accent quiz (u.s.-centric)

[firecat]

I learned a long time ago not to call carbonated drinks "pop." But otherwise spot-on.
(Scene: A deli in Connecticut.
Me: [orders sandwich] "...oh, and a pop."
Clerk: "What?"
Me: "Pop."
Clerk: "What?"
Me: "Diet Coke.")

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."
The Midland
The Northeast
Philadelphia
The South
The West
Boston
North Central
What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

Comments

[sistercoyote.livejournal.com]

I call it pop.



What amuses me about this is that the furthest east I've ever lived (including where I live now) is Los Angeles. It seems rather northeast-centric.

[snippy]

I call them pop. Ever since The Pop Shop! Still miss that place.

[dr-brat.livejournal.com]

It's tonic.

(although, to be honest, I call it soda)

[bastette-joyce.livejournal.com]

I took this quiz a few months ago, and I was quite impressed! It correctly told me I was from eastern Massachusetts.

[dr-brat.livejournal.com]

Mine told me that I was somewhere between northern Jersey and Rhode Island, which isn't bad, considering I split my childhood between Delaware and eastern Massachusetts.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

"Pop" is a perfectly good word. I use it to screen for asshats, then snarl at them.

[beaq.livejournal.com]

Just pop 'em one.

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

Every couple months or so (like last night) I meet some random local who says I have an accent and asks where I am from. Perhaps my speech patterns (or whatever) unconsciously change in different circumstances, or perhaps I just have an odd voice. Anyway, my results here were close to yours (same "Result" but some variation in the exact order of regions).

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

When I started at uni, the linguistics department had this great display during O-week, showing photos of ordinary bits of Australian children's lives, and asking you to fill out a form with the word you used for each of those things. Then they'd tell you where in Australia you grew up.

They got quite excited over one of my friends, who'd moved during primary school and was an idiosyncratic mix of two regions. (I didn't do the quiz, because I was living in Denmark for the period they were interested in.)

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Mine was also the Inland North, but I've never lived there.

boston's a surprise

[beaq.livejournal.com]

[deakat]

That was cool. I spent the first 27 years of my life in Windsor, Ontario, where I watched Detroit tv and listened to Detroit radio (until our university station got their FM licence). When I visited a friend in Ottawa during those years, people commented on my "American" accent. It looks like I've lost it now, having lived in Ottawa for 20 years now.

What American accent do you have? Your Result: North Central   "North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.
The West
The Midland
Boston
The Inland North
The South
Philadelphia
The Northeast
What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

[chickenwitch.livejournal.com]

Any addition of a little liquor and you will definitely hear my Midwest twang, especially if I ask for a quarter (pronounced qwaahter) for the juke box.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Not at all surprising that mine is the same as yours, given what we found out last week! But I don't think I ever used "pop" for a soft drink. "Soda" sometimes, but I'm more likely to use the name of the specific drink -- Coke, Sprite, Vernors, etc.