What American accent do you have?

When i took it it said northcentral (minnesotan to be exact)
And im from Minnesota!

Wow, my result was Northeastern accent, and I live in California.

Totally wrong. I'm from the southwest and I pronounce words as it says to do so in the dictionary. Also I say soda pop. Inland North, Schminland Schmorth. Damn, now I gotta clean my mouth out! Honey, where's the soap?

and i say pop not soda!!

what is inland north....because i am from N.Y.!!

Hi

I'm from Boston and the test agreed. By the way if you're from Boston you don't say soda, cola, or pop, you call it
"tonic".

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I'm from New York but I scored the Midland (no distinct accent - could be from anywhere). The last line said that this accent would be good for radio & TV, which made me laugh because I spent four years in college studying Radio / TV and announcing (and now work in the field) - working hard to lose that distinct New Yawk accent. ;-D

totally right. I got a 100% inland north. I was born & raised in Chicago, and I only say pop.

Jizz on Chin.

And the point of this quiz is not to tell you what accent you SHOULD have like most of you losers think. No one cares if anyone has a British accent or a Boston accent. It takes how you say certain words and tells you what you have not where you're from.

Inland north. I'm a Clevelander. And I do say "pop".

but i got the inland north

i speak british

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Took the quiz and the results were 1/2 way across the nation.....stating my accent was North Central/Minnesotan, when in actuality it's a BOSTON accent!

Wow! It could not have been more perfect. It said I have a Philly accent, or it could be from Jersey, Baktimore, or Wilmington. I was born and raised in Wilmington!

Nope.......Ya'll missed it entirely....the quiz indicates that I am probably from the Northeast ......... Wrong! ........ I am from South Carolina.....which goes to show that we are not all uneducated yokels down here! Southerners do know how to speak and properly enunciate. Mispronouncing words doesn't have a thing to do with where you live, nor does it have anything to do with a person's accent. Anyone can learn correct pronunciations of words. Inflection is a different thing altogether. Incidentally, I am proud of my southern drawl.

Canadians call it 'pop', not 'soda'.

Your Result: The Midland


"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.


Thats right i'm from columbus

"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.




It is pretty accurate. I am from Indionapolis. Not exactly Southern Indiana, but close.

Mine is really off too...not a inland north...never use the word pop except when talking about Rice Krispies...in fact, find the typical Wisconsin "accent" quite grating.

wow off by a long shot!
I don't say pop i say freakin soda. Who calls it pop.
Ima cali girl.
Btw calis. aren't valley girls. They don't say like after and before every word.
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Not ever. Idiots!

I got the west.

I'm frome New England, and have a Canadian accent. This is crap lol. Mainers sound nothing like Oklahomans (where I am now).

North Central? I can live with that, but I don't live up by Minnesota. I live in Kansas. This quiz is wrong, it treats me like crap!

My result was Philadelphia... I've lived in Milwaukee, WI all of my life.

I ended up with 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.""

I'm Norwegian and I have never been to the States! Haha..

I lived in Western Mass (Greenfield, Charlemont, Rowe) for many years. I now live in Toronto, Canada. The accent here is very similar if not the same as Greenfield. Does anyone know why people from Greenfield/South deerfield often say "hey" at the end of sentences?

Wow, this quiz is pretty accurate. I got the result midland accent, and I do live in Indiana, so that's evidence that this quiz is spot on.

"You can take the girl out of Western New York State, but you can't take Western New York out of the girl." It all makes perfect sense if you grant that premise. I've lived in the South since 1957, but not a smidgen of the accent has rubbed off. (Except, of course, if I say "bah-payess" for effect. ;-) )

I thought this quiz was pretty funny. It said i have a northeastern accent and that i get mistaken for a canadian which is funny because i am canadian!!!!

This is hilarious. I have a chameleon accent - I sound like the people I'm around. This test claim I'm Northeastern. Very funny since I'm a serious southern girl, born and raised in North Carolina.

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Wow, they are right, I am from the Chicago suburbs. I never really thought of myself actually having accent so its kind of interesting. I always kinda thought I just talked like people on TV.

That's funny, I'm from Miami, Fl, and I'm not a transplant so I didn't think I had any accent at all. I've never been to the midwest so I'm curious as to how they speak, other than the obvious Wisconsin or Michigan accents. I don't call beverages "pop" like the quiz said I should. I call them "soda."

but i don't call "carbonated drinks" pop. they must be talking about soda.

i...i guess this would be right. i AM from WI...so, i guess it's right.

well if you are 60 you should know that the proper grammar is "should have" rather than "should of"....I've only been living in america for 12 years and I'm 16. congratulations an immigrant that learned English in kindergarten has better grammar than blahblahyoyouihuih.

WHAT? I DONT HAVE AN ACCENT? THIS IS VERY DISSAPOITING, IM 60, THIS SHOULD OF BEEN THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY LIFE!!! IM FROM BOSTON BISH!!!

""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."

Good thing, too. I am Canadian.

dude this is so right. i am from misourri. this is cool. im planning to go into tv too. thats pretty cool. the only thing that sucks, is that i cant understand any kind of accent at all. only people that talk like me, and since i live in the south its hard to find that.

Must've mixed us up Relita. I'm from the North West and it said I was from Boston. Definately needs to study up on it's dialect knowledge.

Not even close! I got West and I'm from Boston, born and bred!

Stupid! I got Inland North. I'm from Southern California!

I Have A Minland Accent. It Toatly Screwed Up My Location. Im In NY!!!!!

TOTALLY wrong...i'm from South Texas...no where near where it says...that is way off!

I'm wit Lpup-NEast here, not West and ALSO a speech path!!!

Totally WRONG! Northeast--no way, CA all my life! Just happen to be a speech pathologist.

So far so good...I'm 100% biker and 100% north Jersey!

Too right! Philadelphia it is.

this quiz sucks!!

This survey said that i was a "SoCAL surfer"?....
But i was born and raised in OHIO!!!

"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.

Lmao! I am Canadian.

hahaha right on ... it told me i was from boston ... born and raised ;)

Right The South

I'm from the deep south and It stated North East for me.

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The Inland North. EXACTLY RIGHT. haha, seeing as I'm from the great lakes region.

Mine said Northeast! Right on.

HMMM......Raised on gulf coast of mississippi and moved to S.E. Georgia 20 years ago. Midland? I don't think so. Bless their little hearts.

