What's your (American) dialect?

[melipuffles]

My accent is pretty weird, I grew up in Brooklyn, but have no Brooklyn accent!
My mom, however, is completely stereotypically from Brooklyn, even my baby brother seems to have a Brooklyn accent.
  My mom says things like "burgah" = burger "tamata" =tomato, haha.

The map I got is mainly blue, and says my most similar cities are:

Most Similar Cities    
1    Elizabeth NJ    61.1
2    Newark NJ    60.8
3    Yonkers NY    60.8
4    New York NY    60.1
5    Toms River NJ    59.6

So huh, apparently I have a more New Jersey sounding accent than New York. WEIRD. o_o;

 Also, I noticed this.  My boyfriend likes to tease me for saying "forward", I say it "Foh-word" and I say ponytail instead of hair tie, which makes my boyfriend go "A ponytail is the thing you make with the hairtie!"

I also say "roon" instead of "roo-in" which my boyfriend will then always go "I don't know Mel, I don't think it had any ancient symbols on it. ;P"

[Roccoriel]

I am from the Philadelphia, PA area, and am only similar to a small area right around Philly.  I guess we really do have our own dialect!

Most Similar:
1    Philadelphia PA    60.9
2    Allentown PA    59.4
3    Toms River NJ    59.0
4    Baltimore MD    58.2
5    Elizabeth NJ    57.3

Least Similar:
1    Jackson MS    52.0
2    Green Bay WI    52.0
3    Baton Rouge LA    52.0
4    Sioux Falls SD    52.1
5    Metairie LA    52.2

[Tap Dancer]

I'll admit I had some trouble with the "vowel questions," like this one:

the first vowel in "miracle"

[ɪ] as in "knit"
[iː] as in "near"
something between [ɪ] and [ɛ] as in "net"
[ɛ] as in "net"

So my results may not be accurate because there were a lot of them. I went with my best guesses, but they confused the crap out of me.

Most Similar Cities
1.  Fort Lauderdale FL  54.0 
2.  Coral Springs FL  54.0 
3.  Miami FL  54.0 
4.  Port Saint Lucie FL  54.0 
5.  Durham NC  53.7

Least Similar Cities
1.  Sioux Falls SD  47.3 
2.  Flint MI  47.6 
3.  Green Bay WI  47.6 
4.  Warren MI  47.7 
5.  Detroit MI  47.8

Guess that means I sound southern? I've lived in Virginia my entire life, so that would make sense.

[happycootie]

My mom says things like "burgah" = burger "tamata" =tomato, haha.

I say "tamata" too. Potato is also "patata" when I say it fast enough.

I didn't know the difference between a coffin and a casket... or that there was a name for the day before Halloween... or that there are words for when it rains when the sun is out. I blame living in Ohio for my lack of knowledge

[melipuffles]

My mom says things like "burgah" = burger "tamata" =tomato, haha.

I say "tamata" too. Potato is also "patata" when I say it fast enough.

I didn't know the difference between a coffin and a casket... or that there was a name for the day before Halloween... or that there are words for when it rains when the sun is out. I blame living in Ohio for my lack of knowledge

Haha, my mom also says "patata" anything with an er turns into an "a" or "ah" sound. xD

[kellyponyfeathers]

I just did the short version.  My results were pretty much as I expected; I speak a Midwestern dialect.  Though I grew up outside of St. Louis (eastern Missouri) and the test matched me up with western Missouri (and Oklahoma, for some reason).

I've studied English and communications, so I've noticed such things in the past.  For example, where I'm from, we have kind of a strange pronunciation for words like "grocery" and "nursery":  we pronounce them "groshery" and "nurshery"!  I'm aware of the difference and can use the more standard pronunciation if I want, though.