[c=#BF0080]http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?action=go_detail&sub_action=take&obj_id=9827 [/c] My results:
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This is interesting. According to the quiz, I have a "neutral" accent, which is associated with the lower Midwest, Pennsylvania, western Maryland, and northern West Virginia. I have never lived in this area, but the description does say I could just as easily be from somewhere else and that I may have moved around quite a bit as a child, which is true. But I challenge the notion that people from this part of the country don't have a regional accent. Many folks from the region, especially its southernmost reaches, speak with what sounds to me like a slight southern accent.
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I wanted to see what it would make of me with a hybrid British-Canadian accent, and I got this
@SW-User Very interesting. I suspect you actually sound somewhat different from people in the Northeastern U.S.
SW-User
@Rutterman Yeah, I do, but I can see why it would give me that. I pronounce "r"s in words the British way, and there are only a few American accents that do that.
@SW-User That's true. Some southerners also pronounce their "r"s that way, but a Northeastern accent probably is closer overall to the way you speak than a Southern accent is.
