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November 23, 2006
Where do you sound like you're from?
| 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. | |
| Philadelphia | |
| The West | |
| Boston | |
| The Northeast | |
| The Inland North | |
| The South | |
| North Central | |
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I'm fascinated by accents, always have been; I seemed to pick them up easily. My college French professor used to tell me during our time in France, "Monsieur Lief, you 'ave a parfait accent; you sound like you were born à Paree. But your vocabulaire! Mon dieu! So small."
When I was in Israel, same thing. People would rattle on at me in Hebrew, 'cause what little I knew sounded like it was coming from a Sabra, i.e., a native-born speaker, but I'd exhaust my vocab in about three or four paragraphs.
Hailing originally from New York, with a few years spent in New Jersey, I often have a tinge of Gotham via the Turnpike in my speech. However, it seems that when I'm away from my Brooklyn-esque family, I revert to a neutral inflection.
Perhaps I'll hang up my bar card and try my hand at voiceover work.
Or not.
Posted by Mike Lief at November 23, 2006 12:25 AM
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I rated very high Inland north, and very close second on northeast, which I am from the northeast. So the quiz wasn't quite accurate.
But, it did say that people do have a hard time pinning down my accent. I do get that alot. It comes from living in NJ most of my life, with a mother from New England, and a father from the hills of Kentucky.
All of the mishmashing of accents gives you an ear for them, and guides your pronunciations. I can pretty much nail a persons home state. I had an XO who came from my dad's hometown, and he was amazed that I guessed where he was from.
Posted by: sonarman at November 23, 2006 09:21 AM
Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
Posted by: sonarman at November 23, 2006 12:45 PM