What American accent do you have?

[Evo]

What American accent do you have?

I scored - Western

Like Midland, Western is a default, neutral, sounds-good-on-the-evening-news accent. So you might not actually be from the West (but you probably are).

http://www.youthink.com/quiz.asp?action=take&quiz_id=9827

 

[whitay]

Though I am australia. Currently I have a fluent american accent, due to most germans I've spoken to here have wonderful american accents and I've just happened to adopt it. But i can't tell you where its from. maybe california cause most of there have been to california.

 

[Cyrus]

North Central

What people call the "Minnesota accent." Sounds almost Canadian. You may have even been asked if you were from Canada before.

What a WRONG quiz. I am don't talk at all like a Candian, eh.

I've heard the Minnesota accent, and I don't talk like that. Quiz BAD.

 

[matthyaouw]

What American accent do you have? (Best version so far)

My Results:

Northeastern

This could either mean an r-less NYC or Providence accent or one from Jersey which doesn't sound the same. (People in Jersey don't call their state "Joisey" in real life)

I'm British, and thus don't know if this is even close to correct.

 

[siddharth]

Western

Like Midland, Western is a default, neutral, sounds-good-on-the-evening-news accent. So you might not actually be from the West (but you probably are).

I'm not american, but from an "eastern" country.

 

[Hurkyl]

Hah, it's way off. It thinks I have a Southern accent! But I'm from Michigan, I don't sound like those people from Ohio and Indiana!

(Okay, okay, it called it "midland", but I figure if Ohioans are allowed to say I have a northern accent... )

 

[Lisa!]

I'm British, and thus don't know if this is even close to correct.

I must be British too since I've got exactly the same result!

 

[neutrino]

North Central

What people call the "Minnesota accent." Sounds almost Canadian. You may have even been asked if you were from Canada before.

That, and...

I'm not american, but from an "eastern" country.

...that.

 

[DeadWolfe]

I've a Canadian accent. Sensible, since I'm Canadian.

 

[Danger]

I got 'Midland', and I'm not even a Yank.

 

[Lisa!]

North Central

What people call the "Minnesota accent." Sounds almost Canadian. You may have even been asked if you were from Canada before.

What a WRONG quiz. Im don't talk at all like a Candian, eh.

I've heard the Minnesota accent, and I don't talk like that. Quiz BAD.

I'm don't?

 

[Physics_wiz]

Midland

("Midland" is not necessarily the same thing as "Midwest") The default, lowest-common-denominator American accent that newscasters try to imitate. Since it's a neutral accent, just because you have a Midland accent doesn't mean you're from the Midland.


Impressive...the map includes where I live.

 

[Hurkyl]

I got 'Midland', and I'm not even a Yank.

That's good; Yanks are from the Northeastern U.S.

 

[Smurf]

North Central

What people call the "Minnesota accent." Sounds almost Canadian. You may have even been asked if you were from Canada before.

Go figure.

 

[Kurdt]

Northeastern

This could either mean an r-less NYC or Providence accent or one from Jersey which doesn't sound the same. (People in Jersey don't call their state "Joisey" in real life)

I'm also British.

 

[Danger]

That's good; Yanks are from the Northeastern U.S.

Only to other Yanks. To the rest of us, your whole damned country is full of 'em.

 

[Cyrus]

I'm don't?

Hey, let's not have the farsi speakers correcting the native english speakers, MMAKAY??

Its Lisa :!)

Im don't need you correcting me, got it?...it was a typo.

 

[Danger]

Hey, let's not have the farsi speakers correcting the native english speakers

You're not a native English speaker; you're a native Yank speaker. You probably spell 'colour' without a 'u'.

 

[Lisa!]

Hey, let's not have the farsi speakers correcting the native english speakers, MMAKAY??

Its Lisa :!)

Im don't need you correcting me, got it?...it was a typo.

I just wanted to make sure whether that was a typo or some structure that I've never heard of! Although at 1st I thought Canadian speak this way!

P.S. Heaven knows how many farsi speakers I've rejected because of misspelling or making such a mistakes while speaking/writing (in) English!

 

[Manchot]

What American accent do you have? (Best version so far)

My Results:

Midland

("Midland" is not necessarily the same thing as "Midwest") The default, lowest-common-denominator American accent that newscasters try to imitate. Since it's a neutral accent, just because you have a Midland accent doesn't mean you're from the Midland.

Well, I'm from St. Louis, so it was right.

Incidentally, the St. Louis accent deviates from the Midland accent slightly. Words like "forty-four" become "farty-far," and "Washington" becomes "Warshington." Of course, it's mostly older people who have the "true" St. Louis accent (including my father). I've met exactly one person my age who speaks that way.

 

[arunbg]

Midland.

Hmm, I'm surprised a fellow countryman siddharth got Western. I thought all Indians sounded the same

 

[neutrino]

I thought all Indians sounded the same

It also depends on the accents they put on, dood.

 

[Danger]

I thought all Indians sounded the same

No, no, you twit; they all look the same.

(Unless you want to count W, who is Cree. Through a minor navigational error a few hundred years ago, they are also referred to as 'Indians'.)

 

[0TheSwerve0]

Midland. Why didn't they have valley/Cali speak?

 

[hypatia]

What American accent do you have? (Best version so far)

My Results:

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.

Right on the money!

 

[turbo]

I got Western, which is about as far off as you can get. I certainly don't talk like the people from Oklahoma and North Texas who have "flaars" instead of flowers and "awl" instead of oil. My first brother-in-law's mother was from S. Oklahoma and between the differing terminology, and the differing pronunciation of similar terminology, that woman caused me to say "pardon me?" on a pretty regular basis.

 

[Danger]

Hypatia, you know that I love you, sweetie, but you have brought an entirely new dimension to your inability to spell. WTF?!

edit: Okay, cancel this post. The Dutchess of Dictionaries has apparently deleted her post that I was responding to.

 

[Danger]

Why didn't they have valley/Cali speak?

Perhaps it has something to do with the lack of polysyllabic words?

 

[hypatia]

lol, I had the wrong code for this forum. Eh gads, spelling cops everywhere! They will never take me alive...TOP OF THE WORLD MOM!

 

[Danger]

They will never take me alive...

And they said that there was no 'upside' to being a necrophile.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

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.

Born in NYC, and grew up in the state of South Jersey. I don't have an accent, I just talk normal. Everyone else has one though.

 

[dontdisturbmycircles]

Canadian

People from outside North America probably think you're from the States, but over here we wouldn't make such a mistake.

Good! Because I am Canadian.

 

[Astronuc]

I'm British, and thus don't know if this is even close to correct.

Yes it is more or less, but there is a discernible difference between 'Northeastern' and 'British'.

I received the same result - Northeastern. I am Australian, but learned to pronounce words in the "Queen's English". I perhaps have pickep up some American pronunciations.

And sometimes I'll switch between pronunciations depending on location. In England and Australia, I'll fall back into the local pronunciation, and I can understand various English regional accents quite well, although my wife and American friends would be totally lost.

When I traveled to Germany, many Germans have remarked that my German is very German. Apparently, I pickup accents of foreign languages quite well.

 

[arunbg]

Speaking of American accents, this guy parodies on the accents of immigrants. He's such a riot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn5jlrxcpkI
Check out his other videos on youtube. I love the part where the Chinese shopkeeper bargains with the Indian customer

 

[SticksandStones]

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.