| What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland
“You have a Midland accent” is just another way of saying “you don’t have an accent.” You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio. |
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| The West |
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| Boston |
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| North Central |
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| The Inland North |
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| The South |
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| Philadelphia |
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I suppose living in the Midwest and the West has kept me from getting any clear accent, though I have a tendency to pick them up fairly easily.
Well, your quiz says I have a Midland accent. Cute survey, but I beg to differ. I think they (for me anyway) literally meant Midland Texas (I grew up 90 miles from there). I’m 44 and STILL have my southern accent even though I haven’t lived back home since 1986.
And…Oh Lord…give me a few drinks and the drawl really comes out. Ya’ll come back now, ya hear???
That’s probably is what they meant, Malinda! After all, how could they be so wrong about your accent?!
Wow! I’m midland accent – 100%
I’m going to have Tom take this quiz!
We have had lots of discussions about how he says my hairdresser’s name (Dawn).He prounounces it “Don” (but he doesn’t think so!)
So NOW, he accentuates it by saying “Du-Wahn”.
It had the West as top choice, with Inland North second. Then third is the South, with about the same strength as Inland North. Since I live in Georgia, and have for years and years, I tend to think they cannot distinguish a Southern Accent that has been meshed with proper English of a metropolitan sort. The accent in cities for Atlanta is very very different from the accent of say… Tennesse small towns. Big difference.
My Midland accent is about at 50%, which might be the same as Malinda. Cosmopolitan and cultured versions of Southern accents is perhaps not all that well covered by the quiz.
I think it is because they have one question that applies to both the South and Boston. Like, my lowest percentage was Boston. That’s literally impossible unless they were counting some Southern and city spoken words as “Bostonian”. If they increase the questions and words, I think it will get more accurate.
If 50% of my speech is without an accent, then definitely the other 50% is southern, is the way I look at it.
Marilyn, I say Dawn the same way as Don, as well. Mark always looks at me funny, too!
No, I’m sure it’s not too in-depth. It’s just for fun, Ymarsakar. I have to say, though, the comment about “you have a good voice for TV or radio” has been said to me before.
I don’t think I have any accent, but sometimes I’ll say something that will give me “a look” like I said something incorrectly. It’s funny.
It nailed me: it said I’m from the West and I am.
I think I got Midland because I’ve been West and Midwest, so I’m a mixture!
Another reason I would like more questions is because I found it fun to play around with the different sounds they had for different/same words.
They are kind of addictive to play with. I can usually “fake” just about any accent, although I was told by a born and bred New Yorker that I have the accent right, I just don’t speak fast enough!
this thing said i had a midland accent.. and i am born and raised in the south.. infact ive never left.. yall is something very commen in my speech and i can barly say car or pencil.. and good lord im supposidly the most southern in my group