| What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Inland North You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop." | |
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Although I live in the South, where every vowel is really three vowels strung together (e.g., "ham" is pronounced as "hayam", and a "bug" is really "boooooog"), I still stick to the standard British English of the kind taught in schools around Europe. This quiz could not uncover this, of course, as it considers only American dialects (how about Aussies?).
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As an Aussie, I got this:
Your Result: The Northeast
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.
However, I am from Sth Australia, and there ARE variants between the states:) Others may have differences - I don't think they would be significant enough to alter it, but I won't say for certain.
They're a weird mob, after all:)
Posted by: Romana | November 12, 2006 3:13 PM
I still have most of my Australian accent, and I got "Northeast", with "Philadelphia" and "Inland North" tied for a close second. "Midland" was in fourth place.
Posted by: Bill | November 12, 2006 4:17 PM
Data point: one californian transplanted to boston at age 22 will go on to develop a "midland" accent. But in fact the "components" score showed Northeast as the strongest.
The regional differences are significant. I worked as a software engineer at a speach recognition company in '91 and if you did't throw samples of southern speech into the training, your recognition rates would be lower for national average populations [eg. 800 number robohelp for large corporations.]
Posted by: greensmile | November 12, 2006 9:46 PM