It's Official!

To counter all the sappy "Merry . . ", "Happy . . ." and Peace . . . " thoughts going around this time of year. I thought I'd write a superficial blog all about ME!

ALL of my life people have told me that I "talk funny". While growing up in Boston, my classmates teased me about the way I spoke. I, unlike everyone else in my class, pronounced drawer as drawer, not draweh. However, I grew up five minutes from the heart of Boston! It didn't make sense.

When I went to college in Minnesota, they were dissapointed because I didn't say one word like a true Bostonian. Then, when I came home after living in San Francisco for two years, my new roommates told me that they thought I must have lived in London for a while because I had a lilt to my voice and rounded vowels. Even in San Fran they told me there was something strange about the way I spoke.

My mom was trained as an opera singer and she used to do vocalizations with me when I was a child. This may contribute to some of my strange speech patterns, although I think the biggest influence is that she is originally from northwest pennsylvania (almost in Canada!/Ohio) and my Dad was from northwestern Chicago.

Thanks to this test it all makes sense. No wonder I never sounded like anyone! Minnesota is the closest to my "accent" but this quiz defines the Minnesotan accent as "North central" so I don't really have that either.

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.
The West
Boston
North Central
The Inland North
The South
Philadelphia
The Northeast
What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz