What American accent do you have?

[Disenfrancised]

Incase you weren't sure, I am English and I speak with clear a traditional standard English voice similar to BBC news presenters. My answers should really stretch the quiz to its limitations - will it admit defeat or make a bad guess?

I've got received pronouncation too, lets see what it gets with me:

What American accent do you have? (Best version so far)

Mid Atlantic

Also known as a "Philadelphia accent" but also heard in south Jersey, Baltimore, and thereabouts.

Interesting

 

[Phlegmak]

Most people don't know it but this is actually what dictionaries are based on. If you don't believe me, pick up any American dictionary and look up "source" and "sauce" and you'll see they are written with the same vowel pronunciation.

That is one of the saddest things I have ever heard.

 

[Rik Meleet]

Mine:

 

[LucyDuke]

I think that the problem with this quiz is that people don't pronounce things the way they think they do.

I agree with this. For one thing, my results were wrong. For another, there's a difference between the way you hear it in your head when you're trying to figure out how it should sound and the way you actually form it with your mouth. I know I say pahk the cah, but I'm not really sure what vowel I use in "horrible". Also, there are shades of "different" and "same" that can't be taken into account with only two options. If you're somewhere in the middle, what do you pick? How different does "different" have to be? You need to study this stuff to know for sure. Question fifteen indicates that the quiz-maker probably isn't an expert in the field.

 

[Bill3000]

This map is better.
http://www.muturzikin.com/cartesusa/usa.htm

 

[The Yankee]

What American accent do you have? (Best version so far)

My Results:

I challenge any Bahstan Red Sox-loving Rhode Islander to come up with a proper "fuhgeddaboudit!"

Blasphemy!

Then again, obviously the quiz overlooks more localized accents. No way that I can go 80 miles north of the city and find people saying "dontchaknoooo" and "oohmygosh" (with a long o sound for the multiple "o" sections).

 

[Zarn]

I challenge any Bahstan Red Sox-loving Rhode Islander to come up with a proper "fuhgeddaboudit!"

Blasphemy!

Then again, obviously the quiz overlooks more localized accents. No way that I can go 80 miles north of the city and find people saying "dontchaknoooo" and "oohmygosh" (with a long o sound for the multiple "o" sections).

I would personally call myself: Northeast- Long Island.

There is also Northeast- North Jersey and Northeast- Dead Sox fan.

 

[GenMarshall]

Note, I live in SECT basically my whole life.

What American accent do you have? (Best version so far)

My Results:





Midland

("Midland" is not necessarily the same thing as "Midwest") The default, lowest-common-denominator American accent that newscasters try to imitate. Since it's a neutral accent, just because you have a Midland accent doesn't mean you're from the Midland.

 

[ParkCungHee]

I got midlands. But thats because they didn't ask about words like "Drawer" and "Water" Or "Dror" and "Wahder" as its pronounced around here.

 

[Whomp]

So I was in Brooklyn yesterday with some Italian classics. I tawked and argued wid the locals (and I mean locals) about the Yankees, the new Nets stadium being built, food, how 7th Avenue used to be bad and music. It was a riot....I've never spent time in that part of NY and had a blast.

I got stuff like...
Whadduya some kine uh nut aw sumtin?
Jeet the pinoles?
You want shhugggga with your espresso?

 

[Zarn]

You should hear what I say in traffic. You would probably have a blast with it.

 

[The Yankee]

So I was in Brooklyn yesterday with some Italian classics. I tawked and argued wid the locals (and I mean locals) about the Yankees, the new Nets stadium being built, food, how 7th Avenue used to be bad and music. It was a riot....I've never spent time in that part of NY and had a blast.

I got stuff like...
Whadduya some kine uh nut aw sumtin?
Jeet the pinoles?
You want shhugggga with your espresso?

Sounds like you haven't even touched the Italian portions of Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst. You'd have way too much fun with that. Even some of the people further east in Brooklyn from other countries start to develop their own Brooklyn accents.

And I'll second what Zarn said...only for me, it's in public transit, on the sidewalk, and in normal conversation.

 

[civverguy]

What American accent do you have? (Best version so far)

My Results:





Midland

("Midland" is not necessarily the same thing as "Midwest") The default, lowest-common-denominator American accent that newscasters try to imitate. Since it's a neutral accent, just because you have a Midland accent doesn't mean you're from the Midland.

 

[Whomp]

Sounds like you haven't even touched the Italian portions of Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst. You'd have way too much fun with that. Even some of the people further east in Brooklyn from other countries start to develop their own Brooklyn accents.

No but I heard all about it. The lady sitting at my table lives there. I can't wait to eat at her house!

I have no idea where I was half the time tbh.
I know we were at a restaurant between Baltic and Warren (3rd maybe?) called Ellen Des Bois, a bar on 5th called The Gate in Park Slope and Prospect Park.

 

[Norton II]

Southern, but I knew that going into it.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Midland ?

Not sure how I got that since I have a deffinate mid-atlantic that favours the southern parts

It's okay, bro, they just don't have the class to put the Merrulind accent on there.

 

[truckingpete]

Well mines Midland...hmm cool quiz

 

[Drewcifer]

I got northern on this one and northern inland on the other which seems about right

 

[Mr. Dictator]

i'm from the south, but got midland.

this is a great day to have confirmation i don't speak like a redneck.

 

[useless]

even though im not in/from america i got.. midland.