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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

I'm Relieved I'm Still Southern

What American accent do you have?
Created by Xavier on Memegen.net

Southern. Love it or hate it, your accent says you're probably from somewhere south of the Ohio River.

If you're not from the South, you probably were overanalyzing the questions. Take the quiz again but don't think so hard next time.

Take this quiz now - it's easy!
We're going to start with "cot" and "caught." When you say those words do they sound the same or different?





HT: to , who has just a touch of New Yorker accent and Maryan -- where's Connecticut?

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As suspected, I confused the test! It comes from having lived all over the country while I was growing up. When I took linguistics, my prof always graded my exams as though I was a Texan. I made several visits to his office to show him that for me, certain pronunciations are not Texan (that usually only happens when I go home and visit). What a fun test! Thanks Jenn.

Posted by: Carole ... in the Heartland | Wednesday, August 29, 2007

See, I don't know how you got Southern when I took the same test and got Western, i.e. a neutral accent. I don't think anyone in our family has much of an accent except maybe Jess. I know that you and I talk very similarly. Curious as to how you answered...

Posted by: Glenn | Friday, August 31, 2007

Now what would make this really interesting for me as a facinated Australian, is to click on a button that gives me an example of all the different accents! American's must have distinctive differences or maybe we have too but our ears are not easily aware of them. The one thing people up north (where I live) notice in pinpointing I'm originally from the south is I say 'gone' with the 'o' sounding like a 'or' so you could say I drawl it. Otherwise it is different phrases, sayings or use of different words for things, that tend to identify someone as to where they have come from. When I first moved up north, we noticed that people often add 'ay' to the end of a sentence, like "Nice day today, ay? This something I now tend to do being up here for 20 years!! When I first arrived and was in school it amused me that children called their school bags, 'ports' - seemed pretty weird to me, when I first heard it....

Posted by: aussieannie | Monday, September 03, 2007

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