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[imagine_that]

What American accent do you have? Your Result: Boston You definitely have a Boston accent, even if you think you don't. Of course, that doesn't mean you are from the Boston area, you may also be from New Hampshire or Maine.
The Midland
The West
Philadelphia
The Northeast
North Central
The Inland North
The South
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They don't ask about "r's" though. I don't do the "r" thing, do I? What a wicked pissah to be caught out like that... ;)

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I say tomato, you say tomayto... :)

[zannachan.livejournal.com]

But I bet you say "soda" instead of "pop" (or other variants", no?

There was a much more elaborate dialect survey that was linked to on Readerville a while back, but it no longer is available (I looked). According to that one, I had a Midwest accent--very neutral (though really, linguistically, there is no such thing as not having an accent. Everyone has an accent, by definition). I suspect, all joking aside, that the difference in results (this time I was "The Inland North" AKA, as far as I can tell, the Great Lakes Region) comes more from the fact that the other test was more thorough than fact that I've been in Canada for more than a year.

Accents/dialects fascinate me.

Re: I say tomato, you say tomayto... :)

[hippie1025.livejournal.com]

Yup, soda. :)

And I do have something of a Boston accent: "draw" instead of "drawer" for instance. I just don't have the stereotypical one where we don't pronounce any of our "r's" (or add them to the ends of words that don't have them). Though it is getting easier and easier to slip into that one to play with it. I'm afraid someday it'll just stick, which would annoy me.

The thing about that quiz, is that I didn't think that it was asking anything significant to my region, and then it pegged me. Interesting.

Re: I say tomato, you say tomayto... :)

[zannachan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that is really interesting. I didn't think that my answers were strongly Great Lakes, either. Some words can go either way--some people I know pronounce "creek" with a long e, others like "crick" (in fact, I know I pronounce it either way. The creek by my grandparent's house is definitely a "crick" and always will be; most creeks are creeks, with a long e.