{"id":1089,"date":"2007-04-22T07:52:13","date_gmt":"2007-04-22T12:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2015-03-30T11:27:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T11:27:41","slug":"1089","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1089","title":{"rendered":"On Accents"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m pretty sure I’ve done a quiz like this before, but I’m not finding it off-hand in my archives. And because I don’t feel like going through my archives looking for a meme done long ago, we’ll just do it again! (ETA:<\/b> Here it is. April 2005<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

So! What sort of accent do I have?<\/p>\n

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What American accent do you have?
Created by Xavier<\/a style=\"color: FFFFFF;\"> on Memegen.net<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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Midland.<\/b> The Midland (please don’t confuse with "Midwest") itself is the neutral zone between the North and South. But just because you have a Midland accent doesn’t mean you’re from there. Since it is considered a neutral, default, "non-regional" accent you could easily be from someplace without its own accent, like Florida, or a big city in the South like Dallas, Houston, or Atlanta.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Take this quiz now – it’s easy!<\/div>\n
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We’re going to start with "cot" and "caught." When you say those words do they sound the same or different?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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