American accent test

[Wilson Gray]

For me, it missed by a mile, saying that I'm from Philadelphia.
However, if I interpreted the bar graph on the answer page correctly,
the Philly accent isn't very far removed from the Southern accent.
IMO, though, this is simply unbelievable.

-Wilson

On 3/23/08, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>  This site tries to locate your American accent.  For me it came close, but just missed.
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>  http://gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have
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