Tue 14 Nov 2006
It’s Not Annoying When You Are From Wisconsin
Posted by Liza under Silly Internet Quizzes
Thanks, Sophia, for a great Silly Internet Quiz!
| What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Inland North
You may think you speak “Standard English straight out of the dictionary” but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like “Are you from Wisconsin?” or “Are you from Chicago?” Chances are you call carbonated drinks “pop.” |
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| The Midland |
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| The Northeast |
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| Philadelphia |
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| The West |
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| Boston |
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| North Central |
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November 15th, 2006 at 2:30 am
Not coincidentally, I got the same result as you!
Try this one for size:
You paid attention during 86% of high school! 85-100% You must be an autodidact, because American high schools don’t get scores that high! Good show, old chap!Do you deserve your high school diploma?Create a Quiz
November 15th, 2006 at 8:17 am
Amusingly, and probably also not coincidently, I got exactly the same score you did on that one, Sean!
But then I thought the comment about American high schools was mean, and that in fact, we got a great education.
November 15th, 2006 at 10:23 am
This won’t be a big shock, but my results were pretty much the same as yours… After almost 15 years in Boston, I guess I still talk like a Wisconsinite.
November 15th, 2006 at 12:34 pm
dave: someone on gene weingarten’s chat who had moved every few years during childhood took the test and determined that his accent was established at approximately 8-10 years old. a sample of 1 isn’t very scientific but it’s interesting.
i always think that i pick up accents from wherever i’m living — i definitely catch myself saying things with a maryland accent from time to time. but the test wasn’t fooled! it pegged me as being from the tri-state area. i guess the difference is that i actually notice when i say things with a maryland accent, whereas i don’t notice that i have a northeast accent at all until people start talking about things like whether “mary”, “merry”, and “marry” all sound different. (and yes they do!)
November 15th, 2006 at 6:59 pm
Yeah, I thought I fooled the test with my answer on “about” rhyming with “loud” instead of “boot.” No dice. It pegged me. (”We have ways of making you say the letter ‘o.’”)
But hey, I got a 97 percent on the high school test, which I think is impossible since there were 20 questions, unless it counted age and sex as “correct” responses.
And no they don’t sound different! Say “Merry Christmas, Mary, will you marry me?” or “Mary Christmas, marry, will you merry me?” Same thing. Maybe merry is a wee bit different. Maybe that’s how it caught me.
November 16th, 2006 at 10:41 am
the way i say them, they are all different! “mary” rhymes with “hairy,” the “a” in “marry” sounds like the “a” in “apple,” and the “e” in “merry” sounds like “eh” as in “eh, the traffic on the nj turnpike wasn’t so bad today.”