What accent do you have?

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 5:16 pm

http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_a ... o_you_have

Nailed it pretty much for me.

finnbogi · Post by **finnbogi** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 5:49 pm

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

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 5:50 pm

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!

Captain Sousie · Post by **Captain Sousie** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 5:58 pm

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

Tubaryan12 · Post by **Tubaryan12** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 7:04 pm

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.

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 7:12 pm

I got Midland, too. Thanks, Chuck!

ken k · Post by **ken k** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 7:50 pm

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

MartyNeilan · Post by **MartyNeilan** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:03 pm

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.

Doug@GT · Post by **Doug@GT** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:13 pm

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"

tubaguy9 · Post by **tubaguy9** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:44 pm

cktuba wrote:Midland- No accent

Ditto.

RyanSchultz · Post by **RyanSchultz** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 10:09 pm

nice Chuck

Rick F · Post by **Rick F** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 10:15 pm

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

I must have cheated or something.

bort · Post by **bort** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 11:29 pm

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.

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 12:46 am

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.

corbasse · Post by **corbasse** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:17 am

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

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:24 am

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.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:28 am

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, "AsÃ es la vida, eh?"

Teubonium · Post by **Teubonium** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 12:43 pm

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!!)

prototypedenNIS · Post by **prototypedenNIS** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 1:22 pm

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.

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 1:46 pm

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.