What American Accent Do You Have? (Houston, Dallas: how much, live in, radio)

[awecelot]

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 South

The Inland North

The Northeast

Philadelphia

Boston

North Central

[TexasReb]

I went back and "played" with this quiz a bit (that is, checking different boxes and seeing if results would be different), and seems like that the difference between a "Southern" and "Midland" accent (as to which is your primary) pivots on question No. 6 (collar and coller). Anyway, I got a wild hair and am posting my own results. My answers are in bold....

If some of y'all might want to take the time to do the same, it might be kinda fun/interesting to compare a bit!

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3. We're going to start with two ordinary words, "cot" and "caught." Do you think those words sound the same or different?
Same
Different
Same, no wait I mean different, well, I don't know...

4. What about "don" and "dawn"?
Same
Different
Same...ish. Maybe a little different.

5. OK, what about "stock" and "stalk"?
Same
Different
Almost, but not quite, the same

6. Now then how do "collar" and "caller" sound?
Same
Different
Almost, but not quite, the same

Break here. THIS one seemed to be the one that by checking "Almost but not quite the same" was a major difference in whether one would register South or Midland. I had to repeat it to myself a few times to really see what I sounded like, and even asked a few friends! LOL. Anyway, I pronounce the latter like "CAW-ler" and the former as " Cahler"

7. Do you think the word "on" rhymes with "dawn" or with "don"?
dawn
don
Well, I don't think don and dawn sound any different in the first place so on would obviously rhyme with both

This was another weird one, since I really don't think it ryhmes that much with either of them. But chose the closest answer I could.

8. Moving on, what do you think about "Mary," "merry," and "marry"?
All 3 sound different
Mary and merry sound the same but marry is different from them
All 3 sound the same

9. Our next word is "horrible." How does that first vowel sound?
It's just like in the word "*****."
It's the same "o" sound as in "hot."
Neither one

10. Now for "pen" and "pin." Don't worry about what others say is correct, just tell us how they come out in an ordinary conversation.
Same
Different
Close. Pen sounds almost, but not quite, like pin.

11. What about "feel" and "fill"?
Same
Different
Well, I think they're different even though they sound very, very similar almost to the point of being the same

12. When you say "about," does the "ou" sound like the "ou" in "loud"?
No
Yes

13. Last question. When you say "bag" does it rhyme with "vague"?
Yes
No

[lonewolfmccoy]

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 South

Boston

North Central

The Inland North

Philadelphia

The Northeast


Well I guess according to this quiz i have "The Midland" Accent. However, i took a quiz similar to this on facebook a few months back and it said I have a Western accent. I guess it figures since i'm a military brat from El Paso, Texas! Big Reg

[turkeytrot]

Seems to be a pattern here.
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 South

Boston

North Central

The Inland North

Philadelphia

The Northeast

[JackasH]

What American accent do you have?Your Result: The South


That's a Southern accent you've got there. You may love it, you may hate it, you may swear you don't have it, but whatever the case, we can hear it.
The Midland

The Inland North

The Northeast

Philadelphia

The West

North Central

Boston

[Texan in Virginia]

Another "Midland" here. Guess that comes from living in Virginia 29 of the last 35 years! Give me about a month back in Texas and I'll sound normal again.

Lori

[GayleTX]

Interesting that Turkeytrot is 'midland' and JackasH is 'south' even tho both are Texans..........that's my observation, too, of the people who are from the two places they live. When I moved back to the TX Panhandle (where Turkeytrot is), after living in ETX (where Jack is) for many years, I was amazed at the difference in the accents. Panhandle people have an accent very similar to New Mexico and Kansas....and they really noticed my ETX accent (which I didn't even know I had!). The settlers in my part of ETX were almost all from Tennessee and today we still have an accent (at least we rural folks do!) that is almost identical to today's Tennessee folks.

Fun quiz....thanks for posting!

[TexasReb]

The question that really bugs me is No. 7

Do you think the word "on" rhymes with "dawn" or with "don"?

dawn
don
Well, I don't think don and dawn sound any different in the first place so on would obviously rhyme with both

I think neither should have been a choice. I chose "dawn" since it was the closest of the two contenders (I mistakenly "bolded" having said "Don" in my earlier post, but that was a typo).

But really, I pronounce "on" the same as I do "own". Neither of which really matches don or dawn. Of those two words, the former comes out like "Dahhn" and the latter "Dawwn"...drawled out a bit in both cases...

Did any of the rest of y'all have a problem with this one?

[Cathy4017]

Originally Posted by TexasReb

The question that really bugs me is No. 7

Do you think the word "on" rhymes with "dawn" or with "don"?

dawn
don
Well, I don't think don and dawn sound any different in the first place so on would obviously rhyme with both

I think neither should have been a choice. I chose "dawn" since it was the closest of the two contenders (I mistakenly "bolded" having said "Don" in my earlier post, but that was a typo).

But really, I pronounce "on" the same as I do "own". Neither of which really matches don or dawn. Of those two words, the former comes out like "Dahhn" and the latter "Dawwn"...drawled out a bit in both cases...

Did any of the rest of y'all have a problem with this one?

Yes. But I had problems with a few others, too, and there aren't that many questions, LOL!! I too say "on" the same as "own."

I was in Cloudcroft the other day, and a guy came out of the office and handed me a circular for his new business in CC, and we started talking.

I asked him what part of the south he was from (he now lives right outside of CC), since he had quite a pronounced (to my ears) Southern accent....he said TN and FL...........!

LOL!!

[Lucidus]

Originally Posted by TexasReb

I think neither should have been a choice. I chose "dawn" since it was the closest of the two contenders (I mistakenly "bolded" having said "Don" in my earlier post, but that was a typo).

But really, I pronounce "on" the same as I do "own".

Interesting. I say "on" like don and dawn with a short o sound, but I say "own" with a long o sound.

But I think I have an unusual way of pronouncing words. For example I often see people on the internet confuse then and than. I never do because I pronounce them very differently. Also I have noticed that some people pronounce "the" like da, or thuh, but I always say the with a long e sound. I also say "a" as ay, never uh.