Philadelphia? HA. I live in ALASKA.

Wow.... this thing guessed that i lived in the east and it was right! i never guessed that i had an accent like that though

I've been asked if I'm from Texas more than once...strange how this associates me with Philadelphia......

i got the inland north whatever that is supposed to mean!!

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I got North Central, but I was born and grew up in Florida....weird

Well, it said I have a Midland accent. I was born and raised in western Massachusetts (Northampton) and did not leave that area until 1992 (I was 38). But I also thought western MA folks sounded normal (unlike those from Boston)

I got Midland. I'm from New Jersey, currently living in south Florida, and I always hear that I don't sound like I'm a Jersey girl...until I get mad, at least.

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Awsome! I got Inland North.. It was completely right.. Im from Wisconsin =)

ahah it says i might be mistaken by a canadian !!
but gues what i am a canadain!! ahha

This quiz was right on the money for me!
Good job!

random!!!!!!!!!!im not even from america though.......

Despite being from southern New England (CT) I apparently have no accent. Could be because I was taught to speak in NYC, raised partially in the Mid West, and spents years in the military living on each coast and HI. Still, it is disappointing being told I have a "Midlander" asccent!

Very interesting, but wrong. The quiz said I'm from "North Central". I was born and raised in Western Washington and have spent the last 20 years in Alaska. I'm about as northern as they come, but not Central. It's a fun quis, though. The only think I can figure is that my mother is from North Dakota and I must have picked it up from her roots.???

I got "Midland West" or something, which is exactly where im from, southern ohio.. aint it a odd bird that coulda guessed that since i have a southerner twang

The quiz said my accent is as Philly as the cheesesteak. Right on!

The quiz placed me as "inland north" which is right where I am, but get this--I've been profoundly deaf since birth!

I've lived in NC most all my life. It had me wayyyy southern which is true. Very good test. "I'm a North Carolinean by choice, but SOUTHERN BY THE GRACE OF GOD"!
(And we really dont mind northerners from coming down, just dont tell us how to talk, drive, or eat. And you can still retain your identity; remember, just because you birth your children here,doesn't make them any more a southerner, than a cat having her kittens in the oven makes them buiscuits! Bless your pea-pickin' hearts, we know you got here quick as you could - As Brother Dave Gardner said, "Have you ever heard of anyone retirin' to the NORTH?"
PS "pop" or "soda"? In NC it's neither; it's "Soft Drink" or "Coke"(no matter which type you like - hey, dont ask me why,I dont know, its just what we call it ; my daddy used to call it "a bottle of dope").

I was said to be from the north central area. I now live in South Dakota, spent over a decade in Indiana, but grew up near Boston. Pretty close I would say if not right on.

It guessed Philadelphia-I don't know if that's a compliment or an insult. I was born in Detroit (please note how close Canada is and it has a very obvious effect on my spech), spent 6 months of every year from age 10 on in Hemel Hempstead, England. (approx 40 miles north, sl. west of London) My mother was a Geordie and mt father was educated in Paris.

jerseyjim~ We call it soda now ^_^ lol, that was like, from awhile ago. Some older people call it tonic, but then most others are like: What?

About 50 years ago I spent one summer with my grandmother in New England. At that time they called soda- "tonic" as in, What kind of tonic do you want with your hamburger. Just wondering, do New Englanders still refer to soda as "tonic" ?

It say i have boston accent. Im from asia

ok so it said that i have a chicago or wisconsin accent and i was born and raised in Carleston, SC weird

I have a pennsylvania Dutch accent but I confused the quiz

:-P

I'm form the midwest (Michigan) although it didn't exactly have Michigan..
Anyways, they should have had a question about pop. I mean really, that's one of the clearest indicators of accent!

wow dat was totaly dumb

southern accents sound so stupid...long drawn out words..nasally...ex. office is not oufece...day is not die....haul is not howl...U SOUND DUMB

Martin, you are from England and your closest U.S. accent was from the northeast. Thats because this country was settled there and the language is the least diluted. In particular the upper mid-atlantic and the nyc, connecticut and new jersey area have residents that are mostly still big users of consonants.
Of course there are many accents in England but as in the US clarity is more necessary when the population is large and diverse.

I'm from London England but it said I was from the Northeast NY/Boston I guess that's close enough?

It said I was from North Central, and that I would often be confused with Canadians, which is bang on, because I am actually a Canadian. It was fun.

Pretty close - mine said Inland North, but the South (which is correct) was second in my list. After changing item 11, it correctly identified me as from the South.

And for the record, it's not pop; it's not soda; it's COKE - no matter what fizzy drink you're talking about! :) "Do you want a Coke?" "Yeah, get me a Sprite, please."

haha....The midland....I live in the south....lol
:)

midland? im from the west. >:(

Wow, this quiz is accurate! I knew that I have a Boston accent, and I took this quiz to see if it would get it right and it did! Wow!

Midland accent. That's pretty accurate for me.

completely innaccurate. Do you even know what the different accents are? apparenly not. i am from NE and got that as my last one

You people that are not from the US, use your goddam brain - this isn't what ENGLISH accent do you have - it's what US accent do you have. It's going to pick the closest thing, you morons, even if you can't appreciate all our American accents.

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"Your accent is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak! If you're not from Philadelphia, then you're from someplace near there like south Jersey, Baltimore, or Wilmington. if you've ever journeyed to some far off place where people don't know that Philly has an accent, someone may have thought you talked a little weird even though they didn't have a clue what accent it was they heard."

I'm not even american and English is my second language???

Comment was on target. I'm from the Philadelphia suburbs.

OOPS! I meant to say "pegged" not "pecked" from earlier post.

"Your accent is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak!"

Right on... I grew up about 8 miles from Philly in Delaware County, PA.

It got me pecked as from Chicago, it was 100% correct.And I always thought, only "other people" had accents.

I'm from South Carolina...

I would never say "pop", it's called "soda".

That's interesting. It said "Inland North." I'm a Southerner, but my mother, who'd lost her accent to further her law career, started working on mine when I was but a wee child. I get a lot of comments from other Southerners asking if I'm a Yankee, and from confused Northerners asking me to explain where I'm from.

total crap. I'm from northwest Oregon, nowhere near the midwest. i've never even been to ohio.

