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Re: American Accents
Posted By: Joona I Palaste, on host 88.114.94.125
Date: Saturday, November 11, 2006, at 16:14:20
In Reply To: American Accents posted by Sam on Saturday, November 11, 2006, at 09:46:52:

> Leen came across this page, which asks a surprisingly small number of questions and then claims to identify which accent you have. It only covers American accents, although it would not surprise me if it got Canadian accents about right.
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> When Leen and I took the test, it put Leen in the Boston area (stipulating that "New Hampshire" was included in that grouping despite that NH accents don't sound anything like Boston accents) and me in the "northeast," which seemed to be defined as southern New England and New York. That's probably about right -- although I live in New Hampshire now, I've also lived in Virginia and England, and maybe New York is where I average out.

I, not being a native English speaker, also took this quiz, and answered it the way I learned to pronounce English from how it was taught at our school. Here's the result:

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Northeast

Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.

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