What's your accent?

[ON Progressive]

Taking this as a Canadian got me this:

[Libertas Vel Mors]

[West_Midlander]

[WD]

My top three were Providence, Newark, and Rochester. Makes sense since I was born and raised in the Northeast.

[Mr. Smith]

Interesting, I follow a Russian YT'er that I totally had confused for a Brooklynite until he started mentioning Russian topics and switching the channel's focus.

[politicallefty]

I've done this a few times before and I always get roughly the same top cities. Apparently, the fact that I say freeway sets me apart from most. I thought most people said freeway.

[SInNYC]

The only two red parts of the map it gives me are HI and OK. Incidentally, these are 2 of the 10 states I haven't visited. After that I have red clusters in upstate NY and the Bay Area. I'm totally blue in MI and LA. IRL, I've met Scandinavians who think I must have lived there.

I think this just classifies my accent as just crazy.

[It’s so Joever]

For some reason my phone is acting weird and won’t copy the link, but my hotspots were in the VA/DC/NC area, Colorado, South Arizona, and Georgia.
The first two make sense, I lived my early childhood in the former and live in the latter, but I have zero clue how the f**k Georgia and Arizona came up. Maybe I am just designed for the Sunbelt Stack?

My top three cities were Richmond (where most of my family lives lol), Raleigh (lived in Chapel Hill during formative years) and Columbus, GA (?)

[Torrain]

Apparently, my accent is most closely matched to Honolulu of all places.

In real life, thanks to moving around, my accent is a bizarre mix of the clipped English accent found in Cambridgeshire, and the rougher accent from rural Fife in Scotland (examples below). It's a weird situation, and leads to a lot of automatic code-switching, depending on who's around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBTT1z25lzw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFQvu4Go7EA

[ProudModerate2]

I still like to hear people from eastern Mass pronounce "car" as "cah."

[Pro-Israel, anti-Bibi]

Not from Florida, but my top three cities were St. Petersburg, Tampa, and Jacksonville. My dad's family was from the midwest (Indiana/Ohio) and my mom's was more East Coast (Philly and Maryland). So I'm not sure about this result, maybe Florida uses more common American phrases because so many of its residents are from elsewhere in the country? I think these quizzes would be more accurate if they sampled more common words (cawfee, wooder, )

[Horsemask]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html?r=00l040ss000010600jj2000080j04006041101800100000100

Boston, Springfield, Worcester. Checks out.

[Skunk]

Most similar: Plano, Irving, and Garland
Least similar: Philadelphia, Providence, and Springfield

[Crumpets]

Most similar: Seattle, Spokane, Salt Lake City
Least similar: Philadelphia, Newark/Paterson, Jersey City

Looks pretty accurate, although when I was in Salt Lake City, the accent sounded noticeably different, although I'm not sure how. Plus I feel like most southern accents sound more different than Philly/New Jersey accents, but that might just be a case of having less exposure to people with thick southern accents.

[Tiger08]

Austin, Oxnard, and San Antonio. Other hotspots are most of CA, NM, CO, and SC.

[HillGoose]

catch me not making an account, but I remember doing this test before and mine were literally all cities in Georgia. Savannah, Augusta, and Columbus if I remember correctly. But basically most all of the South was deep red.

And there was some weird non-southern area that I was similar to, I can't remember where though. It might have been like, the part of California not near the coast.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

catch me not making an account, but I remember doing this test before and mine were literally all cities in Georgia. Savannah, Augusta, and Columbus if I remember correctly. But basically most all of the South was deep red.

And there was some weird non-southern area that I was similar to, I can't remember where though. It might have been like, the part of California not near the coast.

Probably Bakersfield.  That area of California has a local accent that has a lot in common with Southern accents (notably the pen-pin merger) due to historical migration patterns.

[Alben Barkley]

It nailed me right down to my hometown of Lexington.

[Mr. Smith]

Highest: Reno/Santa Rosa/Fremont
Lowest: Philadelphia/Newark/New Orleans

My condolences

[W]

Every time I take it I get wildly different results. I've lived in Southern California and Upstate New York and have a parent from Massachusetts and one from Illinois. I guess it is not possible to categorize my weird amalgamation of an accent.

[jaymichaud]

Santa Rosa, San Jose and Las Vegas. No idea why.

[It's Perro Sanxe wot won it]

Least similar: Spokane, Salt Lake City and Chattanooga, Tennesse.

[Left Wing]

Most similar: Santa Rosa, San Jose, Fresno
Least similar: Shreveport, New Orleans, Jackson
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html?r=0024488k080010200j810000014001040j0j008001080b0100
The map looks like a late 19th century election result

[Cokeland Saxton]

Most similar: Fresno/Jackson/Colorado Springs
Least similar: Pittsburgh/Worcester/Providence

[100% pro-life no matter what]

Given the talk about politicians' accents, I thought it might be fun to bring this back.  I just took it again and got Greensboro, Raleigh, and Winston-Salem.  So, I guess I talk like a North Carolinian!

I've taken this periodically throughout the years and it seems that I get North Carolina about half the time and Alabama/Mississippi about half the time, but it's rarely a mix of those.  I know that they have more than 25 questions, so it might depend on which get asked.

I do think North Carolina is more accurate than Alabama/Mississippi.  My mom is from North Carolina, and it stands to reason that I would have learned a lot of how to speak from her.  Then, I would have influences from growing up in Pennsylvania and living in Tennessee my whole adult life.  North Carolinian English actually does kind of sound like a Southern accent with a slight East Coast touch (i.e. Ar-inge, Flar-Duh, or Far-ist), at least as it's spoken by my family who has lived in Raleigh for centuries.

The other thing I have noticed is that my accent has not been remotely static over the years.  Rather, it's gradually become much more Southern and less East Coast.  My little brother loves to make fun of me for it.  There are certain characteristics to a Southern accent that I've always had; for instance, I didn't know until I was 17 that anyone pronounced pen and pin differently, even growing up in Pennsylvania.  I suspect that was because I learned that from my mom (whose once strong accent had faded but maybe wasn't totally erased).  Then, my brain must have unconsciously autocorrected it from other people.

Also interesting to me is how I mentally now hear accents.  Unless it's really thick (like someone from a very rural area or over a certain age), I don't really register hearing a Southern accent anymore, unless I'm consciously looking for it.  I imagine that it is like British people not hearing a British accent (and I imagine that American ex-pats get accustomed to it over time).  Whereas, the last couple times I have gone back to Pennsylvania, I have thought that a lot of the people there talked really weird that I probably never would have thought of when I was a kid.