My American accent

[desperance]

[Behind the cut, because something in this code seems to mess up people's Friends pages]

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

[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.