I often wonder what kind of accent I have, and have sometimes been told I have no accent at all, but I thought that was somewhat strange. Doesn't everyone have an accent?
So I began to take the quiz with my roomate next me as I tried saying aloud the different words. We came upon many differences. I thought that cot and caught sounded the same and she did not. I also thought that merry, marry, and Mary all sounded the same as well. Dawn and don as well as collar and caller sounded identical to me, I couldn't see how some people heard a difference. Although, I thought that "feel" and "fill" and "pen" and "pin" did not sound similar at all.
After pressing submit I found that I had a "Midland Accent". It was also described as sounding like no accent at all and said that my accent would be a good TV voice, whatever that means. The quiz was right on target; I do live in the Midwest and I think I have a Midwestern accent. This quiz made me pay attention to the way I spoke and how it often differed from the people around me in ways I never recognized or even thought about. I look forward to seeing how the quiz analyzed the accents of other students in the class as well.
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