What's your accent?

[Nutmeg]

Most similar: Arlington (VA), Baltimore, D.C.
Least similar: Minneapolis, New Orleans, Tacoma

Makes sense given that my dad is from Philly, my mom is from near St. Louis, and I live in D.C.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I guess Cornwall's similarity to the US also stems from the fact that, like the US and in contrast to most of England, it is both rhotic (you pronounce the "R" in "start")

Would be a good example of a false positive though; the rhotic sound in question is quite different.

[parochial boy]

I guess Cornwall's similarity to the US also stems from the fact that, like the US and in contrast to most of England, it is both rhotic (you pronounce the "R" in "start")

Would be a good example of a false positive though; the rhotic sound in question is quite different.

Well yeah, but given how sophisticated an online test is going to be...

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Most similar cities were Detroit, MI, Grand Rapids, MI and Fort Wayne, IN. Weakest were Boston, MA, Springfield, MA, and New York City, NY. I had favorable areas throughout the Mid-West between MI and MO, with a random dark red spot in Northern California. Outside of the Northeast, my other weak regions were the South, Hawaii, and MN/ND. In short, apparently I sound very much like I'm from Michigan.

[NOVA Green]

Columbus science museum

You worked for COSI?

Not exactly.  I was a research assistant in one of the OSU Labs in Life.

Oregon State University?

[Clyde1998]

Least like Des Moiens (Iwoa), Springfield (Missouri) and Tulsa (Oklahoma).

[Torie]

Mine was the deepest red right around LA where I grew up.

[Donerail]

Top three cities are Lexington (KY), Tally, and Jacksonville, which makes sense to me. My family's from Kentucky, so Lexington makes sense, and while most of the South is red, a couple answers (sunshower, panther) tagged me as a Floridian. Least similar were Buffalo, Milwaukee, and Providence.

[Technocracy Timmy]

Before and after. What one year in the military will do.

[S019]

Newark/Paterson, Yonkers, and New York were the top three choices.


Does Moines, Little Rock, and Spokane were the least similar

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html?r=02244050440000b00j020001014040048j0k01800000020000

[Boobs]

Mid-Atlantic

[Senator Incitatus]

I don't think I have an accent. The only comment I've ever gotten from people who heard my voice but not seen me is that I sound "hot." I notice that people who see you in person tend to guess where you're from based on appearance, then assume an accent based on that. Bit of cognitive bias there.

I used to have a Long Island/New Jersey accent on some words, but I trained myself out of it.

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

Still a New Englander.

Most similar: Newark/Paterson, Yonkers, Boston
Least similar: Corpus Christi, Little Rock, Brownsville

Despite not having lived in Connecticut or anywhere up north for almost six years now I somehow sound more Northeastern. 

[Penn_Quaker_Girl]

Think Lyndon Johnson (or so I've been told). 

People are initially taken aback when a Texas drawl comes out of an otherwise normal-looking Gujju Indian, especially up here in the Northeast.   

[Farmlands]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html?r=4001400s08001080jj000800j1200105004021800102010200

This was interesting to do as someone who doesn't speak English as their native language. Got closest to Glendale, Las Vegas and Sunrise Manor. Would apparently fit right in with the West Coast.

[Lambsbread]

Newark/Philadelphia/Yonkers with a lot of similarities in GA/FL because I picked up on some Southern things from my ex many years ago and still say them.

Least similar are Milwaukee/Detroit/Spokane which will certainly make it challenging for me because I want to move to the Midwest lol

[afleitch]

The NYT test placed me in Glasgow; my accent is effectively West Central Scots. My closest key word; skipping school 'dog it', soft shoes 'gutties' place me closer to Lanarkshire which is accurate. My own accent is a slight hybrid as it's picked up some slight 'higher class' inflection due to going to private school. I'm not proud of it

As in this:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1819020744798983

[Sirius_]

My result gave me most heavily in the NY/NJ area, followed by the west moderately. I don't have a strong New Yorker accent but its more northern than southern, and my vocabulary overall is most like that region.

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

[LAKISYLVANIA]

West-Flemish, a language even Belgians cannot understand lol

West Flemish (Dutch: West-Vlaams, French: flamand occidental) is a Germanic language closely related to Dutch, and sometimes considered a dialect of Dutch, that is spoken in western Belgium and adjoining parts of the Netherlands and France.[3]

West Flemish is spoken by about a million people in the Belgian province of West Flanders, and a further 120,000 in the neighbouring Dutch coastal district of Zeelandic Flanders and 10,000 in the northern part of the French département of Nord.[1] Some of the main cities where West Flemish is widely spoken are Bruges, Dunkirk, Kortrijk, Ostend, Roeselare, Ypres and Newport.

West Flemish is listed as a "vulnerable" language in UNESCO's online Red Book of Endangered Languages.

[scutosaurus]

My top three are all in North Carolina (Charlotte, Raleigh, and Greensboro), while my bottom three are Worcester, Minneapolis, and Des Moines.

[OBD]

Strongest cities were Fremont, Corona, and Oceanside, while weakest were Akron, Pittsburg, and Philadelphia. Definitely a weird map though.

[afleitch]

West-Flemish, a language even Belgians cannot understand lol

West Flemish (Dutch: West-Vlaams, French: flamand occidental) is a Germanic language closely related to Dutch, and sometimes considered a dialect of Dutch, that is spoken in western Belgium and adjoining parts of the Netherlands and France.[3]

West Flemish is spoken by about a million people in the Belgian province of West Flanders, and a further 120,000 in the neighbouring Dutch coastal district of Zeelandic Flanders and 10,000 in the northern part of the French département of Nord.[1] Some of the main cities where West Flemish is widely spoken are Bruges, Dunkirk, Kortrijk, Ostend, Roeselare, Ypres and Newport.

West Flemish is listed as a "vulnerable" language in UNESCO's online Red Book of Endangered Languages.

This might be the time to reveal a lot of my childhood and adult holidays were in West Flanders; my family had a place in Oostende and I went everywhere along the coast as well as Bruges, Kortrijk etc.

[Orwell]

I got Grand Rapids-Rockford-Toledo

[LAKISYLVANIA]

West-Flemish, a language even Belgians cannot understand lol

West Flemish (Dutch: West-Vlaams, French: flamand occidental) is a Germanic language closely related to Dutch, and sometimes considered a dialect of Dutch, that is spoken in western Belgium and adjoining parts of the Netherlands and France.[3]

West Flemish is spoken by about a million people in the Belgian province of West Flanders, and a further 120,000 in the neighbouring Dutch coastal district of Zeelandic Flanders and 10,000 in the northern part of the French département of Nord.[1] Some of the main cities where West Flemish is widely spoken are Bruges, Dunkirk, Kortrijk, Ostend, Roeselare, Ypres and Newport.

West Flemish is listed as a "vulnerable" language in UNESCO's online Red Book of Endangered Languages.

This might be the time to reveal a lot of my childhood and adult holidays were in West Flanders; my family had a place in Oostende and I went everywhere along the coast as well as Bruges, Kortrijk etc.

I live in Kortrijk and my parents have a place in Middelkerke, neighbouring town of Ostend.