Northeastern.
You're probably from somewhere near New York City, possibly north Jersey, or Connecticut or Rhode Island.If you are from New York City you may be one of the types who people never believe when you say you're from New York.
UGH!! Substitute "New York" for "New Jersey," but everybody I meet outside this area tells me that!
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New York City. You are most definitely from New York City. Not New Jersey, not Connecticut. If you are from Jersey then you can probably get into New York City in 10 minutes or less.
Very, very true... _________________ "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." ---- Groucho Marx
Harumph... Only people from Brooklyn and Staten Island say "cawfee." _________________ "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." ---- Groucho Marx
And so everyone else...does that mean they say "coffee" with the same O as "copy"?
Here on the West Coast, everyone says "cawfee", and pronounces the 'o' just like the 'o' in "copy". I know in the traditional north-eastern accent you don't, but in General American you do. _________________ Operation Northwoods - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
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Well I'm pretty sure that most cot-caught unmerged Americans use different vowels in "copy" and "coffee" (because of the lot-cloth split), so "coffee" would be "cawfee" for a lot of people - maybe about half of the US. I think Joanne was referring to the pronunciation found in an extreme New York accent, in which they use [U@] or [UO] instead of the more usual [O] or [Q].
Presenting the latest enhancement: now there are (going to be) zoomed maps of certain parts of the two countries! So now, you can get a better view of certain regions and can better see the different dots. Right now, the only one I've done is New England. Later (like later tonight, or maybe tomorrow) I'll do other regions. I just wrote the program for one region so I'll have to recompile the thing each time with different coordintates and...anyway, you can look at the New England states at http://freeshells.ch/~xavier/accentmap/neweng.bmp
HEHEHE, I took that quiz and it told me that I had a New York accent.
I did it just for fun because if you hear me speak you would think I have any accent in the world but a New York accent
Pete from Peru
You have some kind of a British/English English accent, don't you? I "have" a New York accent, too. _________________ Az alvástól megéhezem. Az evéstől elálmosodom. Az élet szép.
Well...I guess I should look here more often. I had (temporarily of course) been getting less interested in coming to both here and UniLang, I think I was just running out of things to discuss. And I didn't think anyone at all wanted to discuss the accent map anymore!
But, since I just got this email today--and I might add that this is the first forum I've ever been on where people actually noticed me being gone--I decided to pop in here for a while. And it looks like someone bumped the one thread I thought no one would ever read again!
Well since we're here, you might want to look at that accent map site again. I've kept updating it (but not every Friday like it says there) so the maps are all more or less current, plus the list of cities you can look at statistics for is now really really long. And on the "what the accents sound like" page there are links to YouTube videos.
And I should probably reply to the last person who posted here:
If you got "North Central" when you probably should've gotten "Western" it was probably in how you answered the question about the word "about." Last year I met someone who sounded Minnesota-ish but was really from Seattle, and she probably would get "Western" on the quiz, so it all balances out somehow.
I don't really know what a New Yorker sounds like. Unlike many Europeans that speak English, I use an American accent instead of a British one.
I thought the British accent is much more common in Europe, due to it's proximity. Maybe the American accent thing is just a recent phenomenon? _________________ Currently learning:
"New York City. You are most definitely from New York City. Not New Jersey, not Connecticut. If you are from Jersey then you can probably get into New York City in 10 minutes or less."
Can anyone tell me what other accents are similar to the NYC accent besides the Jersey & New Orleans accents? Aren't the rhode island, ct, and Boston accents similar? I've also heard a few people from maine with a new york- like accent. _________________ Currently learning:
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David wrote:
Can anyone tell me what other accents are similar to the NYC accent besides the Jersey & New Orleans accents? Aren't the rhode island, ct, and Boston accents similar? I've also heard a few people from maine with a new york- like accent.
I think the non-NY accent that sounds the closest is the one that is geographically the closest, namely the NJ accent that's from right across the Hudson River. Some New England accents share certain characteristics with NY accents (non-rhotic R, for example), but I think they sound quite different.
Can anyone tell me what other accents are similar to the NYC accent besides the Jersey & New Orleans accents? Aren't the rhode island, ct, and Boston accents similar? I've also heard a few people from maine with a new york- like accent.
I think the non-NY accent that sounds the closest is the one that is geographically the closest, namely the NJ accent that's from right across the Hudson River. Some New England accents share certain characteristics with NY accents (non-rhotic R, for example), but I think they sound quite different.
Yes, I think that's it. I can't even tell them apart! I think Yat would be second(after NJ) followed by maybe the Rhode Island accent??? _________________ Currently learning:
Yes, I think that's it. I can't even tell them apart! I think Yat would be second(after NJ) followed by maybe the Rhode Island accent???
I believe you are right--the way I set up the quiz, a RI person would get "Northeastern," just like the New Yorkers. You should look at the page I just linked to because it explains why.
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