What American accent do you have?

[Jimmy Snyder]

Northern

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.

Born in NYC, and grew up in the state of South Jersey. I don't have an accent, I just talk normal. Everyone else has one though.

 

[dontdisturbmycircles]

Canadian

People from outside North America probably think you're from the States, but over here we wouldn't make such a mistake.

Good! Because I am Canadian.

 

[Astronuc]

I'm British, and thus don't know if this is even close to correct.

Yes it is more or less, but there is a discernible difference between 'Northeastern' and 'British'.

I received the same result - Northeastern. I am Australian, but learned to pronounce words in the "Queen's English". I perhaps have pickep up some American pronunciations.

And sometimes I'll switch between pronunciations depending on location. In England and Australia, I'll fall back into the local pronunciation, and I can understand various English regional accents quite well, although my wife and American friends would be totally lost.

When I traveled to Germany, many Germans have remarked that my German is very German. Apparently, I pickup accents of foreign languages quite well.

 

[arunbg]

Speaking of American accents, this guy parodies on the accents of immigrants. He's such a riot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn5jlrxcpkI
Check out his other videos on youtube. I love the part where the Chinese shopkeeper bargains with the Indian customer

 

[SticksandStones]

Northern

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.

 

[jtbell]

I come out as "Midland" also, which actually fits because I'm from Ohio originally.

However, I see from the other responses that a narrow strip along Lake Erie including Cleveland is in the "Northern" region. I grew up close enough to Cleveland that we usually watched Cleveland TV stations, and visited Cleveland regularly, but we were actually not far from the Pennsylvania border, almost halfway towards Pittsburgh. I don't remember Clevelanders talking particularly differently.

 

[Schrodinger's Dog]

My Results:

Northeastern


I come out as New Englandish, which makes some vague sense as I'm English. I was raised in Kent for the majority of my formative childhood life and there they have no accent at all, so I'm close to dialectless but with a bit of a South drawl.

Ie your having a laugh comes out as your having a larrf.

 

[BobG]

I got Western, which is about as far off as you can get. I certainly don't talk like the people from Oklahoma and North Texas who have "flaars" instead of flowers and "awl" instead of oil. My first brother-in-law's mother was from S. Oklahoma and between the differing terminology, and the differing pronunciation of similar terminology, that woman caused me to say "pardon me?" on a pretty regular basis.

Okie and Texan aren't the same as Western!

Western for me and I live in Colorado, but I grew up in Kansas and Ohio, plus lived in Nebraska for over a decade. Hence, my Kansas accent is pretty much stripped away leaving a pretty neutral accent. The fact that I happen to live in the West is more coincidence than anything else.

What American accent do you have? (Best version so far)

My Results:

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).

 

[Math Is Hard]

Hey, let's not have the farsi speakers correcting the native english speakers, MMAKAY??

Its Lisa :!)

Im don't need you correcting me, got it?...it was a typo.

Lisa faghat mikhad behet komak koneh.

 

[G01]

I'm from eastern PA, yet I have a western accent? This can't be right. If I have a western accent, then so does all of Pennsylvania.