desh ([personal profile] desh) wrote2006-11-01 06:40 pm

Is anyone surprised?

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: Philadelphia
 

Your accent is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak! If you're not from Philadelphia, then you're from someplace near there like south Jersey, Baltimore, or Wilmington. if you've ever journeyed to some far off place where people don't know that Philly has an accent, someone may have thought you talked a little weird even though they didn't have a clue what accent it was they heard.

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


Yeah, Philly, more so than basically any other American city, has an accent in which these similar-sounding (to some) pairs of words are pronounced differently.

By the way, for anyone who does this meme, the HTML is broken. The first <tr> and <td> need closing tags before the second ones start. Thank yew.

yes I did learn to talk in St. Louis!!!

[identity profile] intangiblehugs.livejournal.com 2006-11-03 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

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