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anniegee76 ([personal profile] anniegee76) wrote2011-02-28 02:59 pm

That pronounciation meme

What American accent do you have?
Created by Xavier on Memegen.net

Neutral. Not Northern, Southern, or Western, just American. Your national American identity is more important to you than your local identity, because you don't really have a local identity to begin with.

Take this quiz now - it's easy!
We're going to start with "cot" and "caught." When you say those words do they sound the same or different?





This is interesting to me, as I am frequently told that I have "no accent." I grew up in NYC and my mom is from the South; I think the two sort of cancelled each other out. There are some things I say that are pretty clearly NYC accented (orange, horrible) or idiomatic (I wait on line rather than in line), but otherwise...yeah, I guess this is accurate enough.