Think You Don't Have an Accent? The American Accent Quiz Will Prove You Wrong!
Most Americans don't think they have an accent, but if you've ever traveled around the country, you'll hear different accents in every corner of the USA.
We've got Southern drawls, Midwestern twangs, the hard to even describe Boston accent and countless others. And all of these accents have their nuances and differences, state-by-state, even by towns and neighborhoods.
How do you sound? Do you have the same accent as your neighbors, or are you holding on to an accent from where you grew up or went to school?
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And contrary to many whose result screwed their pooch - I *am* a multi-generational Fluffian! 
Anyone watching NBC cable networks can hear the male version - see Tweety (MSNBC), Smerconish (MSNBC), Fast Eddie Rendell (MSNBC), Jim Cramer (CNBC). There are variations though (including white vs black Philadelphians) and the Northeast Philly accent is slightly different from the South Philly accent. What I recently discovered is that there is some of this in some folks from around Baltimore too, which is interesting. Unfortunately, someone thought (in 5 movies) that Stallone's forced NY accent was Philly. 
Your Result: Philadelphia
100%
Your accent is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak! If you're not from Philadelphia, then you're from someplace near there like south Jersey, Baltimore, or Wilmington. if you've ever journeyed to some far off place where people don't know that Philly has an accent, someone may have thought you talked a little weird even though they didn't have a clue what accent it was they heard.
80%
The Midland
79%
The Northeast
73%
The South
70%
The Inland North
31%
Boston
18%
The West
2%
North Central
Correct answer: n'at.
Edited to add: What does the phrase "n'at" even mean??? Please use it in a sentence. Correct answer: "Wanna go dahn Primanti's and get a sammich n'at?" 
The quizzer must be a "jag-off"!!!
I grew up in Allison Park PA, just North of Pittsburgh. But moved to Alabama at age 14. So now I have a "Midland" accent. But I can say "Here We Go Steelers" (well, maybe not this year) and "Roll Tide" in any accent!!!
No rice filler either! Oatmeal and breadcrumbs is the one true halupki way.
Halupki, Halupki, Halupki, She won't make halupkis for me!
Hmmm, can't find a rendition on youtube
I can't believe it! My best girlfriend in grade/high school was Polish on both sides, and I often ate at her house during those years. One of my favorite foods was "Gowumpkies" or at least that's what I thought they were saying. I have looked over the years for a recipe for this, not just ordinary cabbage rolls, but could never come up with the actual name when trying to sound it out. That is great! I had to laugh when she said at the end "You bet your dupa".....I DO remember that one.
(They also made cookies at Christmas that were made by dipping a snowflake shaped iron into batter, frying it and with powdered sugar on them. I think those were something like 'koos-cheekies"--do you know that one by any chance??)
Thanks for this, I will be trying this recipe for a blast to the past!
I've been in California for 15 years now and the test says my accent is West so maybe my Pittsburgh accent is wearing off. I stopped saying Yinz a long time ago 
I never did think there was much difference in the accents out here from back home, really. Except for the slang, everyday words sound about the same to me.
I spent years teaching myself to call them 'sodas'!
And, yes, I do call carbonated drinks, "pop."
Got a cold pop?
My mother's side is from upstate and I speak like them. Quiz said I'm inland north as well. I've taken other quizzes that have pegged me correctly, and I've studied linguistics so it's very unlikely that I answered their questions wrong.
Midwesterners ("the inland north"
have a distinctive pronunciation of the vowel in horrible. Asking whether it's the same as "whore" though doesn't catch that difference if others pronounce the words the same, but in a different way. Northeasterners do not pronounce "horrible" in a the same way as "hot". Rather it is like a softened version of the midwest accent.
Haven't lived there since I was 9 years old.
This one was no different. Midland, and the closest to where I live that they could get was Dallas. Ugh.
I know how I sound. Unlike most people, I've had to listen to my own voice, due to doing radio some years ago. I have a somewhat nasally, Southern accent. It's not nearly as strong as my mother's Texas twang, but those notes are still there.
That's really the best way to know what your accent is like. Record yourself, and then listen, with no distractions. You might be surprised not only with what you hear, but how wrong these simple quizzes can be
I grew up in Kansas. Lived 45 years in North Dakota. Now live in KCMO. Don't have an accent now. I did when I first moved to North Dakota though.
Since when are the Great Lakes the Inland North? You can't get any more inlander than North Dakota. And no, most people in North Dakota do not talk like in the movie "Fargo".
That makes me boring in almost every way, now. 
I'm a Midlander. Though I was born in the Midland, I grew up in the Southwest and West.
What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Inland North
85%
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."
They are correct - I spent my childhood in central Wisconsin, spent time on east coast, and now in Texas. I still drink "pop" and I like water from "bubblers".
But it has always been soda not pop. 
I grew up in Milwaukee and now I live in the Fox Valley.
That's where I live. 
I get told I sound like I'm Canadian.
I was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, but have lived in the Pacific Northwest for 30 years.
This quiz pegged me as a Philadelphian!
I do often have people ask me if I'm from the East Coast; New York is the usual guess. I suppose sometime in the past, in an unconscious effort to shed my Texas twang, my accent ended up on the Atlantic seaboard... 
I got 93% Philadelphia. Born and raised.
And they didn't even ask about the pronunciation of "water, "....which we pronounce as wooder (the rest of the country pronounces it incorrectly).
Oddly, people in Philly think I have a NYC accent...maybe that's the other 7%. People from elsewhere say I sound Southern.
I totally recognize that!
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And, yes. You all have accents, you broad-voweled Americans, you.
Maybe I was a Californian in another life.
You must have the same accent as me, even though I don't have an accent
I found another accent quiz for English speakers in other countries. It pegged me as Australian or British...
http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_english_language_accent_do_you_have
96% 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.
My lowest percentage is the North East, where Ive lived all my life.
don't know what that say;
http://www.gotoquiz.com/results/what_american_accent_do_you_have
What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Inland North
81%
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."
57%
The Northeast
52%
Philadelphia
51%
The South
24%
North Central
22%
The Midland
0%
Boston
0%
The West
Bred, born and raised in California. Lived in NV for a few years but other than that, California my whole life
--imm
Born in Reading, PA and grew up outside the Philly suburbs.
Thought after living in New England for 35 years that I'd lost my accent. Guess not!
so much for thinking
Only time I've been out west was for a couple years 40 some odd years ago while in the navy.
What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The West
84%
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.
58%
North Central
55%
The Midland
39%
The South
34%
Boston
8%
The Inland North
0%
Philadelphia
0%
The Northeast
