thelittletreetopper:
What American accent do you have?
What American accent do you have?
My Result: The Inland North(89%)
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.”
carryonmywaywardlullaby:
What American accent do you have?
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.
Apparently, this is the accent you get when you spend a little less than half your life in NY and a little less than half your life in Minnesota and the rest in the south.
ziggystardyke:
Bizarrely, if you’re English and you speak with a perfect southern, Queen’s English accent, this quiz says that you sound like you’re from the 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.
Right. Sure.
champagneflavoredstars:
What American accent do you have?
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.
karlimeaghan:
What American accent do you have?
Your Result: North Central
86%
“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.
(makes sense, since I am Canadian, lol)
ravenskyewalker:
Strange, I got Inland North, despite being a lifelong West inhabitant (mid-northern California, Bay Area). I’ve never been asked if I’m from Wisconsin or Chicago, but have been asked if I’m English (I picked up a trace of it from Mom, who picked it up from her grandfather) or Irish (simply due to looks on that one; I don’t sound it at all).
justice-turtle:
I got Inland North too, but my accent’s actually Standard American – what this quiz calls “Midland”. Mainly it means that people don’t ask me if I’m from a particular area but they do ask me where I’m from a lot, because I never sound like I’m “from around here”.
This is what happens when you have one parent who spent their childhood in the Deep South and the Southwest, one from the Pacific Northwest who spent their young adulthood in Boston, and they met and got married in California and then moved to Indiana to have kids. I think the only major region NOT represented is Tornado Alley.
88% Boston. “You definitely have a Boston accent, even if you think you don’t.”
While my dad is from Massachusetts, all that means is that I’ve had enough exposure to Bostonians from family-reunion-type things to know they sound foreign.
(Next one’s 75% Midland, though.)
(I thought hah-rrible vs. hoh-rrible was an American vs. Canadian thing. When people ask me if I’m an immigrant, I respond “it was a long prah-cess getting here”, which indicates both “yes” and “from America” without explicitly saying either. (Though I admit not everyone picks up on the second part.))
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