What Do You Sound Like?

Got Midland/Philadelphia - and a good voice for TV and radio!

Being a Dane who were first taught the British english in school - and later picked up the "american-english" from TV, Film and work, my english is so "spoiled" now, that a lot of englishspeaking people guesse I am from Australia!
(No offence, mates )

Boston...no surprise given I've lived most of my life within 40 miles of "the Hub".

Well, my english pronunication is apparently closest to New York City. blah.

I've visited the USA twice and picked up a bit of your accent both times; people here would ask if I'd been raised there. The last time was about five years ago. I'm not sure if I still have any of it.

<table style="width: 320px; border: 1px solid gray; font: normal 12px arial, verdana, sans-serif; background-color: white;"><tr><td colspan="2" style="background: white; color: black; padding: 5px;"><b style="font: bold 20px 'Times New Roman', serif; display: block; margin-bottom: 8px;">What American accent do you have?</b> <div style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 4px;">Your Result: <b>The Northeast</b></div><div style="width: 200px; background: white; border: 1px solid black;"><div style="width: 82%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;">&nbsp;</div></div><p style="margin: 10px; border: none; background: white; color: black;">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.</p></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">Philadelphia</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 67%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;">&nbsp;</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">The Inland North</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 63%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;">&nbsp;</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">The South</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 54%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;">&nbsp;</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">The Midland</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 50%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;">&nbsp;</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">Boston</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 38%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;">&nbsp;</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">The West</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 22%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;">&nbsp;</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; background: white; padding: 3px;">North Central</td><td style="background: white; padding: 3px;"><div style="width: 100px; background: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 4px;"><div style="width: 0%; background: red; font-size: 8px; line-height: 8px;">&nbsp;</div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center; padding: 8px;"><a href="http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have"><b>What American accent do you have?</b></a><br><a href="http://www.gotoquiz.com/">Quiz Created on GoToQuiz</a></td></tr></table>

Dang, ain't anybody from the south, you all. Well I am.:eusa_clap

justa brief question. Did anyone answer "yes" to the question:

Does bag rhyme with vague?

[huh] [huh]

In all my time in the US, surrounded by US people from all over, i never once recall hearing anyone call a bag, of any kind, a "baig" (or bague).

bk

Another Canuck:

"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.

Right On!

"BOG" - "VOG" ??? Pseudo Frenchoid?
Awfully simplistic. The east coast has a great variety of accents and dialects that started with the original colonists, many centuriues old. As migration poured west, the channels people went through, such as the Cumberland Gap or the open flat areas of New York State, became areas where speech patterns mixed. The Great Lakes developed the accent where people say Bay-yuck" for back. That goes from Buffalo to Duluth. The South Midlands developed a dialect where "pin" and "pen" are indistinguishabe. As migration moved from the Deep South up the Missippi Valley after the Civil War, Southern dialects also influeced the cities of the central Great Lakes.
By the time you get to the Great Plains and West Coast, there is virtually no regional variation. American accents are a fascinating study in geography, history and sociology.

Your Result: The South

That's a Southern accent you've got there. You may love it, you may hate it, you may swear you don't have it, but whatever the case, we can hear it.

Baron Kurtz said:

justa brief question. Did anyone answer "yes" to the question:

Does bag rhyme with vague?

[huh] [huh]

In all my time in the US, surrounded by US people from all over, i never once recall hearing anyone call a bag, of any kind, a "baig" (or bague).

bk

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I have heard some from the extreme South say baig rather than beg, but not for bag.

I have heard people said "baig", but I can't remember where I was and where they were from. I'd say too much travelling, but there's no such thing.

Yup

duggap said:

Dang, ain't anybody from the south, you all. Well I am.:eusa_clap

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That's a Southern accent you've got there. You may love it, you may hate it, you may swear you don't have it, but whatever the case, we can hear it.

Very southern of course. For a brief time in school I was called Kentucky Fried Chicken. I was not amused.
I also met my best friend when I was a freshman and a sr. boy slapped a Country Fresh sticker on my back. She was the only one with enough kindness to tell me. I had just moved from the sticks to the large school. I felt like I had been dropped off on Mars at the time. She is still my best friend alot of years later.

i, unsurprisingly, got The West. And a bit of the Midlands thrown in. Duh.

Baron Kurtz said:

justa brief question. Did anyone answer "yes" to the question:

Does bag rhyme with vague?

[huh] [huh]

In all my time in the US, surrounded by US people from all over, i never once recall hearing anyone call a bag, of any kind, a "baig" (or bague).

bk

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members of my family who were born and raised in northern wisconsin say that. not as extreme as that example above, but pretty darn close. i'd make fun of my mom for that all the time. same thing with egg. lol

BellyTank said:

So, if one speaks properly, one is a Philadelphian?


B
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Yes. All others have the 'accents'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_accent

I've heard people say vague as bag in real life and it's something that kind of bothers me. Same with Mondee instead of Monday.

Midland here. From living in Virgina, Alabama, New York and Texas. And probably from watching a lot of tv also. Nobody thinks I have any kind of accent so it doesn't surprise me.

"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent."

YAY!! all those years of speech class in elementary school paid off! lol

Baron Kurtz said:

justa brief question. Did anyone answer "yes" to the question:

Does bag rhyme with vague?

[huh] [huh]

In all my time in the US, surrounded by US people from all over, i never once recall hearing anyone call a bag, of any kind, a "baig" (or bague).

bk

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Yep. How else does one pronounce "bag"?

It told me that I have a Midland accent.

Edit: Answered my own question. Appears the "correct" way to pronounce it by making the "a" less severe. Though now that I'm saying it out loud I'm wondering how I would have pronounced the word without thinking about it first...

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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"Inland North" comes in a close second, which might be a bit more accurate, since I'm from the Chicago area (well, out in the boonies). The last sentence in the above quote is telling, as I did work 10 years in radio.