly and lived in the area (now in South NJ-- right over the bridge) all my life.

Your accent is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak! If you're not from Philadelphia, then you're from someplace near there like south Jersey, Baltimore, or Wilmington. if you've ever journeyed to some far off place where people don't know that Philly has an accent, someone may have thought you talked a little weird even though they didn't have a clue what accent it was they heard.

**slick** · 02-10-2007, 09:14 PM

What??? There's different accents????

You all sound the same to me.

**Suki Wingy** · 02-11-2007, 01:46 AM

Midland, I'm good for TV or radio apperently!

**finn's mom** · 02-11-2007, 10:27 AM

This isn't surprising at all.

I got South, with Midland immediately after it! I wasn't sure if it would come up Midland or South. But, people never guess I'm from the South, they either think California or the Midlands (my mother's from Illinois, my biological father hailed from Indiana and my step dad is from Maine). I moved from the South at thirteen, and have been in Germany, Washington, Virginia, Texas and South Carolina ever since. My accent's all over the place, y'all!

**sirrahved** · 02-12-2007, 07:33 AM

My result: The inland north.

Yes, I DO drink pop, but so does everyone in Fort Wayne, and they do in Western Nebraska, too.

Spinoff post to follow!

**Jods** · 02-12-2007, 09:14 AM

"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.