| What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Inland North 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." | |
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Although when we lived in Madison, Wisconsin back when I was a newborn, my mother, from Columbus, Ohio, often was asked what part of the South she was from. I don't know if anyone from Wisconsin (or Chi-Town) would think I was a native of their parts.
(Thanks to John Schroeder for leading me to this quiz. It's clever.)
2 comments:
Boring old Midlands for me -- no accent at all.
But when I graduated high school, you could tell I'd spent the past years living in Oklahoma!
Jeff:
Isn't it interesting how, even in our adult years, though in less pronounced ways, our enunciations, accents, and even word choices are altered by where we live?
I remember hearing Charles Kuralt muse on the fact that when he first went on the road to do his "slice of life" reports from various parts of the country, he expected to go to remote places and find that because of mass media homogenization, distinctive accents had disappeared. He found that not to be the case. Place still matters, it seems...even in this cyber-age.
Mark
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