Blast, and here I thought I"d eradicated regional sounds from my speech.

[camwyn]

What American accent do you have?
Created by Xavier on Memegen.net

New York City. You are most definitely from New York City. Not New Jersey, not Connecticut. If you are from Jersey then you can probably get into New York City in 10 minutes or less.

Take this quiz now - it's easy!

We're going to start with "cot" and "caught." When you say those words do they sound the same or different?

Same, no wait I mean different, maybe, a little bit different... Different Same

Comments

[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

Silly quiz! Everyone knows camwyn is Canadian!

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Accent quizzes fascinate me. They always, always identify me (correctly) as a Philadelphian, and they never even ask me about the one pronunciation in my idiolect that I know comes from Philadelphia. (I pronounce "water" as "wood-er".)

[almeda.livejournal.com]

Wood-er and melk were the two beverages on offer with dinner in South Jersey at my cousins' house. :->

[fuchsoid.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't worry - I was born in Ireland, brought up in Dorset and lived most of my life in London, and have spent a total of about four weeks in the US, and I got the same result!

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

Apparently Australia is somewhere in New York City. Who knew?

[nepheliad.livejournal.com]

It told me I was definitely not from New York or Detroit.


Funny, considering the people who taught me to speak, my two parents, are both from Detroit and have strong Detroit accents and I was uh. Born and raised on Manhattan until age 10 when we moved a grand total of a forty-minute train ride away.

Weird, since I swear it pegged me right before.

[shadowspinner.livejournal.com]

London is New York!

[isustrikanda.livejournal.com]

oh sure, you get 'new york city' and I get, again, "Love it or hate it, your accent says you're probably from somewhere south of the Ohio River."

I suspect all someone would have to do is hear me say, 'hi' and they'd know I was southern. 'somewhere south of the ohio' indeed. :D

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

Mid-Atlantic. This is what everyone calls a Philadelphia accent although it's also the accent of south Jersey, Baltimore, and Wilmington. Well, everyone that lives near there, that is. Outsiders can tell you talk differently from them even though they can't tell what your accent is.

If you are not from there, you are probably one of the following:
(a) A New Yorker who, unlike most New Yorkers, rhymes "on" with "dawn"; or
(b) A Yat from New Orleans.
You are probably not from Eastern New England or the Great Lakes area, and certainly not from anywhere in the West or Canada.



But I have an acquisitive vocabulary, peppered with phrases I've picked up from my travels.

[colubra.livejournal.com]

I got 'neutral'. weird.

[almeda.livejournal.com]

It thinks I'm Southern, and I was careful to sound everything out and answer honestly.

Which is funny, because I have almost precisely Walter Cronkite's accent ... :->

[genarti]

Hee.

I did get Neutral. Which amuses me since I wouldn't mind having more regionalisms (or at least being able to put on more of a regional accent by choice), but it's also absolutely right. I am Neutral Midwestern Newscaster Accent girl.

[jerusha.livejournal.com]

Northern, not a big surprise. (Grew up in southern NY state)

[sylveraven.livejournal.com]

Well, I got this first:
Northern. Whether you have the world famous Inland North accent of the Great Lakes area, or the radio-friendly sound of upstate NY and western New England, your accent is what used to set the standard for American English pronunciation (not much anymore now that the Inland North sounds like it does).

If you are not from the North, you are probably one of the following:
(a) A Southerner who hates Southern accents and tries really hard to "talk right"; or
(b) A New Yorker or New Jerseyan who doesn't have the full accent

And then I went back through and actually sounded everything out before I pushed the buttons, and got:
Southern. Love it or hate it, your accent says you're probably from somewhere south of the Ohio River.

If you're not from the South, you probably were overanalyzing the questions. Take the quiz again but don't think so hard next time.

...which means I apparently speak with a Southern accent (big surprise), but think with a Northern one. That's obviously a sign that I've lived here too long.

[camwyn]

Upstate New York's kind of rural territory anyway, and you hear a number of sounds that come out about the same there as you would in someplace like the Carolinas (from what I remember of visiting the Carolinas, anyway). So it's not that big of a difference.

I kind of want to see the quiz process someone from West Virginia holler country, though. That's what happens when you take a proper Southern accent and ram it into a New York City one, hard, and then crank the spoken speed up to Brooklyn levels.

[sylveraven.livejournal.com]

Ah yes. Good old Appalachia. One of my dad's friends married a girl from West Virginia. She was really cute, but listening to her talk was like trying to decipher a drunken Scotsman with a lisp.

[camwyn]

About right. My first Red Cross disaster job, my boss for the first week (a disaster assignment generally lasts three weeks) was from WVa, but from one of the urban areas. He got all 'oh don't start, just don't start' when I told him I hadn't been able to tell he was from West Virginia by his accent- and then I said I only knew people from Preston County.

"Ohhhh," he said. "Holler country. Yeah, okay, I can see that."