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Basically you answer a bunch of questions and it shows you what part of the country your English comes from.

Didn't think much of it, and usually ignore the facebook-like quizes, but this pegged me for Raleigh, NC. My city of birth. In 25 questions.

http://www.nytimes.com/interac....ap.html

The questions are variable. I got Durham added into the mix when I did it again to take the screengrab.



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Last time I did this, I got Greensboro, NC, which is pretty close to where I grew up (Winston-Salem).

This time, I got:
Jackson, Mississippi
Montgomery, AL
Newport News, VA

Not sure what I said differently.

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I got:
Toledo
Detroit
Grand Rapids, MI
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I got Houston, TX and Shreveport, LA.  I live in Houston and grew up (mostly) in Nacogdoches, TX which is not too far from Shreveport so I think it did pretty good.

Most distinctive answers...

...for Houston:
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What do you call the small road parallel to the highway?
feeder road


...for Shreveport (Nacogdoches):
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How would you address a group of two or more people?
y'all

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Redneckia.

I didn't know you grew up in Nagodoches. My sister lives in Natchitoches, and I grew up right on Toledo Bend (LA side).
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I have lived in about every dialect zone on that map.  I can't even remember where different colloquial words and idioms come from most of the time.  I am a complete linguistic mongrel.

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OK.. I tried to harken back to the words I used when I was younger.

Winston-Salem, NC

Least similar:
* Akron
* Toledo
* Fort Wayne

You people speak funny.

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I feel a bit insulted.  I'm guessing that my "devil's night" answer skewed the fuck out of things.

1) Grand Rapids
2) Saint "Cesspool" Louis
3) Motherfucking Detroit wtf

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It told me the Devil's Night answer was a key indicator, so you're probably right.
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The answer to that question was "nothing" you crazies.
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The answer to that question was "nothing" you crazies.

Right.

God, we're surrounded by people from Detroit.

Yeah, that's why I had to go back to "what I used to call things," instead of what I call them now.

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I got Toledo, Detroit (even bigger cesspool than St. Louis) and Rockford Ill.

Least: Boston and a few surrounding cities in Mass.

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Here are the answers I remember:
roly poly
yall
sub
rhymes with flaw
lightning bug
cray-ahn
rubbernecking - activity
tractor-trailer
traffic circle
dinner = supper
crip course
ah concept/ ant specific person
crawdad
been = sit
palm
water fountain

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Toledo, Detroit, Omaha.

There were too many that as a kid, I called it one thing, as an adult, I call it something else.  There were some that I didn't know of as a kid, but know of as an adult.  I ended up mixing things up.  A roundabout is very popular where I am now, but I'd never heard of before 10 years ago.  The Crayon one was hard to answer, because I do both.  There are two syllables, but I mash them together pretty tightly.  But I picked the one syllable answer because I figured that's what someone would pick if they heard me say it.  And some of the shit you other people call stuff is just stupid.  I did not get a crawdad (crayfish, duh) question.

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Right, the crawdad one, I've heard called everything on that list, so I had to go back to which one I heard first as a kid.

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I took it three times and never saw anything about "devil's night".  Something related to Halloween, I would guess?

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I took it three times and never saw anything about "devil's night".  Something related to Halloween, I would guess?

You see The Crow?

Here.

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Huh.  Not a thing down here.

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WHERE NORMAL PEOPLE LIVE
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WHERE NORMAL PEOPLE LIVE

You obviously had some very boring Octobers as a child.

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