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What Kind Of Accent Do You Have
An interesting quiz for this holiday weekend.
7 Responses to “What Kind Of Accent Do You Have”
They missed a few tie breakers.
In the south – oil and all
In the Pacific NW – crick and creek
BTW I was west/no accent but I am in Oregon and they didn’t ask the crick – creek question.
Now I know for sure where I am.
Well, it hit me right where it was supposed to, i.e. inland North. I’m from Central/Western/Upstate NY. My accent is roughly midwestern with a much flatter, more nasal short a. That was the big thing they missed on my end.
Inland North here. Even had me pegged (accurately) to the Great Lakes.
Quiz indicates that I have a “Midland” accent, which means–according to the authors of the quiz–that I don’t have an accent.
Given that I was born and raised in southern California, I wonder how many other West Coasters got a similar result.
Nick and I are, apparently, home-buddies! Interesting…since I live in Massachusetts (and was raised here). Of course, when I was in the military I purposely changed my accent because I was getting teased about calling the Army Ahmee.
Midland, which is correct. The television comment is accurate if you consider that Walter Cronkite was from a town an hour north and Johnny Carson from Omaha, less than a 3 hour drive away.