Where is your accent from?
Dox yourself (or don't).
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As an Australian this was interesting.
New England English is more similar to British English (at least in comparison to most US English), so it makes sense it would be the closest to Australian or South African English. Like they still use the word “carriage” commonly
Got about the same as a South African.
Same here, bru.
As a Canadian, I feel like it was pretty on par for me lol 53% Minnesota
my early childhood was spent south of winnipeg, so this tracks 100%. am a native-born minnesotan:
I'm norwegian and got the complete opposite from the map of americans who actually originate from my country, lol.
I'm also Norwegian and got a very similar map, though with more emphasis on a New York dialect. I'm guessing it has to do with our English being heavily influenced by popular media, in which the midwest might have less vocal presence.
This is so weird, how is it even possible to talk like a New Yorker, Californian, and Floridian all at once?! No Americans got anything close to this.
apparently norwegians are just more american than swedes in general
I don't want to dox myself, but it definitely guessed the exact city I live in. I will not answer further questions.
Yup. Within a 20-30 minute drive anyways. And I've lived in a different state for about 20 years. That's incredible.
Same, and it's not a big city either. There's one thing I say that's a dead giveaway.
My answers, unshockingly, reflected my region, but this question made me laugh pretty good. I dont know why lol "um akshully, Icing and frosting are different". This was my answer anyway
I was disappointed by a lack of option for "Icing is what you get when someone gives you a proper cake from a bakery, frosting comes out of a Betty Crocker jar forgotten in the back of a cabinet when someone has made a boxed cake." for this one.
Frosting is what you do with a cake, icing is what you do to rival gang members.
Apparently this is the "Vermont" accent map. Live in the Great Lakes region, so ok.
it's like how magenta is "minus green", vermont is "minus louisiana"
It missed by a couple of states, but it's close-ish. Some of those questions are wild, like whatever bullshit word people use for lighting bugs or fireflies that is neither of those two. Sambo niggles or some such a thing.
Edit: Peenie Wallies? Just call them double dick bugs 😆
We use the same words. I wonder what differentiates from IN which is actually right for me.
I'm not sure Hoosier is positive but more like neutral in IN. I'm certainly not attached to it.
Fair enough, I was mostly thinking of like the Indiana Hoosiers. I imagined it is similar to how cajun gets used in Louisiana
It probably depends on the part of the state?
I guess mine is pretty solidly midwestern.
Do you say “mahm” or “mom”?
"Mahm" I guess. Definitely not "ma'am" or "mome".
Yeah STLiens pronounce “o” differently. I didn’t even realize we had a bit of an accent until someone asked me about it one time
Midwestern vowels, some are kinda nasally. My ex-MIL is from Michigan and that is a recognizable accent for sure. My ex used to get mad because the girl name Dawn and the boy name Don sound nearly identical here but in Michigan apparently sound very different from each other.
Delta Dawn, what's that flower you got on?
And.
Delta Don, what's that flower you got on?
Same. Only when I say them in succession can a barely perceptible difference emerge.
Your map and mine look similar but Louisiana is light blue on mine.
very similar
You and @[email protected] have to fight now
It do be accurate
Curious about your answers. In theory I should've gotten Minneapolis as most similar and ended up with Vegas, followed by LA. Granted I only did the 24 question one
I did the 60 question one and if I remember correctly it told me that my answers of crayfish and that a freeway has no traffic lights or stop signs but a highway does were the biggest factors for why it picked MN.
I did in fact have those two as well, I'll have to try the longer ones and see what's up.
Update: did the 60, got San Fran, so apparently I live in the wrong region.
Update 2: did the 122, apparently I have to move to San Francisco
Did you have the "roof, room, broom, root aren't pronounced the same" giveaway? Also firefly, pop, sunshower, and freeway is faster than highway.
49% Kentucky
I have never lived here, but I do have family there.
Philadelphian who has also lived in Florida. This worked better than I expected, given my accent can be eclectic.
Freaky, It was able to determine what state I grew up in.
Surprised there was no bury/berry/bary question. Sooo many people pronounce it wrong 😁
that's a trick question. they're the same.
I am from Idaho initially, grew up there. Now I have lived in Oregon for nearly 15 years.
Apparently I talk like I am from Maryland, somewhere I have never been.
