What American accent do you have?

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.