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#1
Posted 29 May 2013 - 03:04 PM
It hit is right on the head.... despite living in MD for the last 15 yrs and having lived and traveled in other states, I was born and raised in New York City (The Bronx to be exact)
What American accent do you have?Your Result: The Northeast
88% 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.
81% The Inland North73% Philadelphia50% The South40% The Midland31% Boston15% North Central6% The West
#2
Posted 29 May 2013 - 09:31 PM
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#6
Posted 30 May 2013 - 02:53 AM
"You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop.""
Edited by Josephine, 30 May 2013 - 02:54 AM.
#7
Posted 30 May 2013 - 03:55 AM
Take the Quiz..... http://www.lewrockwe...ccent-quiz.html
It hit is right on the head.... despite living in MD for the last 15 yrs and having lived and traveled in other states, I was born and raised in New York City (The Bronx to be exact)
What American accent do you have?Your Result: The Northeast
88% 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.
81% The Inland North73% Philadelphia50% The South40% The Midland31% Boston15% North Central6% The West
where are you from the bronx, i grew up on mt eden off the concourse
#8
Posted 30 May 2013 - 10:47 AM
Take the Quiz..... http://www.lewrockwe...ccent-quiz.html
It hit is right on the head.... despite living in MD for the last 15 yrs and having lived and traveled in other states, I was born and raised in New York City (The Bronx to be exact)
What American accent do you have?Your Result: The Northeast
88% 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.
81% The Inland North73% Philadelphia50% The South40% The Midland31% Boston15% North Central6% The West
where are you from the bronx, i grew up on mt eden off the concourse
Sedgwick Ave right across the street from the Veterans Hospital on Kingsbridge Rd.
#9
Posted 30 May 2013 - 04:02 PM
Take the Quiz..... http://www.lewrockwe...ccent-quiz.html
It hit is right on the head.... despite living in MD for the last 15 yrs and having lived and traveled in other states, I was born and raised in New York City (The Bronx to be exact)
What American accent do you have?Your Result: The Northeast
88% 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.
81% The Inland North73% Philadelphia50% The South40% The Midland31% Boston15% North Central6% The West
where are you from the bronx, i grew up on mt eden off the concourse
Sedgwick Ave right across the street from the Veterans Hospital on Kingsbridge Rd.
a landsman
#10
Posted 30 May 2013 - 07:58 PM
#13
Posted 30 May 2013 - 10:36 PM
I had a friend in grad school who had an amazing (to me) ear for accents. She'd hear someone talk and would peg them immediately, and with astonishing precision -- often discerning mixed accents, as where one had grown up in one place and then gone to school in another.
#15
Posted 03 June 2013 - 09:00 PM
Take the Quiz..... http://www.lewrockwe...ccent-quiz.html
It hit is right on the head.... despite living in MD for the last 15 yrs and having lived and traveled in other states, I was born and raised in New York City (The Bronx to be exact)
What American accent do you have?Your Result: The Northeast
88% 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.
81% The Inland North73% Philadelphia50% The South40% The Midland31% Boston15% North Central6% The West
where are you from the bronx, i grew up on mt eden off the concourse
Sedgwick Ave right across the street from the Veterans Hospital on Kingsbridge Rd.
Tom, I'll wave to your street next time I drive my wife to work. She teaches some at Lehman College. I find my way home by spotting the Armory and then the VA Hospital.
Incidentally, the quiz dropped me about 800 miles from home: it said "midland" accent. I grew up in and around Washington, DC, a third generation Washingtonian from Virginia families that moved "down" to Washington when the farming gave out. I must have imitated Huntley/Brinkley or Walter Cronkite while growing up...did not want that "Warshnin" accent...and I've lived in and near Manhattan for more than 40 years.
One revealing question would have been "soda" or "pop". Never heard of "pop" until I went to Chicago.
Another: Is "route 1" pronounced "root 1", like the root of a tree, or "rout 1", as in "Washington routed Denver in Super Bowl 22".
#16
Posted 04 June 2013 - 07:24 AM
Another: Is "route 1" pronounced "root 1", like the root of a tree, or "rout 1", as in "Washington routed Denver in Super Bowl 22".
Wow. That's interesting. I thought all Americans said "rout" not "root". Seems some of you speak English after all ... [runs for cover!]
Claire
#17
Posted 04 June 2013 - 11:44 AM
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Take the Quiz..... http://www.lewrockwe...ccent-quiz.html
It hit is right on the head.... despite living in MD for the last 15 yrs and having lived and traveled in other states, I was born and raised in New York City (The Bronx to be exact)
What American accent do you have?Your Result: The Northeast
88% 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.
81% The Inland North73% Philadelphia50% The South40% The Midland31% Boston15% North Central6% The West
Ch. Tells me I'm from 'inland north,' but I wuz born in Da Bronix.
Gran Corcourse, if yer innerestid.
(But evidently, I don't sound like that!)
#18
Posted 04 June 2013 - 11:31 PM
Take the Quiz..... http://www.lewrockwe...ccent-quiz.html
It hit is right on the head.... despite living in MD for the last 15 yrs and having lived and traveled in other states, I was born and raised in New York City (The Bronx to be exact)
What American accent do you have?Your Result: The Northeast
88% 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.
81% The Inland North73% Philadelphia50% The South40% The Midland31% Boston15% North Central6% The West
Ch. Tells me I'm from 'inland north,' but I wuz born in Da Bronix.
Gran Corcourse, if yer innerestid.
(But evidently, I don't sound like that!)
i was born on da concourse also, but lived one block away. mt eden, 174 and walton.
wanna see the old neighborhood?
http://www.pbase.com...organ/the_bronx
and
http://www.pbase.com/patmorgan/bronx_2
#19
Posted 05 June 2013 - 11:56 AM
Grandma still lived there (Grand Concours) when I was a kid, but I paid little attention to names of streets back then. All I know is that I could walk to one of the big department stores but I have no idea if I headed north or south or wherever. Then as now I navigated by landmarks. ;-)
#20
Posted 12 June 2013 - 12:24 PM
Accents are a fascinating topic. This exam is clearly only for the USA, and I've seen others that are much more extensive.
I had a friend in grad school who had an amazing (to me) ear for accents. She'd hear someone talk and would peg them immediately, and with astonishing precision -- often discerning mixed accents, as where one had grown up in one place and then gone to school in another.
Thats me too, real interest in accents and location and derivation of last names. Living in England there are towns that are just 3 miles apart with different accents and even diffrent words for the same objects, a classic is the name of a bread roll, anything from roll, to barm to breadcake etc etc.
When you go into the north of scotland the accents are more Scandinavian than UK. I work in construction in London and the main accents I hear are either Essex, where they pronounce Southend as Sarfen' or superposh where, for example, the word rats is pronounced rates and a whole different way of talking and behaviour.
The quiz pegged me as NE USA, although many brits tink I have an atlantic accent which probably comes from too many Joni Mitchel albums as a youth, although I grew up on a farm in Herefordshire which was the home county of many Mayflower pilgrims, so maybe not.
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Edited by Penman, 12 June 2013 - 12:27 PM.
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