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I am "neutral"

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Western Western is kind of neutral, but not quite since it`s still possible to tell where you`re from.  So you might not actually be from the West (but you probably are).  If you really want to sound "neutral," learn how to say "stock" and "stalk" differently.

Western New England. Nifty.

I got "neutral," despite saying "stock" and "stalk" the same way.  Was that even a question?

No it wasn't and I say them differently but I still got Western Western.

Northern here.  Damn childhhood in Minneapolis ruined me.

The fuck?

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This is what a British Accent gets you (private school-estuary mix)

Yeah, I couldn't picture what accent that might go with.  Martian?

Which American accent do you have?

Neutral

You`re not Northern, Southern, or Western, you`re just plain -American-. Your national identity is more important than your local identity, because you don`t really have a local identity. You might be from the region in that map, which is defined by this kind of accent, but you could easily not be. Or maybe you just moved around a lot growing up.

Since their little map runs right into Maryland and I've lived here for over three decades, I'm not surprised.

Yeah I figured that's exactly what I'd get.. and I did. Though I've had other tests call it "Midwestern" eschewing "Neutral" in favor of the idea that none of us speak English properly in the first place.  Which is more correct.

Same as my horrendously accented english, curiously enough.

Interesting.

Which American accent do you have?
Northeastern

This could either mean an r-less NYC or Providence accent or one from Jersey which doesn't sound the same. Just because you got this result doesn't mean you don`t pronounce R's.(People in Jersey don`t call their state "Joisey" in real life)


Considering I'm Australian, does that mean some type of common British/English roots?  Guess so...

EDIT: Missed K9's comment.  So there ya go, its consistent!

It saw me as Midwestern (why isn't Ohio mid eastern?) But in truth I can do southern Ohio and Tennessee (I'm from Dayton but lived in or around Nashville for 23 years).

Came up Northern, grew up in Toledo Ohio which is right on that map!  Pretty cool stuff. 

Have lived in Columbus for 15 years though, must be close enough.

Got Northeastern which is messed up cause I'm Irish  :grin:

In a crazy way it was right, but I'm extremely Northeastern.

Aussie accent (Sydney) gets me the same as you.

If I still had my original childhood accent (Scottish - Edinburgh) most of my answers would have been opposite. Not doing it all again to find out what that gives me.

I got neutral. Not surprising, considering I'm from all over the place.

The 'bag' and 'vague' thing is pronouncing 'bag' like most folks pronounce 'vauge'. I think its a deep south thing.

Neutral here as well.  Once upon a time I had an accent that is nearly indescribable (a combination of a twang and a brogue, unique to Butte MT).  But that faded to a generalized western twang, and then into Broadcast American (which is midwestern in origin, thanks to Murrow and Cronkite).

British/Aussie accent coming out as Northeastern in a US dialect test doesn't surprise me, an Irish brogue probably would as well.

--Dave

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Northern You have a Northern accent.  That could either be the Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland/Buffalo accent (easily recognizable) or the Western New England accent that news networks go for.

Dead on, I grew up in MI and lived for 7 years in Chicagoland. NOt bad.

Mine could not have been more wrong.

I got the same as Grimwell, but I don't even say Chicago the same way people in Chicago say Chicago.

K9 and Tale are obviously douches.

I got neutral. I expected as such.

I'm supposedly neutral, but I wish they would ask how I say creek and wash.

I got Neutral as well....born in CA, grew up in NJ, but I HATE the way people speak in NJ.

I got neutral.  Born in Louisiana to Californian parents, moved to California at age two and have been there ever since.

I grew up in a hick town, and when in the company of hicks, my accent can sometimes change to slight drawl.

I knew someone from Minnesota who pronounced it that way.

I got neutral.

Neutral. But there were no questions regarding the dropping of g's which would have helped peg me a bit. I remember back in college I said that I was going home because "I'm gonna go huntin" and people legitimately couldn't' figure out what I was saying.

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I am Neutral.  Which makes sense because although I grew up in Tennessee, I moved around out west and in the military.  I sound like I'm from Ohio :(

Northern, but not the midwestern part. It's odd because the midwestern parts (Buffalo west) are very different than the adirondack accent I have. I hear lots of canada when I visit Buffalo and lots of New England when I visit the Adirondacks. My family is from Maine and Mississippi so I guess it's all over the place in reality, and I can understand both well (both branches have deep accents of each region).

Also, there is one occasion when I pronounce bag as vague: Douchebag. So it would be a fitting jersey accent  :awesome_for_real:

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

Strazos made me cry.

You don't even count really, being a foreign national and all.

I got Northeastern as result. Fits with being the nearest part of the US to Norway, I guess ;P

Same here.. I got the nearest approximation to Scotland:

Neutral Pride!

Crick and warsh?

Not the least surprising, I got pegged as 'Southern'.

The easiest test for accent is to ask any American to say "herbal"

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Northeastern This could either mean an r-less NYC or Providence accent or one from Jersey which doesn't sound the same.  Just because you got this result doesn't mean you don`t pronounce R's.(People in Jersey don`t call their state "Joisey" in real life)

 :headscratch:

I don't have an accent. This is what English sounds like when you say it properly.

(Born in Scotland, raised all over the world. I have an British accent that cannot be placed by anyone who's ever met me).

Hey!  I'm not a foreign national!  I'm a murkin.  I just don't live here a lot of the time.  In about a year or two, I'll be an ex-pat again. 

