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[primroseburrows]

What American accent do you have? Your Result: Boston You definitely have a Boston accent, even if you think you don't. Of course, that doesn't mean you are from the Boston area, you may also be from New Hampshire or Maine.
The West
The Midland
North Central
The Northeast
Philadelphia
The Inland North
The South
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Well, I could have told you that. :) They didn't ask about dropped Rs, though. Maybe they didn't want to include Rhode Island in the survey. *shrugs*

Also? Just when I think my love for this band can't get any bigger, I find this:

Arrogant Worms - Gaelic Song

*dies*

Comments

[missapocalyptic.livejournal.com]

Okay... does Ray Vecchio have a genuine Chicago accent? And what about RayK? And does Fraser speak Canadian? And what words/sounds do I have to look for to get the differences?

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

The Canadian accents sound more like American than the British or Australia/New Zealand ones (at least IMO). Unless you're talking about the Maritime provinces (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador--in other words, Atlantic Canada). The Maritime accents (and there are more than one, I've been told by someone from Newfoundland) are different. They sound closer to Irish or Scots to me than they do American. Canada's a big country.

I don't know what people in the Northwest Territories sound like, so I don't know if Fraser's accent is in character. He sounds a heck of a lot like Paul Gross to me, only more formal. Paul was an Army brat, so he lived all over the place, including England, the US and Germany (and Alberta and Ontario, and yes, I had to look all that up to be sure. *g*). It doesn't seem to me he would have one regional accent. And, as Fraser is a character, um. *flails*
Probably the best person to answer this question would be a Canadian. I'm pretty good at East Coast US stuff, and Nova Scotia because I love it so and I've spent time there, but I couldn't tell an Ontario accent from an Alberta or British Columbia one. I can tell Rhode Island from Boston,though, and I bet even the Prime Minister of Canada couldn't do that. Or the President of the United States, for that matter, but he doesn't know much about much, anyway. :)

As for Ray Vecchio, I don't know what a Chicago accent sounds like. More Midwestern US than Ray does, I'd think. David Marciano's from New Jersey, which is an accent I sort of DO know because it's close to me geographically, and he sounds a lot like someone from New Jersey. Callum's another story. I think he's trying to do a Chicago accent, but the Canadian comes out randomly. Unless Chicagoans sound like Canadians, which I doubt.