Posted on 11/25/2011 4:19:03 PM PST by blam
What Kind of American Accent Do You Have?
November 24, 2011
Xavier Kun
To most Americans, an accent is something that only other people have, those other people usually being in New York, Boston, and the South. And of those other people, half of the ones you meet will swear they "don't have an accent."
Well, strictly speaking, the only way to not have an accent is to not speak. If you're from anywhere in the USA you have an accent (which may or may not be the accent of the place you're from). Go through this short quiz and you'll find out just which accent that is.
1. What is your age? Under 18 Years Old 18 to 24 Years Old 25 to 30 Years Old 31 to 40 Years Old 41 to 50 Years Old 51 to 60 Years Old Over 60 Years Old 2. What is your gender? Male Female
3. We're going to start with two ordinary words, "cot" and "caught." Do you think those words sound the same or different? Same Different Same, no wait I mean different, well, I don't know...
4. What about "don" and "dawn"? Same Different Same...ish. Maybe a little different.
5. OK, what about "stock" and "stalk"? Same Different Almost, but not quite, the same
6. Now then how do "collar" and "caller" sound? Same Different Almost, but not quite, the same
7. Do you think the word "on" rhymes with "dawn" or with "don"? dawn don Well, I don't think don and dawn sound any different in the first place so on would obviously rhyme with both
8. Moving on, what do you think about "Mary," "merry," and "marry"? All 3 sound different Mary and merry sound the same but marry is different from them All 3 sound the same
9. Our next word is "horrible." How does that first vowel sound? It's just like in the word "whore." It's the same "o" sound as in "hot." Neither one
10. Now for "pen" and "pin." Don't worry about what others say is correct, just tell us how they come out in an ordinary conversation. Same Different Close. Pen sounds almost, but not quite, like pin.
11. What about "feel" and "fill"? Same Different Well, I think they're different even though they sound very, very similar almost to the point of being the same
12. When you say "about," does the "ou" sound like the "ou" in "loud"? No Yes
13. Last question. When you say "bag" does it rhyme with "vague"? Yes No
Well, I am from Indy, but my answer came out Philly.
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>>>>What American accent do you have?<<<<
Your Result: The Inland North
Connecticut Yankee, born and raised, but I have a Bostonian accent, just like my mother (also born and raised in Connecticut).
I strive to enunciate clearly.
Yo, Philadelphia.
It messes up Texans alot. Said i was from Northeast. I have talked to people all over the US and the world. Every one said the couldn’t tell where I was from except my colloquialisms.
Yep, I got the Inland North accent.
And I hate it when people say “fer” instead of “for”!!!!!
It says this Upstate NY youth, Missouri teen, and California adult is from the “Inland North.” I guess that might be considered an average of all three.
They say I have a Philadelphia accent tho I was born and reared in the Florida Panhandle.
When I lived in Western Kansas, people were constantly asking if I was from Texas.
Inland North. No accent whatsoever. Come on! I pronounce all the examples differently. And the result is that I’m from New York? Totally stoopid test! I have no accent whatsoever.
If you use the word “I” in nearly every sentence and say “Let me be clear” at the start of each paragraph, you are likely from Kenya.
| What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Inland North
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Not that I have any education in the matter, but I have read that literary linguists have pinpointed the speech patterns with the different communities that Huck and Jim traveled through down the Mississippi River. I don’t think Mark Twain was necessarily showing off; he just knew the river intimately.
I also came out solidly as Inland North. I was born and raised in the SF Bay Area and went to college at Texas Tech. I still remember one of the first social events I attended where I was chatting with a couple of sorority pledges after introductions we went through the usual questions about where we were from , our majors, and such. St one point the gals sort of giggled and shared something with each other that prompted me to ask what they found humorous.
They giggled again and one of them replied, "Ya'all tawak so fuuunie!"
Yo. me too. Did you take the "Philadelphia" quiz after the "accent" quiz?
How do you say ruined? Is it one, or two, syllables?
Well, they put me in the South, at least.
I’m Texas born and bred, and have lived most of my life here.
I’m from the Philadelphia area, and so I have no accent whatsoever.
Every other region in the country has an accent only in comparison to this region, which has no accent.
So there.
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