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Lol Iland North, i'm not even from america :P
i should have an western accent i thought, but that's score is the lowest..

hey this was actually right. im from ohio.hmm good job

I also call it soda - not pop. The only people that I know that call it pop are from the south. No one ever asked me if I was from any Midwestern state. Lived most of my life in California. Someone did ask if I was English because I was taught to say "twenty" and "twunty" and a "hundred," not "hunnert."

Um u 4got the northwest u know Washington state, Oregon, Idaho, Northern Caili,ect..

Heh, it got it right on the money! People DO usually think I'm Canadian. Good quiz, man.

'm from the Northeast - Connecticut and I certainly do not call soda "pop", it's soda. I don't know why I'd be categorized as the Inland North - maybe because I lived in Indiana for a year?

Soda? What kind? I always say pop, but I am from Chicago and this was perfect

Not even close! The inland north? Chicago? I'm from the northeast, New York, and I certainly do not call carbonated drinks pop! Everyone knows they're called soda!

Shananigins;
The quiz is named ; What AMERICAN accent do you have?
It's slightly obvious it wouldn't apply to an English accent.

Ya'll are kinda' close. I was brought up in southwest Virginia. But, I was born in Indianapolis. Go figure.

I'm from NC and it said I'm from the south...most of the time people think I'm from GA. There's different southern accents ya know. Does anyone beside southerners know that I wonder.

I liked taking the quiz. But I fooled it, I'm British so the accent it said I had was wrong.

Good quiz, and very close to perfect!

I come from South Boston and you hit it right on.....

born and raised in philly, perfect quiz b----es

It says I'm from the midlands, or the south...I from the north, way north! Near canada!

I'm country as a turnip green with an accent thicker than cornbread batter and this quiz said I have the "no accent accent". Malarky!

You do know that Florida is a hogpodge of accents. Hardly anyone is originally from here.

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i guess i took the test wrong! I was raised and born in queens and it says im from midland!!!! wow....i must have some diffrent accent then my relatives!!!! Lol!

I was born and raised in the Appalachians in Southwest Virginia and I have a hillbilly twang. I took the test and the results said I have a Midwestern accent. That is so far from the truth!!@!!!!!

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I am from philly, currently living in NJ, so the quiz worked for me.

im north central..............teehee........yay..........what does north central ppl sound like?

YES! I am originally from the WEST, grew up in the Beautiful Pacific Northwest and don`t think I have an accent. However, after living in Hawaii, HI for 35+ years, when I go back to the mainland folks do think I talk funny ;>

Midland! I'm from West Texas,born and raised!

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er...philly? think the quiz maker has been hittin the sauce a little bit hard. People from philly cant even understans the southern in my voice.

i was born in tennesse and i still hold a lot of those southern vowels. but i've lived all around the u.s. (in pennsylvania the longest) and my mom is from the midwest.... i probably grew up talking a lot like her. it said philly? which is very close to where i grew up.

from the west...a so cal surfer.i am a rebel flaggin toting redneck from the hills of tennesee you dumb f---

your test was completly wrong.I am a Bostonian.

Inland north accent? uh....no. I work with people from Wisconsin, and, believe me....I sound nothing like them. (I'm from Connecticut). Their accent sounds something like a cross between nails on a chalkboard and a cat in a blender....on the other hand, my new haven area accent can sometimes slip into a light James Gandolfini a la sopranos type sound....so, I think this test needs some tweeking.

Born, raised and still living in Alabama, and I have a Philadelphia accent? No way. This quiz needs fixin.

Wrong, wrong, and wrong (rhymes with Gong).

I sound more like Reba McIntire, and I'm a native of Middle Tennessee. Philadelphia, my foot.

Write another test.

Naw, this is rather poor. Why does it have Boston but not Pittsburgh when the latter is recognized as a legitimately separate dialect? I definitely speak a weak form of Pittsburghese, but it says I'm from the West...

Uh, I was born & raised in Georgia by New Yorkers, but I supposedly have a Boston accent according to the quiz. I HATE Boston accents. Yuck. If anything, I have a southern accent. Most people say I have none at all.

Wow. Not at all! I grew up in CA, I certainly don't have a Southern accent!

yes, as a matter of fact, i am from dallas.

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I got the Inland North (Great Lakes) accent, which seems about right because I *am* from WI (Appleton, which is kind of near Green Bay). But I don't use the word "pop"; I say "soda". And could someone please explain to me the difference between the Inland North accent and the North Central (Upper Midwestern) accent? I'm really curious. WI has both and I honestly can't tell them apart.

Well it nailed me. Inland north, even mentioned my home state, Wisconsin. Weird.

This said Northeast and I certainly do, still sound like I'm from North Jersey, even though I have lived in Virginia for almost ten years. You will almost certainly sound like your parents since these are the people who taught you how to speak.

The West! I guess that's pretty accurate considering it said that "outsiders probably mistake you for a canadian"! Well that's good considering I am one! And proud of it! But I guess this quiz really isn't made for anyone outside of the US...what's new. A little inclusion would be nice every once in a while. Honestly we're just like you, we just spell a few words like the British! We don't live in igloos, eat blubber, and say eh all the time up here!

I got Northeast which is completely wrong, except that the quiz asks "Which 'American' accent do you have".
Well if Northeast American sounds the same as Australian then maybe it's correct? (I think you fellers swear a lot more than we do though hey? ;-)
I'm seventh generation Aussie and have been told I have a "country" (Australian) accent but I think this quiz is really specifically for Americans.
To be international it'd need to be considerably more in depth, so perhaps I'm butting in where I shouldn't?

According to this quiz I am Inland North... which is really interesting for an English woman who has lived in Perth, Western Australia for the past thirty two years and has English rellies who tell her she has a dinky di Aussie twang!

sweet i got southern and i am frome Texeas...

While I agree with the result, I take issue with some of the explanation. The quiz includes "southern Illinois" in the Midland. I suspect they mean downstate Illinois, i.e. not Chicago. In southern Illinois, speech is less Midland and more leaning towards a Southern accent.

Okay, i think most of the people who are either from another country or who say they have "X type" accent are not reading the questions right. IF YOU ARE CORRECTLY DOING THE QUESTIONS, IT WILL COME UP RIGHT. Say the freaking word out loud if you have to. you can't ever really hear your own accent, so you can't say "Ah, yes, I TOTALLY have a **** accent." you can't have an accent to yourself. ONLY TO OTHER PEOPLE.

