| What American accent do you have? Your Result: Philadelphia Your accent is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak! If you're not from Philadelphia, then you're from someplace near there like south Jersey, Baltimore, or Wilmington. if you've ever journeyed to some far off place where people don't know that Philly has an accent, someone may have thought you talked a little weird even though they didn't have a clue what accent it was they heard. | |
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And I pronounce "water" like a South Jerseyan, too. (Although in practice, my speech impediment--not all of my R-dipthongs get pronounced correctly, so "far," "for," and "fir" all sound the same--interferes with the ability of people not in the area to place me as being from SJ based on my accent.)