| 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. | |
| What American accent do you have? |
My mother famously pronounces "fork" and "corn" and "fark" and "carn." They didn't ask about that -- if they had, I have the feeling my accent probably would have been placed accurately in southern Missouri. Her parents lived in St. Louis all their lives, and I was born there; they still have relatives in rural Missouri 80 miles to the southwest.
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It pegged me, too.
Another thing it doesn't ask about is West Virginia-isms. My grandparents pronounce "picture" and "pitcher" the same, and "chimney" comes out "chimley".
Damn.
"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."
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