What's your accent?

[Pouring Rain and Blairing Music]

Most similar: Fresno, Los Angeles and Glendale

Least Similar: New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Pittsburgh

It’s funny that yours has Pittsburgh. I was thinking that it had been one of my previous “least similar” cities, but I wasn’t positive.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

[JoeInator]

My most similar cities Worcester, Providence, and Boston which, to be honest, makes a lot of sense considering I grew up/live in Rhode Island.

My least similar cities were Detroit, Toledo, and Columbus because I didn't know there was a name for the night before Halloween and I had never heard of a drive-through liquor store.

[If my soul was made of stone]

My least similar cities were Detroit, Toledo, and Columbus because I didn't know there was a name for the night before Halloween and I had never heard of a drive-through liquor store.

Even though it's apparently a North Jersey thing, as a Marylander with family roots in South Jersey I always heard the night before Halloween called "mischief night". I'd never heard of drive-thru liquor stores until I went to the Outer Banks, where the local chain is called "Brew Thru", and have never seen them since.

[MR DARK BRANDON]

For me the closer you get to either of the coastlines (pacific or Atlantic) more similar my accent is

[parochial boy]

The New York Times also has a quiz for British accents:

I guess those results are probably indicative of my generic middle class Southeastern accent - basically the “default” accent you hear on the TV, but not quite as posh as full-on Received Pronunciation.

Oh interesting, I always get Yonkers/New York on the US quiz because my English is much closer to British English. I figure I speak with basically a generic-but-not-really-placeable South of England accent/dialect when I speak English, but when I did the test I got:

Way off. Your answers didnt fit here at all.

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Which is closest to... what, the South of the Midlands? I guess that's closest to generic Southern with the odd northern/Scottish or mid-atlantic influence.

So I'll go with the original answer. When I speak English, I sound as if I come from the South of England, but with a generic and untraceable accent; When I speak French, I have a mild Swiss, or specifically Geneva accent; and when I speak German, I have a pretty thick French accent. It's only the last one that is really obvious though.

Anecdotally, something I’ve noticed with younger French speakers living here who speak only lightly French-accented English is that they often have a hint of Cockney/‘Estuary English’.

The 'H' and 'Th' sounds in English are typically the hardest sounds for French speakers to reproduce. So I guess it kind of makes sense that it might be the case. If you start going "ff" instead of "th" and using a glottal stop instead of "h" then you sort of start to wind up with a vaguely cockney sounding accent.

[MR DARK BRANDON]

For me the closer you get to either of the coastlines (pacific or Atlantic) more similar my accent is

LOL @ florida

[MR DARK BRANDON]

For me the closer you get to either of the coastlines (pacific or Atlantic) more similar my accent is

LOL @ florida

Yk what imma retake this I do not sound like a person from Florida smthn isn’t right

[Del Tachi]

Took in yet another time:  Jackson, Montgomery & Birmingham

Least similar:  Worcester, Springfield and Minneapolis/St Paul

[MR DARK BRANDON]

Retook it. Actually agree with the results this time

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html?r=80200851040010200j00100200n00004200j21800102090008

[vitoNova]

Hoch Englisch.  

Basically, boring "Midwestern" with no discernible accent.  

[_.]

Closest - Pembroke Pines, Miami/Hialeah, Orlando

Farthest - Toledo, Buffalo, Detroit

[Statilius the Epicurean]

UK one is eerily accurate

[Technocracy Timmy]

I sound like these guys according to my coworkers from the south and the northeast.

[Sopranos Republican]

Most Similar: Boston, Worcester, Providence

Least Similar: Little Rock, AR; Lexington, KY; Akron, OH

[Geoffrey Howe]

I speak with an RP accent. For the UK quiz (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html) I got hotspots on Reading, Cambridge and Tunbridge Wells.



My American map was weird. I am relatively similar to much of New England, but my closest was Rhode Island. Also light yellow for the west coast and strangely Wisconsin. Like other Brits I was oddly similar to Hawaii.

[Conservatopia]

I speak with an RP accent. For the UK quiz (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html) I got hotspots on Oxford, Cambridge and Tunbridge Wells.

My American map was weird. I am relatively similar to much of New England, but my closest was Rhode Island. Also light yellow for the west coast and strangely Wisconsin. Like other Brits I was oddly similar to Hawaii.

