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What Kind of American Accent Do You Have?
The Economic Policy Journal ^ | 11-24-2011 | By Xavier Kun

Posted on 11/25/2011 4:19:03 PM PST by blam

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To: blam

Well, I am from Indy, but my answer came out Philly.

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21 posted on 11/25/2011 4:34:25 PM PST by dforest
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To: blam

>>>>What American accent do you have?<<<<

Your Result: The Inland North


22 posted on 11/25/2011 4:34:53 PM PST by LucyT
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To: Thorliveshere
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23 posted on 11/25/2011 4:35:03 PM PST by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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To: blam

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.


24 posted on 11/25/2011 4:35:37 PM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: blam

Yo, Philadelphia.


25 posted on 11/25/2011 4:37:58 PM PST by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: Dallas59

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.


26 posted on 11/25/2011 4:38:03 PM PST by call meVeronica
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To: blam

Yep, I got the Inland North accent.

And I hate it when people say “fer” instead of “for”!!!!!


27 posted on 11/25/2011 4:38:54 PM PST by dragonblustar (Allah Ain't So Akbar!)
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To: blam
Very close but in my corner of southern Michigan and northwestern Ohio they say we have a distinct accent. Lots of southern influence in the southeast corner of Michigan.

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28 posted on 11/25/2011 4:41:01 PM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: blam

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.


29 posted on 11/25/2011 4:42:15 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: blam

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.


30 posted on 11/25/2011 4:42:32 PM PST by yarddog
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To: Dallas59

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.


31 posted on 11/25/2011 4:42:56 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: blam

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.


32 posted on 11/25/2011 4:42:56 PM PST by festusbanjo (The National Nipple has run dry, All parasites still at the teat are merely tumors & must be cut off)
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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?
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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: blam

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.


34 posted on 11/25/2011 4:44:09 PM PST by burroak
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To: Dallas59
"I'm in Dallas...Born and raised in Fort Worth..."

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!"

35 posted on 11/25/2011 4:44:50 PM PST by Baynative (The penalty for not participating in politics is you will be governed by your inferiors.)
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To: Fresh Wind
Yo, Philadelphia.

Yo. me too. Did you take the "Philadelphia" quiz after the "accent" quiz?

36 posted on 11/25/2011 4:46:28 PM PST by GreenHornet
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To: blam

How do you say ruined? Is it one, or two, syllables?


37 posted on 11/25/2011 4:46:46 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: call meVeronica

Well, they put me in the South, at least.

I’m Texas born and bred, and have lived most of my life here.


38 posted on 11/25/2011 4:47:07 PM PST by basil (It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: Chickensoup
It booked me as an northern midwesterner, ‘though, by Gorry, I ain’t.

Ummm...repeat after me, "The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain."
39 posted on 11/25/2011 4:47:58 PM PST by Krankor
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To: blam

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.


40 posted on 11/25/2011 4:48:10 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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