I got "The Inland North", which I believe is the only correct score on this test.

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lol, I'm apparently from The Inland North and I'm not even American!

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Your Result: The West

Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta.

I haven't a clue why they call it the West. I'm born and raised in the east coast. If anything, my accent slips into a slightly Southern drawl. The one time I went to Cali, no one believed I was from Virginia, and a couple of people did mistake me for a surfer.

"What American accent do you have?
Your Result: Philadelphia"

I would say that is pretty close, but not spot on; but, I guess it comes as close as a multiple question internet test can determine.

I know folks from Phila. & they have a different accent than I. They pronounce words like "down" with more of an "ah" sound than I do...



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The Inland North.

The description doesn't really fit me though... I sound like the average American and don't have a region-specific accent. Especially not from the Chicago area! LOL

I do however, have a region-specific grammatical dialect in my speech. I grew up in the Rocky Mountains in an environment where the people were not very concerned with speaking properly. I would say things like: "I went and got me a book." Or "We was there." Over the years I have learned to speak better but I still battle with it sometimes. Written grammar is a problem sometimes, too. Just yesterday I was trying to figure out if a comma should go after "whereas" or if it required a semi-colon beforehand. *shrug* And today I ended a sentence with a verb and even though it drove me crazy to leave it like that, I left it because it appealed to my redneck senses and sounded normal to me. LOL!!

haha, that makes your email to me far more entertaining than it originally was,LOL

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Oh, mirror in the sky
What is love?
Can the child within my heart rise above?
Can I sail through the changing ocean tides?
Can I handle the seasons of my life?

The Midland! That's great and so much fun. Linguistics was one of my minors and I really love the regional variations. I can always tell Canucks by their saying ABOOT instead of ABOWT. LOL

This one --

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Moving on, what do you think about "Mary," "merry," and "marry"?

They all do sound the same for everybody, right? I just can't think of how they could sound different.

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> haha, that makes your email to me far more
> entertaining than it originally was,LOL

I know, right? That phrase was definately one of my old habits that took a conscious effort to change.

I tend to only mix up my words or phrases when I haven't been sleeping well, or am having trouble focusing for other reasons, one of my biggest issues with written grammar is to much punctuation, as I mimic my speaking style with punctuation in writing form, I find it more personable than perfect written grammar.

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Oh, mirror in the sky
What is love?
Can the child within my heart rise above?
Can I sail through the changing ocean tides?
Can I handle the seasons of my life?

That was fun. Inland North, me. But that would surprise no one who hears my upper Great Lakes nasal twang, with its telltale dropped gs and burred ts and ds.

Thanks for posting, KidRaw

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> Moving on, what do you think about "Mary,"
> "merry," and "marry"?
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> They all do sound the same for everybody, right?
> I just can't think of how they could sound
> different.

I think you know the answer but thanks for the question.

The a in Mary is as in mare.

Merry is like berry.

With marry the rr is almost as in mare-ry.

I answered "differently" for most of the questions.

Yes, I answered they sound the same. But, the truth is I do pronounce them differently, but I'm not sure if it's actually heard by other people or if the difference is large enough to be considered different.

I agree... I pronounce them differently and enunciate the difference but I am not sure it is heard differently, especially during conversation. It is the context that makes them different.

I have had a situation with a woman who was Black and said PEEN, and meant pin. I think it's a Southern thing, in general,rather than a racial group, from what this survey says. The funny thing was that it took a bit for me to get it through my head what she wanted and I was embarrassed! I didn't want her to think that I didn't understand her because I initially thought she was saying PEN, not pin. LOL