I just took an online quiz to find out which American accent I have. Seeing as I'm Canadian I thought it would be interesting to see if this quiz could even place me among my neighbours to the South.
Well it did, and the results made me laugh out loud.
I was lumped in as a person with a "North Central" accent. Here's how the website described it.
"North Central is was the 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."
So there you have it. The quiz had me pegged as a Canadian even though it wasn't designed for Canadian accents. Now I want to see the movie Fargo just to see if I do indeed sound like that.
we went camping in Toronto this summer (Glen Rouge Park rocks!) and nearly broke out into fits of laughter everything someone said "eh?"
ReplyDeletethat's so funny! Now I definitely have to do the quiz too, seeing as how I'm a fellow Canadian!
ReplyDeleteLOL, as a fellow Canadian, this is what I got:
ReplyDeleteYour 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.
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-Ron