Local H-towner as well. What American accent do you have? Your Result: 80% The West 73% North Central 55% The Midland 48% Boston 24% The Inland North 21% The South 3% The Northeast 0% Philadelphia
Your Result: The West Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta. Result Breakdown: 96% The West 95% The Midland 75% Boston 73% North Central 33% The Inland North 27% Philadelphia 27% The South 21% The Northeast
78% Southern. Although my accent went away after living in Houston for a couple of years I guess in my mind it's still there.
The Inland North, 86%. I'm born and raised in Houston, but when I travel people tell me I don't have an accent at all... and with the exception of manners (ma'am and sir to everyone), ya'll and fixin' they'd never know I was from the south.
I was going to say "non regional dialect" which is fancy talk for a broadcaster's voice. I got midland 90%. but question #8 is flawed obviously Mary and marry sound the same but merry is different from them and that is not an option. that is the clear answer as far as I'm concerned. I can identify a New Orleans, Baltimore, or Pittsburgh accent which are all regionally specific. y'all come back now, ya hear?
I say those three the same. I guess I could go out of my way to differentiate them, but i don't. Clear answers on accents is a funny idea.
North Central 91% "North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.
Your accent is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak! If you're not from Philadelphia, then you're from someplace near there like south Jersey, Baltimore, or Wilmington. if you've ever journeyed to some far off place where people don't know that Philly has an accent, someone may have thought you talked a little weird even though they didn't have a clue what accent it was they heard. ^weird
and both of those are options to the question. it seemed odd that the second option would lump Mary and merry together with marry as the outsider. for me, it was about not having Mary and marry together with merry as the outsider. I didn't agree with any of the three but I went with option 1 (different)
born in NYC, lived in san antonio, fairfield, minneapolis, mississippi, louisiana listened to a lot of hip-hop growing up.. parents are foreigners this is what i got Your Result: Boston 89% You definitely have a Boston accent, even if you think you don't. Of course, that doesn't mean you are from the Boston area, you may also be from New Hampshire or Maine. 88%The Midland 88%The West 65%North Central 52%Philadelphia 43%The Northeast 36%The Inland North 30%The South
closest i've gotten to Philadelphia is NYC & Izmir My primary languages are French, Greek & Arabic (i also learned Armenian & spoke pidgin English by 2nd grade). Moved from Africa to go to secondary school in Paris where my English accent was polished by the American teachers @ ISP (ex:learned to say "three" instead of "tere", "i go ax him fo de ansa to de question...). Finished HS in Houston where i learned to pronounce "Iron" as "Iern". Go figure.
