| What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland
"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio. | |
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Well. I've lived in Minnesota for the first 50 years of my life and Wisconsin for the past 7 -- never any of those places noted in the quiz results. It's still kind of a fun quiz, though. Thanks to Ann for the link.
People really do talk like the movie Fargo here in the upper midwest, although typically only a, in small towns, 2, people over 40, and C, without a college education. Even then, it's no guarantee. There are other idiosyncrasies of local speech patterns, though. When my older son spent 6 weeks at a seminar at the University of Michigan with 20 other high school kids from all over the US (although mostly from the east) and a couple foreign countries, he was ribbed about how much "melk" he drank. I had never realized we used that silly pronunciation. Aside: at one point during the seminar the kids had a talent show in which everyone, no exceptions, had to perform. #1 son has no particular performance talent, but he is creative. His presentation was to show how fast he could drink a quart of melk.
My husband, from Chicago, refers to the capacity of a computer's hard drive in terms of "gegs." Maybe that's where the melk came from. And Matthew teases us if we say Mondee, Tuesdee, Wednesdee, etc. My pronunciation of those is actually midway between that and the correct "-day" because I heard it in my speech and worked to correct it. Another one that annoys me and that I try to avoid is "hunnurd" for "hundred."
But I still say "You bet!" for "yes" and "Yah" for "yeah." You can take the girl out of the small town but you can't take the small town out of the girl.
