What is your accent?

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Your Result: 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.

It said that I am from The Inland North. I am not American so it got it wrong, but I just did the test out of curiosity, I knew that it was for Americans.

Midland. I'm on the West Coast. Interestingly enough, a coworker was once surprised to hear that I've lived in California all my life; he couldn't quite pinpoint my accent.

If I was from the US I'd like my accent to be from the south

First off sorry for reviving this thread:

I use Northern Cali Slang...ie Hella, dude.

I also have these accents:

Normal English

Small Spanish accent

heavy Spanish accent.

Your Result: Philadelphia
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.

Didn't know there was a quiz but I just took it so my results are

I have a North Carolina accsent it is a combination of Southern and Yankee.

I got Philadelphia.
Dang, the stupid quiz is right.
Around here a typical conversation in summer goes like this:

"Hey, Jeet yet? No, Joo? Nah, where ya wanna go? Itza nice day wanna head downashore? Yeah why not. They got good pizza down there"

Let me know if you want the translation,

I was born in KY, but learned to talk while living in North Carolina, so I guess I have mostly a North Carolina accent with a li'l Kentucky accent thrown into the mix! So, I'm "South'un!". haha

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An Asperger's man who has Autism Spectrum Disorder level 1- mild, with a sprinkling of Synesthesia.

That's a Southern accent you've got there. You may love it, you may hate it, you may swear you don't have it, but whatever the case, we can hear it.

hmm...well i don't hear it.

I'm originally from UK (South East) but accent is messed up by 15 years of consulting in 20 different countries.
I recently went to Vegas with some work colleagues from London. We were out at some steak restaurant. I was gettting chatty with the cute waitress, and she said "oh I love those accents of your colleagues".
errm... Well coming from South East England, I was supposed to have the same accent as my colleagues.
Of course, without any knowledge, I had been talking with a sort of US/Wild West accent and she genuinely thought I was a local guy.

Did the same thing with French and South Africans ( I speak some Dutch so I was virtually talking Afrikaans ) ; was lucky he didn't punch me. Very embarassing.

Terrible awful ugly American. East coast American no less. Blech!

Glaswegian (i.e from Glasgow,,like Craig Ferguson) . I modify it to sound more neutral if I'm not speaking to my fellow locals.

p.s. I went by the thread title but just noticed the original post added 'for people who live in the US'. In that case the American accent I can do is probably a Hollywood one

Most people say that I don't have an accent but I think I have a slight accent when I pronounce certain words. When I say words like water, I tend to pronounce the T as a fast D. When I say words like mittens, it sounds like mi-tnz. Even though my accent is neutral sounding to most people, I do have a bit of a Long Island accent in some ways. I'm from Long Island btw.

I speak with a southern/RP/public school British accent.