What American Accent Do You Have? Fun Quiz!
I was truly amazed by the result of this poll! Everyone who knows me, also knows that I speak with a Kentucky twang. Cain't help it, I grew up here.
Benton, become Beeyuhntn. Greasy is very 'z-ish' as opposed to 's-ish'.
So what accent do you have? Have fun with the quiz!! (My results below...)
For true fun, say this phrase: Can't dance because you've got ants in your pants, with the "Ain't" sound...
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Believe it or not, I had a midland accent. Very good for TV.
Yeah, I believe that, y'all!
Inland North!? Me? Hardly! Pure southside from the Va/NC border. It's true that I did spend a lot of time in the Wisconsin/Illinois area.
When I was stationed up North in the Navy I got teased all the time about my southern accent. After living in the North for 2 years, when I returned home I got teased about my yankee accent. But either way I'm one of those fast talking southerners who shoot every sentence out like a bullet.
Funny!!!
Ah must admit to a southern accent.
However, I can speak "midland", but it's a lot of work!
Sounds like fun, Wheel... I speak slowly, I'm sorry to say. Mainly, I guess, so I can understand myself.
Yeah, I have relatives from out in the mountains who talk like the people on Andy Griffith, with that slow, heavy drawl, but you never saw people from the Piedmont or coast on that show. Only mountain hillbillys and the occasional yankee guest star.
Even though it is often available on reruns, I still miss that show! It had a true "ring" to it.
North East for me, not even close...LOL...Must have been my Ojibwe accent that screwed them up.
I was the boring "Midland." I was trying to answer the questions in a nonteacher kind of way, but I couldn't! Phonics is a huge part of our teaching so I knew what the answers were SUPPOSED to be. Wonder what my score would have been if I would have chosen the other profession I always wanted: Nature and Wildlife Specialist....hmmmmmm.......
My results were northeast nearly 100 % . However along the way I have picked up a trace of "Catonese" which my cat appreciates greatly .
I should retake it with a different age & gender just to see what that does ...
Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City,
Pretty cool. That is exactly where I'm from, even though I've lived in southern California for almost 30 years. Born and raised in Jersey, 8 miles from the City.
I don't know if I can't hear, or if my brain doesn't work that fast... At any rate, 1/2 the time I can't understand what's being said, all around me!
Maybe individual words,I say Midwest, but the whole is of southern...
HAD to have been...
Wow! I've never thought about that... I know when I speak of my work, I do try to tame it down, significantly, just because a lot of people equate Southern with Dumb. Which I find annoying.
Wooter witchin'? Oooh what fun!!!
I've lived almost all of my life here, and it is what it is... I can tell different parts of the state's variations on a theme... and I lived for a couple of years up north, but it is what it is...
Love you, Gunny!
I could see you as either! Yeah, I think we'd all sound a bit more like Chuck Yeager, WV, if we were airline pilots...
Now those would be interesting results! I think my cats would appreciate a little Catonese, too!
Funny!!! Up in the northeast, it is also "soder". We call it all, no matter what flavor, "coke".
Wow, pokermik! That's neat!
I remember working in NY and everyone, (who sounded as if they had just stepped off the boat from County Cork), made fun of MY accent. As if they didn't have one!
Ha ha. North Central, and as the poll said, people probably mistake me for a Canadian a lot. Hey, in fact I AM a Canadian. And I do call soft drinks "pop".
I sure do. Not only that I SPELL the words correctly. In America, "U" don't want to be in labour, neighbour or honour. So what DO U want to be in?
88% North Central? This quiz is just wrong. I have a southwestern accent. Don't confuse that with a Texas twang.
Northeast.
Who'd of thought...
I always liked to believe that I had little or no accent. When I talk to service reps or cousins on the phone from the north east part of the country, I ask them if I have an accent. They tell me that I do. Dang, I can't hear it.
My results: The Inland North
100%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 don't really agree with them as I'm frm closer to the shore, but my accent has been bastardized over the years form living and travelling all over the world. And it's soda. Lots of people call it pop here though.
Aaaaaaaaaaayy how da fuck YOU doin'....
Gunny talks really fast.
I was just responding to your extreme regional affectation with mine...
I don't know if this quiz is really that accurate... but at least it's fun!
Oh yeah, and lollipops are called Suckers here. Where I come from there's a different definition for suckers.
I got the same results as Randy!! Could be the Michigan thang!!
Oh and it's pop...for cryin' out loud!! Pepsi or Faygo...no thanks on the Coke!
Huh?
Excellent for an upset tummy! Grandma knows best!
Gunny...not sure but I think I've seen the chocolate Faygo around here. I'll be on the lookout for it now...I think there's a Faygo store not too far from my work...you can get any flavor they make at one of those places.
Don't you know that Coke can clean a copper penny in 24 hours until it looks like new? (hahaha)
I'll look for Faygo here, too, Gunny!
Hey!!! Vernor's!!! Diet Vernor's and Dr. Brown diet cream soda were my favourite drinks to have with deli, like corned beef sandwiches. Both were available in Toronto.
RW, your concern about having an accent that "fits in" is obviously not so important today when jobs requiring telephone answering/calling are being outsourced to India, Jamaica, etc.
No criticism for a Southern accent. I always enjoyed listening to people speaking with one.
It IS hard to do-- I did it for weeks in NYC, or tried to, and it bugged me to no end! A lot of work!