It could be worse, but I've never been west of the Mississippi (within the US; I've been to BC). I've adopted or switched words over the years, so it's not too surprising that it got it wrong. That old dialect quiz from the NYT or whatever years ago was worse at getting my location.
It said I was from NY, but actually CT. Close. When I moved to CA people thought I was Canadian.
I got CT, entire family is from there and I was born there but raised in the south
I don't like this.
Yep. I'm in the red area. Go Cocks 🤙
Interesting, it was dead on for me. Hottest in the two places where I grew up and where I've lived most of my adult life, and very warm in the two places I went to college and grad school.
Michigander through and through
Don't live there anymore but I did grow up in NJ
It said Maryland. I've never lived there nor have family there. My family is from two different states so maybe it's some sort of weighted average.
Interesting
Despite my kiwi heritage 🇳🇿 I'm from Rhode Island, apparently.
Many years ago I went on a solo road trip around California. I spotted a man pulled over by the side of the road looking upset, and stopped to see if I could help. He asked me to find a pay phone and call his friend to tell him "Jack is out of gas" and give his location.
I swear I was on the phone for a good ten minutes trying to make myself understood. It makes sense now. Rhode Island is a loooong way from California.
completely accurate. i was really surprised to learn that people pronounce things so wildly
As an aussie (WA):
'Roof, room, broom, and root aren't all pronounced the same' was enough to know I'm from Minnesota lol
I'm from South Africa but don't speak in a very stereotypical South African accent, and I got "Massachusetts".
Despite me not being from the US, it was still as accurate as it could possibly be. I’m on Vancouver Island, nestled right in that notch in the northwestern corner of Washington.
Florida? 😂 I don’t buy it. I’ve never met a Floridian that spoke like me. That was fun though!
Mom was from Michigan, Dad was from L.A. I grew up in California. Early questions nailed me in Michigan, later questions shifted to PNW. I feel like I don't have an accent, since everyone on TV and in movies talks like I do. My mom said "pop" instead of soda, and I grew up saying "pop", but switched to soda when everyone around me was saying that. I answered "pop" to the question, knowing that was a big differentiator.
I wonder if any questions would have shifted the map further south.
Got me pretty good. I am a little surprised my biggest giveaways were word choice not pronunciation, but I was only 56% similar (which was also weird) so i guess there weren't too many to choose from. I was also about as similar to San Francisico and LA as I was to Salt Lake City UT, did not realize those cities spoke so similarly.
I got New York, which makes sense with my sunny, friendly demeanour.
Any other PNW homies out there?
Grew up in Philly, but it guessed Delaware, so super close. But it did say my next closest city was Philadelphia. It's interesting because I went to school for radio and spent a ton of time working on my diction and pronunciation, and yet it was the little things I never would have realized I say that still got these results spot on.
Born and raised in Idaho
My state was wrong, but close enough, my region was spot on, my city was 100% correct
Pretty spot on for me, western US
Got my state correct.
Would have been quicker if they just asked how to pronounce:
Can't park your car in Harvard Yard.
Can't pahk your cah in Hahvid Yahd.
Yeah it focused on pronouncing words but not turn of phrase.
For example:
Take the I15 freeway to the I5 freeway
Vs
Take the 15 to the 5.
Not an accent thing but we'd play this game in our 20's
Is this for people who don't know where they're from?
Not tryna dox myself, but they got me down pretty damn good!
LOL the map thinks South Carolina but if I went there nobody would think I was from there. I think Florida is sort of an outlier, our accent is not Southern - if I go to the literal South they think I talk "proper" but when I was in California I did sound southern compared to their Western sound. We do have the y'all, such a useful non gendered word.
I remember my friend from New York used to crack me up with "woof" for wolf and draoah for drawer. Up north I don't sound southern either, though at school in England my Scottish boyfriend used to like when I got drunk because he said I got Southern sounding and he liked that.
This doesn't seem to dox too much, and yeah it checks out.
Kinda surprised by how accurate this grouped me in
Apparently I'm from Vermont!
Maybe.
It was only a 50 percent chance.
(I'm not from Vermont, have never lived in Vermont, and have no relatives from Vermont.)
Accents can tell so much about a person's background and experiences. I'm curious, do you think accents influence how people perceive someone's language skills? It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on whether a strong accent might impact communication, especially in a multilingual setting.