Yesterday was the anniversary of this blog, and to celebrate I present the first (of possibly several) SLPeep/SLGeek games. What are the SLPeeps? Besides being the title of one of my blogrolls they are a professional network of smart, savvy (dare I say sexy) Speech Language Pathologists that initially found each other on twitter. A few days ago I butted into a twitter convo about dialects and regional differences and the idea for this game was born….could we determine where each SLPeep was from simply by hearing their voice?
Everyone was invited to send in a recording of themselves reading THE RAINBOW PASSAGE, which is a standard reading passage.
Here we go…..to play leave a comment matching the 16 SLPeeps to one of the following accents. **NOTE some accents will be used more than once, but ALL will be used at least one time. There will be a prize for the winner (whoever correctly guesses the most correct.) Also, the 16 wonderful SLPeeps are also eligible to play.
a) Barbados
b) Ireland
c) (Massachusetts) USA
d) (Missouri) USA
e) (Montana) USA
f) (New Jersey) USA
g) (New York) USA
h) New Zealand
i) (Newfoundland) Canada
j) (Ontario) Canada
k) Trinidad
- @SLPTanya – Ontario, Canada
- @MtMarySLP – Montana, USA
- @namastebyday – Missouri, USA
- @SLPrj – Newfoundland, Canada
- @TriniSLP – Trinidad
- @albrechtjn – Ontario, Canada
- @azspeechguy – (Long Island) NY, USA
- @commforall – Missouri, USA
- @tuitree – New Zealand
- @zealousidler – (NYC) NY, USA
- @scarie – Ireland
- @SpeechTechie – Massachusetts, USA
- @e_stricks – Missouri, USA
- @lausie18 – New Jersey, USA
- @SpeechReka – Barbados
- @kimberlyslp – Newfoundland, Canada
Ndnspeechmom 
1 = j Ont
2 = e MT
3 = f NJ
4 = i NFLD
5 = k Trini
6 = j Ont
7 = j Ont
8 = g NY
9 = h NZ
10 = d Missouri
11 = b Ireland
12 = c Mass
13 = g NY
14 = f NJ
15 = a Barbados
16 = g NY
ps Nobody should copy me, b/c I was SO UNSURE of SO MANY!!!
10/16 not bad
Okay…Here are my guesses (and I do mean guesses)
1) J – Ontario
2) E – Montana
3) D – Missouri
4) C – Massachusetts
5) A – Barbados
6) G – New York
7) C – Massachusetts
8 ) F- New Jersey
9) B – Ireland
10) I – Newfoundland
11) K – Trinidad
12) J – Ontario
13) F – New Jersey
14) D – Missouri
15) H – New Zealand
16) J – Ontario
3/16 (better than I would have done)
Okay..the smiley face and F- New Jersey is supposed to be #8. I’m not sure why that happened.
Holy smokes! Some of these are hard. This is, btw, an excellent game!
This was nearly impossible, but here are my guesses:
1) Ontario
2) Newfoundland
3) New Jersey
4) Montana
5) Barbados
6) Ontario
7) New Jersey
8) Ontario
9) New Zealand
10) New York
11) Ireland
12) Massachusetts
13) Missouri
14) New York
15) Ireland
16) Ontario
(NO idea which one was a Trinidadian accent!)
7/16 (haha yes looks like TriniSLP hid her accent from you)
All of my Canadian answers are stictly guesses between Ontario and Newfoundland. I have no idea!
1. Canada (Ontario)
2. Canada (Ontario)
3. USA (New Jersey)
4. USA (Montana)
5. Barbados
6. Canada (Newfoundland)
7. USA (New York)
8. Canada (Ontario)
9. New Zealand
10. Canada (Ontario)
11. Trinidad
12. USA (Massachusetts)
13. USA (Missouri)
14. USA (New York)
15. Ireland
16. Canada (Newfoundland)
6/16 (I think this game turned out harder than I thought)
This was tough!! I made a lot of random guesses 🙂
1. Ontario
2. Barbados
3. New Jersey
4. Newfoundland
5. Trinidad
6. Ontario
7. Missouri
8. New York
9. New Zealand
10. Montana
11. Ireland
12. Massachusetts
13. New York
14. Massachusetts
15. Ireland
16. Newfoundland
8/16 (a few people used their “professional” voice I think…)
LOL this is so good, can’t believe some people think I’m from Trinidad …..
OK, this was hard. I think I especially found NY and NJ tricky. Here are my guesses:
1. Ontario
2. Montana
3. Massachusetts
4. Newfoundland and Labrador (bonus points Renena?)
5. Trinidad
6. Ontario
7. Missouri?
8. New Jersey?
9. New Zealand
10. Ontario
11. Ireland
12. Massachusetts
13. Ontario? – I’d rather say California…
14. New York?
15. Barbados
16. New York?
This was WAY harder than I thought and I think the NY/NJ girls were covering up their accents!!
9/16 (You almost tied Janelle…so far she is in the lead)
I think we needed to use a more typical passage with words like “about” and “bag.” The rainbow passage in and of itself seemed to allow us to mask our natural stresses – and then when you start making it sound “professional” it gets really hard.
agreed! plus it would be funnier
I’m dying to know the answers!
Jesh – who knows?!!
1. Ontario
2. Montana
3. Mass.
4. NL
5. Barbados
6. Ontario
7. New Jersey
8. Ontario
9. Ireland
10. Missouri
11. New Zealand
12. New York
13. Montana
14. Ontario
15. Trinidad
16. NL
5/16 it was verreh tricky…but I’m happy you played!
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