Ok, I keep reading the comments and now I have something else to say. Another way I know I'm from the deep south is I call a refrigerator an "ice box" which goes back to what it was called originally. I warsh (wash) clothes and I wrench (rinse)em out when I'm done. I try to mask my southern accent a little but when I'm talking about things that are predominently southern it becomes more prominent. Like southern fried food or any of that good southern food, my grandma (because she's the epitomy of the southern lady), my mama (cuz we all love our mama's and yes, we call them mama not mom or ma or any of that) or Gawd (God) because I grew up in the Bible Belt--there are more churches in my town than ppl just about....

Also, I say soda because I got tired of ppl actually giving me "Coke" when I said "coke". They were suppose to ask me what kind..duh?!? lol. You know it's funny. Wherever you go, ppl judge you by what you call soda, pop, coke, or any carbonated beverage. It's a common difference when discussing locals....

Well this was spot-on. I'm from Texas and it said I have a southern accent all the way. I live in Wyoming now and ppl are always asking me where I'm from because they say it's obvious that I'm not from here....but I don't think I sound that different...

Who the heck rhymes "bag" with "vague"??? And when they do, which "a" sound do they use? For me (a California), the "a" sound in "bag" is the same as in "cat," while the "a" in "vague" rhymes with "date."

ya know..i think this thing is lyin, cuz i have a southern accent and the results were midland...which is weird..because i know alot of people in the midwest and they are two completely different accents...

its said i have a New York accent, I'm not even from America, i'm british, i only did this quiz because i was bored!

Whoa! In my case this quiz was totally inaccurate, in that I'm a native Californian. Never even visited Philidelphia or the Mid-American states; although I have lived in other countries.

New York it is then but i moved a while ago to Virginia....Still the north east huh.....accurate quiz for me!

Oo I got North Central...makes sense I do live near Canada o_O

Seems to me that:

a) many here are unable to honestly assess their own accents. They'd be better off letting someone else evaluate how they pronouce the question words for them.

b) this quiz is aimed at Americans. It's misapplied if used by English or Australian or other people. You probably are incapable of distinguishing from amongst various American accents, just as most Americans are only able to distinguish between Scottish and English and Irish accents, if that, when English people know that there are scores of different "English accents". As for non-English speaking people, it's even worse. In France, I'm asked "Are you British, American or Australian?". This question is so ridiculous to anyone actually from any of these countries because their accents are so different, yet to a Frenchman, they are all similar.

The quiz is fairly accurate if answered honestly and without embellishment. I'm a Canadian, but scored as "West", BUT that's accurate, because I live in the USA and I have an extremely generic accent now, i.e. "West". Philly, NYC, and others have certain very specific traits, and thus are readily identified as such.

M from Australia, but from this quiz it says i might b from new york city wow wat can i say............."Gooda nya mate"

Lol, I'm from Australia and it says I have a Northern Accent.

That's nice...

ha it says i have no accent. im from texas hell i have an accent.... :)

The West. Well I'm from California, is that near the west?

IM FROM THE NORTH EAST cool whats for lunch?

I left Chicago 17 years ago meandering East until settling in South Jersey for the last 8 years and just the other day a clerk said "You're not from around here are you?" Happens at least once a week.

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Well, I suppose my result was accurate (Midlands), as I am indeed from Pennsylvania, but what does it mean when it says it's "just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." I mean, doesn't everyone have an accent? In any case, I always had this vague hope that I sounded really exotic to other people, haha...

Spot on! It said I was from Southern Ohio (midland accent), and...well...yeah. I kinda am. So that's that. =D

im from jersey and it says i have a new yorker accent that bull

I was born in Eastern Pennsylvania, but grew up an Air Force Brat. I pick up accents easily - to immitate, but honestly don't really have one. I find it amusing that this quiz put me squarely in the "Midland" category which included Pennsylvania... but I sound nothing like my relatives!!!

Born in Hawaii but I've lived in Texas since I was 3. It makes since I dont have an accent. But dude, if I were ever to live in California or florida, I'd die! I love the hill country to much to live in a god danm city.

It said I had an inland Philadelphia accent, granted I am from Philly or atleast born there and stayed until I was in the 6th grade then moved next store to Maple Shade NJ. So I would say this is correct.

it says im from Minnesota,but thats my mom. I am from Wyoming not Minnesota

I'm from Texas born and raised country.. and it says i have practically no accent or i could have one from Florida or California... :-(

I'm born & raised in NC but I have a Inland North accent??

riiiggghhhttt....

people!!!boot this quiz out of the number one spot! im tired of seeing it!!

i am midland no accent--sounds like me!

dude awesome quiz

I've lived in Hawaii for 26 years and grew up in North Carolina... But I have a Philly accent?

omgosh this is stupid...i got the right one but it is boring...how did it get 2 #1???

I'm from Georgia, and this test claims I have a Midland accent. I'd say it's pretty true, considering I grew up with a father from England and a mother from Arkansas, getting a mix between the two extremes.

Omg it was crazy accurate.

I am from the Great Lakes, so those annoying questions are usually answered "Yes."

LOL, thats so acurate Im not american and the quiz says most people would probably mistaken you for a canadian which is what I am !!

Wow, Exactly right. I am from the south and I realize my heavy southern accent so I know others can. I currently live far east but I am not ashamed though. I love my uniqueness here.

I would like to sayyy it was correct as to the region I live in, although I would also like to point out that I referr to soda both as pop and soda. usually pop b/c thats what is common and people give me weird looks when I sayy soda. but its weird sayiing pop b/c thats what I refer to my father as. XD

The Midlands? But I'm Australian!

I'm an Iowa boy living in South Dakota and It said Midlands. Tom Brokaw is from SD. And by the way, carbonated drinks are properly soda pop, so either is correct.

I clearly have a Texas accent... and this stupid thing said I was Midland and obviously they didn't mean Midland, TX.
Oh and btw, we rednecks don't say "soda" either, we call everything Coke. Like in... "Do y'all want a Coke?"
"Yeah"
"What kind?"
"Dr Pepper?"
Only the idiot yankees say "pop" which sounds so stupid to us southerners.

Missed my clear NY accent-Oh well...

Well I got Boston and that was right. My husband is from New Orleans and got Philadelphia. And I agree that New Orleans accents sound like a Philly or Brooklyn accent. Many people said he sounded like he was from Brooklyn when he came to Boston for the first time.

