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What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The 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.

Philadelphia
The Inland North
The Midland
The South
Boston
The West
North Central
What American accent do you have?
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I suppose I only have the 'where the hell do you come from again?' speech pattern if I'm really trying.

Date: 2006-11-02 02:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vivian-shaw.livejournal.com
Heh. I got the same result. I think it's because the English accent comes out when I think about how to pronounce things.

Down here in Murland, "water" is "wudder," and you use it to "warsh" your car.

Date: 2006-11-02 02:42 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] derien.livejournal.com
This poll was totally wrong for me. It said I have a "Midlands" accent, or no accent at all. In fact, people tell me I have a very strong Maine accent, or at least that I do whenever I'm tired or stressed. But the poll didn't ask about the sorts of words that a Maine accent comes out on.

Date: 2006-11-02 02:45 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] derien.livejournal.com
They didn't ask "Do "aunt" and "aren't" come out sounding alike when you're stressed?"

Date: 2006-11-02 04:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lasa.livejournal.com
I grew up in Southern Jersey, and we called our front steps the stoop. I think it's the strongest regional word I've hung on to, after living all over the world.

Date: 2006-11-02 05:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] colubra.livejournal.com
It's such a Yankee test. I think there's 1 accent east of the Mississippi, per that test? I can tell a Seattle native from a Portland native with my eyes closed, just listening to them talk. And don't get me started on northern and southern California!

Northeast Iowa vocabulary.

Date: 2006-11-02 05:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] reykr.livejournal.com
My mother always called a frying-pan a "spider," and called a muffin a "gem."

In the summer of 1968, when I was eating in the dining hall of Western Western Washington State University in Bellingham, a man who walked by asked me, "What part of Nebraska are you from."

I replied, "What makes you think I'm from Nebraska," and he said, "I used to live around Lincoln," and walked on.

Actually, I'm a 5th-generation Northeast Iowan, who had been living in northeast Nebraska for only the previous 2 years.

I found your blog, by listing "Ainu" as one of my interests.

Jerry Baker

Date: 2006-11-02 11:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kaikias.livejournal.com
...Eh? I've got just about the same accent you do, and it says I hae a Philadelphia accent.

Date: 2006-11-02 11:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kaikias.livejournal.com
It said I have a "Midlands" accent, or no accent at all.

*twitch*

*twitchtwitchtwitch* ;)

Date: 2006-11-03 03:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shadowspinner.livejournal.com


Full marks for Northeast. Huh. I had no idea the northeast was so English.

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