What American accent do you have?

[slyc_willie]

Northeastern and 15% Dixie. Apparently that makes me a "Duke of Yankeedom".
Wow. Do I get a parade or something?
At the very least it should be changed to Duchess. Dudes are fine, but I wasn't born one last I checked.

With that pedigree, you should marry a Kennedy

 

[allens47]

Southern here...and it didnt even have a "y'all" in the quiz!!

 

[champagne1982]

Although I'm Canadian, like the great newscasters of 'mercan tv networks, I have the coveted midlands accent. Could it be? My voice cd is going out to CNN as we speak .

Not really, maybe it should.

 

[The_Fool]

Although I'm Canadian, like the great newscasters of 'mercan tv networks, I have the coveted midlands accent. Could it be? My voice cd is going out to CNN as we speak .

Not really, maybe it should.

Darling Carrie, where is that lascivious audio poem? You need to offer one up to titillate us...

 

[Lisa Denton]

That thingie is broken.

It said I have a northern accent.

An I don't have no accent, I'm from texas.

 

[angelicminx]

Er. A've a wee bit o' dixie ( though what the size o' my dixie has tae do wi' anything I'll ne'er know), but ye ken ahm frae Bonnie Scotland so ye'll perhaps no' understand me.

I can 'hear' you. *swoon*

Anyone who wants to hear what I sound like should click on the audio for "Lustful Leeves" (with the drawl) or "Arime" (normal speaking voice)

 

[bluebell]

Pillbox hats should come back in

With that pedigree, you should marry a Kennedy

Don't think I didn't try it already. You know, when there were cute ones around.

 

[angelicminx]

Test one says I'm Northeastern
Test 2 says I'm 50% Dixie.

Here's what I really sound like (it's a pretty quiet recording)

Nice!

 

[SesameStreet]

What American accent do you have? (Best version so far)

My Results:


http://www.youthink.com/quiz_images/full_754912005.jpg


Southern

People used to hate Southern accents but now everyone wants one.

 

[Nookiehunter]

What American accent do you have? (Best version so far)

My Results:


http://www.youthink.com/quiz_images/full_754912005.jpg


Southern

People used to hate Southern accents but now everyone wants one.

That is because all of the Yankees moved south, bringing traffic jams with them, and want to fit in.

Nookiehunter

 

[Guest]

It is, yes, but what probably threw it off is that I've lived so many places....even so many within the south, and as you know, they're all different.

Let's see...

born in Massachusetts
moved to Los Angeles when I was four
moved to Santa Barbara when I was ten
Tennessee when I was 17
back to LA when I was 19
back to Tennessee
then...Georgia
Mississippi
Alabama
North Carolina
back to Alabama
Ontario, Canada
Alabama

so, I'm probably more "accent-less" than anything.

As I understand it, where your formative years are decides how you speak most often, despite moving around.

I was born a couple miles from the yellow in my map, although I moved 200 miles further away, then to mid-west then ultimately the West Coast as an adult.

They say someone skilled at this, can place you within 50 miles of where you were born. My brother met someone on the west coast, who after listening to him speak, told him the small, obscure, rural county we all were born in.

 

[trysail]

Roughly right- at least not precisely wrong

My Results:
http://www.youthink.com/quiz_images/full_754912005.jpg

Southern


Makes a certain amount of sense. Baltimore was Sothren ('cause all the busted Virginians moved here after the War) until we were invaded in the late 20th century. Other than school stints in upstate New York and Vahginia, and an 18-year work exile to Filthy, I've been here. Southern Maryland is disappearing thanks to "Cancer on the Potomac" (a/k/a Washington, the District of Confusion).

The Charlestonians are gonna have a fit. What are they, Yankees or sumpin'?

 

[gauchecritic]

Only about 5-600 miles out of my dialect/accent.

I think your pronunciation of can is very context derived horsey. I c'n do that. Yes you can. (same as a can of beans, which it don't amount to a hill of.)

And I'd be very surprised if any of the double 'oo' and 'u' or 'a' and 'ar' pronunciations match mine or JL's (possibly EL's too but she's posh and a manc.)

Northern English is very much more approximate to European or 'proper' pronunciation than soft southern The and Mat. (Ogg has no discernible accent being a conglomeration of various continents)

I won't even try to pigeonhole Scher's (imagined) accent. (ask her to to say 'Look at you' and it will come out 'lick at eoow' with izznit tacked on to the end )

 

[cloudy]

But it's how you say "strap on" that counts.

Quite.

 

[cloudy]

I can 'hear' you. *swoon*

Anyone who wants to hear what I sound like should click on the audio for "Lustful Leeves" (with the drawl) or "Arime" (normal speaking voice)

Kendo's definitely swoon-worthy, alright. Love me a scotsman (they're fellow savages, after all )

 

[oggbashan]

That thingie is broken.

It said I have a northern accent.

An I don't have no accent, I'm from texas.

I too am considered to have a Northern accent.

That seems unlikely.

I speak English, not Yorkshire or Geordie.

Og