What is your accent?

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Teehee, I've just read the OP again. First line - 'For people that live in the US'. Apologies for the gatecrash.

Like the US hasn't gatecrashed pretty much everything else.

^^ Greetings everyone. I believe this lovely test informs me that I possess the following American accent:

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Northeast

Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.

^^ I believe that perhaps my happy accent may be considered as a little Yorkshire accent and perhaps also a little unusual also.

I'm Canadian and I got the Boston accent. You definitely have a Boston accent, even if you think you don't. Of course, that doesn't mean you are from the Boston area, you may also be from New Hampshire or Maine.

With that being said, I don't believe that I have a Boston accent. My accent is more Canadian than anything.

Here's an example of a Boston accent: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDW5Gu6_T1k[/youtube]

Here's a Canadian accent one: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsWzLigMGgU&feature=fvwrel[/youtube]



I'll answer the questions on what I call them.
The Questions:

1. What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
 Teepeeing
2. What is the bug that when you touch it, it curls into a ball?
 Potato Bug
3. What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?
 Pop
4. What do you call gym shoes?
 Running Shoes
5. What do you say to address a group of people?
 Hey
6. What do you call the kind of spider (or spider-like creature) that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?
 Daddy Long Legs
7. What do you call your grandparents?
 Oma and Opa or if I want to say it the Canadian way: Grandma and Grandpa
8. What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
 Shopping Cart
9. What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
 Sun Shower
10. What is the thing you change the TV channel with? Remote Control

I'm Pa Dutch but I speak fairly normal. When growing up some of the kids from surrounding towns had some pretty strong "Dutch" accents. (Pa Dutch accents sound like someone from Germany.) Today the accent is dying out because the locals no longer speak German as much as the did back then.

Bad English!

Normal German without any dialect

catastrophic French

I got Inland North too, and I'm not from there. In reality, I seem to be a mix from all over, instead of speaking standard English. I think I picked things up off of television as a kid that I thought sounded good and made myself talk like that.

Well I got North Central on that test, I guess it makes sense geographically but I didn't really think I have a 'Fargo' accent. I guess you can't hear your own accent but I dunno.

A strange mixture of Cockney and Canadian.

nervous american gangster.

Western Pennsylvanian, which is...not right. Pretty confused right now.

I'm proper Mancunian me.