Yo, Dudes, Surf's Up on this Meme

By evolgen on November 28, 2006.

Everyone's jumping on this meme, but I'm not gonna do it. Ooops . . . Looks like I just did it. Anyway, blogging's been light recently. Hopefully I can get my act together and have some posts up later this week. And by "get my act together" I mean procrastinate from doing real work by writing blog posts.

They're also all doing this meme. Turns out, I'm a "SoCal surfer". Makes sense -- I grew up a few blocks from the ocean. Of course, it could be worse. I could have grown up in Huntington Beach. Then I'd really sound like Spicoli.

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The West Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta.
The Midland
Boston
North Central
The South
The Inland North
Philadelphia
The Northeast
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