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To: blam
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
 
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North Central
 
Boston
 
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What American accent do you have?
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It's where I am from, so I guess I passed....

13 posted on 11/25/2011 4:29:54 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (Cain = National Sales Tax; Perry = Amnesty for Illegals; Romney = Obamacare forever. Who's left?)
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To: Cyber Liberty
Tagged me.
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

33 posted on 11/25/2011 4:43:24 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Cyber Liberty

Pop or soda or something different?

http://www.penceland.com/ne_dialect.html

Here is a fun survey of US dialects.

http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/maps.html


134 posted on 11/25/2011 5:54:43 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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