smackaholic wrote:went through that 2nd test again and attempted to answer as a chowd, but, it said i was neutral. neutral is defined basically as pa, oh, in,il, mo. that is crap. pa has its own annoying accent.
Can't speak to the state as a whole, but there's definitely a Philadelphia accent that shows up in certain words. Examples:
"Water" sounds like "wooder."
"Home" is pronounced with a hyper-elongated long-o sound that sounds like how one might expect a Brit to pronounce that word.
And perhaps this is a continuation of the Mary/marry/merry dynamic that was explored in both tests, but . . .
Where I live, my first name is pronounced TAIR-ree. A Philadelphian is more likely to pronounce it TEH-ree.
Funny, though, but once you get to the Lehigh Valley (which really isn't too far away from Philly, at least geographically speaking), that accent is gone.
oh is neutral, although it southern extremity is basically the south.
My college roommate from Cincinnati sounded almost like a southerner to me.