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November 11, 2006

Accents

Filed under: Personal — cec @ 12:16 am

I just saw and took the American Accent online quiz and got a result that surprised me (sorry, i can’t get the results blob working in wordpress). It claims that my result is “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.”

frankly, I had a hard time buying this at first. I’ve *never* been asked if I’m from Chicago. The closest anyone’s ever come to guessing my accent is “somewhere in the south.” Then I realized that the top bar is at 85% for the Inland North, the Midland is 80% and the South is 77%. Since my parents are from Rhode Island and Iowa, they went to college in Illinois and I was born and raised in Louisiana, I suppose this makes sense.

Oh, and for the record, I’ve never called a soft drink a “pop,” they go by the generic term “coke.”

1 Comment

  1. You find all the cool quizzes. I’m following you around the quiz realm in my blog lately.

    Comment by etselec — November 13, 2006 @ 1:53 pm

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