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[Rob'sdad]

[Rae]

I got Midland/no accent but I'm from Cali.

[fortysixyou]

The West

The lowest common denominator of American speech. No one thinks I have an accent.

I'm from Texas, and it was hard to lose the Southern accent. I lost it in middle school, or jr. high as we called it.

[beast]

I got the; depends on who I be speaking to accent

[Khenan]

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'm from Seattle, which is quite a different accent than Chicago. Although, strangely, I do call them 'pop'.

[JMO]

Wierd, I took the quiz even though I am Irish. I got Boston..I suppose thats about right.

[steroidmaximus]

Upper North. With English, French and German inflections.

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[paquebot]

[chris_J2]

I scored '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."

I am actually Australian, but have picked up a US accent.

The 2nd tier was 'Midland', & 'South' was a close 3rd.

The Northeast 75%
The Midland 70%
The South 68%

Philadelphia 55%
The Inland North 40%
The West 40%
Boston 35%
North Central 0%

Took the test again today and the top 3 were the same but the order was different:

1. Midland 75%
2. South 74%
3. Northeast 73%

Where's 'North Central', btw? I got 5% this time round, cf 0% yesterday.

[bogey666]

Inland North - which is correct.

I don't have the Chicago working class/southside accent though.. dems dose.. etc etc

I don't necessarily call drinks "pop" though. I've certainly heard it used a lot growing up, but I'm hardly stuck on the word. I usually specify what I want.

for me almost all the words were different, except for loud and about which rhyme.. but I was scratching my head about mary, merry and marry.

Actually the option I would have chosen - that merry sounds slightly different wasn't offered.

[EricaSmile84]

I got the Inland North and I'm from Michigan. Right on.

[IncognitoHFX]

Your Result: North Central - 90%

The West - 75%
Boston - 70%
The Midland - 30%
The Inland North - 20%
The South - 5%
The Northeast - 3%
Philadelphia - 0%

"North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.
The West

I'm Canadian, by the way. I actually thought I sounded most like the Northeast (from what I know), but survey says North Central.

[ReeseDog]

Hey y'all. Y'all wanna c'mon down'n git mudcats to go with the drop buscuits'n redeye for supper?

[The Hammer]

I'm from Cali? Nobody from California says that.