Statistics for Accents by description

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
"Cot" and "Caught" are merged. Accent often mocked for the diphthong in "About" and "House" sounding a bit like "aboot" or "aboat"	Standard Canadian	87%
Non-rhotic. Accent often mocked for words like "stupid" and "Tuesday" sounding similar to "chewsday" and "schewpid"	Recieved Pronunciation	71%
In a strong version of the accent "i" sounds almost like "oi" and a hard "a" might sound like "aye"	General Australian	61%
Very rhotic. Words with "i" sound similar to "oi". Often described as "sing-songy"	Irish English	56%
Vowel in “short e” words like "dress" or "bed" sound very similar to the vowel in "kit", and "short a" words like "hat" sound more like "het"	New Zealand English	54%
Words like "lot" and "rod" are pronounced with an unrounded vowel, sounding like "laht" and "rahd"	General American	52%
Tends to pronounce diphthongs as straight vowels. "R"s are sometimes rolled	Scottish Standard English	45%