Friday, December 1, 2006

What Accent?

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."

The Midland

The Northeast

Philadelphia

The South

The West

Boston

North Central

What American accent do you have?
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I do think I speak pretty standard English, but I actually call carbonated drinks "soda pop" to avoid confusion.

2 comments:

Michelle Maddocks said...

Hey - I can leave a comment here. :D

I haven't checked in on you for a while - looks like you all are doing pretty well.

I thought you might like this little quiz too, if you're interested in how you speak. (I'm 81% Dixie.)

Are you Yankee or Dixie? Yankee-Dixie Dialect Quiz
http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/yankee_dixie_quiz.html

oneguy said...

Hi LisaM, thanks for stopping by!

It turns out I'm 40% Dixie which makes me a Yankee. :)