What American accent do you have? | Comments

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.

"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".