What American accent do you have? | Comments

Your Result: The West 96%

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.

I'm from California so this is somewhat accurate.

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland 77%

"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.

Your Result: The Midland 85%

"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.

The interesting thing here is, I grew up in the Atlanta suburbs, and most people I meet, if they share their opinion, are surprised that I'm from here(still around A-town). I've had some people guess Florida or the Midwest, with others commonly saying I don't really have an accent (better clarified as "neutral American English"). I think this category being the "not presenting an (strong) accent" is what has some folks on here in such a tizzy because they've missed that aspect (here come the hate comments!), the fact that it's lacking, more so than defining a regional accent.

In my case my parents were consistently reinforcing academics and would always insist I enunciate my words "correctly" (which I believe is a social construct like that hideous word "normal")

Your Result: The Inland North 85%

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."

Im from north New Jersey, but okay. I dont call soda "pop" either

Well, I'm not American and even my mother tongue isn't English, but yeah ... good.hanks! 😁 ;)))

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.

It was right! It said 100% 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.

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."

Oh I'm not even American, ha. Good quiz though. :-)

This quiz totally failed to identify an accent for me, and even the questions did not always fit my pronunciation. I'm from the Midwest but have lived in New England for 50 years. The quiz gave me a Philadephia accent. There is just no way that comes anywhere close. Maybe it's because I live in Rhode Island, and the quiz makers have never heard Rhode Islanders speak.

Didn't work for me. I'm from Florida, born and raised. Overall, no accent except for a few words like Y'all. Too many seasonal residents and transplanted residents have smoothed out our accent to be almost imperceptable. So we generally don't have a Southern Accent unless we are hicks from the rural areas of the states.

I'm from Southern Connecticut and I find it hard to believe that I sound like I'm from Philadelphia or from Wisconsin or Chicago. The question regarding "Mary", "merry" and "marry" was ambiguous to me because I think that "Mary" and "marry" sound alike - not "Mary" and "merry".

Anyway, this was fun, but I would like to take some more quizzes like this to see if my "accent" could really be pinpointed.

I live in Minnesota now but I am from NY originally, which the test results for did accurately pick up on. (and a lot of people here do say pop instead of soda). And to the person who said "asking how pin and pen sound in conversation has nothing to do with my accent", they are not really asking how it sounds to you when someone else says it, just say it out loud yourself and see if it sounds the same or different.

This was hysterical. The test told me I had an "Inland North" accent, that I was asked if I came from Wisc or Chicago, and called carbonated beverages "pop". I was born & raised in Chicago, and yes, I called carbonated beverages "pop". LOL!!! When I moved to OH, I was often asked if I had come from Michigan - as I had a "Midwestern accent".

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Inland North 93%

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."

Exactly right!

It said that I have a Midland accent, but I'm from upstate New York, so I think a Northeastern accent would make more sense. By the way, a New York City accent varries greatly between the buroughs. When people not from the area think "New York City accent" they think of the Brooklyn accent. Manhattan actually doesn't have an "accent", par-say. It's just like the Midland accent that you describe- the typical American accent that people think of not even having an accent. Great quiz though

I have lived in California for 35 years after growing up in Wisconsin. I tested 100% inland north and I DO call soft drinks:pop, a pocket knife:jack knife, a turn signal: blinker and a water fountain: bubbler. You can take the girl out of Wisconsin, but you can't take Wisconsin out of the girl.

I agree about #8, "Mary" and "marry" are the same for me. I also agree that there was not enough to demonstrate southern accents; a few questions on syllable count and rhyming would have helped a lot. You put me in the northeast. I was born in the south and have lived in Texas for thirty years. I don't have a huge Texas accent, but I certainly don't sound like I'm from New York.

I took the quiz & the results were accurate, but its title isn't - "accent" is so commonly misused that hardly anyone thinks twice, but what the quiz is trying to determine is "dialect," NOT "accent" which describes the influence of another language or nationality! Where's the quiz for vocabulary?

I've taken this quiz twice: first time I was from the northeast, second time from the Midwest (where I've spent at the most 5 days). While I've lived in New England for 40 years, I'm from East Texas & have never completely lost the accent; the pronunciations I use for words in the quiz have not substantively changed since I was a child. Way off the mark.

Your Result: 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.

Well, I'm from the South, so it's fine with me...

I'm a Dallas girl! Raised in Big D and I have been told all of my life I have a Texas accent. After taking the quiz, I am considered a Midland or no accent girl...maybe because I was an English major in college. I pronounced words a little differently than most who live in the South or specifically, Texas. In any event, I am still a proud Texas girl whose nonaccent could be from Dallas

Wayyyyyy off. Says I'm from Philadelphia area. I was born and raised in Cincinnati, OH and have lived in Wyoming for over 30 years. Tho, to be fair, when growing up in Ohio my cousins in Michigan said I had an accent different from the rest of my family (mom, dad, 5 bros & 1 sis) Maybe that's it...mixed with living in the north west for so long (MT, SD, & WY)

My results indicated I am as Philadelphia as they come! I have spent only a total of about 3 weeks on separate occasions in Philadelphia, after I was 50. My Dad was military - we lived mainly in the sunbelt. As an adult, I spent years in AZ, CA, LA, then a stretch in northern VA, NC, and WI. I took the test carefully, said the words out loud, so Philly is a mystery to me!

What American accent do you have?
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.

I got:

*"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.*

~TT_Twin_G irl :)

Actually I'm from the west - Western Montana to be exact - and descended from English, Norwegian, Greek ancestors with a little Native American tossed in the melting pot.To be honest all my southern friends say they enjoy Montana because it's like never leaving the south. You don't suppose no accent means too much t.v. and too many movies?