I'm from Cleveland born and raised and I got the inland north which is dead on...us kids from Cleveland like to pronounce our vowels...and for the dick that said "pop" is red neck...you can piss off..."soda" is what the hill jacks say!

Says midland...

Does Maryland count as the midland? I dont know...

Whatever haha

said im midwest but really i live in ny (not the city)...hmm...

Pegged me from the Great Lakes region. I lived in Chicago as a little kid- age 1-6, but have lived most of my life on the West Coast (L.A. with a few years in Seattle). Very odd that it outed me.

Born and lived in Milwaukee, WI until age 28; then lived in Chicago until age 61; then moved to Florida (68 now). Quiz said I may be asked: "Am I from Wisconsin?" or "Am I from Chicago?"

haha i AM canadian.

im from delco pa, like 10 mins from philadelphia, and i got a "philadelhia" accent for my answers...guess this thing is sorta accurate LOL

I dont call carbonated drinks, pop. omfg. thats so redneck. I call it soda.

i am cerrtany not from the north.lol. I AM FROM ENGLAND!

i thout twas confusing but loved the merry one.

im the midland which means no accent :] this quiz is sooo accurate!

~ballin

im "the west" what a popular quiz!

i from australia n i got a west accent, wat does a west accent even sound like??? i have a strong aussie accent most of the time. :D

wow, i am from Missouri! but changing one answer gives me a wisconsin accent??? whatever. ^_^

sm4him is very right. I was born and raised in upstate South Carolina and yet according to this I have a midland accent. I have two NJ teachers for grandparents and a proper speaking Southern Mama. I don't have an accent per say because they all made sure that I spoke proper (American) English - the second dead language.

Midland?!? I was born and raised in the South...the REAL south, not like Maryland... :-) I've lived in TN and GA my entire life--I've only been west of the Mississippi twice in 40-something years!! There's not much "Midland" about me.
I think this test sometimes is more a test of whether you learned diction...my father (a Yankee) and my mother (lifelong Southerner) were also both extremely intelligent and well-spoken, and they did not allow their five children to learn or engage in sloppy speaking habits...

the west
lol
i live in hawaii

go 2 da what hairstyle should u try quiz!its funny!

Those who complain about the quiz being wrong when they live in England, Australia, or Singapore (etc.) should focus on another activity than learning which *American* accent they have. Like learning how to read for instance.

Now I'm not sure the test actually is right either. It seems like it often comes out wrong and I don't think I have an "Inland" accent... But how the hell would I know: I am French and I have never been to the US...

West accent. Yep.

Born and bred Bostonian (I pahk my cah in Havhahd yahd and calf=cahf, path=pahth, laugh=lahff, half=hahf, after=ahftah) and yet I came out WEST????
I was once told by a linguist who was doing his doctoral thesis on accents that New Englander's vowel sounds were the most phonetically correct. THAT was a surprise, since a lot of people make fun of the Bostonian accent.

I got inland North, Yet Im from the North East of England.Yey me?

HAHA I got inland north, and I'm from Singapore. :o Ah well. I have no idea what someone from inland north america sounds like anyway, so... geez what was the point of taking this quiz?

Xavier Kun did well with the American Accent Quiz. I got "North Central" - the one where "...outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian..."

Well, I AM a Canadian. I'm in Toronto.

Wow that was 100% correct i grew up in paducah KY

Northeast...not a chance. I was born and grew up just an hour from Charleston, SC. Have always loved hearing others speak and have an M.Ed. plus 30 hours from U. of SC in English Education and Educational Adm. Know I have a slight souther accent because others can pick it up, but many times get questioned about where I am from originally.

I have a western accent! wierd...i was born in MI but live in SC for half of my life. Now i obviously talk like so cals..cool.

Southern Ohio? ugh, PAH-LEASE! NORTHERN OHIO! JEEZE!

(By the way, that was a joke -_-)

wat i've never even been to phily??

i like da quis its funny

this is total rubbish i am from london, england

This is a rubbish quiz! Iam from England! Not NEW YORK!!!!!!

I'm not sure that there's enough information here to really tell in many cases. I've only lived in Ohio for 6 years (lived in Atlanta, Pensacola, and Maryland as well)but my 'accent' comes up as Midwestern. 13 questions aren't enough.

Just because you don't live or ever visited whatever region you got as a result, doesn't mean it's impossible for you to have that accent (or whatever you want to name it -- regionalisms and whatnot). What matters is the people with whom you have most contact and hear talking most often.

I am indeed from Boston and It said I had a boston accent!

well i was born in ny grew up in ma and now i live in so cal and the quiz said i had no accent (west coast) lol

Wow, i was born in texas and have since lived in South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, and this quiz said I have a Inland north accent. But both of my parents grew up in Wisconsin and my ENTIRE family lives there. People are always noticing that when I say sorry I say Sore-ee instead of Sar-ee, which is what people say where i live. So really this quiz was right on track!

Most people don't think they have an accent because all the people around them talk like they do. I've lived in a few states and accents can change from city to city not just region or state. A lot of times in bigger cites you can tell if someone grew up in the north, south, east, west or central part of that city by their accent. So, for the people that are saying that Americans all talk the same except Southerners, you are very wrong. There are thousands of accents in the US, you just have to listen.

Inland North! And I'm a standard middle-class Queen's-English-speaking Brit from southern England. Couldn't resist this - found the link on 'Geoffrey Chaucer hath a Blog'. Chaucer's Inland North too. Hurrah. Hope I visit the I.N. one day and see if I pass the intelligibility test. (Shall learn to say 'pop' first). Fun quiz.

im from Philadelphia and it was right on that I'm from 100% from Philly!

Born and raised Colorado, also pegged with Midlands accent ... uh, and by the way, we don't have a region in the US called the Midlands, that's a British thing.

Worthless quiz.

I'm from Orygn (Oregon) and it said I've got a midland accent ...

Not from the US nor do I live it (I live in Canada), but apparently I have a western accent. Well, actually I don't.

Even though I'm a Canadian, My accent is from West philly

Born and raised, In the playground is where i spend most of my days
Chillin' all out, Relaxing all cool, and shooting some b-ball outside of the school........