Yep. My mom moved around a lot until she was about 14, and rather than her having a neutral accent, she kind of has a weird mish-mash of different accents. I picked some up.

Western.  Which is funny, because I didn't grow up there.  Everyone always asks how come I don't sound like I'm from Texas...

I think it sets Neutral as its generic option when it doesn't understand what you've inserted: "moved around a lot as a kid". My father grew up in rural Maine, so I have a few of his vowel quirks, but I spent my whole life in California. My AUNT and CAN'T almost (but not quite) rhyme with WANT rather than PANT, for example... and I pronounce BECAUSE so it rhymes somewhere between FLAWS instead of BUZZ.

One of my favorite language questions for people: Do you drop the T in MOUNTAIN? If so, is it dropped completely or do you replace it with a glottal stop?

I pronounce it "MOU'N".

Neutral.

Though it placed me well north of Texas where I've lived all my life.

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Neutral You`re not Northern, Southern, or Western, you`re just plain -American-.  Your national identity is more important than your local identity, because you don`t really have a local identity.  You might be from the region in that map, which is defined by this kind of accent, but you could easily not be.  Or maybe you just moved around a lot growing up.

I got Neutral, unsurprisingly. Moving every few years as a kid does that to you I guess.

Neutral too, but I also speak Engrish, Redneck, and Pidgin Hawaiian. I just happen to watch a lot of TV to offset it.

It figured out I was Canadian. That's an impressive quiz.

Neutral.

And an Australian one. (Though from Melbourne, so not that pronounced).

Neutral, but that's not surprising considering I grew up in the St. Louis area and now live in the Chicago area.  Of course, if I'd been visiting family for a while, I'd probably reply slightly differently, because according to the husband, my "southern" accent comes out after a while and then he starts asking me if I've been born in a barn.

Or 'basil', or 'aluminium', or what have you.

And add another "Well, yes - technically Northeastern" Brit.  :grin:

See, that's weird because I say "Herb" like "Herbert", but "Herbal" like "Urban".  I don't know why.  As for Aluminum, we can't help it if you brits can't get it right (seeing that it's a word that came into common usage after you so graciously granted us Home Rule, and there are far more people who say it our way, obviously you have it wrong).

--Dave

FISH FILLET!   :awesome_for_real:

Neutral as well.  I grew up in California all my life, but my family came from the Midwest (and other places) which seems to have effected my speech (its been commented on by people before).

Now, when I went to school in southern California, all the pig fuckers down there could tell I was from Northern California from my speech right off.

As I expected, Western Canadian = Neutral American

I was suprised it didn't pick me as Canadian for saying roof properly.

Did it say Canadian, or northern, or something?  My east coast Canadian accent put me at neutral, which, spending some formative years in Ontario, I know I'm not! 

Northeastern.

So, the folks there sound like non-native speaking foreigners? Poor sods!  :evil:

Neutral.  Good old-fashioned trustworthy Ohio accent  :oh_i_see:  The two thing I get curious looks about in other regions:

(1) Again/against.  Most pronounce "a-genst", I say "a-gay-anst."

(2) cash/trash.  I pronounce them as "kesh" and "tresh."  

Its one reason my company has its call center in wisconsin most of the people here who come from wisconsin have a pretty neutral accent. If you know what you are listening for you can usually tell if somebody is from wisconsin oddly enough by asking them how they say wisconsin but other than a few words the WI, MI, IL accents are very neutral.

Got western, should of been neutral.  Test is a lie!

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51st State.

Neutral.  Not a shock.  I've had a lot of people say I sound "southwesterny", whatever that means. 

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Southern People used to hate Southern accents but now everyone wants one.

Anyone who has ever heard me on TS or Vent should be completely unsurprised by this.

Neutral, or as I like to think- actual American English.

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They had mine spot on. Although they could have figured mine out by asking one simple question: "how do I pronounce Chicago?" That's a dead give away no matter where I've been that I'm from Chicago.

 

Western as expected, which is the real neutral.  :oh_i_see:

Actually a greater number of people worldwide use the spelling 'aluminium' since most bodies of chemistry have settled on that as the official spelling (while accepting 'aluminum' as a variant). I'll grant you that there are more native English speakers in America than there are in Britain if that is your point, however.

I got this one.  But I don't have a Philly accent.  There is a difference between central jersey and south jersey.  Oh well.

OK that made me actually LOL.

Keep dreaming, bitch.

I got actual neutral. I guess all those people insisting throughout my life that I don't sound like I'm from NJ were right.  :grin:

Me too. Well-played, cockfag.  :drill:

Would be pretty awesome if the test was good enough to actually get accents down to that level.  I mean, people can tell if your from South Boston by your accent.  America has a lot of really area specific accents (as I imagine most other countries do).
Actually, he's right.  Due to Hollywood, the California "accent", if you insist on calling it that, has become the world standard.  When ever I talked to people in Asia who were fluent enough to not have their own accent, they sounded like they were from California.  Every one of them said it was because they spent so much time watching American films/TV to help learn English.  Even all the Chinese I knew from HK, which really confused me.

I always thought that Conneticut (like katherine Hepburn, William F Buckley, etc) is the only thing close to a British derived accent. I don't know where the fuck the relation is between Bostonites and New Yorkers is with UK speakers though... It's completely lost at this point. I think even Virginians might have more "Britishisms" than New Yorkers would.


As for Asia, it depends. HK speakers can be sort of Engrish Posh, if you can imagine that.  :grin: Same with Singapore.