<p>“It says that I’m from the Northeast and indicates that if I was from NYC other New Yorkers could tell from my accent. Well, I’m a born and bred New Yorker and no one thinks I am. It was my mother’s life-long dream to raise us without accents. I guess she succeeded - some.”</p>
<p>My lifelong dream was to raise my New Yorker kids without accents and I think I succeeded.</p>
<p>That was fun; accurately identified as “The South.”</p>
<p>Northeastern, although I never had much if any accent. However, when I speak to people from other regions of the country sometimes they can identify the New Yorker in me!</p>
<p>The Northeast. I grew up in NYC but don’t have what people think of as a New York accent either. I do stand on, rather than in, line, though. :)</p>
<p>I got “The West”
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<p>It’s funny because I grew up in Erie, PA, and have always claimed I have no accent. No one has ever accused me of having one, either, even when I moved to the south.</p>
<p>Only thing that ever gives me away is when I ask for pop.</p>
<p>I got the West too- I don’t have an “accent” although sometimes people think I am from the UK 
( must be my porcelain skin 
)</p>
<p>“Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you’re a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent.”</p>
<p>I too got “the west” (although I’m a born and bred Floridian). What do they mean “lowest common denominator”? Are they cracking on our speech?</p>
<p>I have been told that I talk like a valley girl sometimes. Oh…My…Gawd. Like…auh! Like…how can they say that? Tch… Can you believe it? So…like…narley!</p>
<p>The West. Grew up there. DDs pick up accents from RMs. When they are around the Irish natives, it gets really crazy.</p>
<p>How do YOU say “measure”? Is it like “major” or “mesher”?</p>
<p>What about “drawer”? Or is it “draw”?</p>
<p>What about “mirror”? “Mirrah” or “meeror”?</p>
<p>Northeast.</p>
<p>I’m from LI, NY, but do not have the regional Longuyland accent. When I meet someone new they generally have no idea where I am from.</p>
<p>Years of studying foreign languages, and living in different parts of the country knocked that right out of me.</p>
<p>I did attend college in Boston and have to admit that I did soak up a bit of the “local color” during my years there–still say “wicked baaad” for fun–maybe I’m a little bit like violadad!</p>
<p>“As Philadelphian as a cheesesteak” - howdja know?</p>
<p>How do YOU say “measure”? Is it like “major” or “mesher”?
meh-shur</p>
<p>What about “drawer”? Or is it “draw”?
<p>What about “mirror”? “Mirrah” or “meeror”?
<p>is it a couch or a sofa? ( davenport?)
Curtains or drapes?
When is supper served?
Dinner?</p>
<p>Despite being a 5th-generation Texan, I got Midland. But I’m not really surprised - nobody thinks I sound Texan. I grew up in an area where a lot of families transferred in from other parts.</p>
<p>But ah kin tak lak a naytiv, ifn ah want.</p>
<p>Coupon - coo-pon or kew-pon?</p>
<p>North Central here…
“Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.”
Accurate for me, since I am Canadian!</p>
<p>I took it twice, got Philadelphia both times.</p>
<p>Why on EARTH didn’t they ask me how I say “wuter”/water?? 
(I don’t, but my extended family does. It drives me CRAZY!)</p>
<p>I emailed this to my VERY Philadelphian grandparents.</p>
<p>I got Inland North which makes sense since I live in Michigan. I never knew I had an accent until I spent time with some people from Baltimore and they asked why I said some words funny.</p>
<p>And pop is pop. Soda makes me think of the clear soda water stuff.</p>
<p>How do YOU say “measure”? Is it like “major” or “mesher”?</p>
<p>Mesher</p>
<p>What about “drawer”? Or is it “draw”?</p>
<p>drawer</p>
<p>What about “mirror”? “Mirrah” or “meeror”?</p>
<p>meeror</p>
<p>Coupon - coo-pon or kew-pon?</p>
<p>kew-pon</p>
<p>water / wuter</p>
<p>wah-ter</p>
<p>I got West - guess those 8 years in the NE didn’t stick.</p>
<p>I not quite sure I like the sound of having “the lowest common denomimator of American speech”. I feel insulted for some reason.</p>
<p>Midland for one quiz and neutral for the other one. Which is funny, because the only part of the U.S. I’ve lived in is the Northeast. And I was an ESL kid. Well, at least the results were consistent.</p>
<p>When we went to LA for a couple of days one summer, the family we stayed with told my parents I had an accent, although I really couldn’t tell the difference. Since I live in the Northeast, what does a Northeastern accent sound like? (I’m familiar with Boston and New York accents, but that’s about it.) Because the people I talk to around here sound pretty accentless.</p>
<p>demeter, it’s kind of the ‘no accent’ thing. Because you don’t say things differently, that’s your accent to those who do. I never knew Philadelphia had their own class of accent until that time in Miami and a few customers on the phone at work. The test confirmed it.</p>