New York City (5)
Unlike Boston and other urban dialects, New York City stands by itself and bears little resemblence to the other dialects in this region. It is also the most disliked and parodied of any American dialect (even among New Yorkers), possibly because many Americans tend dislike large cities. When an R comes after a vowel, it is often dropped. IR becomes OI, but OI becomes IR, and TH becomes D as in “Dey sell tirlets on doity-doid street” and fugedaboudit (forget about it).
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fork - fawk
sandwich - sangwich
toilet - terlit
onions - ongions
pudding - puddin
| 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. |
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I was born and raised in Southern California and live in Orange County. I don't get this "Midland" stuff. However, I always understood that a California accent was a mix of all American accents, because of the Gold Rush (and probably of what happened after World War II when every one wanted to move here)
I must admit, even though I had a grandfather from northern New Jersey, the accent exhibited by that character “Fran” on that “nanny” show a few years ago to my ears is like fingernails on a chalkboard.
Of course my grandfather’s accent wasn’t strong at all (he lived most of his life in s. California), but, my, my...the serious Joisey/Long GUYlund, etc. accent makes my skin crawl....