Here’s a silly little quiz, so it must be Friday. Both Bogus Gold and Hammerswing have already completed this to determine what American accent they have. Given that all of us have been in Minnesota for some time it’s not too surprising that we all fell under the “Midland” category. This Midland, however, must be about the size of my mid-section, since there’s room for one of them to be “Midland-Philadelphia” and the other to be “Midland-The West”, while I am “Midland-The South”. My score must have been influenced by the years I spent in Missouri, which I pronounce “Missour-uh”. I would no more say “Missour-ee” than I would pronounce Arkansas (“Arkan-saw”)as “Ar-kansas”.
Anyway, in the spirit of the day, crack open a cold soda, pop or Coke or whatever it is you call a soft drink where you come from and enjoy the quiz.
| What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland
“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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| The South |
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| The Inland North |
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| Philadelphia |
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| The West |
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| The Northeast |
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| Boston |
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| North Central |
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| What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz |
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Tiger Lilly and I are both “the Inland North”
Well, shut my mouth!
You sure are Lenas then, don’t ya know!
You’re all imposters. My result was North Central.
“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.
I got North Central.
I’m a true Minnesotan!!
I got….well….uh…I can’t say in mixed company.
Can’t say? What kind of cop out is that? Spill the beans!
I got Bostonian! Now how’s that? I am from the South!!
No more of a cop out than a catch-all category like “The Midland”.
North Central for me too!
As a matter of curiosity, was Nord-East(ern) one of the categories? Perhaps that’s one of those scanderhoooovian dialects that is hard to put in a particular category.