What's your accent?

[rdwj]

It nailed me - Inland North.

Give it a try

 

[user 574]

Pegged my arse as a cheesehead. Here's some excerpts:

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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."
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I don't say pop though...

 

[olllllo]

Milwaukee enclave:

Soda
Bubbler

 

[Ize]

Pegged me too. The Midland. Says I have a good voice for TV or Radio.

Damn good thing.

Ize

 

[todd_k]

It's blocked here at work so I'll check it out later.

The longer I get from living in New Jersey, the more I've noticed that I have an accent on certain words. Sometimes it's more thick than others. Words like coffee, dog, and Boston seem to come out with an -aw sound like cawffee. I also find that even just talking about NJ makes my accent come out. The weird thing was that I never thought I had a Jersey accent until 4 or 5 years ago.

 

[c.n.budz]

Totally off for me. Pegged me as Inland North but I've lived in CT almost my entire life except for a brief stint in boston for college. I guess I'm just one of the few New Englanders that pronounce all my letters....

 

[Fiery Sword]

If it didn't come out with 100% Boston for me I'd have though it was bunk - but it did. I get more sh*t when I'm traveling than I ever would have believed. I've been told it's worse than a Southern drawl......but I just don't hear it that way.

 

[Yooper]

It nailed me, suggesting I'm from Minnesota (actually the UP of Michigan) and get mistaken for a Canadian. Truly does happen on the time! Even my dad's next door neighbor who's known me all my life asked me if I've been living in Canada, or in Fargo!

 

[user 574]

Milwaukee enclave:

Soda
Bubbler

Took me a good 3-5 years to train my wife to stop asking where the Tyme machine or bubbler was out here. "They don't know what that means honey".

 

[nikkimac1027]

Midland, no accent at all

whats a bubbler?

 

[olllllo]

Whats a bubbler?

Some of this is over-the-top but this page explains it.
http://www.bratwurstpages.com/dialect.html

 

[david_42]

"Standard English straight out of the dictionary" This is the American Broadcast accent.

Tie breaker: What do you call a large sandwich made on a long roll? I've seen over a dozen variations.

 

[olllllo]

Hoagy
Grinder
Sub
Po' Boy
Hero

 

[Torchiest]

I came out as Midland, woohoo! Born in Minnesota, living in Texas, I suppose that about averages out.

 

[Cheesefood]

Inland North as well.

I gre up calling it "pop", but a year away at school and I started calling it soda after realizing that we're the only ones who call it pop. I don't use "pop" any more.

 

[todd_k]

"Standard English straight out of the dictionary" This is the American Broadcast accent.

Tie breaker: What do you call a large sandwich made on a long roll? I've seen over a dozen variations.

I used to call them hoagies but now I just call them subs.

 

[user 574]

whats a bubbler?

Another little bit of history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubbler

Back in the day they were on most intersections of downtown milwaukee states my dad.... You didn't turn them on/off either. They just ran constantly.

 

[sause]

Another inland norther here... I always say pop is for p*ssy's and thats why FIB's call it pop.

 

[user 574]

Some across the US (you know who you are) call any "soda/pop" a coke. Even if it's a 7up etc. That one I never understood... I think that's a southern region thing?

 

[SOB]

Another inland norther here... I always say pop is for p*ssy's and thats why FIB's call it pop.

HEY! I'm no p*ssy and definatly not a FIB and everyone here in Ohio calls it pop.

Don't be hatin'

 

[SOB]

Some across the US (you know who you are) call any "soda/pop" a coke. Even if it's a 7up etc. That one I never understood... I think that's a southern region thing?

I never got that either. Hows the conversation go when ordering?

you: "I'll have a coke"
waitress: "What kind?"
you: "A Mountian Dew"

WHat>?!

I'm pretty sure (never experienced first hand) in Mass. they call it Tonic

 

[user 574]

http://popvssoda.com:2998/

 

[SOB]

Interesting...

According to that, here in Columbus we call it everything!

 

[olllllo]

This is third hand but a friend of mine told me about this meeting where someone for Mississippi asked the hotel services for a "Diet Coke" in such an affected accent that she was brought a Taco. Pronounced... Die ah ko

 

[Ivan Lendl]

Yeah, North Jersey!
Representing wayne, willowbrook mall, lincoln park, butler, west milford...

 

[SOB]

http://popvssoda.com:2998/

SO...after checking out that website a little further it makes me wonder...

First, respondant is NOT a word

Second, if you View the Pop vs. Soda statistics they show you what people are saying for "other" it's quite hilarious!

Just check it out...

And yes, I'm really bored at work.

 

[Brewtopia]

I have a Midland accent. Which I guess means no accent. Also, I say Hoagie and Soda

Edit: I also just found out that I'm 23% a genius!

 

[todd_k]

I took it. It says I'm from the Midland which included Pennsylvania so I guess that's close enough.

 

[dibby33]

It gave me Boston!

 

[Flyin' Lion]

Yeah, North Jersey!
Representing wayne, willowbrook mall, lincoln park, butler, west milford...

SWMBO is from Wayne. You didn't attend Neumann Prep high school did you?

Another inland North here. No accent whatsoever. :cross: