| 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 | |
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Sunday, 31 December 2006
My American accent
Apparently, in American accent terms, I sound as though I come from the North East.
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Father,
That's because people from the NE (Rhode Island, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire) sound most closely like people from the UK.
;)
I got the same. It makes sense. :)
No, Father Tim,
You do not have an American accent, from the North East or anywhere else.
You just speak English correctly...
(I know, I checked, and I have the same "score"!)
;-P
How ya doin! From a native NYer! Yuu guyz in England sound like us? Gettouthere! : )
In the not so distant past, you could hear a more ... Anglicized version of American English in the Northeast. The Roosevelts from New York's Hyde Park are an example, as is William F. Buckley, also from New York (I believe).
The film "Mickey Blue Eyes" starring Hugh Grant has an hilarious scene where he tries to imitate the mafia guys saying "gettoutahere."
Mac,
I hate to bring it up, and I don't want an international incident, but... "aluminIum?"
;)
Ma Beck: it's NOT a-loo-min-num, it's a-lum-in-ee-um.
ROFL
Well, Prof. Higgins in "My Fair Lady" is *supposed* to speak English right, and he drops r's like they have syphilis.
Fine, the English speak English correctly. Mighta guessed.
Histor
When I was in Rome, the guys at the NAC used to claim that because of the "Great Vowel Shift" they were the ones speaking English correctly. (I can't quite remember how they worked it out.)
"The Midland"?? They must mean the Midwest, as in Michigan and Illinois.
Hmmm...reversing the bias in terminology, what if we Americans started referring to the South of England as Dixie...
... I'd be very tempted to hang out the "Southern Cross" :-)
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