Monday, December 04, 2006

Quiz Fer How Ta Tell Where Yinz are From N'at

Here is an interesting quiz to help you identify your American regional accent. I call it interesting because I think the questions on the quiz were interesting. I don't think that there are enough questions, though, because the results are a bit strange. The only way most people would characterize my accent as "Western" would be if you change it to "Western Pennsylvanian." Here, we speak with a distinctive accent and use a number of colloquial terms that people call "Pittsburghese."

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The West

Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta.

The Midland

Boston

North Central

Philadelphia

The Northeast

The South

The Inland North

What American accent do you have?
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By the way, the graphic displays properly in Internet Explorer but not in Firefox. If you're using IE, you can see that my next highest result was for "The Midland" which I think includes Pennsylvania. But again, I don't think that the quiz has enough questions, because Western Pennsylvanians don't speak anything like Central Ohioans. And we certainly don't speak like Clevelanders, who wave their dirty brown towels n'at.

It's an interesting and short quiz to take, anyway.

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