Month: December 2006

What American Accent do I have?

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
Philadelphia
The Northeast
The Inland North
The South
What American accent do you have?
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This is good to know. I have been spending years trying to make my speech sound as non-descript as possible. It was interesting this summer to go home and talk to my family. They have a uniquely Southeastern BC/Southwestern Alberta accent. Hey, even Canada has unique accents.

You don’t think so? Well, the stereotypical “Canadian” accent that is portrayed in the US popular media is actually a Southern Ontario / Toronto Area accent. It is easily recognizable and immediately pegs you in the rest of Canada as someone who should be distrusted as a likely carpetbagger. 😉

The only spoken/written giveaways I have retained are:

— “a- bowt” and “owt”
— “prawcess”
— “sheduel”, although I do alternate this with “skeduel”
— I spell “theatre”, “centre”, “colour”, etc. correctly

However, if you call me American, I will be very quick to correct you.

FeedBurner Feeds Removed

Well, for some reason that I can’t determine, FeedBurner and my WordPress.com feed stopped playing nicely this afternoon. And they won’t reload, because WordPress.com wants to send all 1400+ articles in the database back to FeedBurner.
Sorry to do this to you all, but the FeedBurner feed is removed. Deleted.
Hope y’all switch to the WordPress.com feed.
UPDATE: The FeedBurner Feed is back.

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