Originally Posted By Goofyernmost Inland North???? I have only been to Chicago once for an overnight meeting the rest of my life has been in the northeast. Go figure!
Originally Posted By JazzCat Interesting for someone who's lived in the Northwest all of her life. 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.
Originally Posted By Deogges Mom The Northeast - really surprising since I grew up mainly in the South.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost Me thinks that this test is just on the down side of very accurate. Ayah!! Up'ere we don't take kindly to people tryin' to fool us, no sir!
Originally Posted By DVC_dad That's a Southern accent you've got there. You may love it, you may hate it, you may swear you don't have it, but whatever the case, we can hear it.
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle >>"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent"<< Huh? Doesn't EVERYONE have an accent?
Originally Posted By mickey_ring I got Northeast, which is right, but jeez there are a number of accents from NJ to NY. I mean, South Jerseyans call people on the pheown, North Jerseyites sawr things.
Originally Posted By markedward I came out Midland. Another "no accent" person. I think that's pretty accurate. I pick up more of a Southern accent in the company of Southerners and/or liqour. But where the result of Philadelphia or the Inland North comes from, I'm not so sure. The part that says I could come from a city in the South is about right though.
Originally Posted By norcaldisney Ha, ha, I got the WEST even though I have lived in California for 20 years of my life and in the mid-west for 21 years prior that.
Originally Posted By MissCandice 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. Lived in California most of my life, now in Washington but for 6 months when I was 15 I did live in Missouri. That must explain it.
Originally Posted By avromark I'm just waiting for the non-Americans (especially Europeans and Australians) to do this quiz.
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle ^^^I was "the Northeast" (I'm Australian). I found that a little weird! lol.
Originally Posted By threeundertwo 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. Hey! I don't know if I like being a lowest common denominator!
Originally Posted By pennyring I've taken this before and always get "The Midland." I think whoever wrote the quiz failed to take into consideration the West coast outside of California... because pretty much from Denver to Portland to Seattle, none of us have accents. Yet, we're not really represented on their map, and we don't sound like Cali surfers either.