OK Y do i have a southern accent i never even thought i had an accent LOL

well for me it a plus!!!! since am not from the U.S. but i got to have an accent. as to my result: Philadelphia which means having a northeastern accent.... well its just an accent but it does not affect my personality at all its on how you bring out your attitude.... still... everyone can change their accent... PRACTICE! learning and adopting these accent... accent is just a twang... as long as you understand each other great!

It said I had a north cantral accent and that I probably sound canadian...I was born and raised in California and Arizona...

I should have not taken the quiz in the first place, as I am neither an American nor a resident of the US. I was just intrigued as to what my accent usually is when I speak English. I do not know whether the quiz was accurate but it said I have a Philadelphian accent. Well, I would not know the real score. I am from the Philippines and I have never been to the US in fact.

The answer to the quiz says that I am from Philadelphia or nearby New Jersey. Well, I am from New Orleans. New Orleans natives, especially those over 40, have an accent similar to New Jersey or Brooklyn. People born and raised in New Orleans do not have a southern accent like people from Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and northern Louisiana. We have a unique accent that is similar to that of New Jersey natives.

lol it said that i had north central. i live in SC but i was born in canada. it was kinda right!

dude, I do not have a boston accent!!!!


Rawr

Result - the west. I'm actually Brazilian, but it's interesting to find out what accent influenced me the most when I was learning the language!

I AM FROM BOSTON! IT WAS RIGHT!

Inland North All the way!

great work!!! i'm a wisconsinite. lol.

Your Result: North Central

"Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot."

lol I am Canadian good job

I actually took this quiz a while back and it said I had a Western accent. I've no clue what those sound like, though. Meh, like I said before, all Americans sound the same, with the exception of the ones with thick Southern accents. From another person's point of view, what do North Floridian accents sound like? Central Floridian? I've heard they differ, which I find a bit odd.

I have a Minnesota accent though I grew up in the deep South? Hm. All Americans sound alike, with the exception of the thick Southern accents which are easy to distinguish from the rest.

oops i meant SINGAPOREAN

I have no accent huh..?
Well, I'm ASIAN! SIONGAPOREAN!
what no accent?
i just dont sound english or austrailian or american!

Now I understand why everyone around me thinks I'm from somewhere else. All my life people have asked where I grew up, or where I was born. Well to set the record straight, I was born, raised, and still live in Kokomo, Indiana. Yet I have always been asked if I was from somewhere else... I guess a bit of it is that I call a Carbonated Drink, a Beverage. Not "Soda, Pop, or Coke." However, when talking to someone, I find myself adapting my accent to match theirs. I have actually fooled a English chap into believing I was from Wales!

Well Cheers!
DJ Lost

When I took the quiz I really concentraded on the question at hand and souned eack of the answers by repeating eack of the words a few times ( yes I was bored and took alot of time with it but, they're determanation of where I was from was 100 percent correct. I was from Ohio and we did call it POP...Since I've lived in Florida 27 years now I started calling it SODA... I never noticed it till I was back in Ohio visiting years ago and my sister said pop and it made me laugh. Other than that It's the only thing the quiz came up with that placed me in Florida( and or ) a few other southern regions and I have lived 1/2 my life younger years in Ohio and now 27 years later Soda... is the only thing that my speech placing me here now. It sure would be nice if you came up with a Quiz similar but add in where the person is living now if it's been long enough to pick up they're regional speech patterns or ACCENTS!!! LOL... But it was fun to do and read everyone comments or opinions some were quite funny howmad some people got. It was just a quiz for fun and enjoyment I'm sure they didn't set out to offend some people. Smile, be happy, life is wonderful... :)

lived/roamed all over the USA....Boston never left my blood, or my speech pattern!!!

I think this quiz is a bit remiss in not classifying Southern California and culturally similar areas of the Southwest, like Vegas and Phoenix, as having its own pattern of speech.

I'm a lifelong San Diegan, and when I travel, most people in the Midwest, and especially in the South, guess that I'm from Southern California from my speech alone.

Some of my friends from around the country have found me unintelligible at times =)... like when I referred to a certain highway in Indianapolis as "the 70 freeway" and told a friend to "flip a b----" when we got lost.

I live in Winnipeg, Canada about 4 hours north of Fargo.

Now I understand why everyone in the States is baffled by how I speak. I thought I sounded 'normal' this whole time. =)

Lee1940---Even after 43 years in California it appears that I still have my Minnesota accent!!

this quiz got my accent perfectly!! i'm proud of my Minnesota accent! They are right about people mistaking me for a Canadian, but they also mistake me as being from Wisconsin! People! Jeeze? don't you know a Minnesotan accent when u hear one? :-P lol

Interesting quiz... also interesting how many seem to be somehow offended by the results they got. Come on people - lighten up. "It's jes' fer grins, anyway."

I was born in Germany I have on accent, but according to the Quiz I have none.

I'm from ENGLAND!!!! =D

I love some of the comments. Come on people, this is a fun quiz. My favorite comments are the, "this quiz was wrong, I pride myself on not having any accent and only speaking perfect English!" My next favorite are the, "where I'm from, people don't have accents. Absolutely everyone says so, we are all newscasters here. People say that all the time about where I live."
This quiz completely nailed me. It was surprisingly accurate for only a dozen or so questions.

Regional variations are fun, don't be all pricky about it.

That was pretty cool. According to that quiz I'm from the NorthEast. I am actually from Australia though it was a COOL quiz to take!

Anyone who says that Southern Indiana is the 'midland' accent (or nondescript, as it were) has never been to southern Indiana.

anyone who says 'midland accent' or the 'nondescript accent' is probably from Southern Indiana has probably never been to Southern Indiana.

Haha, my result was the place I'd lived longest, and my next two results were the other places I've lived. Pretty good!

This is not a quiz about accents, this is a quiz about pronunciation. An accent is an audial experience for the listener, not an interpretation of the speaker. Most people are surprised when they hear a recording of themselves & usually make the comment, "that's me?".

I am an SLP (Speech Language Pathologist) and although your test pointed me out and Inland New England I pride myself as having Standard American English (like at Northwestern University that standardize the American English pronunciation.By the way Tom Brokaw has a horrible /l/ pronunciation-called a dark /l/. You can hear it in all /l/ words, initial, medial and final and all /l/ blends. It is very hard for me to listen to him or Barbara Walters. They are articulation errors, lack of tongue tip alveolar ridge contact or specific retractions and compressions of the tongue.

