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Nailed it pretty much for me.

According to the quiz, mine is a Northeastern accent.
It makes sense in a way, at least the Northeast is closest to Iceland.

Chuck(G) wrote:Nailed it pretty much for me.

Likewise.

finnbogi wrote:According to the quiz, mine is a Northeastern accent.

So!? It's just WAY northeast!

Scary enough, it got me right too. That one was fun. Especially because I went to college as a vocal major to start and took a full year of diction lessons with a professor who had fun telling us about all of the different regional pronunciations of words. He would rail for an hour about the "pin-pen merger" if you got him started.

Sou

I guess it got me half right. I got midland but I'm from northern Ohio. Maybe it's because I spent 8 years in Alabama.

I got Midland, too. Thanks, Chuck!

got me right on, verrrry interrrresting.

As philadelphia as a cheesesteak! No "PA Dutch" in there....

I also tried the star wars quiz...Jar jar Binks????/ Yikes!!

ken k

North Jersey, New York City,
Yup
A dozen + years in The South (minus 5 months in Rochester, NY stuck in the middle) hasn't changed a thing. And I still sometimes ask my S. Georgia wife to spell things when I don't understand what she is saying.

Says I have a Philadelphia accent.

I always thought I have a southern drawl. A guy in New York said I didn't have any accent when we talked over the phone.

I don't think this thing got it right for me. Can the 2-3 or you out there who have met me in person chime in?

Doug "worried that he is becoming a Northerner"

cktuba wrote:Midland- No accent

Ditto.

nice Chuck

I got 'Inland North', and I live on the coast in S. Florida.

I must have cheated or something.

I'm from Baltimore. I'm a little offended that there were no questions about words with long O's.

Oh, and "on" doesn't rhyme with "dawn" or "don." Not to me at least.

Not even close. But then again, even those that have known me for most of my life say I don't sound like I'm from where I live.

Funny thing how people digress: I had a conversation this evening with a guy I've know for a couple of years. When we were talking about the usual local stuff, including local sports, he sounded no different than the other guys who were with us watching the game. But when he started talking about the hockey game on one of the side screens and going to see games where he grew up in Michigan, he all of a sudden sounded just like he arrived from there yesterday, and subconsciously lapsed into his "native" speech patterns.

finnbogi wrote:According to the quiz, mine is a Northeastern accent.
It makes sense in a way, at least the Northeast is closest to Iceland.

Same here. It doesn't recognize my Dutshj eksent, it seems

It said I was Midland North. I don't really have an accent but if I lived 10 miles further South, I would be four miles out in the Guf of Mexico.

tubatooter1940 wrote:It said I was Midland North. I don't really have an accent but if I lived 10 miles further South, I would be four miles out in the Guf of Mexico.

I remember those cold winter hockey games where we'd lose, and say, "Así es la vida, eh?"

I grew up in Minnesota and northern Illinois, my parents were from Wisconsin and I went to college in Iowa.

So the quiz was right on, giving me Inland North (no accent).

(My wife however speaks a foreign language, she's from Maine!!)

I'd like to think I sound alot like Russell Crowe.

My accents change with my surroundings though. After watching something like Boondock Saints (or drinking usually), I'll appear to be more Irish. When I'm tired I generally get a bit Ukrainianish.

In case anyone was wondering, I was Inland North. Grew up just outside of Chicago.

Another quiz, however, says I'm 87% British, which, if they were living, would have surprised the dickens out of my Lithuanian grandparents.