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Accent Quiz — Brooklynian

Accent Quiz

bigguy
bigguy
edited November -1 in The Lounge / Random Stuff
Don't know how good it is overall, but it nailed me as a New Englander.

http://www.youthink.com/quiz.asp?action=take&quiz_id=9827
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  • shishkab
    shishkab
    I'm a born-and-bred New Yorker, and it pegged me as having a "midland" accent. Of course, they covered their butts by saying: "Since it's a neutral accent, just because you have a Midland accent doesn't mean you're from the Midland."

    anyone else?
  • doctorj
    doctorj
    It picked me as Northeastern USA. That's pretty wrong.
  • laura
    laura
    doctorj wrote: It picked me as Northeastern USA. That's pretty wrong.
    Because it's only for American accents.

    It got this Detroiter right: "You have a Northern accent. That could either be the Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland/Buffalo accent (easily recognizable) or the Western New England accent that news networks go for."
  • sweet tea
    sweet tea
    it said i'm midland, too, shish -- don't feel bad.

    i'm not sure if the kind of southern accent in my part of nc would show up very easily on this quiz -- the only things i saw as designed to catch southern accents that i DIDN'T say yes to are sounds i associate with a more twangy western southern accent (over the mountains in tennessee, for instance). some -- like the TINT/TENT question -- i know i did answer southern-ly.

    where were the consonants? i find the vowels are fairly pure in central nc, but the consonants are different -- a breathy R, for instance.

    oh well, i'm from a college town, so all bets are off. and i've been too long wandering to count on the little sweetness i had in my voice. as long as i can keep my regional word usages and syntax, i reckon i'll make it.
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    It got me right, too - Northern accent.
  • armchair_warrior
    armchair_warrior
    What American accent do you have? (Best version so far)

    Mid Atlantic

    Also known as a "Philadelphia accent" but also heard in south Jersey, Baltimore, and thereabouts.
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    It pegged me as Northeastern. But I think it could have narrowed it down further if it asked me how I say "HUGE" or "HUMAN" or "ASSHOLE" or "AVENUE."

    "That dude we saw on the aivenyoo may be yoo-man, but he's a yooj aisshole" (vowel in "ASS" and first vowel in "AVENUE" sound like the vowel sound in "dairy").
  • pitu
    pitu
    midland. bah.
    (something is very wrong with the northeast/south part of the test. although I enjoyed the TINT/TENT thing since my West Virginia mother provided hours of amusement to her children trying to make her pronouce "steel" and "still" without sounding like home-made liquor was involved in both.)
    :D
  • shishkab
    shishkab
    when i read the way you wrote that, Mr. C, i heard Archie Bunker:

    "That's how ya got your Chinatown, your Harlems, your Little Italy...all them grettos."
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    shishkab wrote: when i read the way you wrote that, Mr. C, i heard Archie Bunker:

    "That's how ya got your Chinatown, your Harlems, your Little Italy...all them grettos."
    To some extent, but I don't say "terlet" or "berler" for TOILET and BOILER and I don't say "toid" for THIRD. And I don't say "Eedit" for EDITH. Archie Bunker had a really old school NY accent (specifically a Queens accent) of the kind almost no one has anymore.
  • em26
    em26
    What American accent do you have? (Best version so far)

    Midland

    ("Midland" is not necessarily the same thing as "Midwest") The default, lowest-common-denominator American accent that newscasters try to imitate. Since it's a neutral accent, just because you have a Midland accent doesn't mean you're from the Midland.

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    I don't know what they are talking about. Me with a "Midland" accent? I don't accept. [-(

    It has to be the same as a Midwest accent , cuz that's what I have.
  • laura
    laura
    Em26 wrote: It has to be the same as a Midwest accent , cuz that's what I have.
    Although you pronounce some things differently than I do (per some thread a while back)
  • grafixguy
    grafixguy
    What American accent do you have? (Best version so far)

    Western

    Like Midland, Western is a default, neutral, sounds-good-on-the-evening-news accent. So you might not actually be from the West (but you probably are).
  • em26
    em26
    laura wrote: [quote=Em26]It has to be the same as a Midwest accent , cuz that's what I have.
    Although you pronounce some things differently than I do (per some thread a while back)

    Wah-der = water

    Maybe we misunderstood each other. I think we do have the same accent.

    D-Town baby , we gets down baby....image
  • laura
    laura
    Em26 wrote: Wah-der = water

    Maybe we misunderstood each other. I think we do have the same accent.
    Do you pronounce the first syllable to rhyme with ma and pa, or raw?
  • brooklynpotter
    brooklynpotter
    it would seem i have a "northern" accent, which means all those speech classes i took in college to get rid of the jersey accent worked pretty darn well.
  • bigguy
    bigguy
    Yes, you can remove the accent. But you can't remove the Jersey.
  • bigguy
    bigguy
    And let me add that I wasn't born in Jersey. Not even near it. Really.
  • brooklynpotter
    brooklynpotter
    only one state over... right?
  • laura
    laura
    this is fun: the speech accent archive

    "Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station."
  • bigguy
    bigguy
    only one state over... right?
    OK I'm just going to come out and say it. I was born in New Jersey. There, it's done.
  • bigguy
    bigguy
    Also, has anyone else ever seen http://www.bzzzpeek.com ? Very cute & funny - I especially like the English kids. There's a link to flag IDs at the bottom for the flag-impaired.
  • brooklynpotter
    brooklynpotter
    and i might have grown up in jersey, but i was born in south east asia.
  • em26
    em26
    laura wrote: [quote=Em26]Wah-der = water

    Maybe we misunderstood each other. I think we do have the same accent.
    Do you pronounce the first syllable to rhyme with ma and pa, or raw?

    Yes I do.
  • drano
    drano
    Northern. Fifteen years in New York has definitely thinned my New England a bit.
  • laura
    laura
    Em26 wrote: [quote=laura][quote=Em26]Wah-der = water

    Maybe we misunderstood each other. I think we do have the same accent.
    Do you pronounce the first syllable to rhyme with ma and pa, or raw?

    Yes I do.
    :?

    Which one?
  • laura
    laura
    BigGuy wrote: Also, has anyone else ever seen http://www.bzzzpeek.com ? Very cute & funny - I especially like the English kids.
    Hrmph. Apparently English children think cats sound like chain-smoking demons from hell.
  • whyfi
    whyfi
    WRONG!!! They said "Northern."


    Oh wait...
  • em26
    em26
    laura wrote: [quote=Em26][quote=laura][quote=Em26]Wah-der = water

    Maybe we misunderstood each other. I think we do have the same accent.
    Do you pronounce the first syllable to rhyme with ma and pa, or raw?

    Yes I do.
    :?

    Which one?

    LOL !

    They all make the same aaaw to me.

    Wa in water rhymes with pa and ma.

    Raw?? Would sound like wow-der. :)
  • brooklynpotter
    brooklynpotter
    but how do you pronounce laundry, chocolate, cauliflower? those qs weren't on the quiz.
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