{"id":14435,"date":"2013-02-17T00:33:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T00:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2013\/02\/17\/what-american-accent-do-you-have\/"},"modified":"2013-02-17T00:33:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T00:33:40","slug":"what-american-accent-do-you-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2013\/02\/17\/what-american-accent-do-you-have\/","title":{"rendered":"What American accent do you have?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What American accent do you have?<\/a><\/p>\n

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amixedreality<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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justbecausewewander<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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whathasbeenlost<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Your Result:\u00a0The Midland<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/div>\n
95%<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cYou have a Midland accent\u201d is just another way of saying \u201cyou don\u2019t have an accent.\u201d You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What American accent do you have?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Your Result:\u00a0The Inland North<\/strong><\/div>\n
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85%<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

You may think you speak \u201cStandard English straight out of the dictionary\u201d but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like \u201cAre you from Wisconsin?\u201d or \u201cAre you from Chicago?\u201d Chances are you call carbonated drinks \u201cpop.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Your Result:\u00a0The Midland\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n
95%<\/div>\n

\u201cYou have a Midland accent\u201d is just another way of saying \u201cyou don\u2019t have an accent.\u201d You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.<\/p>\n

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Your Result:\u00a0The West<\/strong><\/div>\n
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96%<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you’re a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta.<\/p>\n

(psst, I am from the west.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What American accent do you have? amixedreality: justbecausewewander: whathasbeenlost: Your Result:\u00a0The Midland \u00a0 95% \u201cYou have a Midland accent\u201d is just another way of saying \u201cyou don\u2019t have an accent.\u201d You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from … Continue reading What American accent do you have?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}