The Hobbit Hole XXXIV - But better than rain or rippling streams...

[Corin Stormhands]

So, Jr. gets to class and finds out the school has no hot water and the carafe he brought wasn’t enough...and his blade was dull.

See, every cloud has a silver lining.

:-)

[TalonDJ]

Yeah, pretty much all of the South and SW. As you go north you hit ‘soda’ country and then isolated areas of ‘pop’.

[RosieCotton]

Owww...

[Corin Stormhands]

That quiz was rigged. That’s all I’m sayin’.

[JenB]

superwalmart is no fun :(

I never remember to hit Aldi’s either.

[RosieCotton]

Wal-Mart may have good prices, but I lose my mind every time I walk in the door.

Jen is my witness...

I don’t function in Wal-Marts. Which is why I’ve been to the one here about once, at six in the morning, to get Harry Potter.

[RosieCotton]

Does it think you’re from Boston or something? ;-)

[300winmag]

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Inland North   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."
The Northeast
Philadelphia
The Midland
The South
Boston
The West
North Central
What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

Yes, the questions about my "accent" are annoying. Regional vocabulary is a different matter. Yes, I drink pop, not soda. I put water in a bucket, not a pail. Things like that. Nothing wrong with either usage, and I can usually figure out what someone means.

Other regional accents are fine, as long as you don't come off sounding like a liberal.

[Lil'freeper]

Of course I don't have an accent. But lets not get rude and call it the lowest common denominator...

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The West   Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta.
The Midland
Boston
North Central
The South
The Inland North
Philadelphia
The Northeast
What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

[Corin Stormhands]

Does it think you’re from Boston or something? ;-)

Worse. Philly.

I usually get Midwest on those tests, but I didn't really see that as an option. And it was just based on pronunciation, so I don't take it too seriously.

[JenB]

Eek, Philly? That test is obviously flawed.

[Corin Stormhands]

‘zackly

[RosieCotton]

Heh...for what it’s worth, having met you, there’s no *way* I’d guess you were from Philly. ;-)

[TalonDJ]

er, ouch.

[Lil'freeper]

Big’ol and I just compared answers. His results were way off for him. He’s an New Englandah but it put him in the inland north. He just spent the last 5 minutes telling me my answers were wrong and how I don’t pronounce things correctly (”Can’t you see they spelled differently??”) Woah, buddy, I’m the one with no accent here *and* I say my H’s. *grumble*mumble*

[Lil'freeper]

er, can’t you see they’re spelled differently.

(he was glaring at me when I wrote the previous)

[Lil'freeper]

Now he's making fun of me for being annoyed.

HARUMPH

[RosieCotton]

Let me guess...like my dad, he drops the h’s on “humor,” “human,” “humid,” etc...

[Lil'freeper]

You-mer, You-man, YOU-mid, YOU-STON.

Grrr... he's still laughing at me.

[RosieCotton]

Dad also says “ruff” for “roof” and “melk” for “milk”. OK, so I do that last, too. And my younger siblings ridicule me. I apparently also say “wush” instead of “waaawwsh”. So sue me...