As Americans our accent is a dead give-away when traveling abroad, but for those who don’t know, we also have different accents regionally. There is of course North Eastern accent for example: cawfee (for coffee), Southern Y’all (for you all) , Mid-Western, Western, and ur Valley girl.
Umm Yusuf sent this link to me and just took it LOL…. It’s pretty accurate with me considering I was born and raised in NY and then lived in Florida for 4 yrs of highschool and now in the Carolinas hehehe….
Check out my breakdown: Hey I still have 25% of my Yankiness hehehehhe 😉 and that Dixiness from my Floridian days hehehhe…. love the Sunshine state. and overall totally American accent LOL. This was fun!!!!!
Hey and look its the statue of liberty in my hometown of NYC 😉 Take the linguistic test and see what your American English you speak!!
| Your Linguistic Profile: |
 45% General American English 25% Yankee 20% Dixie 5% Upper Midwestern 0% Midwestern |
What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
InTuiTivE MuSliMah 
July 19, 2007 at 5:10 pm
As Salaam Alaikum:
Yes, I think that english is such a complicated language. The way we pronounce and write words can throw off those non-native speakers. I took it too. It was cute to see the results.
July 25, 2007 at 1:16 pm
oh i took this test on someone else’s blog, i have no idea why! but i love the amercan accent, it’s so cute. i learnt that dixie is southern american. i love the way people say “y’all”