Not bad for an automated quiz: it picked the speech region where I and both my parents were born and raised.
What American accent do you have?
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Northern. Whether you have the world famous Inland North accent of the Great Lakes area, or the radio-friendly sound of upstate NY and western New England, your accent is what used to set the standard for American English pronunciation (not much anymore now that the Inland North sounds like it does).
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Right in one!
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Mid-Atlantic. This is what everyone calls a Philadelphia accent although it’s also the accent of south Jersey, Baltimore, and Wilmington. Well, everyone that lives near there, that is. Outsiders can tell you talk differently from them even though they can’t tell what your accent is.
I’m tempted to go through it again and answer with what-I-think-is a different accent, and see what it tells me.
Northern, and they didn’t even have to ask me how to pronounce “sauna.”
–Jeff Stehman
“sow-na” or “saw-na”?
As I expected, I’m Midlands/Western, i.e. “neutral” accent. Which is pretty much what everybody tells me. It’s standard for Southern Californians.
I didn’t notice that much difference between my dialect and the most common SoCal dialect the last time I was there–but the locals sure did. Something about my vowels, especially the long O.
Yup, me too, which isn’t surprising as I am a Great Lakes person as well.
It’s a widespread region, I see, that encompasses both of my parents’ childhood homes.
It does sprawl, doesn’t it?