Is there any other way, Chuck? :icon_wink:

It had me pegged - Ahia. :) But I'd have to disagree with their overall "Midland accent" description - having 'you don't have an accent' in the same statement as 'you could be from.....one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas' doesn't make sense to me!

Bill :)

I said the same thing in that "what the heck is Inland North" and above it:

Inland North was: 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.

Does that make more sense to you?

Inland north appears to mean inland north as opposed to along the north east coast or the New England States.

My wife also took the quiz and they pegged her too. i am satisified that the quiz was spot on. Inland northerns make better TV and radio coomentators;)

My accent's from another planet? Really! http://th94.photobucket.com/albums/l...ceChanging.gif

Wow - interesting to read the responses. Had me pegged - midland - Ohio. Thanks for sharing.

It correctly labeled me as Inland North - when you look around their site, that is associated with the Great Lakes region. (Western NY is definitely in there!)

This is amazing!! I'm Canadian, I thought I'd take the quiz anyway. The result was that I have a North Central/Minnesota accent which is often mistaken for Canadian. :laugh:

Right on the money for me! Born and bred in the South! I do sound a lot like Paula Deen. Didn't hurt her one tiny bit!

iMHO my y'all isn't any worse than all the "youse guys" I hear a lot of here!
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The test results indicates that I'm probably from NYC.

Didn't say I was from Brooklyn though.

Completely wrong about me. Said Philadelphia. I was raised and went to college in the South, lived in NY for 40 years, where does Philly come into it?

I want to thank you for posting this interesting website. Isn't the Internet marvelous?

Maybe one of your parents was from the Philly area?

Do any of you find you have a chameleon accent?
 

That thing says I am also midland or no accent however everyone pegs me as being from northern New England. I am from New Hampshire mostly. That said you never will hear me say “You can’t get therr frm here nope" or aeyhaa.

I am one of those people who has lived all over and I have the tendency to pick up accents and if someone I am talking to is from the south I am You'alling in no time (lived in North Florida and went to boarding school in Orlando with roommates from the deep south).
It makes me sound kind of phony. I don’t even realize I am doing it.
I pronounce all Hawaii related words like a native as that is how I learned them when I lived there.

So do any of you find you have a chameleon accent or am I just wierd?

Trudy :blahblahblah:

Nope. Mother from Louisiana, father Virginia.