What Kind of American Accent Do You Have?

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 12:48 am

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/20 ... o-you.html

For what it's worth, it pegged me as a Missouri native.

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.

Yeah, OK...I'll just go fuck myself now.

Carson · Post by **Carson** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 12:50 am

Missouri, as in...
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KC?

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 1:03 am

I've noticed that people from Cali have the penultimate vanilla accent.

None of them are from there and for those that are, they wish they weren't.

Smackie Chan · Post by **Smackie Chan** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 1:06 am

mvscal wrote:"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.

Same here. Must be cuz I lived in Mission Viejo for a few months.

Smackie Chan · Post by **Smackie Chan** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 1:07 am

War Wagon wrote:I've noticed that people from Cali have the penultimate vanilla accent.

From where are the folks who have the ultimate vanilla accent?

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 1:16 am

Smackie Chan wrote:From where are the folks who have the ultimate vanilla accent?

Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa of course you big dummy.

I'd say Missouri, but the move to the SEC shows our southern roots.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Sat Nov 26, 2011 1:33 am

I took your stupid test...

Your Result: North Central

"North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.

eerie

Ana Ng · Post by **Ana Ng** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 1:34 am

mvscal wrote: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.
Yeah, OK...I'll just go fuck myself now.

It got the same result.

You may as well fuck me too while you're at it.

I mean......

what?

Truman · Post by **Truman** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 1:44 am

:?

Why do you hate Marty and Phibes?

mvscal wrote:For what it's worth, it pegged me as a Missouri native.

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.

Yeah, but even that accent is highly regionalized. Per wiki:

West of the Appalachian Mountains begins the broad zone of what is generally called "Midland" speech. This is divided into two discrete subdivisions, the North Midland that begins north of the Ohio River valley area, and the South Midland speech; sometimes the former is designated simply "Midland" and the latter is reckoned as "Highland Southern". The North Midland speech continues to expand westward until it becomes the closely related Western dialect which contains Pacific Northwest English as well as the well-known California English, although in the immediate San Francisco area some older speakers do not possess the cot–caught merger and thus retain the distinction between words such as cot and caught which reflects a historical Mid-Atlantic heritage.

The South Midland or Highland Southern dialect follows the Ohio River in a generally southwesterly direction, moves across Arkansas and Oklahoma west of the Mississippi, and peters out in West Texas. It is a version of the Midland speech that has assimilated some coastal Southern forms (outsiders often mistakenly believe South Midland speech and coastal South speech to be the same).

You can’t tell me that Mace sounds like Bace. Or that PSU sounds like Moby, or any other native Oklahoman for that matter.

Hell, mvscal, the people of your own birth-state sound differently to one another. You’re not likely to confuse a Springfielder with a St. Louisan once you’ve heard them speak.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 1:55 am

Ana Ng wrote: You may as well fuck me too while you're at it.

speechless, really, but that needed captured.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 2:08 am

People often ask me if I'm Canadian due to my suave accent.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 2:09 am

Smackie Chan wrote:
War Wagon wrote:I've noticed that people from Cali have the penultimate vanilla accent.
From where are the folks who have the ultimate vanilla accent?

I do not think that word means what Wags thinks it means.

If you think "penultimate" and "quintessential" are synonymous (and no, Scewey, that word doesn't mean what you think it means), then you could be from the "Midlands" (which were in England, last I checked, despite what the testing tards say).

I have a U&L accent (which those tards list as "The West"). They pegged me as "Midlands," which is laughable.

And not only does "The West" not have an accent, there's a distinct difference between SoCal and NoCal... NoCal being similar to Oregon, which is similar but different from Washington.

That's a really uninformed bunch who made that website.

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 2:14 am

Truman wrote:
mvscal wrote:For what it's worth, it pegged me as a Missouri native.

