Now there's a shock

[jauncourt]

That accent thing, look below the cut

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.
The West
The Inland North
Boston
North Central
Philadelphia
The South
The Northeast
What American accent do you have?

You know, since I'm in Illinois, bred from middle American stock, and grew up in a college town... It's a freaking miracle I sound like I'm from anywhere at all.

Comments

[kaffee-spinne.livejournal.com]

I got this...which is retarded...B/c I grew up in Berkeley, my great-grandmother was from Berkeley, the rest of the family came from either Seattle (grandfather) or New Jersey (dad).

[clothsprogs.livejournal.com]

Since I've only ever been to the US for short visits (and only 3 of them ever) this is strange - but might explain why the American girls manning the Ben & Jerry's booth at Victoria Station in London a few years back could not be dissuaded from thinking I was from New York.

Teddy

[jauncourt.livejournal.com]

That makes a great deal of sense, actually, as there is a certain amount of dialectic residue, as it were, in the original "colonies."