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[roxy]

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This here makes perfect sense--growing up in the service and living most of my young years overseas on a military base ment not much of an accent. Our teacher's were basically accentless, my dad was very careful to scrub the southern out of his voice, and my mom had a slight German accent. So this is what you get. Neutral. I probably have a bit of a Jersey accent, but I don't think much of one. Least ways, I'm clinging to that idea--hah! It's also true I don't have much of a local identity. Even though I've lived in the same town now for 20 years, I'm still just waiting to move.

What American accent do you have?
Created by Xavier on Memegen.net

Neutral. Not Northern, Southern, or Western, just American. Your national American identity is more important to you than your local identity, because you don't really have a local identity to begin with.

Take this quiz now - it's easy!

We're going to start with "cot" and "caught." When you say those words do they sound the same or different?

Same Same, no wait I mean different, maybe, a little bit different... Different

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[rednihilist.livejournal.com]

And -- like no one who knows where I was born, raised, and currently reside would blink at -- my results are:

What American accent do you have?
Created by Xavier on Memegen.net

Western. Like Midland, Western is another accent that people consider neutral. So, you might not actually be from the Western half of the country, but you definitely sound like it.

And if you're not from the West, you are probably one of the following:
(a) A Pittsburgher - the quiz can't tell the difference;
(b) Someone from Canada (probably southern Ontario) who doesn't have a Canadian accent;
(c) Someone from northern New England who doesn't have a New England accent; or
(d) Someone from Texas or the Heartland who was born after 1980.
You are definitely not from New York, New Jersey, Chicago, Detroit, the Deep South, etc.</font>

Take this quiz now - it's easy!

We're going to start with "cot" and "caught." When you say those words do they sound the same or different?

Different Same Same, no wait I mean different, maybe, a little bit different...

Whew! So not a surprise! XD

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Accents are so strange! When we were in Arkansas, those accents were so strong to me, and sometimes, undecipherable. On the other hand, not many people remarked on Mr. R's and my accent. I don't know if they were being polite or they just didn't care.

how does one come from all these places and not have an accent, I wonder?

[jlvsclrk.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that was cool. I didn't think it would get me right but it did (under the exceptions, someone from Canada without a Canadian accent.

Western. Like Midland, Western is another accent that people consider neutral. So, you might not actually be from the Western half of the country, but you definitely sound like it.

And if you're not from the West, you are probably one of the following:
(a) A Pittsburgher - the quiz can't tell the difference;
(b) Someone from Canada (probably southern Ontario) who doesn't have a Canadian accent;
(c) Someone from northern New England who doesn't have a New England accent; or
(d) Someone from Texas or the Heartland who was born after 1980.
You are definitely not from New York, New Jersey, Chicago, Detroit, the Deep South, etc.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I just love tests like this--they're so interesting, and the responses to the tests are interesting!

[orbiting-saturn.livejournal.com]

I got the same result as you. Completely neutral. I grew up in Washington state and when I moved back to Ohio when I was 18, I had a lot of people asking me where my accent was from. I was puzzled because I have a complete lack of an accent. The majority of people in Ohio also have a neutral accent, at least to my untrained ear, but there are a LOT of Kentucky transplants in Dayton, so there was a heavy Southern influence to a lot of the dialect. I used to have fun lying and telling people I was Canadian because I thought it made me more interesting and a good portion of people in Dayton, Oh are really stupid and it was fun to mess with them.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Heheheheheh! Accents, or the lack of, can be fun. *G*

[rosy5000.livejournal.com]

What American accent do you have?
Created by Xavier on Memegen.net

Western. Like Midland, Western is another accent that people consider neutral. So, you might not actually be from the Western half of the country, but you definitely sound like it.

And if you're not from the West, you are probably one of the following:
(a) A Pittsburgher - the quiz can't tell the difference;
(b) Someone from Canada (probably southern Ontario) who doesn't have a Canadian accent;
(c) Someone from northern New England who doesn't have a New England accent; or
(d) Someone from Texas or the Heartland who was born after 1980.
You are definitely not from New York, New Jersey, Chicago, Detroit, the Deep South, etc.</font>

Take this quiz now - it's easy!

We're going to start with "cot" and "caught." When you say those words do they sound the same or different?

Same Same, no wait I mean different, maybe, a little bit different... Different

Guess that makes sense, since I do live close to Pittsburgh. Though, even just from where I live to Pittsburgh, there's words that are pronounced differently. The English language and accents are quirky things, eh? :)

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

The English language is truly a fascinating thing!

[epicallytired.livejournal.com]

This makes sense as I am from Philadelphia


Mid-Atlantic. This is what everyone calls a Philadelphia accent although it's also the accent of south Jersey, Baltimore, and Wilmington. Well, everyone that lives near there, that is. Outsiders can tell you talk differently from them even though they can't tell what your accent is.

If you are not from there, you are probably one of the following:
(a) A New Yorker who, unlike most New Yorkers, rhymes "on" with "dawn"; or
(b) A Yat from New Orleans.
You are probably not from Eastern New England or the Great Lakes area, and certainly not from anywhere in the West or Canada.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Right across the river from me!!!

[portraitofafool.livejournal.com]

I live in the Deep South, but my accent is NEUTRAL. Now how the hell did that happen? lol

I do have a southern accent, but it's very, very faint... faint enough that I've had people around here ask me where I'm from. And yes, for kicks I sometimes make something up. :D

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

And yes, for kicks I sometimes make something up. :D

Ha! I love this about my flist! *GGG*

[toldthestars.livejournal.com]

Apparently I have a Southern accent. WTF x a million.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

*GOGGLE*

How is that fuckin' possible? You sound just like me??????

[toldthestars.livejournal.com]

Well I'll be tarred and feathered if I know, but I a' reckon that quiz is more backwards than a chicken puking horse shit.

Say, you know Bayrock Ohbayma was born not here in the US of A, but in a space ship filled with communist muslims?

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

*shakes head*
you are a seriously ill child. I don't know where you get it from. Lawks.