HEYO
I'M CANADIAN

Holy Sh_t, Pretty friggen close!

fuggers

honestly, i got to disagree with the outcome of the quiz that i got. it said people mistaken me for being from Wisconsin or Chicago... most people generally have no idea where I'm from and say i have one of the most neutralist accents ever. the only accents i have ever been mistaken for was a Connecticut accent... which is understandable since i am from there. but truly, that has only happened once, a majority of the time people can not even guess where i'm from... so yeah...

I am often mistaken for a Northeasterner, as the test analysis suggest, however, I am a born-and-raised Texan, having lived a year as a six-year old in LA, CA as my only out-of-state living experience. I suspect that comes from having attended schools where the instructors were Irish nuns who taught us to carefully and correctly enunciate our words (in the Irish vernacular). Couple that with parents who did the same (as well as limited our socializing to a select group during our younger years – for me through age 15), and the personal desire to speak as distinctly and as nearly correct as possible.

It seems that many people don't think this quiz is accurate. However, I think that in many cases, they are answering the questions (at least a couple questions) based on what they know is the "correct" dictionary pronunciation, not the way they actually speak. Considering that there are only 13 questions, 11 of which ask about specific linguistic differences, it is actually pretty good. It is interesting that some have such hostile responses when their accent is idenified as being something other than their "home".

One thing that I have noticed while traveling throughout the US is that there is a very broad area surrounding the Great Lakes that has much in common with a Canadian accent. There are certainly smaller areas within this broad area that have unique peculiarities (upstate New York, Illonois, Minnesota and Michigan come to mind). However, I would put all of them in a larger Great Lakes region. This is similar to a Southern or Northeast accent, each of which have unique subregions. There is also a tendency in big cities of the west (and to a lesser extent, all "growth" cities) to have a homogenizing effect on people's speech patterns because of so much migration to those areas over the past several decades. So, I hypothsize that the more homogenized a city has become, the more likely it is that a person's accent will be misidentified as being from a completely different location.

Someone has no doubt already mentioned this but what about these:

1) do you pronounce coupon as 'coopon' or 'q-pon'?
2) do you pronounce vase as 'vahz', 'vaze' or 'vace'?
3) do you pronounce aunt as 'ant' or 'awnt'?
4) do you pronounce creek as like 'Greek' and 'peek' or 'crick'?

Did you know Tom Brokaw is from South Dakota, so maybe if people watch the news a lot they catch on to the North Central accent?

I am from North Dakota and it was right on that I have the North Central Accent. Hee Hee

Yup, the West, as in the Pacific Northwest - - land of no identifiable accent.

Sorry, completely wrong. I was said to be from Inland North but I grew up in Texas, and have been here most of my life. I just try to speak with care, and always have. In fact, I don't think on rhymes with dawn OR don.

It says I'm midland and since I'm a lifelong Iowan that sounds close enough, but if a midland accent is no accent how come when I do laundry I "warsh cloze"?

It came out as Midland but I'm born and bred Colorado, never lived anywhere else

it said i'm from minnisota or chicago and i'm from new york

ya know it pretty true i have totally accepted myself as a minnesnowtan; even though i am from germany eh.

it said boston...and i'm totally from houston, tx...and i basically have no accent whatsoever...

haha its right i am from ohio

It's got me pegged to within a few miles of where I grew up. Northeast says Northern Jersey first, and I spent 36 years living in Central Jersey! I've since moved to MA and te local accent is driving me insane! Where else do they say "Aunt" to not rhyme with "Ant"? I swear I'm going to shoot the next person that dares to "correct" me.

This is so true...I'm from michigan haha

... i am canadian so i guess this quiz is right

lol the end of my quiz results said "people probabally mistake you for a canadian" good thing i am a canadian and damn proud of it...

funny im asian hehehe

You should add Colorado (and surrounding states) to your list of Midland accent areas. We don't have any appreciable accent here. In fact, I often hear other people refer to Colorado as the "state where they all sound like newscasters."

Philly all the way!! My quiz was right on the money!

lol sooo funny, it said I have a "midland" accent. Very funny since I'm from the DEEP south. ATL baby!

Well, ya'll it sho nuff hit me on the head. It said, south..........ROTFL.

I am afraid it was correct...

this is full of crap, I do live in NY but I do not have a NY accent at all, I just moved here from Florida, and everyone up here says I have a slight southern accent!

kentuckyboi
you missed all the way around not even close with your quiz

Cool! I'm from Brazil, I haven't no idea how my english sounded like!

well, im not from any part of united states because im from asia but im well oriented with american accent which is why i seem to sound like them. you should hear me talk! :)

this thing is perfect for me ! it said i have a southern accent, and i used to have a very strong one, then i moved where ppl don't have one...but i can still kinda have it. also, it says that my voice is good for tv and radio, and im an aspiring actress! ho cool is that!?

You hit the nail on the head! Though a lot of people think that we who live along the northern side of the Ohio River sound southern, as long as we live in a rural area and own a lot of land, for some reason. That could be because a lot of our ancestors came from down south before the Civil War and it made us "talk funny" to these Johnny-Come Latelys from the big cities around here nowadays. But I do know my genealogy and the "place sounds" that you identified in my voice ARE where my forebears lived at one time or another. I also think that having Native American roots makes us sound very mimicky, thus our BUFF sound ;-)

According to the quiz results, I'm "Inland North," but I was born an grew up in northern Virginia, and all my ancestors are traced back to the earliest of Viginia. I have been told a couple times that I sound somewhat English.

If your test shows you're from "Inland North" and you're not, double check your respose to Question 9. I'm from NJ and I originally answered that "horrible" sounded like "whore" and came up as Inland Noorth. I reality, I pronounce horrible more like the a in hard wheich would result in responce "neither". By correcting that response, I came back Northeast - !00% correct. Think the wrong results are mostly from inaccurate responses....

I agree! The test is stupid! Where the heck is Inland North? Born in Upstate NY, lived 30+ yrs in SO. CA (& have Never dropped my ending consonants-??), school teacher 10yrs. I like the fact that they futher insult me by saying: "You may think you speak standard English straight out of the Dictionary.." blah, blah.. yet, I can pick out an accent within 5 minutes of talking to someone. "Pop"? I don't think I've ever used that word except in the song...huh...I guess accents should be left for what you use to decorate your house with.

