Can't you see I'm meming here?

[vilakins]

From kernezelda and astrogirl2. Yes, another meme, but I can't resist language ones, even if I'm not an American.

What American accent do you have?
Created by Xavier on Memegen.net

New York City. You are most definitely from New York City. Not New Jersey, not Connecticut. If you are from Jersey then you can probably get into New York City in 10 minutes or less.

Take this quiz now - it's easy!

We're going to start with "cot" and "caught." When you say those words do they sound the same or different?

Different Same, no wait I mean different, maybe, a little bit different... Same

For those interested in dialects, they give explanations of each result. I note they didn't include the Boston 'new' though. Don't they say it "nyew" there?

Comments

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

I was New England, eg Rhode Island. Which is logical.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

Correction, Northeastern. Not quite as north as New England.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

So we have differences? I said everything quite differently except for "pull" and "pool" which was only slight.

[san-valentine.livejournal.com]

I got Northeastern - North New Jersey, Connecticut or Rhode Island. No doubt I'd still sound very English if I actually went there.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

That's interesting; your English dialect must pronounce some pairs to rhyme. Which ones? For me they were all different.

[san-valentine.livejournal.com]

I pronounce virtually every pairing differently. I don't have much in the way of any regional accent, other than a tendancy to use the short, Northern 'a' sound - 'bath', not 'baarth'

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ah, that must be it.

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

Hmm... I got the same result. Does this mean NZ'ers can blend in easily with NY people, lol.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

We're stroppy enough to!

[megpie71.livejournal.com]

Apparently this particular Aussie can pass as a Noo Yawker as well. Mind you, my guess is that a lot of the non-US accents would show up as being NYC, simply because it's the one with the widest range of vowel sounds, by the look of things.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd agree with that. :-)

[kernezelda]

I like this quiz in addition to the ones that ask what words you use. It's not just what words you use, it's how you say them.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I thought it was interesting because I've seen a lot of people ask things like how people say "pen" and "pin" on a linguistics comm.