what accent do you speak ? find out here
 

Spot on. I'm from the northeast as the quiz said. :)

You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.

Labeled me Philly
 

I'm not from Philly or anywhere close. This must just consider accents of the EAST. I don't sound anything like those people who BOO Santa.

The West for me.... ;) I lived longer on the west coast than the east.

The results from the test said I was from the Great Lakes area which is right. I have heard that you pick up your accent during the first few years of hearing speech. I left the Milwaukee area in 1969 at about age 8 for Reno, NV., so that fits.

Of course, some people seem to be able to adjust their accents rather quickly to new environments. Not me, I still sound like a cheesehead at age 52.

OK, I'm impressed.

Not only did this peg me (raised in Missouri, lived many years in Southern Illinois), but I also worked on-air in radio for some years with a smattering of television (didn't do well on TV; lights hurt my eyes).

It says I definitely have a Boston accent. Yay!!!! I grew up in Massachusetts near the New Hampshire border but have lived in the New York City area for 37 years. GO PATRIOTS!!!! GO RED SOX!!!! Guess I kept my accent too :)

Well, fwiw my last company, Principal Financial, used me as narrator for marketing messages and slide shows for producers and consumers.

Very Interesting!
 

Did the quiz even though I am a Canadian and it said I was North Central , mentioned Minnesota, and could easily be mistaken for Canadian! Spot on.

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Not even close. Says Inland North (where in heck is that???). Most of my accent is a mix if there's an accent at all -- Western with a touch of New York/Jersey and the deep South.

Midland??? or no accent at all
 

Born in California, there is the NO accent!....Most of my time in Florida and NC....Guess I should be glad that I got out of NC without picking up the Weeu-ins and You-ins!

spot on with me. Inland North. I am from upstate new York home of Gramma Brown's Baked Beans, white hots, deep fried haddock best in the land..go Doug's Fish Fry

It told me I was "Inland North". I'm from western NY most all of my life. I've worked as a narrator in the past an am told by many I have a "radio voice".

I'm not sure where "inland north" is, but if that is western NY, Buffalo/Rochester area, they got it right.

Frank

Born and raised in Chicago. Last 40 years in Northern California and I still say George Warshington.


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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!
:laugh:

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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.

Thinking that Philadelphia is geographically somewhere between New York and the south. I have a Boston accent. My children grew up in the New York/New Jersey area. One of them at least definitely sounds more Connecticut than anything else.

That's really cool as the grandkids would say. Recently we've been told we do not pronounce certain states correctly........oh well.

Florida should sound like "or" not "are".........which we had always called it.

Ditto for Oregon.....which we said in three syllables. Should be ORE GONE.

Who would have known? Being raised with New Jersey accents with many relatives living in New York City with that type of accent, then living most of our lives in Vermont with it's distinctive Yankee accent.........ayup.....we forgive ourselves.

Trudy, another chameleon here. I can talk to someone on the phone and get off sound like I'm from their area even if I've never been there. You should hear me after I've spoken to an Aussie for an hour!

I think it happens to those who moved a lot as a kid. We would move to another nation or region and I'd sound like a native within a few months. Move to the next place, pick up that language/accent and forget the last one existed. The only two languages that stuck at all were German (my native) and American and American is by where I'm living. Accent doesn't stay Californian, which is where I've lived the longest.

I have a Midland accent also. Spent first 18 years in Eastern Iowa, then next 33 years in the Chicago area. I don't think I have an accent...

I have a Midland accent also. Spent first 18 years in Eastern Iowa, then next 33 years in the Chicago area. I don't think I have an accent...

Spot on with me...Said Boston & I lived 45 miles west of Boston for 52 years!

Glad to hear it
 

Mahalo for the response it makes me feel better to know I am not the only
wacky one out there.

Trudy