Apparently I have a “Midland” American accent
I just took a little online quiz that attempted to determine which US accent I have based on my responses to a number of questions. The questions actually seem pretty clever, and the result matches up with what I’ve been told in the past. I guess my Minnesota accent has been destroyed by years of living on the West coast.
I tend not to go for online quizzes, but I was very curious what sort of written questions would be used to detect a spoken accent. Here’s my table of results:
| 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 South | |
| Philadelphia | |
| The Inland North | |
| The Northeast | |
| The West | |
| Boston | |
| North Central | |
| What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz | |
August 28th, 2008 at 8:39 am
Gnarly, dude — I am “The West”. According to the quiz: “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.”