My American accent

[desperance]

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What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Northeast Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.
Philadelphia
The Inland North
The Midland
The South
Boston
The West
North Central
What American accent do you have?

...Which I think is joyfully curious, because of course I don't have any kind of an American accent at all, I have an excruciatingly British one and basically went through the whole quiz in a kind of baffled amusement, "how can X possibly sound like Y?"

I should also say that though I live in the North-East of England (and am therefore doubly amused by my results here) I don't have the appropriate regional English accent either. Which is more Scandinavian than English anyway. Those damn Vikings...

Comments

[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

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Quite apart from anything else, thank you!!! You are a star. My Friends pages are going berserk today.

[pogodragon.livejournal.com]

Heh. I did that quiz too, with the same sort of bemused head shaking and the same result. Oddly I have a good friend from Philadelphia and my accent is nothing like his at all. (My accent is generic English - some combination of East Midlands and SE England with occasional outbreaks of Mancunian)

[samarcand.livejournal.com]

I also have a North Eastern accent. Bizarre, whilst I don't have a strong North Eastern England accent, there is still a definite difference between me and you. I think that we can therefore conclude, quite legitimately that the whole thing is shit. Unsurprisingly.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Well, yes. Tho' to be fair, it does rather suggest that to give it a fair test, you'd have to start with an American accent of some description. If Barry did a quiz on "What kind of dog am I?", I'd expect a skewed result...

[angelsasha.livejournal.com]

I got results basically identical to yours, but I do have a fairly similar English accent to you so that's no surprise :)

[spaceoperadiva.livejournal.com]

It also says that I have a Northeastern accent. Really I have an American television accent filtered through voice lessons. But I did have a foster father who insisted that:

pen, pin and pan are NOT the same word;

Aunt and ant, also NOT the same word;

suite and soot, NOT identical either;

and that there is no "R" in wash or colonel.

So by western US standards, I just "talk funny".

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I suppose any accent analysed this way is going to seem extremely strange, to people who don't share it. Also, I suppose I have just never thought about an American accent in these terms. I think I'd need a soundtrack, audible examples to understand it; at the moment, I look at these lists of words and - well, no. None of them are the same as any of the others. It's hard to understand how they could be.

[rezendi.livejournal.com]

I've heard it claimed - source and credibility forgotten - that today's American accent is basically the Liverpool (or was it Newcastle?) accent of two centuries ago. I doubt it, but it's a fun notion.

[mantichore.livejournal.com]

So, it turns out I've got this north-eastern American accent, which is a bit strange from a Frenchman from the South-west of France. Go figure.

But then again, I wonder if Great-Britain isn't considered by some to lay roughly north-east of the States. Hence, some gross approximations might become a mite more understandable.

Just saying. ^______^