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Retired
Member
07-11-2001
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 1:36 pm
Sorry to our Canadian friends. This seems pretty accurate. I'm in Central NJ and it said I had a Northeastern accent. I sent it to Granny and it said she had a Southern accent! Can you imagine? Have fun with it! Click here: What American accent do you have?
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 1:39 pm
retired, there is no link.
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Retired
Member
07-11-2001
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 1:40 pm
Sorry about that (didn't know how to edit it). Here's the link. LINK
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 1:47 pm
I have a midland accent! LOL..."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.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 1:50 pm
oops
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 1:57 pm
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.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 1:58 pm
I'm almost 100% midland accent. My area has a lot of people from the midwest, so it makes sense that I sound that way..LOL They didn't ask if I used the word ya'all or not. That would have given me away.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 1:59 pm
Your Result: The Inland North 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."
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 1:59 pm
Yes, I am from Chicago and I do drink pop. (Not Soda!)
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 2:17 pm
it lied! i do NOT have a Southern accent. no way, now how! LOL it pegged that meter almost alll the way across. What American accent do you have? Your Result: The South That's a Southern accent you've got there. You may love it, you may hate it, you may swear you don't have it, but whatever the case, we can hear it.
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Ginger1218
Member
08-31-2001
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 2:20 pm
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. All I have to do is say hello and people know
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 2:35 pm
I've alway told folks that I don't have no accent. Now here's the proof and I ain't never been to none of them places. "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.
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Mamapors
Member
07-29-2004
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 2:35 pm
Wow, it was right on. 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." Why is my accent the lowest common demoninator of American speech? What do they mean by that?
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 2:42 pm
LOL – Even though I am Canadian, I thought I'd try anyway to see what it would say. "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. Interesting, but not surprising to me.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 2:45 pm
Scoots and Jimmer have a common denominator! Imagine that! Hey I could be Canadian 
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 2:47 pm
Inland North. I blame it on my Catholic school education.
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Lateeda
Member
12-01-2006
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 3:03 pm
What American accent do you have? "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 or radio. Yep, born and bred in Ohio and now living in metro Atlanta! Somebody get me some voiceover work, pronto! LOL
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 3:11 pm
Inland North. I blame it on being from Wisconsin. Or, as some people think I pronounce it (but I don't...)- Wis-can-sin. But I don't drink "pop" and my water is from a fountain, not a bubbler. That I blame on an early childhood in Arizona and Oregon.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 3:52 pm
North Central, (Professional Linguists call it a Minnesotta Accent???) 'Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.' <Well, duh! LOL>
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 4:06 pm
You certainly could be Scooter!!! Could I be a Californian?!?!?!? I love the ocean and swimming, though I've done it all in the Atlantic Ocean so far. 
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 4:25 pm
Jimmer...maybe we were twins separated at birth!!!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 4:46 pm
Wow!!! I took this quiz a few days ago from another website, and I came up with a Midland accent. I am from the midwest, have lived all over the country, lived in California and then Washington state most recently. I wasn't surprised at my accent, but I am rather surprised at the way it is accurately pegging all the people here. By rights, I should speak just like Julieboo since I grew up in Illinois, and once I left the midwest, people were always commenting on my Midwest "twang." Haven't heard that in years, though. And of course, people in Chicago and lower Wisconsin do have their own accents, not the same as central Illinois.
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Resortgirl
Member
09-23-2000
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 4:51 pm
Your Result: The Inland North 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." I don't know HOW the hell that worked! I don't have a freakin' accent! Just ask Karuuna... she's heard me talk and it's perfect non accented english...
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Nancy
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 4:52 pm
Your Result: >Boston Yes i am I did a similar quiz a few weeks ago and i was north central go figure LO
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Littlebreeze
Member
02-18-2001
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 5:04 pm
Your result: Boston. You definitely have a Boston accent, even if you think you don't. Right on the money.
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