Bellingham, Washington
The Bellingham Accent
Bellingham sits inside the Vancouver dialect area, which covers Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, Canada. No other dialect area in the survey comes close to it.
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What people in Bellingham sound like
- A parkade is a multi-storey car park.
- Athletic shoes are runners.
- “Cot” and “caught” sound the same.
- Canadian raising in “out” and “about”.
These are the markers of the Vancouver accent as a whole. No survey claims every speaker in Bellingham has all of them — the full Vancouver profile sets out where the region varies.
Is your accent from Bellingham?
There is no way to answer that from a description. The test asks 29 questions about the words you use and how you say them, scores your answers against the Vancouver / Western Canadian English profile and every other profile in the survey, and shows you where people who answer the way you do actually live.