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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."

Result Breakdown:

100% The Inland North
64% The Northeast
60% The Midland
60% Philadelphia
50% The South
29% North Central
18% The West
6% Boston

What American Accent Do You Have?

Carbonated drinks are called soda. I know very few people who call it pop - maybe a few old timers.

271 posted on 11/26/2011 9:56:40 AM PST by jellybean (Bookmark http://altfreerepublic.freeforums.org/index.php for when FR is down)
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To: jellybean
Carbonated drinks are called soda. I know very few people who call it pop

Here in Ohio it's the opposite.

Growing up in Boston it was soda, but the old timers called it tonic.

288 posted on 11/26/2011 2:29:57 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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