Trenton, New Jersey
The Trenton Accent
Trenton sits inside the Philadelphia dialect area, which covers Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley, United States. The nearest other area is New York City, about 24km away.
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What people in Trenton sound like
- The long sandwich is a hoagie.
- “Cot” and “caught” stay distinct.
- Rhotic R — “car” keeps its R.
- Plural “you” is often “youse”.
These are the markers of the Philadelphia accent as a whole. No survey claims every speaker in Trenton has all of them — the full Philadelphia profile sets out where the region varies.
Trenton against Boston
Trenton is close enough to the Boston area that the two get confused. These are the questions where the survey expects a different answer on each side.
| Question | Trenton | Boston |
|---|---|---|
| When you say “car” by itself, do you pronounce an R sound at the end? | the R at the end of “car” is pronounced | “car” ends in a vowel, with no R sound |
Dialect areas near Trenton
Is your accent from Trenton?
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 Philadelphia English profile and every other profile in the survey, and shows you where people who answer the way you do actually live.