MEmama Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 For fun... Do you have a secret British accent? http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180205-which-british-accent-is-closest-to-your-own Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 Er.. Question one: Neither. I conclude I have a rubbish Australian accent. I definitely don't sound like Hugh Grant or Kate Winslet. I'd be happy to sound like Kate Winslet's fake Aussie accent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 I got East Midlands. FYI: take the test more than once and you'll get a few different questions.... (yes, I'm that bored, lol). 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausmumof3 Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 I got west london and Kate Winslet. Lol... Pretty sure they wouldn't recognise it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teachaheart Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 I got Suffolk, which is where I lived as a teen. I'm American currently living in the US, and most people either can't place my accent or say I don't have one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMD Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 I got Don Airy from Deep Purple - Sunderland. I am kinda pleased with the Deep Purple reference but otherwise it has no meaning to me! I suspect a couple of questions pegged the broad Aussie accent (eg. chance = ran) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEmama Posted March 1, 2018 Author Share Posted March 1, 2018 I got Yorkshire the first time, West London the second. Lol I've noticed random "r" s sneaking into my words lately, coastal Maine style. Like in "law" or "draw" which are becoming "lawr" and "drawr". It's subtle, but sometimes it catches my attention. I still have a lot of East coast Canadian in my accent too. And occasionally Minnesotan will sneak out. :). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mabelen Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 (edited) I got West London, 😆. I am not a native speaker, and I have lived about as long on the East Coast as the West Coast and also in England, but it was in Cambridge, East Anglia. So, close enough? Edited March 1, 2018 by Mabelen 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 I got West London. I'm from Bristol which is about 100 miles west of there. Not bad. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 (edited) I got West London - Hugh Grant , Kate Winslet I had trouble with the last question though - as the e wasn't like any of them Edited March 1, 2018 by Melissa in Australia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mabelen Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 I got East Midlands. FYI: take the test more than once and you'll get a few different questions.... (yes, I'm that bored, lol). Fun! I did it a second time. I still got West London! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 I got East Midlands. I didn't recognize any of the famous people (and I thought I knew all of the 20 British actors.) I took it a second time (becaues I am procrastinating) but only 1 question was different. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daria Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 I am going to start referring to snails as hoddy-dods. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraidycat Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 East Midlands. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andani Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 Suffolk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angie in VA Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 East Midlands here too. Fun! I'll share w/ my Anglophile dd. Thanks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAM Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 I got Suffolk, that was a fun link! I'm going to share with my kids. Thanks for posting it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guinevere Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 I am going to start referring to snails as hoddy-dods. I thought that, too, but then I wondered if I would pronounce it wrong! I got Suffolk. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
school17777 Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 I got Suffolk too. Can’t imagine an American getting anything else. There was only one way to pronounce each word! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daria Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 I thought that, too, but then I wondered if I would pronounce it wrong! I got Suffolk. One of the nice things about living in the U.S. is that I don't think anyone would know if I mangled it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluegoat Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 OMG, they said I sound like bloody Ed Sheeren. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausmumof3 Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 I got Don Airy from Deep Purple - Sunderland. I am kinda pleased with the Deep Purple reference but otherwise it has no meaning to me! I suspect a couple of questions pegged the broad Aussie accent (eg. chance = ran) Not in SA it doesn't... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxbridgeacademy Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 East Midlands 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mothersweets Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 (edited) Suffolk I just took it two more times and got East Midlands. Edited March 2, 2018 by Mothersweets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassenach Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 I got East Midlands, though I don't pronounce withdrawal with either of the options they gave, so I just chose one. I love how we're all trying to have British accents. Nope, I still sound like an American. :lol: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassenach Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 (edited) I got Suffolk too. Can’t imagine an American getting anything else. There was only one way to pronounce each word! Really? IME, Americans have a crazy variety of vowel pronunciations. ETA: I know this has been posted before, but I think it's super cool. I've taken it a few times and it never fails to peg my city within 25 miles. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html Edited March 2, 2018 by Sassenach 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoo Keeper Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 (edited) I got Yorkshire the first time, West London the second. Lol I've noticed random "r" s sneaking into my words lately, coastal Maine style. Like in "law" or "draw" which are becoming "lawr" and "drawr". It's subtle, but sometimes it catches my attention. I still have a lot of East coast Canadian in my accent too. And occasionally Minnesotan will sneak out. :). Embrace the extra "r"'s -- since that "r" falls out of other words, it all evens out in the end. ;) Edited March 2, 2018 by Zoo Keeper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guinevere Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 Really? IME, Americans have a crazy variety of vowel pronunciations. ETA: I know this has been posted before, but I think it's super cool. I've taken it a few times and it never fails to peg my city within 25 miles. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html That is really neat! It was pretty close for me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angie in VA Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 (edited) I got Suffolk too. Can’t imagine an American getting anything else. There was only one way to pronounce each word! :lol: That is what I thought about my results: East Midlands! BTW, dd got East Midlands too. Not surprising since she grew up around me; however, I used to say "winda" and "pilla" for window and pillow and my parents never did. I also said, "dorter" for daughter (my mother said it this way) and had to work to stop saying all 3 words that way as an adult. Edited March 2, 2018 by Angie in VA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angie in VA Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 Really? IME, Americans have a crazy variety of vowel pronunciations. ETA: I know this has been posted before, but I think it's super cool. I've taken it a few times and it never fails to peg my city within 25 miles. