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This somewhat confirms my contention over the years that I have a fairly generic northern U.S. accent, although it's not really Midwest. It's actually very easy for me to fake a Chicago or 'Sconsin accent. Minnesota's pretty easy to fake as well, accent-wise, but I haven't yet nailed my phrases correctly to fake out the true natives. New England accents are trickier--nobody from New England would ever believe it, but people from the South or Midwest would. Philly's pretty easy to fake as long as I remember to say "warsh" for "wash" and "wooder" for "water." High Plains states people and Michiganders sound perfectly normal to me, and I to them. Same with the entire West Coast, but not western non-coastal states. Where I lose biggest is in the South/Southwest. I couldn't fake a 'Bama, Texas, Okie, nor Utah accent to save my life!
For that matter, I suck at faking any sort of accent from the British Isles, but I can peel off a pretty good Zimbabwe one.
Canadian's pretty easy to fake, too. Not French Canadian, nor Newfie, but "generic" Canadian.
Can anybody fake a Newfie accent?
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I spent eight weeks rooming with someone from Puerto Rico and at the end of that time everyone claimed I spoke with a Puerto Rican accent. Too weird!
No way, Kevin! That's not only weird, but also hilarious! However, I do think we adapt our accents to our surroundings. I went to college in PA with a woman from WV who sounded normal to me until she got on the phone with her sister. Then her WV accent took over. I was amazed at how she could turn it on and off.
I can hear some of these accents better than say them. To me, faking an accent sounds like your, well, faking an accent. Like a local performer or two I know who insist on trying to sound like James Taylor when they cover his tunes. Annoying. I have to take the test, though, as I came from NY via Philly.
Great quiz! I thought my accent was all screwed up have moved around a bit but the quiz says my Philly (South Jersey) accent is still alive and well....for better or for worse.
I have the same accent as you, which makes sense seeing as I have lived most of my life within a few miles of Lake Erie. I'm not sure they talk the same in Chicago though. Funny story: my father-in-law was corrected in school by a teacher when he pronounced "Chicago" with the "Chi" sounding like "chick." FIL says, "Well that's how they pronounce it where I come from." Teacher: "Where do you come from?" FIL: "Chicago."
Knew an Australian woman living here who still had a heavy Aussie accent. I told her she had the wrong number when she called and asked if she could speak to "Bob." Yet her relatives at home said her accent was completely gone and she sounded American!
I am apparently virtually accentless according to the quiz. That's what I get for moving around so much. And i can vouch for picking things up along the way. Scotland I got Scottishy. Hawaii I sounded laid back. My sister picked up some amazing southern thing when we lived in Charleston and it took her ages to get rid of it after she moved to Boston.
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