Glad to see another RP-speaker.  Wouldn't want too many ghastly oiks amongst our Brit-posters.

[Geoffrey Howe]

I speak with an RP accent. For the UK quiz (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html) I got hotspots on Oxford, Cambridge and Tunbridge Wells.

My American map was weird. I am relatively similar to much of New England, but my closest was Rhode Island. Also light yellow for the west coast and strangely Wisconsin. Like other Brits I was oddly similar to Hawaii.

Glad to see another RP-speaker.  Wouldn't want too many ghastly oiks amongst our Brit-posters.

Who are they?

[Conservatopia]

I speak with an RP accent. For the UK quiz (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html) I got hotspots on Oxford, Cambridge and Tunbridge Wells.

My American map was weird. I am relatively similar to much of New England, but my closest was Rhode Island. Also light yellow for the west coast and strangely Wisconsin. Like other Brits I was oddly similar to Hawaii.

Glad to see another RP-speaker.  Wouldn't want too many ghastly oiks amongst our Brit-posters.

Who are they?

Those without RP accents of course.
*Adjusts monocle*

[Geoffrey Howe]

I speak with an RP accent. For the UK quiz (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html) I got hotspots on Oxford, Cambridge and Tunbridge Wells.

My American map was weird. I am relatively similar to much of New England, but my closest was Rhode Island. Also light yellow for the west coast and strangely Wisconsin. Like other Brits I was oddly similar to Hawaii.

Glad to see another RP-speaker.  Wouldn't want too many ghastly oiks amongst our Brit-posters.

Who are they?

Those without RP accents of course.
*Adjusts monocle*

À la Jacob Rees-Mogg.

But who are the Brits here without RP accents?

[Torrain]

À la Jacob Rees-Mogg.

But who are the Brits here without RP accents?

I once had a fairly typical English accent, but once you've lived in Fife, where everyone speaks like this for over a decade, it's mellowed into something generically Scottish.

[Geoffrey Howe]

À la Jacob Rees-Mogg.

But who are the Brits here without RP accents?

I once had a fairly typical English accent, but once you've lived in Fife, where everyone speaks like this for over a decade, it's mellowed into something generically Scottish.

Well that's fair enough. That part of Scotland has quite a soft accent. I suspect Conservatopia was referring to English posters; which is somewhat ironic given his views on Ms Sturgeon. (Also I don't endorse Conservatopia calling people with a different accent 'oiks')

[Conservatopia]

À la Jacob Rees-Mogg.

But who are the Brits here without RP accents?

I once had a fairly typical English accent, but once you've lived in Fife, where everyone speaks like this for over a decade, it's mellowed into something generically Scottish.

Well that's fair enough. That part of Scotland has quite a soft accent. I suspect Conservatopia was referring to English posters; which is somewhat ironic given his views on Ms Sturgeon. (Also I don't endorse Conservatopia calling people with a different accent 'oiks')

Dude it's a joke - I hope nobody would endorse it.  "Ghastly oik" is the sort of thing a posho (RP) would stereotypically say.  Hence the monocle comment too.  I don't actually have any problem with people having different accents nor do I look down on people with provincial accents.

I seem to recall you making a facetious comment about the accent of Devon too (after I called it "pirate accent").  Outrageous and preposterous!!

In fairness it is often difficult to detect sarcasm in text.

[Geoffrey Howe]

À la Jacob Rees-Mogg.

But who are the Brits here without RP accents?

I once had a fairly typical English accent, but once you've lived in Fife, where everyone speaks like this for over a decade, it's mellowed into something generically Scottish.

Well that's fair enough. That part of Scotland has quite a soft accent. I suspect Conservatopia was referring to English posters; which is somewhat ironic given his views on Ms Sturgeon. (Also I don't endorse Conservatopia calling people with a different accent 'oiks')

Dude it's a joke - I hope nobody would endorse it.  "Ghastly oik" is the sort of thing a posho (RP) would stereotypically say.  Hence the monocle comment too.  I don't actually have any problem with people having different accents nor do I look down on people with provincial accents.

I seem to recall you making a facetious comment about the accent of Devon too (after I called it "pirate accent").  Outrageous and preposterous!!

In fairness it is often difficult to detect sarcasm in text.

No no of course I don't seriously think you believe that. Just washing my hands of any blame...

[Torie]

Standard upper middle class accent of course. In other words, I have no accent at all. Thank you.