| 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. |
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This was kind of surprising. But then again, not really. I tend to assimilate the words and sounds of everyone around me. A few words I use regularly now I never used to use.
Like the other day at work, when Katharine pointed out the fact that I ask questions like a Canadian. Meaning I make a statement and then let my voice raise at the end, indicating that I am actually asking a question. I do this roughly 50% of the time now. Which is a little odd, considering the fact that no one in my family does this, and no one around the area where I grew up does it either.
Where the hell did I pick it up? Well, the family of one of my dad’s friends does it. And for a while I thought it was a really frakin’ weird way to talk. And then, some day I don’t know when for reason I don’t know why, I just started asking my questions that way. Now I do it pretty regularly, and I don’t even realize I’m doing it.
I guess it makes sense that I have an indistinguishable accent. I use so much slang from so many different places that it can be hard to tell where I’ve come from. I’ve actually caught myself speaking in the accent of the person I was talking to, embarrassingly enough. Boy, do you want to catch that one before you go too far with it. But the fun thing is that so far no one in Seattle has been able to tell that I’m from out of town. Wait, is that really a good thing? When I get carded in bars I tend to get a lot of dirty looks, as if they are asking, “Is this a fake ID?”
Or as I might say, “This is a fake ID?”
[UPDATE: Oddly enough, looking at that chart again I noticed that my accent is LEAST like that of the Northeast. Which, interestingly enough, is where I am from. Hmm. How the hell did that happen?]
[UPDATE 2: What IS a Northeast accent???]
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Northeast is that weird Maine/New Hampshire/Bahstan accent, like halfway left over from the ol’ British days but kind of… squished and pulled into some weird other thing. I think. I didn’t look at the chart. I’m just guessing, really.