Seriously? I didn't even understand most of the questions - do people really pronounce mary, marry and merry the same?

And do Philly accents really sound British? (they don't to me but then having only spent a day there, I'm not really in a position to judge).

How Cockney are you? Or have you been paying attention in Guy Ritchie films? I'm a 95% Londoner which is reassuring despite never having heard anyone outside Eastenders use most of the expressions.

I'm 52% Londoner, but I totally guessed on most of them.

Yep. The only one I've heard pronounced differently is "merry" and the guy who said it's notoriously snooty.

Philly accents don't sound British to me. My brother-in-law has one and I can't stop giggling when he speaks because:

Hee hee!

I don't know any other way to pronounce them, other than that one same way.

I'm from Boston, but I've been living in Philly for nearly ten years now, and I was surprised when someone pointed out to me that I'd started to say "wooder" sometimes.

I want to hear Cleo sing, "Mary Mack's mother's making Mary Mack marry me/ My mother's making me marry Mary Mack..."

Mary, marry, merry - M-air-y, M-ah-rry, M-eh-rry. I pronounce them all differently, but some of the others - cot/caught, Don/Dawn- the differences are so slight I didn't know how to answer the question. It said I have a Boston accent, but I definitely don't. My mother and her family are from Boston, and I like to imitate the accent.

I think I speak unaccented English. I live in Pittsburgh, which has a rather interesting "dialect," but I don't speak that way either.

See, I say all of the mary/marry/merry's the same, but I do pronounce the difference between cot/caught and Don/Dawn. I have no clue how to explain the differences- D-ah-n and D-auw-n would be the only way I'd know how, and that's not technically right. I think I'm just weird.

This may be the root of our problem, because I think the Southern pronunciation of "air" is close to "ehr." So "M[air]y" and "M[ehr]ry" are basically the same thing. We say all three as "Mehrry," essentially.

There's a subtle difference between Don/Dawn and cot/caught, but I definitely say them. Also, I may be the one Southerner who can say "foil."

Actually, me and many many Bostonians (particularly those from Newton I find) don't have what others imagine to be a typical Boston accent ("Haaavad yaad"). That accent does exist, it's just not the only one. My mother does have that accent. My dad is from Pittsburgh. I got the same result as you did on the -*test*-('"), except it picked up some of my recent Philly-acquisitions. Anyhow, you see where I'm going: You may still have a Boston accent, just not *that* Boston accent.

100% Londoner Me old mum will be so proud!

I'm 83% Londoner, which is funny, since the sum total of time I've spent there (or in any of the UK) was one week in middle school -- I just watch far too much British TV and movies.

True, true. There is a distinct difference in regional accents. I'm in Beverly, and even though we're only 20 odd miles north of the Hub, the North Shore accent is pretty distinct.

One thing I didn't realize until Catie pointed it out to me, is that I tend to add the letter R to words that end in W, if the following word starts with a vowel. Does that make sense? For example, apparently instead of saying "I saw it", I say "I sawr it." I guess that I really don't drop my R's, I just put them different places. Now that I'm aware of this, I hear it everywhere!

My dad does this too -- only he also throws an r in the middle of words as well, like saying "Warshington". I've always heard it referred to as a San Francisco Irish thing. Like the remanants of the Boston accent from previous migration.

There's probably a better place to put this, but Bookworm Adventures has eaten my brain. It's so cute! And nerdy! And addictive!

Gee Putli, why were you so late and tired looking when you showed up for work on Friday morning?

I don't know -- could it have something to do with the EVIL FISHY GAME?

That site should have come with a warning, I'm jus' sayin'.

Cleo, how do you say foil?

(I admit, I pronounce soil/foil/oil as sole/fole/ole, unless I'm talking about aluminum foil -- then it's foyel)