What American accent do you have?

[sutherngent985]

97% Dixie. Is General Lee your grandfather?!

What a surprise....

 

[kendo1]

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.

 

[BlackShanglan]

This test reminds me of one I encountered in my university years. One of the questions asked us to identify the vowel sound in the word "can (a tin can)" and another asked for the vowel sound we used in "can (to be able to)." I was baffled - it's the same word!

Then I said them out loud in sentences. *sheepish look* Evidently, I kn get you a can from the shelf (there's almost no vowel in it, but a vague ghost of a short i), but I'm not able to say c-a-n as can if I'm able to do something (unless I think about it). Unless, of course, I'm asking it with the stress on c-a-n. Can you help but say if differently?

Shanglan

 

[kendo1]

Apparently a Midland accent, the accent newsreaders try to use. (but with a Scottish twang)

 

[jomar]

Midlands on the first.

79% Dixie in the second.

 

[Guest]

I lost my Louisianan accent.


http://www.youthink.com/quiz_images/full_428371978.jpg

 

[impressive]

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.

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



Midlands for me -- lowest common denominator

 

[Foxee Browne]

What American accent do you have?

Canadian

People from outside North America probably think you're from the States, but over here we wouldn't make such a mistake.


How did they know eh?

 

[Remec]

Intriguing

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

My Results:


http://www.youthink.com/quiz_images/full_428371978.jpg


Midland

("Midland" is not necessarily the same thing as "Midwest") The default, lowest-common-denominator American accent that newscasters try to imitate. Since it's a neutral accent, just because you have a Midland accent doesn't mean you're from the Midland.
*******

I wonder how much of this flattening is due to upbringing (my parents are both from central Pa), education in a variety of locales around the country, and the voice and diction lessons I had while majoring in Theatre in college?

 

[Guest]

89% Dixie.

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t213/CarolinaHeat/full_754912005.jpg

 

[Remec]

*snicker*

I am NOT a fan of the Fluffya Iggles. I'm die hard Stealers, thanks. Mine said Midland. But I s'pose that's my default. My accent will switch with whoever I'm talking to. So if I'm in a group with a southerner, a New Yorker, a Texan, and someone from Detroit, I'll speak to each individual in the accent they speak to me in... I get made fun of for this on a regular basis.

hehehe
Yeah, I do that too. Especially if I've been drinking. I went on a school-sponsored 3week stay in London, Eng at the end of a semester where every role I played had some kind of UK accent (Irish, Cockney, and somewhere in Manchester, if I remember correctly), and we would go out to the theatre or a pub and I would fall right into those patterns.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

I lost my Louisianan accent.

You poor pitiful thang. Take two of these

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Tabasco_sauce.jpg/150px-Tabasco_sauce.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Tabasco_sauce.jpg/150px-Tabasco_sauce.jpg

and see Ali Landry in the morning.

http://www.abstracthiphop.com/hip-hop-honeys/ali_landry_topless.jpg

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Remec]

Are you with us or agin us?

Are you a Rebel or a Yankee?

"50% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom."

Makes sense to me...started school in Ga, lived in Ga and Va until junior high then off to Cal for three years and back to Va, then to NC for college and back to to Va again...(but the family's from Harrisburg, Pa for the most part)

 

[inlovewithyourghost]

hehehe
Yeah, I do that too. Especially if I've been drinking. I went on a school-sponsored 3week stay in London, Eng at the end of a semester where every role I played had some kind of UK accent (Irish, Cockney, and somewhere in Manchester, if I remember correctly), and we would go out to the theatre or a pub and I would fall right into those patterns.

I'm actually kind of in the same boat as Cloudy. I'm only 26 and have moved well more than 30 times.

I've lived in:
New Mexico
Colorado
Wyoming
Arizona
Texas
Utah
Nevada
Montana
Pennsylvania
Georgia
Alabama
and Germany

...so my accent changes accordingly...

 

[Guest]

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.

yer aff yer heid

Yurra wee sook, so ye are

 

[starrkers]

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)

 

[MagicaPractica]

Mine is solidly Western New England but it said Northern.

 

[tickledkitty]

I'm Midland, and that is right on.

 

[TE999]

Midland.

I am often asked if I am from Ohio or Indiana.

Yet I was born in and lived quite a bit in the South and picked up quite a few words and phrases here and there.

Jus' speakin' plain ol' 'Merican I figger'.

 

[Guest]

Midland.

I am often asked if I am from Ohio or Indiana.

Yet I was born in and lived quite a bit in the South and picked up quite a few words and phrases here and there.

Jus' speakin' plain ol' 'Merican I figger'.

Do you say "warsh" for "wash"? Every Indianan that I've known put R's in everything.

 

[Guest]

You poor pitiful thang. Take two of these

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Tabasco_sauce.jpg/150px-Tabasco_sauce.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Tabasco_sauce.jpg/150px-Tabasco_sauce.jpg

and see Ali Landry in the morning.

http://www.abstracthiphop.com/hip-hop-honeys/ali_landry_topless.jpg

Rumple Foreskin

I'd rather a double helping of Ali than the Tabasco.

 

[WRJames]

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

My Results:


http://www.youthink.com/quiz_images/full_537664926.jpg


Northern

You have a Northern accent. That could either be the Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland/Buffalo accent (easily recognizable) or the Western New England accent that news networks go for.


I was born in Chicago, but when I moved East they put me in speech class to get rid of my drawl. I guess this is the result. I know my wife (who grew up on Long Island) and I used to tease each other about how to pronounce "drawer" -- also -- how many is "a couple".

 

[CeriseNoire]

I get Northeastern. I guess that makes sense since it's where I spent most of my English-only speaking days.

 

[bluebell]

Four years in Tennessee and more northern than ever. Well, I tried.

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.

 

[slyc_willie]

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)

You're sexy, baby