{"id":1113,"date":"2006-11-11T13:02:07","date_gmt":"2006-11-11T20:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/accent\/"},"modified":"2006-11-11T13:02:07","modified_gmt":"2006-11-11T20:02:07","slug":"accent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/accent\/","title":{"rendered":"Accent"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was visiting blogs this morning, and found this at Bogie’s blog.<\/a> I don’t think there were enough questions to pinpoint my location, but they hit the nail on the head with the comment about “Are you from Chicago.” Actually, the Chicago accent is quite different from mine, but there must be similarities. But, you’ll never hear me say “How ya dooon?”
\nWouldn’t you think that I’d score in the North Central area, rather than Philly?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
What American accent do you have?<\/b> <\/p>\n
Your Result: The Inland North<\/b><\/div>\n
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You may think you speak “Standard English straight out of the dictionary” but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like “Are you from Wisconsin?” or “Are you from Chicago?” Chances are you call carbonated drinks “pop.”<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Philadelphia<\/td>\n\n
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The Northeast<\/td>\n\n
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The Midland<\/td>\n\n
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The South<\/td>\n\n
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Boston<\/td>\n\n
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The West<\/td>\n\n
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North Central<\/td>\n\n
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What American accent do you have?<\/b><\/a>
Take More Quizzes<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was visiting blogs this morning, and found this at Bogie’s blog. I don’t think there were enough questions to pinpoint my location, but they hit the nail on the head with the comment about “Are you from Chicago.” Actually, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}