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.
Yeah, but even that accent is highly regionalized. Per wiki:

West of the Appalachian Mountains begins the broad zone of what is generally called "Midland" speech. This is divided into two discrete subdivisions, the North Midland that begins north of the Ohio River valley area, and the South Midland speech; sometimes the former is designated simply "Midland" and the latter is reckoned as "Highland Southern". The North Midland speech continues to expand westward until it becomes the closely related Western dialect which contains Pacific Northwest English as well as the well-known California English, although in the immediate San Francisco area some older speakers do not possess the cot–caught merger and thus retain the distinction between words such as cot and caught which reflects a historical Mid-Atlantic heritage.

The South Midland or Highland Southern dialect follows the Ohio River in a generally southwesterly direction, moves across Arkansas and Oklahoma west of the Mississippi, and peters out in West Texas. It is a version of the Midland speech that has assimilated some coastal Southern forms (outsiders often mistakenly believe South Midland speech and coastal South speech to be the same).

You can’t tell me that Mace sounds like Bace. Or that PSU sounds like Moby, or any other native Oklahoman for that matter.

Hell, mvscal, the people of your own birth-state sound differently to one another. You’re not likely to confuse a Springfielder with a St. Louisan once you’ve heard them speak.

Sure. In the breakdown below my result it also showed "The West" bar filled in about 80% and The Boston bar was second coming in about 2/3rds. The Boston and St. Louis accent are similar with a lot of long vowls but the St. Louis accent is more nasal.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 3:09 am

Whoever said people from southern Indiana don't have an accent obviously doesn't have a fucking clue. They don't call it Intucky for no reason.

poptart · Post by **poptart** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 3:12 am

The Midland

Good radio voice, Marty.
You hear that.

You bunch of damn faggots!

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 3:40 am

i had a slight st louis accent as a kid. but i'm a grown man and have no need to sound colloquial. stopped saying warshington and park steak long ago. cause nothing makes you sound as stupid as a thick accent. "the south"... I'm lookin' at you.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 3:47 am

Bizzarofelice wrote:but i'm a grown ass man

Do you get regular pussy now?

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 3:48 am

Bizzarofelice wrote:stopped saying warshington

The people of Warshington sure haven't.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 3:49 am

Screw_Michigan wrote:
Bizzarofelice wrote:but i'm a grown ass man
Do you get regular pussy now?

He quit playing hoops, hit middle age, and his ass grew.

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 4:34 am

what dins said.

and if he can just rattle that off... i must be repeating myself way too much.

Felix · Post by **Felix** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 2:55 pm

Dinsdale wrote: I have a U&L accent (which those tards list as "The West"). They pegged me as "Midlands," which is laughable.

ditto, but only because I reside so close and the power of the U&L overrides everything else.....weird thing, as you travel north in the Idaho there's a noticeable change in the way people talk....but I didn't see an accent category labeled "shit kicker", so I'm not sure what category they would fall into...but it definitely isn't Midlands

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 4:20 pm

My parents were reeeaallllly into this shit. My Dad might as well have been Professor Higgins (Dad was from Southern England... and Rex Harrison was a family friend, but that's another story) -- could place Londoners within a few blocks, and could identify just about any accent from around the world, often in different languages.

Anyhoo, the point being, my folks used the get achuckle out of U&Lers -- claimed they could go anywhere in the world and instantly pick them out of the crowd, because "it's the only place on earth where 'there you are' and 'there you go' somehow become one single-syllable word, and they won't go 30 seconds without using one or the other."

So theryar. (It's slurred -- y and r aren't really enunciated).

R-Jack · Post by **R-Jack** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 6:26 pm

I sound like a white guy doing his impression of a black guy doing his impression of a white guy.

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 6:40 pm

Inland north?

bullshit.

I'm pretty much typical connecticut, which is best described as a watered down combination of new yawk/chowd. having lived in the south though, i did pick up a bit of a twang according to others from connecticut. i will admit that i am pretty good at picking up accents in different areas if i am there for a while. this is particularly true when i go to maine. probably because the mainer accent is one of my favorites.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 7:06 pm

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Inland North

You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."

