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jj · Kate Spade

RE: What American Accent Do You Have? Quiz

blink · Coach

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 am from Tulsa, OK and live in Texas now. When I have met people from states outside the SW, I am told I have a Southern accent, so I must have one. But I think this is a case of dialect by association (I think that's what it's called), when you start to talk like someone around you. My dialect has been influenced by a certain few who were from the Inland North, their dialects and voices impressed me and I picked them up.

My family calls it "pop," I call it soda, but I can't remember how I started doing that.

kealoha · Kate Spade

"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.

totally weird b/c i'm from Hawaii and have only lived in minneapolis for <2 years. go figure. confused

Alegria · Kate Spade

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.

Funny- I am from SoCal.

gingembre1 · Kate Spade

The West.

kmd · Kate Spade

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."

which is right above the northeast, which is where I'm from. I definitely don't call soda "pop", though.

atlgirl · Gucci

I, too, am Inland North. Which is interesting. I spent nine years in New York (Long Island), 25 years in Arizona, and 6 years in Georgia.

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 get those questions - about being from Wisconsin or Chicago - and I don't call soda "pop". Not sure how accurate that quiz is for me!

travelgirl · Kate Spade

"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 got "west" but I was expecting "midland" since I live in Cincinnati. Funny, when I covered 10 states for my job (spanning from Detroit to San Antonio) I would get all kinds of comments on my "accent". When I was in Detroit I was a called "southern" but when I was in Nashville I was called a "yankee"!

I say I have no accent but I do say "pop" instead of "soda"....hmmm....I'm all over the place!

Kitty · Hermes

I don't think this test works for people in California...

Shello · Kenneth Cole

"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."

I'm from North Jersey. Funny how no one else got this yet!

Suasoria · Chanel

Another West here. I've lived in both Northern and Southern CA. I think my accent is more NoCal than L.A., where I live now.