Random thoughts

[Karen]

No big surprise for me, it came up 89% Boston! What Hollywood doesn't ever realize is that no one but very select parts of Boston itself have what they consider a "Boston" accent, and only the Kennedys sound like the Kennedys! I know I have a Massachusetts accent, but no one from Boston itself would think so!

[Lady's Human]

The inland north?

Huh?

I don't call flavored carbonated water "pop", and I've met people from the inland north (or what they're calling that accent) and I ain't it. I can give them a break, however, as my accent morphs to fit the group I'm speaking with. Natural ability polished by traveling in the military. I can fit in in Texas or down on top of Woonsocket without a problem.

[Karen]

The inland north?

Huh?

I don't call flavored carbonated water "pop", and

You must have gotten different questions than I did - that one never came up! And none of these quizzes take into account our genetic tendency to match those speaking around us! I'll never forget my friend Ieda dias da Silva scolding me as she thought I was teasing her by "speaking Portuguese" with a Brazilian accent - I tried to explain I was just saying it the way she taught me to say the phrase, having never spoken Portuguese before!

[pomtzu]

only the Kennedys sound like the Kennedys!

Not really! My brother did - and he spent his last 30+ years before he passed away, living in FL. To talk to him on the phone, you'd swear it was one of the Kennedy guys. He never lost his accent after he left New England, which seemed very odd to me. My oldest brother and I lost it really fast, tho there are still a few words that give me away.

[Cataholic]

The midland, of course.

[lizbud]

The midland, of course.

Hey, mine said The South ? Shouldn't we sound about the same or what? LOL

[Moesha]

"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. 90% Midland.

That probably comes from the fact that I'm born and raised in Tennessee by parents that were from Massachusetts.

[Lady's Human]

These people are absolutely EVIL!!!!!

Putting a pallet of 2 1/2 pound bags of Cadbury mini-eggs as an end cap is WRONG!!!

[pomtzu]

How does one flunk an open book test????