Meme: American Accent
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awake| What American accent do you have? Your Result: The West 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. | |
| The Midland | |
| Boston | |
| North Central | |
| The Inland North | |
| Philadelphia | |
| The South | |
| The Northeast | |
| What American accent do you have? | |
"North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.
You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."
And no one on the East Coast could say my name. I couldn't leave Philly fast enough. DAWN isn't that hard to say, is it?
I'm from Maryland, so that's not a bad answer.
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it seems odd to me that they specifically mention Charleston. in this case, they're right -- i'm from there, and i don't have much of an accent. but there's a very specific (and often strong) Charleston accent that's a variant on standard-Southern. and most of my family has an accent of some sort...i'm not sure how i managed to not have much of one.
"North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.
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