Talking Out Of Turn

7 Comments

1. Tracey Sebold
   Posted 12/22/2007 at 10:06 pm | Permalink

   Hmmm. I totally thought it’d be Midwestern for me, but this was my result (I don’t think it was an accurate test):

   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
   Philadelphia
   The Inland North
   The Northeast
   The West
   Boston
   North Central
   What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

   As you can tell from my Wavatar, I am displeased. And a bit shocked.

2. Charles Sebold
   Posted 12/22/2007 at 10:11 pm | Permalink

   Doesn’t make sense to me, I think we have practically identical accents.

3. Charles Sebold
   Posted 12/22/2007 at 10:17 pm | Permalink

   For our readers, we have now compared our answers, and they were different enough to produce different results.

4. Patrick Chan (600 comments.)
   Posted 12/22/2007 at 11:11 pm | Permalink

   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
   North Central
   Boston
   The South
   The Inland North
   Philadelphia
   The Northeast
   What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

   “Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech.” Bummer!

5. Amber Sebold (46 comments.)
   Posted 12/23/2007 at 3:59 am | Permalink

   What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Northeast Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.Philadelphia The Inland North The Midland The South Boston The West North Central What American accent do you have?Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

6. Charles Sebold
   Posted 12/23/2007 at 7:09 am | Permalink

   Amber’s result only surprises me, in that the quiz was accurate enough to pinpoint the American accent she most closely resembles. And it pegged Patrick, I guess. I don’t hear a hint of “Southern accent” in Tracey. Very strange.

   And, yes, things are still set up to only allow HTML for those who post here. Sorry. At least most of the post still makes sense.

7. Rob
   Posted 12/24/2007 at 11:58 am | Permalink

   Well, I don’t know much about how to post the links, but my result was 100% Philadelphia. The comments said something to the order of “You are as Philly’ as cheesesteaks,” if I remember correctly :-).