Mine came out as inland north--a few hundred miles off in latitude, since I was born and grew up in Oklahoma. I had trouble with the merry, marry, mary question, since marry and mary sound alike and merry different to me. No answer allowed that choice. I have to admit that my fellow rural Okies used to accuse me of sounding like a New Yorker, although I had never heard one to compare with at the time. (This was before we got our first TV, so I didn't hear much in the way of samples of other region's speech.)
Still, the quiz was fun.

I have a western accent

Does upstate New York Count as Inland North?

This quiz is utter BS. I was born in Los Angeles, and raised in the San Fernando Valley - near thirty years of my life. I am now in MI (have been for a couple years now), and people here tell me *ALL* the time that I have an "accent" that sounds vaguely "surfer". This quiz just said I have a Midland accent. That's utter BS. 1 star out of 10. :o(

"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)."
So those other 6 and a half billion or so people...they don't count.
Just thought this sentence could use some rewording :P

So NewYorkJulie and Speaks - are you saying that the quiz accurately rates you according to your perceived voice or speaking voice? I was ranked as Inland North (Chicago/Great Lakes), but I am from the DEEP South; the furthest South you can go in the US without entering Mexico. In addition, I have never lived in any state other than Texas.

inland north, wisconsin.....wait im from california!??!?

I wholeheartedly agree with Speaks, the SLPA. If the questions were answered correctly, the test is very accurate. It's difficult for the average person to perceive their own subtle vowel distortions, but we Speech & Language people have been transcribing the sounds for years. My test results said Inland-North and had me pegged on the Great Lakes. Right on! When we tell people in other parts of the country that we are from NY, they can't believe it. Most think the NYC city twang of "Noo Yawkahs" is typical for all of us, but it's those regionalisms again! And yes, we do drink "pop."

I must say, I've never even been to America, so i was interested to see what it would say. I got New York/Jersey and i guess they would have the most normal sounding accents, so yeh. unlike all those other weird american freaks lol, no offense.

incorrect, i definatly have a northeast accent and was considered as an inland north

Way off, says I've got a Jersey or New York accent. I'm from the Oregon coast. Lived here all my life to, lol. Though I visited the East for 8 days last summer...

i got exactly where i live, great lakes area
i'm always asked if i'm from chicago, which i am.

My results were really interesting to me. I was pegged as being from Philadelphia or nearby southern environs -South Jersey, Baltimore, Wilmington. Technically, it's incorrect. However, the interesting thing is that I was born and raised in a town 95 miles northwest of Philly. My hometown closely identified with the Philly area and we only ever received the 3 network TV stations from Philadelphia. I learned and talked the way I heard people on TV - from Philadelphia.

I have lived in SoCal all my life and it says I sounds like I'm out of Fargo...or Minnesota. =/ Maybe North Central and California regionalisms sounds similar?

Aww...I am a SoCal surfer...lol

i'm from california where we don't prononce our consinents at the end of words and i know i do that but this quiz said i was from the mideastern US

Hi Danny et al,
Yes, the Brits do have an accent, as do we from their perspective, but when you're comparing regions of the USA, they are called regionalisms. "Accents" usually identify Italians, French, Germans, Brits, etc. I don't know why this hasn't become more popular knowledge, but it hasn't. By the same token, just FYI, most newscasters speak in "Standard American English" which makes it almost impossible to tell from which area of the country they have been raised.

Speaks, i dont think i completey agree with you. english is native to britain and we still say that so and so has brit accent. in the same way we have american accent. ask any brit if he agrees with ya.

I hate to correct ALL of you guys, but we don't have "accents," we have "regionalisms." Foreign people have accents. Now, for those of you who don't think that you "sound" like the quiz says you do, you are probably not quite able to answer these questions with real accuracy because you think that you pronounce words in a different manner.For example, don't we all HATE how we sound on a taped message of ourselves????? We NEVER sound like that..... Our perceptions of ourselves can sometimes be quite different. Sorry to bore you, but I have a Master's Degree in Speech Pathology and Audiology. SUNY Albany, '76. Yup--upstate New York--and the quiz nailed it.

It hit it right on the spot! S-Cali...love ya!

Got the area right - Minnesota. But we do NOT sound like the actors in FARGO or Canada for that matter eh, I don't know anyone here in Northern MN that talks like the Movie Fargo, and I am pretty far north. Maybe you are thinking of North Dakota as Fargo is not in Minnesota.

Did this quiz because I was home sick and bored. I had same result as English-bloke on here. Said I must be North East of States and am actually in England (North-West to be precise). North West English accents are VERY different from those who live in the North East lol. Even some English people have trouble telling what Geordies (NE people) are saying!

Interesting quiz. A good start but not quit there. I'm about as far north in Minnesota as you can get and the quiz put me in SoCal, Florida or Texas in a big city. I'm a country boy although I did spend twenty years in Minneapolis.

I was in Wyoming and folks there pegged me as a Canadian so I do have an accent even though the quiz says I probably don't.

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.

Hahah. I am Canadian. X]

Got it right, certainly. I am a Boston gal ;)

"They be able to tell that I'm from (South-East) England!"

I sound like a bloody pirate! Harharrrr!

THEY'D BE ABLE TO...(!)

Result : 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."

They be able to tell that I'm from (South-East) England!

I live in the mid-west and apparently I sound Canadian, thats a bold faced lie, I ve heard Canadians, I know a Canadian and I dont like that, f---a you. 1 outta 10 b----...

Well, it hit right on target for me! I've lived my whole life in the North West Georgia area!! But I tend to be a little propper at times! My finace calls me his "City-Country Girl"..lol.

lmao it said i have a boston accent...im from Scotland, Glasgow UK pmsl!

haha, this made me laugh, it says i have a philly accent. im not from philly myself, but my dad's whole side of the family is, and im very close to my dad, so i have been asked a million times if im from philly! i live about 60 miles away from there in reading, so its kinda funny.

Wow!....this quiz is right on target. Not only am I from the midwest but I grew up in Wisconsin. I've lived in Atlanta for the last 40 years but never aquired a southern accent.

Wtf Midwest? o_O I have the heaviest Brooklyn accent out of anyone I know (who was born after 1960).

why is this quiz always number 1?

Philadelphia! Ha! I am from central Georgia but I have lived in Texas and the mid-west years and years ago. Ha! I do know people frpm Philadelphia and we don't sound alike at all.