American Accent Quiz

starfire · Post by **starfire** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 11:58 am

I'm not doubting you at all but I think it must also take some other qualities that I don't have!!
Love, Shirley

Deb · Post by **Deb** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 8:39 pm

I have found over the years that if I am around someone with a specific accent that I tend to pick it up also.

Shirley, I rather enjoy my "southern" tendencies when they show up. They just feel comfortable. Interestingly, my sister and daughter both got the "inland north" diagnosis, which I think is pretty accurate for all three of us.

MaggieRedwings · Post by **MaggieRedwings** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 10:12 am

Mine was dead on as Philly - and boy is it. Never lived more than 25 miles from Philly. Every where I go people tell me I have a Philly accent. For me wash has always come out as wursh. AS well as others.

Love, Maggie

Bifcus16 · Post by **Bifcus16** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 7:25 pm

Mine said I was from the Northeast:

Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island.

That is amusing. If I ever get to any of those places no-one will notice my Aussie accent at all.

Lyn

Sheila · Post by **Sheila** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 7:55 pm

It pegged me as Inland North followed by Northeast and then Philadelphia. I grew up on the coast in New York, went to college in New Jersey and have lived in So. Fla for 33 years. Obviously, flawed.
Sheila W

Martha · Post by **Martha** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:43 pm

Mine came out as Inland North, which doesn't surprise me. My parents are both from Illinois, my dad from Chicago, and my mom from southern Illinois. I grew up out of the US, with my parents as the only speakers of English around, so I learned English from them. Even though I've lived more of my time in the States in Philadelphia and Dallas than in Illinois, my accent is from Illinois.

A test like this would be more reliable if people didn't move around the country so much.

Martha

Martha · Post by **Martha** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:45 pm

Maggie, I went to high school in King of Prussia. Do you know where that is?

Love,
Martha

MaggieRedwings · Post by **MaggieRedwings** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 4:55 am

Morning Martha,

Sure do. KofP is about 20 miles from where I live and has a wonderful and huge mall but traffic really eliminates me from going since it is so, so heavy there. Only when I need to go to Neiman's.

Love, Maggie

maestraz · Post by **maestraz** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 5:55 pm

Well, it got me right--says my accent is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak! I grew up in Delaware County, PA, just outside Philly. After almost 40 years in New England, my Philly accent is diluted, but when I go down there to visit family, it comes back quickly.

I love listening to people's accents, and trying to figure out where they must be from. I was a foreign language/linguistics major in college; guess that might have something to do with it.