Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Accent Quiz

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: 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.

Philadelphia
The Inland North
The Midland
The South
Boston
The West
North Central
What American accent do you have?
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Most of these Internet quizzes are just plain silly, you know the ones like What Kind Of Pasta Are You? This one at least has a basis in reality. It nailed my accent.

12 comments:

Shover Robot said...

Mine was pretty close :)

The Merry Widow said...

Mine was 3,000 miles wrong! I guess my ear is to trainned from singing in choirs for 20 odd years!

tmw

nanc said...

midland - I DON'T HAVE AN ACCENT!

guess i'm going to have to work on my suthun a little more...

cube said...

tmw: 3,000? Oh well, these Internet quizzes are just silly piffle.

nanc: Every region has peculiarities of speech. I don't really think accent is the best term.

Suthun? Jus peppuh yo speech with words like biskits 'n gravy, ya'll.

cube said...

nanc: You can always study Paula Deen from Food Network. She kills me when she says "papa-reeka".

The Merry Widow said...

Nanc- Considering you're originally from the west('scuse me, left) coast, midland is moving in the right direction! When I was up in NY visiting cousins, in my teens, they all commented on how suthun I sounded!

tmw

Voracious Reader said...

Mine said Boston. I grew up in Hawaii. Go figure.

Brooke said...

It nailed me, too... Midwest.

cube said...

voracious: Hawaii via Haahvaahd Yaahd.

birdwoman said...

OMG do you say wudder?

(*)>

cube said...

bw: I don't say wudder. Wudder you say? ;-)

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