What Accent Do You Have?

Sam -- you know you have the least Southern accent out there. Your results should come as NO surprise. Come on now. Oh, and it's COKE, not soda and not pop.

My results - Midland, which is about dead-on since it includes southern cities. Add on the fact I love sayin' some ya'll.

 

The site tells me I have a Dumas accent.

I don't know how to take that.

 

North Central.

Apparently I'm often mistaken for a Canadian

 

Spoken like a true Jerseyan, Pastor.
But since there are a few SJers from Western Pa. who are pretty cool, I decided to include the entire state.

 

It said I was Inland North, so if I ventured out, people would ask if I was from Chicago or Wisconsin.

Um, no.

 

Not Wisconsin, and maybe not Chicago, but definitely from Springfield on down. To me, you don't have one, which must mean we have a similar one. I think. :-\

 

Did you have your tooth in when you took the test? Otherwise it could skew results. ;D

 

32,900,000 people above and around the 49th parallel feel you are also mistaken as a Canadian....

 

Yeah, but let's see ... my mother's from rural northeast North Carolina. Father's from southwest Georgia. I grew up primarily in eastern North Carolina.

Oh yeah ... stepfather is from upstate New York just east of Buffalo. Blame it on that or the three-plus years I spent thousands of miles away from the South. Still, that's a lot of years to relearn the local dialect.

Let me put it like this ... about five years ago, I went with my stepfather to Syracuse for a few days to help celebrate his sister's birthday. One of the wiseacres in the party walked up to me, and seemed to be amazed I wasn't wearing overalls with tobacco juice crusted on one side of my mouth. He was further amazed when I didn't produce a molasses-thick accent. Stereotype much?

And sxy ... you're right. In this region, it IS Coke. Problem is, I'm not calling Mountain Dew a Coke anytime soon.

 

this placed me in a chair on the sidewalk outside Satriale's.

 

Got me perfect -- Northeast ... New York, Northern NJ or Connecticut.

 

West for me.

Not even close.