What Accent do you have?

glockman55 · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:04 am Post subject: What Accent do you have?

www.gotoquiz.com/what_...o_you_have

It pegged me to a tee.

Jack · Member Joined: Oct 19, 2005 Posts: 98

Got me, too.

Bushmaster · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 12:17 pm Post subject: Re: What Accent do you have?

Said I was from the "midland"...I'm not...Born in Oregon and raised in Oregon and Washington. Might be the 22 years in the service having to listen and interperate all those accents... Very Happy

1895ss · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:11 pm Post subject: Re: What Accent do you have?

Well looky here......... this is what it said about my accent and I wonder why???? Laughing

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"North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.

Dimitri · Super Member Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5946

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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 always lived near the great lakes, never more then 45 minutes from one of the lakes actually. Very Happy

Dimitri

Bushmaster · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:43 pm Post subject: Re: What Accent do you have?

Hey...That's the one they said was mine Dimitri...

wncchester · Member Joined: Apr 08, 2006 Posts: 160

OK, so it pegged me as a southerer but it says noting about my accent. Actually, I don't think is have one. But some other folks do sound funny. Always wondered why they didn't speak plain English, like me and my family/friends. ???

Dimitri · Super Member Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5946

Thats what I got too Bushmaster,

Funny thing is people I know have probably listed every European accent as being mine at one time or another. Very Happy

Some odd ball accents were mentioned to date. wtf

Apparently the mix of a accent I got from speaking English, French and Greek throws people off. Very Happy

Dimitri

moose2 · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:13 pm Post subject: Re: What Accent do you have?

Looks like it might have been correct. Said I was from the Inland North.
A couple miles North, I would have been in Canada, then I guess I would have been in the Inland South. Didn't know a couple of miles made all that much differece.--tr

Gil Martin · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:32 pm Post subject: Re: What Accent do you have?

Interesting. They pegged me as having a Philadelphia accent. Right on. All the best...
Gil

4rum · Member Joined: Jan 06, 2007 Posts: 211

... midland... but then... I lied about my age Very Happy

tracker · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 10:38 am Post subject: Re: What Accent do you have?

Said I was midland...maybe Pennsylvania, geez maybe I talk funny for a Canadian eh?

1895ss · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:51 pm Post subject: Re: What Accent do you have?

tracker wrote:

Said I was midland...maybe Pennsylvania, geez maybe I talk funny for a Canadian eh?

Say that again, I wasn't listening, and I'll check to see what you sound like.............. Very Happy

Bushmaster · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:56 pm Post subject: Re: What Accent do you have?

Are you Canadians finding out that you are more American then you thought? Well glory be...

tracker · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:01 pm Post subject: Re: What Accent do you have?

don't kid yerself Bushy...it's c-EH-n-Eh-d-EH, proper spelling is K'n-Eh-dian Very Happy