In the comments on the BBC article, someone noted that English people trying to do an American accent often put on a Southern American accent. For some reason my Dear Daughter often sounds like a Southerner. I have never particularly noticed her sounding English in the first place though - after all, she was born here and has spent relatively little time in the UK. Maybe the Southern accent is her overcompensating in trying to make sure she sounds really American? Is she imitating my accent?
| What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio. | |
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| What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz | |
No, apparently not, so she's probably just imitating some character on TV!
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NIIIIIIIIICE. I took the quiz and my accent is "the lowest common denominator of American speech". I knew it! 100% from the West.
Ooo I shall just have to have a go!
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Very interesting. I laugh when people with thick Asian accents in the UK don't hear much of my accent and yet think somehow they are more English than I, with their own thick foreign heritage accent and all!
Thanks so much for visiting me. I had fun reading your post. Accents are very interesting to me because I first had a Hawaiian pidgin accent, then a Midwest Chicago accent and now I'm sort of back to Hawaii again. I just love the British accent!
Well, in the whole scheme of things, I think you turn the accent on and off almost at will, although the longer you spend away from the UK, the harder it seems to get.
I can recall visiting a store selling British foods and other goods not commonly found here and we were the only people in the store other than the owner. A woman walked in with a young man. The next thing I knew, the woman was talking with a thick Scottish accent and there was this other woman speaking with a heavy English (northwestern...) accent. It was Almost American.
When she and her sister get together and start talking, the accent changes yet again!
Do you know I just took that test -and answering the questions as a 100% total English person, with a pretty standard (almost posh but not quite) well pronounced English, the result was:
You are from NEW YORK !!!!!
PMP !!!!
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