What this measures
This result ranks only US profiles using features that distinguish American regions. It reports the closest documented pattern, even when several regions are close.
United States
Which US accent are you closest to?
Car, cot and caught, Mary, pin and pen, ride, celery, three, bottle and dark L.
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Question 1 of 10
Say “I parked the car” naturally. Can you hear an R at the end of “car”?
Ignore the written letter and listen to the sound between “car” and the end of the phrase.
Questions chosen for this quiz
Rhotic R, major vowel mergers, the Southern PRICE vowel and “needs washed” join intervocalic T, celery–salary, TH and dark L to draw ten different lines across American English.
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