What American accent do you have? | Comments

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.