What type of accent do you have?

anon94785555
Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:26:53 +0000

Fun quizzes, thanks. Inland North- I notice the difference in speech south of MN, WI, MI. Regarding soda and pop- I still remember having this discussion in the dorm freshman year eons ago. Milwaukee does soda, Madison pop, and a non-Missourian transfer student said they did sody-pop in St. Louis. The map cuts through Wisconsin. I was taught the term bubbler was only used in Wisconsin (BTW, there’s a dictionary of regional speech being worked on, possibly finished by now, in Wis)- the quiz added Massachusetts (any verification?)! Of course I’m not southern- 24%/16% on the quizzes. One problem with some of the questions- there was no “none of the above” choice. I learned to distinguish NY, NJ and Boston accents by knowing people from those places in college (at that age I had left Wisconsin only to go to Chicago- finances…).