Chicago area, to be precise. (North Side, to be more precise.)
What American accent do you have? (via Conrad)
In what region do “bag” and “vague” rhyme? I’d never come across that one before.
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“Bag” and “vague” often rhyme in Wisconsin, where vowels do things I have never heard them do elsewhere. A native of Wisconsin might speak of “a baig of baggels,” for example.
They rhyme for me. I got a result of ‘neutral’. I’m from the Northwest, but I’ve lived in California and Ohio, and traveled all over.
What does ‘vague’ rhyme with, if not ‘bag’?
What does ‘vague’ rhyme with, if not ‘bag’?
The only things that come to mind are “ague” and “Alexander Haig.”
Whoops, “ague” doesn’t actually rhyme with that at all. I just checked. Guess I assumed it would rhyme with “vague” based on its spelling. I don’t think I have ever heard anyone say it.
Oh, yeah, plenty of Milwaukee-area folks rhyme “bag,” “leg,” and “egg” with “vague.” At Miller Park one night last year, the young lady singing our national anthem (a local high schooler) clearly sang, “… that our FLAGUE was still there.” I don’t think I ever picked that one up myself, though.
Vague - Alexander Haig, very funny.
Who cares whether ague rhymes with vague or not, it’s a cool new word. Now I am ready for flu season with an expanded vocabulary to describe my chills and sweats. But you run the risk of this - “This flu has given me terrible ague.”, “gesundheit!”
However with my newly expanded vocabulary my accent is still from Philadelphia. Can yous guys get me a cheese steak to ease my ague?
My husband, from Minnesota, rhymes vague with bag. But he’s a freak.
That was quite a clever quiz. I was certain that it would put me in the Northwest USA–Washington, Oregon, and so on. But, no, it said my accent was CANADIAN.
I’m… well, Canadian. The quiz, it was correct.