The American Accent Quiz

[BeanoNYC]

Is your brother named George?

George is a Queens boy!

 

[Paul]

George is a Queens boy!

Whatevah.... only New Yawkahs can tell the difference. Its like England that way....:wink:

 

[Grassi21]

Riverdale is an island in a sea of bronx.

Riverdale is a great area. When my pops wasn't teaching we would paint in the summer. We did a few jobs in that area. My Dad grew up on Gun Hill Rd. I think my Mom was on Olmstead Ave.

 

[tree_skier]

put me in midland

 

[noski]

I was pegged as Midland and am 5th generation Vermonter. My accent must be corrupt from all the visitors I deal with. Jeezum Crow.

 

[YardSaleDad]

Spent many summers as a child in County Kerry, Ireland where my mom was from. My first 11 years in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx, the next seven in the Hudson Valley, and few more in South Carolina and Okinawa.

I ended up with a Northern/Western New England accent. Go figure.

 

[skibum9995]

midland for me

 

[FRITOLAYGUY]

I passed this on to a friend who has lived in Revere and East Boston her whole life and has that real real bad boston accent and she came up Midland, this test is Bogus.

 

[Terry]

It put me as a midland and I have lived in Maine my whole life. My family goes back to the 1700's all in Maine also. This test is BS.

 

[bvibert]

I'm not sure if the test is BS or the way it's administered. Some of the questions I wasn't sure how I said a word until I said it out loud, but once ya start thinking about it you may throw yourself off. I bet it would be more accurate if a live person administered the test by asking you to say certain words to see the way you say them naturally.

 

[hammer]

Has anyone been tagged with a New England or Boston-area accent? Seems like that one's being missed here...

 

[ctenidae]

Midland for me, but then, that accent is by design. Always let people make the wrong first impression.

 

[FRITOLAYGUY]

Has anyone been tagged with a New England or Boston-area accent? Seems like that one's being missed here...

Ive been tagged with having a Ct accent, i didnt even know there was such a thing

 

[Skier75]

My result was: North Central!

Ayah, ah been asked if ah was either from Canada or from England! Duh, ah've been told ah've got a wicked Mainah accent, ayuh! That would be me, especially since ah've grown up in the Potland area all of my life with a fathuh from Houlton, ME. Can't git thah from heuh, no sur reah. Iffin ya do ya might not want to come back from the tatah pikin country....

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I speak in Ski-bonics

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I actually ended up with Mid Atlantic which is where I live..people who live near me have a combination of a PA dutch accent and a Philly/Baltimore accent..

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

My result was: North Central!

Ayah, ah been asked if ah was either from Canada or from England! Duh, ah've been told ah've got a wicked Mainah accent, ayuh! That would be me, especially since ah've grown up in the Potland area all of my life with a fathuh from Houlton, ME. Can't git thah from heuh, no sur reah. Iffin ya do ya might not want to come back from the tatah pikin country....

ahahahahahaa

 

[SkiDork]

Check it out. It nailed me as Northeast from NYC to CT.

yup. same for me

 

[playoutside]

Northeastern -- which is probably pretty spot on since my hillbilly NJ accent has been corrupted by Boston.

 

[kid3]

Northeast New England. Go figya. That was great!