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html Oh.my.word! Of the three most similar cities I was born in one and spent most of my life w/in 25 miles of the other. WOW! I'm totally sending this link to my kids to see what their results are! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matryoshka Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 I got something else (East Midlands) the third time I took it, but it was based on the pronunciation of one word as all the other questions were the same. This for me too. Suffolk, then East Midlands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandra Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 West London. I didn't notice the shaded map after each question, would have like to see more details. I was surprized that scone did not rhyme with gone in Scotland, according to the map. Or did I look wrong? My Scottish mother was absolutely adamant that scone had to rhyme with gone, if it was the scone you ate. But Stone of Scone was thyme during with own. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellifera33 Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 Really? IME, Americans have a crazy variety of vowel pronunciations. ETA: I know this has been posted before, but I think it's super cool. I've taken it a few times and it never fails to peg my city within 25 miles. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html This put me in the right general area of the country, but culturally a quite different spot. I blame my grandparents--I know that I picked up some of the terms in the quiz from my midwestern grandmother and my West Virginia grandfather. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 I was surprized that scone did not rhyme with gone in Scotland, according to the map. Or did I look wrong? My Scottish mother was absolutely adamant that scone had to rhyme with gone, if it was the scone you ate. But Stone of Scone was thyme during with own. Scottish accents are interesting. There's posh Scottish (which sounds more like southern English) and then the various regional Scottish accents, so it varies by class as well as region. I would expect a posh Scot to say 'scone' that you eat to rhyme with 'gone'. The 'Scone' in the Stone of Scone normally rhymes with 'moon', because it refers to the town of that name, from the Gaelic. Pronunciation on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scone,_Perth_and_Kinross 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashfern Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 East midlands here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashfern Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 Really? IME, Americans have a crazy variety of vowel pronunciations. ETA: I know this has been posted before, but I think it's super cool. I've taken it a few times and it never fails to peg my city within 25 miles. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html That one put me in NC. I grew up in PA and have been in GA for almost the same length of time. A lot of those I use different words not the same one all the time. Even when I lived in PA, I personally never said Yinz because it hurts my ears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 Really? IME, Americans have a crazy variety of vowel pronunciations. ETA: I know this has been posted before, but I think it's super cool. I've taken it a few times and it never fails to peg my city within 25 miles. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html They correctly pegged me as a non-American, and suggested New York City as the only place I'm likely to find mutually intelligible conversation. :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandra Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 Scottish accents are interesting. There's posh Scottish (which sounds more like southern English) and then the various regional Scottish accents, so it varies by class as well as region. I would expect a posh Scot to say 'scone' that you eat to rhyme with 'gone'. The 'Scone' in the Stone of Scone normally rhymes with 'moon', because it refers to the town of that name, from the Gaelic. Pronunciation on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scone,_Perth_and_Kinross Thank you. My mother's family was well educated, with advanced degrees, but not posh at all. My mother's overall accent was more Scottish than English. I could be mistaken about the Stone of Scone. We visited when I was 10 years old (long ago), got a lecture about pronunciation, and probably never discussed it again. On the other hand, people often mispronounced the food, and my mother started off on a catalogue of words mispronounced every.single.time. But she always pronounced bagel so it rhymed with haggle. I be sure to rhyme the Stone with moon if the subject ever comes up. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausmumof3 Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 As an aside this is why we seem to struggle with a lot of phonics stuff that's produced in US. They are like "write down all the vowel sounds with a long a" or all the words with this sound and we're like wha? There aren't any words with those sounds! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Wife Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 I got East Midlands, though I don't pronounce withdrawal with either of the options they gave, so I just chose one. I love how we're all trying to have British accents. Nope, I still sound like an American. :lol: Ditto. I say it "with-droll" like doll with an extraneous r. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Wife Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 As an aside this is why we seem to struggle with a lot of phonics stuff that's produced in US. They are like "write down all the vowel sounds with a long a" or all the words with this sound and we're like wha? There aren't any words with those sounds! I struggled tremendously in my phonetics class as the author of my textbook has a Midwestern accent and I've got a slight New England one. Not so bad as to go dropping all my r's like my grandma did but enough so that the vowels are often different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 As an aside this is why we seem to struggle with a lot of phonics stuff that's produced in US. They are like "write down all the vowel sounds with a long a" or all the words with this sound and we're like wha? There aren't any words with those sounds! No phonics program is taking my schwas away! I *like* them. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausmumof3 Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 No phonics program is taking my schwas away! I *like* them. :lol: Lol and I like your post... or I would if I could! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 I got East Midlands. I didn't recognize any of the famous people (and I thought I knew all of the 20 British actors.) I took it a second time (becaues I am procrastinating) but only 1 question was different. Same here. The second time I only got two or three different questions but at least I recognized two of the celebrities - Bob Hoskins and Ed Sheeran. The first time I didn't know any of them (and don't recall their names). While I might pronounce a few words in a similar manner I seriously doubt that in any city or town in the East Midlands they'd mistake me for one of their own. :D 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amber in SJ Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 Sunderland and Dave Stewart from Eurythmics. Not sure how that came about.....as I am from Northern California. Amber in SJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loesje22000 Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 West London too here! (No native speaker, holiday speaker at best :) ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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