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What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Northeast Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.
The Inland North
Philadelphia
The South
The Midland
Boston
North Central
The West
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*does actually know why* See, in the 1800's, the Irish potato famine caused mass immigration. A lot of them either docked at Liverpool, meaning that most of the accents of the North-West of England are still heavily influenced by Irish pronunciation. However, some of them actually survived the trip to America and ended up in the North-East.

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