What American accent do you have? | Comments

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!

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.

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.