What's your accent?

[Geologist]

North Central. Born and raised on the west coast though. The clincher is that my father is Canadian from Montreal and my mother is from California. My paternal grandmother is from Lancashire in England. To my Canadian friends I sound like a Canadian that's spent a few years in the states. My American friends just think I'm from the west coast.

 

[sudsmonkey]

This is BS! I've lived in rural NC all of my life and it says I've got a Philadelphia accent! Ridiculous!
I also took the mental disorder quiz. Said I was paranoid. People are always saying that. Mostly behind my back while they're out to get me.

 

[TxBrew]

Nailed it.

"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.

I'm from Iowa but Missouri is pretty much the same State only more South.

When I moved from Iowa to Texas they put me in speech therapy but I guess it didn't help.

 

[Yuri_Rage]

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

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

I've had almost that exact conversation in San Antonio:

Me: "A Coke, please."
Waitress: "What kind?"
Me: "What?"
Waitress: "What kind of Coke?"
Me: "Umm...regular?"
Waitress: "Coca-Cola?"
Me: "I didn't know there were other kinds..."

The quiz was dead-on for me - Midland. I grew up in PA, and most folks tell me I don't have a very distinct accent.

 

[nikkimac1027]

I've had almost that exact conversation in San Antonio:

Me: "A Coke, please."
Waitress: "What kind?"
Me: "What?"
Waitress: "What kind of Coke?"
Me: "Umm...regular?"
Waitress: "Coca-Cola?"
Me: "I didn't know there were other kinds..."

The quiz was dead-on for me - Midland. I grew up in PA, and most folks tell me I don't have a very distinct accent.

yep, a coke is a coke. hell, i'll tell you what i hate is when people call it pop... or call rubber bands- 'gum bands'

i knew i guy who had THE thickest Tennessee accent, he called all soda 'coal drink' (cold drink)... that meant coke.... he also ate bull testicules, so i think i am the normal one....

 

[RichBrewer]

The thing missed me by a long shot. I do agree that I don't have an accent though:

"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.

Edit: Same as TxBrew.

 

[Pumbaa]

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

Over the top? No BS thats me 100% . . . I have to work at not typing that way

 

[SwAMi75]

That should be Dude's avatar.

 

[Dude]

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".

Tyme machine, LOL. You don't know how bad I used to get laughed at during my first few years in the Air Force. I used to say that all the time. I still get picked on for "aboat" (about) and bayg (bag).

whats a bubbler?

LOL!!!

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

I've been looking for a page like that. Their used to be one called "Speak "Scansin" but it disappeared long ago. That **** makes me laugh.

That should be Dude's avatar.

Which one is me?

 

[Brewsmith]

It nailed me. The West!

 

[Brewsmith]

I did the state capitals quiz and got 100%!

Nevermind I learned that in the third grade...

 

[SOB]

Sooo...I didnt know what a bubbler was until you guys told me, and it makes sense (I guess). But what the crap is a "Tyme machine."

OK, so I just looked it up...an ATM is a Tyme machine?! That's absolutely ridiculous!!! WHere in the hell did that come from??

You guys are silly :fro:

 

[user 574]

Re Tyme machine. Heck if I know but they all used to say it. Not sure if they do anymore.

 

[Fiery Sword]

I'm guilty: I call everything Coke. If a friend asks me to bring over chips and coke, I might show up with sprite.

bubbler is applicable to bostonspeak.
so is....
cruiser (croosa)....cop cars
bangin a u-ie (yooie)......turning a car around on a 2 way street

i also find that you can expodentially imporve an insult to a bostonier by adding 'bedwetting' in front of the noun/insult. example:

Just do the f*ucking shot, you bedwetting lightweight.

 

[Wolf]

Re Tyme machine. Heck if I know but they all used to say it. Not sure if they do anymore.

It's taken me years to try to stop from saying Tyme machine. I now usually say ATM, but still slip up occasionally.

Yup, the quiz got me...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."

Well except for the 'pop'. It's soda.

 

[Aotidae]

The Midland, no accent at all. Glad I do not have the West Texas accent haha.

 

[unionrdr]

It gave me inland north too. And pop's side being from west by God & having spent so much time there,I can get a drawl going bigtime. Usually when I'm in a good mood or drunk. Which oddly enough occurs at the same time quite often. I hate it when I agree with someone,saying "I'll tell ya what!"..& they say "what?". And since I've lived about every moment the blue collar boys make jokes out of,well...I might be a redneck...partly anyway.

 

[funnycreature]

I have a German, sometimes undefinable accent

 

[user 574]

Holy resurrection!

Pretty soon people are going to open old stuff up I posted 10 yrs ago.

 

[Homercidal]

Ha!

Surprised the quiz was still around!

I got picked as being from the Great Lakes area. I struggled with one or two. I sometimes swap a few vowels for the upper midwest/canada sounds. Like "about" I sometimes say as, "aboot". Picking up on other accents is fun!

 

[DrunkinIrish]

Midland. Nailed it. I do claim to have no accent, since I spent my childhood in the south, and I do currently live in Missouri.

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[boydster]

It said West for me. I live in Maine and have for most of my life. I don't switch"r" sounds and "ah" sounds though, so I guess I didn't fit the Northeast profile.