Your American Accent link doesn't work any more.

Here's another:

This one told me I had a Midland accent, the newscaster neutral one? Is that the American equivalent of BBC English?

Mine is North Eastern!

Now would that be because that is where a lot of the original UK immigrants landed (just re-reading The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton), and the basic English pronunciation has stuck!

Admittedly some were Suffolk (soft lilting accent) and Norfolk (sometimes difficult to understand), but a lot were well educated and from other parts of the UK (eg Lincolnshire)

I'm Midland -- guess that's because I'm from Cincinnati, shown on the Midland map.

This one got more specific about where I am.

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.

NightMist

I'm also Midland. I was born in Chicago, but I didn't live there past the age of two. I lived briefly in Maryland, but I lived in Arizona from the time I was five until we moved to Nevada in 1999 -- over 46 years!

My grandparents were from Manchester and everyone who met them here thought they were from Scotland.

I got the same thing. I am originally from northern Minnesota--an accident, I'm sure, since I have only truly felt at home in Arizona. Since so many people from WCCO and KSTP (Minnesota TV and radio stations) have now become familiar names on national TV and radio, I always thought they looked for Midwestern accents. Maybe I should be working in broadcasting instead of patient financial services!

But maybe I would use too many of the "bad" words I learned from my brothers..........LOL

works for me! Must just not like y'all!!!

Here we are -- two Midlanders in Nevada!

LOL! Yup!

I voted to have it scrapped!!! It said I was from Midland....

I grew up in Oklahoma and have lived in Texas for the last 17 years. I sound like a hillbilly and have never been in Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio etc.

Tricia in TX

John A. wrote:

Southern--grew up in Northwest Florida!

first time it said midland, took it again and really thought about how I say the different words..it has me as southern.....born in Baltimore, but majority of my family came from Virginia and further south...does that count??

Larisa