No shock there.

[jwgh]

What American accent do you have? Your Result: Boston   You definitely have a Boston accent, even if you think you don't. Of course, that doesn't mean you are from the Boston area, you may also be from New Hampshire or Maine.
The Midland
The West
The Northeast
North Central
Philadelphia
The Inland North
The South
What American accent do you have?

I didn't answer one of the questions because the correct answer wasn't listed. It was the one about how 'Mary', 'merry', and 'marry' are pronounced.

Edit: fixed crappy HTML which was causing weird Livejournal display problems.

Comments

[paperclippy.livejournal.com]

I think this test is rigged -- I got the same results as you but I grew up in LA with two parents from New Jersey, and I definitely don't have a Boston accent. People tell me they can hear my (San Fernando) Valley accent when I talk even.

[twillis.livejournal.com]

That was cute. I rated the Midland. So my time in the Ozarks and my time in Boston didn't mess my accent up too badly. Or maybe the two times canceled each other out.

I do know that I can slip my speech a bit, if I'm tired it's a bit more twangy, yet with the odd east coast pronounciation thrown in (picked up from my Yonkers roommate, I think, rather than Boston). But I answered the questions the way "correctly", ie, the way the words are pronounced when I am making an effort to speak properly.

I sort of thought the Great Aunt Controversy would be there, but perhaps it isn't definititive.

[cpr94.livejournal.com]

I got 100% Boston. Of course this is a pretty crummy quiz if they have to say, "You have a Boston accent, even if you think you don't." Because I can assure you, I was unable to understand someone from Boston; I'd frequently think, " Oh, there's an R in that word!"

[christychristy.livejournal.com]

I took a similar sort of quiz and it told me I spoke mostly standard amerian english, with a little new england and a little southern thrown in. This one says I am 100% The West: Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent.

I am proud of my generic american accent. It irritates me that I sometimes catch myself saying cahv-entry rather than cuv-entry when referring to Coventry, RI.

[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

Huh, I just got 'The Northeast.' I wish the quiz elucidated how each answer contributes to the final categorization.

This is like

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

those font identifiers (http://www.identifont.com/identify.html) that give you an answer based on a bunch of fine details, but can't find similarities in overall appearance when a few key details are different. "Cot/caught" in particular gives me three different results, all wrong! I would have said they were totally different here in Upstate New York through the southern Midwest ("Northeast" and "Midlands"), similar (gradations of "aw") in northern New England ("Boston"), and identical (both like "ah") in the northern Midwest ("Inland North"). Instead, answering "same" makes me "Midlands," "different" makes me "Inland North," and only saying they're similar and saying "feel" and "fill" are also similar (which seems western to me) makes me "Northeast."