So, where in America is your accent from?

[SnakeCharmer]

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

Crick and warsh?

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

[K9]

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

[IainC]

My Results:


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)

 

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).

[Signe]

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

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. 

[FatuousTwat]

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

Crick and warsh?

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.

[Selby]

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...

[pxib]

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".

[Lantyssa]

Neutral.

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



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.

[Xurtan]

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

[stray]

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

[Reg]

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

[Khaldun]

Neutral.

[lamaros]

If you say BAG does it rhyme with VAGUE?

The fuck?



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

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

[RhyssaFireheart]

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.

[Simond]

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

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

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

[MahrinSkel]

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

[Signe]

FISH FILLET!   

[Teleku]

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.

[Bunk]

As I expected, Western Canadian = Neutral American

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

[Lianka]

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

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! 

[Tebonas]

Northeastern.

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

[Triforcer]

Neutral.  Good old-fashioned trustworthy Ohio accent    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."  

[kaid]

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.

[Ookii]

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

[murdoc]

[Oban]

51st State.

[Rasix]

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

[HaemishM]

Which American accent do you have?

My Results:


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.

[WayAbvPar]

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

[Rasix]

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

And Huckleberry Hound selects Donald Driver in round 4.

[Segoris]

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.

 

[Ingmar]

Western as expected, which is the real neutral. 

[Righ]

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).

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.

[Draegan]

Which American accent do you have?

My Results:


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

Strazos made me cry.

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

[WayAbvPar]

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

And Huckleberry Hound selects Donald Driver in round 4.

OK that made me actually LOL.