OT Accent Quiz

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:16:20 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_america...nt_do_you_have

How about that. This quiz got me right, I grew up in southern Illinois.

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.


Oh, yeah, it's really accurate - apparently, not only do I sound like
I'm almost certainly from Philadelphia (which I had been fairly certain
_was_ in PA), the quiz corrected my previously-held erroneous belief -
Philly is apparently in "north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or
Rhode Island." It hedged its bets, though - if I'm not from Philly or
the Northeast, I'm surely from the inland north, the midland, the south,
Boston, or the west. It does seem fairly sure I'm not from "the north
central"...and it may have finally gotten something correct, depending
on what it defines as "north central."

Whoever wrote the quiz has obviously never been to Charleston, much less
heard someone from there speak...and Dallas is most definitely not a big
"southern" city...of course, since there are only about 73 people left
_in_ Florida that are actually _from_ Florida, I can well understand
confusion on that one: How do you pronounce "Feliz Joyeux Chanukah?"
and "That shizzles my nizzle, OG?"...."You're a Guatemalan Jew from
Quebec who got to the south counties via a Jet Blue raft from Havana,
or, a hip-hopping wigger on the way to Pliff Dribbly's crib to par-TAY
with the Coo-vass-ee-A and Cokes"...

R