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What American Accent Do You Have?

9 August, 2007 (17:41) | whatever | By: xensen

TC:

What American accent do you have?

Your Result: The Inland North

 

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.”

The Northeast

 

The South

 

The Midland

 

Philadelphia

 

The West

 

Boston

 

North Central

 

What American accent do you have?
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CC (below):

What American accent do you have?

Your Result: The Inland North

 

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.”

The Midland

 

The Northeast

 

Philadelphia

 

The South

 

The West

 

Boston

 

North Central

 

What American accent do you have?
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EJC (below):

What American accent do you have?

Your Result: North Central

 

“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 Midland

 

The West

 

Boston

 

The Inland North

 

The South

 

Philadelphia

 

The Northeast

 

What American accent do you have?
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Comments

Comment from annexensen
Time: August 9, 2007, 7:55 pm

I came up the Inland North

Comment from xensen
Time: August 11, 2007, 7:53 am

It’s not just what you come up that’s interesting but the mix. If you look at the charts, I show more South than CC does. Where could that come from?

Comment from mlankton
Time: September 1, 2007, 6:59 am

The Midwest through the rockies into the Pacific NW don’t really have too much of a dialect compared to the South and the East coast.

Here in the Midwest about the only noticeable deviance from proper American-english is dropping the g off of words terminating in -ing, and mispronouncing the as thee depending on the word that follows.

Comment from xensen
Time: September 1, 2007, 7:04 am

Mlankton, that’s what I thought growing up in Madison, Wisconsin. Now that I’ve lived on the west coast for many years the Midwest accent is very noticeable to me.

Comment from jello
Time: September 22, 2007, 12:32 pm

yeah, i still don’t understand where i got a minnesota accent, though

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