Yea sure I don't get asked if I'm from Wisconsin.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 7:54 pm

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: Boston
You definitely have a Boston accent, even if you think you don't. Of course, that doesn't mean you are from the Boston area, you may also be from New Hampshire or Maine.

I sound aboot as "Boston" as this guy does

socal · Post by **socal** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 9:38 pm

THE 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.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf5rIuJPTt0

Mace · Post by **Mace** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 10:15 pm

Truman wrote:You can’t tell me that Mace sounds like Bace. Or that PSU sounds like Moby, or any other native Oklahoman for that matter.

Hell, mvscal, the people of your own birth-state sound differently to one another. You’re not likely to confuse a Springfielder with a St. Louisan once you’ve heard them speak.

Folks in Southern Iowa talk with more of a "Missourian" accent and sound distinctly different than those in the northern part of the state who have more of the Minnesota/Canadian accents. When I travel north, a lot of people think I'm from Missouri.

trev · Post by **trev** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 3:37 am

Grew up in southern Ohio until age 13. Then So Cal. No accent. I got The Midland.

Dr_Phibes · Post by **Dr_Phibes** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 4:01 am

Always thought there was a strange relationship between southern US and Newfoundlanders

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 4:08 am

Mace wrote:When I travel north, a lot of people think I'm from Missouri.

reason enough why you should travel south more often.

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 4:14 am

Dr_Phibes wrote:Always thought there was a strange relationship between southern US and Newfoundlanders

Loozeyanna coonasses are descended of French-Canadian immigrants from the Canadian Maritimes.

Dr_Phibes · Post by **Dr_Phibes** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 4:48 am

It's remarkable that they've both still got a British lilt and an American twang after all this time, southern US is mainland, but they've kept it, Newfs are isolated, they're using phrases Europe forgot about a hundred years ago.

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 5:06 am

Dr_Phibes wrote: Newfs are isolated,

Cajuns in Louisiana cling precariously to the anus of the Mississippi River. It's kind of a North American Heart of Darkness except that you'll find B. Ray Babineaux noodling for snapping turtles instead of Kurtz at the end of the line. The more adventurous can book riverboat tours to observe these people in their natural habitat.

Dr_Phibes · Post by **Dr_Phibes** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 5:11 am

I've got it now

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Mon Nov 28, 2011 2:39 pm

The Inland North

You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."

And yes, I do speak "Standard English," that is, I pronounce words the way they are spelled unlike you southern and east coast fucknecks.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Mon Nov 28, 2011 2:52 pm

smackaholic wrote:Inland north?

bullshit.

I'm pretty much typical connecticut, which is best described as a watered down combination of new yawk/chowd. having lived in the south though, i did pick up a bit of a twang according to others from connecticut. i will admit that i am pretty good at picking up accents in different areas if i am there for a while. this is particularly true when i go to maine. probably because the mainer accent is one of my favorites.

In other words you can nail a civics test but yer too dumb to correctly answer questions on how you talk.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 3:10 pm

Martyred wrote:I took your stupid test...

12. When you say "about," does the "ou" sound like the "ou" in "loud"?

No, it sounds like the "oo" in "boot".

Sheesh.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Mon Nov 28, 2011 4:52 pm

Except I don't pronounce it that way.

oh, SNAP!

Terry in Crapchester · Mon Nov 28, 2011 4:58 pm

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:The Inland North

You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."
And yes, I do speak "Standard English," that is, I pronounce words the way they are spelled unlike you southern and east coast fucknecks.

Yep.

Your Result: The Inland North

You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."

And no, I've never been asked if I'm from either Wisconsin or Chicago (in fact, I pronounce "Chicago" radically differently from native Chicagoans -- as I pronounce it, the vowel in the second syllable sounds like the "a" in "father," rather than like the word "awe." And I don't draw out the second syllable, either.) As for carbonated beverages, I tend to alternate between "soda" and "pop" -- probably the result of having lived in other parts of the U.S. as well.