El Dorado Hills, California
The El Dorado Hills Accent
El Dorado Hills sits inside the California dialect area, which covers California, United States. No other dialect area in the survey comes close to it.
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What people in El Dorado Hills sound like
- “Cot” and “caught” sound the same.
- Fronted “goose” vowel — “dude”, “food”, “too”.
- Uptalk: rising pitch at the end of statements.
- Quotative “like”: “and I was like…”.
These are the markers of the California accent as a whole. No survey claims every speaker in El Dorado Hills has all of them — the full California profile sets out where the region varies.
Is your accent from El Dorado Hills?
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 California English profile and every other profile in the survey, and shows you where people who answer the way you do actually live.