Which American Accent Do You Have?

Inland North

BTW, I usually do call soda 'pop' (born in Chicago - live nearby).

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."

I am "Midland" and also have a good voice for TV and Radio. I noticed the quiz was created by Xavier Kun---I wonder where he is from?

I'm pegged as from the Northeast. Well, OK, I'm from close to the northeast. Of England.

Actually, I'm not sure where my accent is from: I was born near Liverpool (NW England), but my parent moved to Scunthorpe when I was two (luckily they took me with them). But my accent isn't either Scouse or Scunthorpe: both are pretty distinct.

Somehow I don't think it's New York either.

Bob

"The West".

This is good news, since I think I have almost entirely lost my hillbilly accent (which I didn't know until it was pointed out to me when I started college, by practically every friend I had).

I was born and raised in Appalachian hills and glad I acquired the good sense to leave.

Well it was North East.
My home is in Glasgow, Scotland. Though I know that my accent isn't Glaswegian I don't think that it is Nth Est US :o)

What American accent do you have? 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.Philadelphia The Inland North The Midland The South Boston The West North Central What American accent do you have?Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

"Inland North" I spent half my life in the Northeast and the other half in California. I guess that averages out to Wisconsin. :-)

It said I am from the Inland North. I'm not though. I've lived in NYS all my life. I do call it "pop" though.

I'm from the North of England (so no long a sounds in words like grass and path) and it gave me the Northeast as well. I think most non Americans score there, though I don't know why. My accent is nothing like that area, possibly it just isn't like any of the other areas either.

Inland North, apparently. Which is interesting, given that I actually sound like a Russian Londoner who spent a few years in New York.
Flemish accents are hard to place, apparently.

I have a Midwest accent: probably relects a long stay in Washington, D.C./Northern Virginia. People in urban Houston, which is stiff with Yankees, seem to manifest the same accent

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.

I don't think I sound anything like friends from Jersey, NYC, CT or RI. Neither do they. And not a single question about how to pronounce to-mah-to.
Hint: I'm a brit.

Mine was northeast. I was born and raised in the NYC area, but I lived most of my adult life in Texas. People in Texas would tell me that I almost but not quite had a NYC accent.

A north central accent but from NYS? Maybe Buffalo or Rochester, I have always thought that accent was more like Chicago then NYC.

Most non-americans scoring northeast? I remember reading that the NYC accent came about because of the large immigrant population in NYC. The accents of people from around the world merged into a NYC accent.

Oh, yeah, I am SO Midland (23 yrs. Milwaukee, last 40 in Minnesota) And I still say "pop" for carbonated beverages, and have always preferred "bubbler" to "drinking fountain"--which is VERY Wisconsin (and a more interesting term, don't you think?).

I call carbonated soft drinks "pop" - born and raised in California. By native Chicagoans. ;)

Here you can see the graphical representation of the debate.

Inland North

I'm from Rochester NY originally, Phila area currently.

So they nailed it.

The South, baby.

'Course, mine's more of a "Southern Gentleman Twang" than a "Larry the Cable Guy" debacle. Hell, compared to most Southerners, I'm practically a New Yawker...

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."

I have a noticeable Minnesota accent that relatives from Nebraska like to make fun of.

I get a kick from the accents of Brits and Scots who settle here and start to get a little Minnesota accent mixed in.

Pop is more fun to say and spell than soda.

I tried this a while back. Apparently I have a Boston accent.

I've lived most of my life in and around Glasgow, Scotland.

My accent is "The West" which makes sense since I'm a 4th generation Colorado native. "Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent." We were talking about this tonight at the ESL class I teach--how Colorado might be a good place to learn English without acquiring extraneous accents.

This quiz turned out to be more impressive than I anticipated. I have lived in Asia for most of the last 20 years, teaching English for the first five and working as a translator for the remainder. I always try to make my grammar and pronunciation as precise as possible when speaking with non-native English speakers, and have often been told by them that my speech is comparatively easy to understand. On the other hand, on more than one occasion Americans have asked me if I am British, which has always struck me as odd and probably has more to do with diction and vocabulary than pronunciation. I was therefore surprised when the quiz nailed me as hailing from Philadelphia. Oddly enough, whenever I return to Philadelphia to visit relatives I am struck by the thickness of the accents of my family and friends. Of course, inflection, intonation, word selection, and rhythm also play roles in accent identification. All in all an enjoyable quiz, thank you for linking to it.

The Northeast, yet born and raised in southeast Australia, though I do have an American parent. People tend to guess as such with my pronounciation of can't versus the more Aussie carn't.