What's your accent?

[angus]

I got pretty much the exact opposite of you (heavy on New York/New Jersey and Louisiana, but light on the Pacific Northwest):



I think maybe we got different questions, though.  I didn't see anything about a dance or about potatoes, or about spendy or coffee slang.  Mine asked me about things like the night before Halloween (I have no special name for this); the grassy area just outside the sidewalk, which I just call the grassy area outside the sidewalk; and a drive-through liquor store, which I just call a drive-through liquor store.  

My cities were New York, New Orleans, and Yonkers.  

[OneJ]

This what I got y'all! :




They were pretty accurate considering that I actually do live in Jackson.

Baton Rouge and Richmond were 2 & 3 respectively.

-Looks a lot like the Hughes-Wilson map (or the Bush-Gore map):

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/1916nationwidecountymapshadedbyvoteshare.svg

Interesting indeed.

[Illiniwek]

Lol it got Aurora, IL PERFECTLY. Rockford and Madison as well.

Least similar: New Orleans, Pittsburgh, and Worcester.

[NOVA Green]

Interestingly enough, this actually places my accent close to Bay Area Northern California, although I have spent a good chunk of my life in Oregon, with a parent from the NYC area and the other from SW PA, have lived in Ohio for four years, and Texas for three....

Several of the questions I could have gone several ways, but there wasn't a choice (Cougar/Mountain Lion) and a few others.... that being said, when I lived in Ohio my accent shifted a bit, when I lived in Texas it shifted a bit, and sometimes I still use y'all even back out in Oregon.

Fun survey--- tks for posting and will need to post on Facebook for all my friends enjoyment....

[Antonio the Sixth]

Opinions differ. Some have told me I have no accent at all, others say I have a "very thick accent" to the point of being unintelligible.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Springfield, Boston, and Worcester were my top three. Only the Connecticut River valley says "tag sale", and "rotary" firmly situated me in Massachusetts.

[LLR]

I talk like a liberal:



This is what happens when you take the Midwest, Canada, and New York City and throw it in a blender with a little bit of "y'all"

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

True Floridian here lmao

[DavidB.]

As a non-native speaker I'm obviously used to the New York accent, so this seems pretty normal:


Crazy how this test seems to be so accurate for so many of you guys.

[JA]

Considering I'm a Florida native, this is pretty much accurate.

[DavidB.]

Does Michigan have such a distinct accent?

[Beet]

[Lambsbread]

Philadelphia/Yonkers/Newark/Paterson

i'm from the Philadelphia suburbs so

[(Still) muted by Kalwejt until March 31]

-Reminiscent of the anti-Trump swing.

[(Still) muted by Kalwejt until March 31]

Does Michigan have such a distinct accent?

-Not obviously.

[Coolface Sock #42069]

Top cities: Wichita, Overland Park, KS, and Indianapolis.

I'm clearly a lifelong Midwesterner.

[Lachi]

As an Australian, my most similar cities are NY, LA, and Santa Clarita, with the entire western US red.

And this is my map

[Antonio the Sixth]

https://nyti.ms/2lhMJVQ

(about half of my answers were "I have no word for this" though)

[RINO Tom]

These quizzes never get me right, haha.  No one cares to get the nuances of Peoria, and I don't blame them.  Solid soda country in a sea of pop, not really an Iowa accent (which honestly sounds like perfectly phonetic English, LOL) but definitely not Chicago ... pretty much a mix of the two.

[This account no longer in use.]

Boston/Worcester/Pembroke Pines. My only real similarities are in New England, Florida, and the southwest.

[RaphaelDLG]

Got Baltimore, Newark, Yonkers.

Never lived in any of those places (or states), and in fact have never been to the two latter ones as far as I can remember, at least besides highway driving.

Most distinctive words were "sunshower" and "yard sale."

ETA:  I lived in Montgomery County, Maryland for a quick minute before I could talk

[Santander]

Rochester and Buffalo are 2 of my top 3. Makes sense since I say both "pop" and "sneakers". I don't sound like people from here though.

[Figueira]

Boston/New York/Arlington (VA) according to that. But really I think my dialect is a cross between California and Western New England, which are both pretty generic-sounding.

[fhtagn]

Greensboro, NC
Durham, NC
Montgomery, AL

I mean I guess it makes sense cause a large part of my growing up was in Fayetteville, NC (as well as Virginia).
But I don't really think I sound very Southern when I talk.

[JustinTimeCuber]

This is bizzare.

I align strongly with CA, NV, MI, and Greater St. Louis. Odd assortment.