What's your accent?

[AustralianSwingVoter]

My accent is halfway between Home Counties RP and general nasal Australian. It seems to confuse the NYT tests, as my top results for America are Yonkers, Minneapolis and Honolulu and my top results for the UK are Dover and the Channel Islands.

[FrancoAgo]

Central italian with southern influence,
i can't speak english so i've not a true accent, but i'm bet i will pronounce wrong the 99,999% of the english words

[Never Made it to Graceland]

Somewhere between rural rust belt and mid-atlantic.

[beesley]

Makes sense, having lived in England for nearly all of my life. The area where I live is not labelled but it is in the darkest choropleth band.

I will say that cat and last are pronounced the same way.

[Geoffrey Howe]

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Makes sense, having lived in England for nearly all of my life. The area where I live is not labelled but it is in the darkest choropleth band.

I will say that cat and last are pronounced the same way.

Isn't that more of a northern thing? Or is it found in the West Country?

[Buffalo Mayor Young Kim]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html?r=8004408k0800108000j0204008400100j210j18020000b0010

Because apparently the image doesn’t work, most similar: St Louis, Overland Park (KS), and somehow Fresno.

Also strange was the least similar seemed to be at the extreme North and South, since I’d always thought of (non-Southern) accents working on an East-West band.

[beesley]

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Makes sense, having lived in England for nearly all of my life. The area where I live is not labelled but it is in the darkest choropleth band.

I will say that cat and last are pronounced the same way.

Isn't that more of a northern thing? Or is it found in the West Country?

It is a Northern thing, but that's how I speak.

[Drew]

According to that quiz, Rockford, Aurora, and Detroit are most similar.  As I grew up in the Chicago suburbs, Aurora and Rockford make sense, but I’ve never been to Detroit. 

[Horus]

Akron (makes perfect sense, closest major city to where I grew up), Columbus (also makes sense) and... Phoenix? I've never been to Phoenix and don't really have a strong desire to visit.

[Geoffrey Howe]

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Makes sense, having lived in England for nearly all of my life. The area where I live is not labelled but it is in the darkest choropleth band.

I will say that cat and last are pronounced the same way.

Isn't that more of a northern thing? Or is it found in the West Country?

It is a Northern thing, but that's how I speak.

I was just confused because none of the North was shaded on your map.