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As a Swedish person, I'm apparently northeastern. Also, for the first 2/3 or so of the quiz, it's pretty much unfathomable to me how anyone could pronounce any
by estomagordo 8y ago
As a Swedish person, I'm apparently northeastern.
Also, for the first 2/3 or so of the quiz, it's pretty much unfathomable to me how anyone could pronounce any of them the same.
- mnw21cam 8y agoAs a Brit, I'm also apparently Northeastern, and agreed on your second point.
- benj111 8y agoI'm British and also got North Eastern. I'm from Yorkshire so half right.
- yorwba 8y agoThis is essentially testing for various kinds of phonological changes (mostly vowel mergers) that roughly differentiate between American accents. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_change https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_change If you learned English anywhere in Europe, it's most likely that you were taught an approximation of Received Pronunciation (standard British English), which is most similar to accents in the northeastern US for historical reasons.
- gilgoomesh 8y agoEnglish classes in Western Europe vary between two types: * non-U RP (a less formal variant of British "Received pronounciation") and * GA ("General American", a blend of midwest and north eastern American accents). The former is favored by Latin language family countries and the latter is favored by Germanic language family countries, simply because they better match the native language sounds. In either case though... both of these are closer to "northeastern" than any other US accent.
- wirrbel 8y agoAt least in Germany, we started with a British pronunciation and then in our I believe 4th year of learning english we had one year where the textbook presented american english and we listened to recordings of american speakers. Overall I think our teachers spoke a mixture of american and english dialects (and remnants of a German accent) that you could probably not put on a map.
- stephen_g 8y agoAustralian here and I got that too.
- tiisetso 8y agoSouth African here (Mother tongue English) and also Northeastern (same result on the NYT link in the comments). Although I can see how the Mary, merry, marry could be the same. Some South Africans would pronounce the latter two identically although perhaps dissimilarly to how an American might pronounce all three the same.
- plaidfuji 8y agoAs a person of Swedish descent from Minnesota, I answered “same” to almost all of the questions for which it was an option. The apple falls far from the tree apparently!