Posted on 11/25/2011 4:19:03 PM PST by blam
Well, I am from Indy, but my answer came out Philly.
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>>>>What American accent do you have?<<<<
Your Result: The Inland North
Connecticut Yankee, born and raised, but I have a Bostonian accent, just like my mother (also born and raised in Connecticut).
I strive to enunciate clearly.
Yo, Philadelphia.
It messes up Texans alot. Said i was from Northeast. I have talked to people all over the US and the world. Every one said the couldn’t tell where I was from except my colloquialisms.
Yep, I got the Inland North accent.
And I hate it when people say “fer” instead of “for”!!!!!
It says this Upstate NY youth, Missouri teen, and California adult is from the “Inland North.” I guess that might be considered an average of all three.
They say I have a Philadelphia accent tho I was born and reared in the Florida Panhandle.
When I lived in Western Kansas, people were constantly asking if I was from Texas.
Inland North. No accent whatsoever. Come on! I pronounce all the examples differently. And the result is that I’m from New York? Totally stoopid test! I have no accent whatsoever.
If you use the word “I” in nearly every sentence and say “Let me be clear” at the start of each paragraph, you are likely from Kenya.
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Not that I have any education in the matter, but I have read that literary linguists have pinpointed the speech patterns with the different communities that Huck and Jim traveled through down the Mississippi River. I don’t think Mark Twain was necessarily showing off; he just knew the river intimately.
I also came out solidly as Inland North. I was born and raised in the SF Bay Area and went to college at Texas Tech. I still remember one of the first social events I attended where I was chatting with a couple of sorority pledges after introductions we went through the usual questions about where we were from , our majors, and such. St one point the gals sort of giggled and shared something with each other that prompted me to ask what they found humorous.
They giggled again and one of them replied, "Ya'all tawak so fuuunie!"
Yo. me too. Did you take the "Philadelphia" quiz after the "accent" quiz?
How do you say ruined? Is it one, or two, syllables?
Well, they put me in the South, at least.
I’m Texas born and bred, and have lived most of my life here.
I’m from the Philadelphia area, and so I have no accent whatsoever.
Every other region in the country has an accent only in comparison to this region, which has no accent.
So there.
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