What accent do I have?

0 I think you are cot-caught merged? Although it's hard to tell from that passage. If you are then that means you are probably from the West, the North Central, or perhaps the Midlands. Do you have the cord-card merger? It sounded like it when you said "hard" and "harder" consitently like "hord" and "horder", but you could have a vowel shift that shifts ar->or so it might not be the merge

0 If you want to compare your version to what it sounds like in General American, I recorded myself reading the passage, trying to expunge any trace of my accent and speak General American English. Here it is:02br
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0 I recorded myself pronouncing those words.02br
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0 I would guess you're from the Southwestern US. Utah or California, or somewhere nearby. 0-

0 so, am I right? : ) 0-

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00Thanks for the input. I work at a call center who make calls to all over America regularly and lots of people try to guess my accent. They're usually wrong (I've even gotten Indian, French and English O_o) so I've gotten very interested in the way I sound recently.010id1

0 Wow, interesting. Do many Calgarians pronounce "sorry" as "sari" and "tomorrow" as "tomahrow"? Interestingly enough, I met someone from Calgary that had those pronunciations, but they had also lived in California, so I just assumed they had picked it up from there. 0-

0 I'm really not sure, sorry. O_o I think so but I'm not 100% on it.0-

0 Also, it's interesting you say that I didn't have the Canadian raising in "about." I find that I tend to not have it whenever I make a conscious effort to pay attention to my pronunciation, which could explain why you didn't hear it when listening to what I read. When speaking normally, I sometimes catch myself pronouncing certain words with Canadian raising after saying them. I'm not really s