Does anyone actually say “potahto”?
June 15, 2007
With a tip of the hat to Scott:
| What American accent do you have? (Best version so far)
Northern You have a Northern accent. That could either be the Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland/Buffalo accent (easily recognizable) or the Western New England accent that news networks go for.
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It’s fun, but I think their claim to be the “best version so far” of this ubiquitous test is undermined by fair and balanced questions like:
If you say words like TIME, RIDE, MILE, I, etc., we all know that there’s a way people down South say those words. Don’t lie about it, how often do you ever say those kind of words like that?
June 15th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
My GF says “toe-MAH-toe” and “buh-NAH-nuh” - but she’s a Brit.
June 15th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
I have heard “toe-MAH-toe”, even in America, but I have never heard “poe-TAH-toe” anywhere. It’s still a damn good song, though.
Interestingly, if you read the comments on the quiz site, there were quite a few respondants from the UK, and their American accents were all over the map, including a surprising number from the south.
June 18th, 2007 at 9:40 am
Explain the question Ben. I really don’t get what they are asking. Maybe its part of my geographical illiteracy of never spending much time below the Springfield line.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:20 am
I would assume the quiz is testing the tendency to pronounce a long I with an /A:/ sound, as in “AH reckon it’s hot outside”. No one does that in Illinois, not even below I-70.