NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up

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NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up

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Just 25 questions. Mine said Milwaukee or Madison WI. I grew up in a small town mid-way btwn them.

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Cool, I'm from St Louis.
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Southern Maryland, right on.
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So are all Brits who live in Italy.
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Are you calling me a nigger? Sorry Tim, I couldn't resist it.
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I got Worcester MA. Grew up in small town near Worcester. We drink from bubblers and eat grinders.
Most people don't think I have any accent though.
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Fort Worth, Lubbock, San Antonio. I grew up near Fort Worth, but I'm not sure it would have pegged that one without y'all - which I've only started saying when I interacted with people who expected a y'all. Until I was 18 it was always "you guys" and still is half the time.
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Tucson, chandler, Mesa.

Born in Dallas, lived in Coppell til right before I turned 8, SF Bay Area ever since.

I get told I have an accent all the time, but didn't know I'd somehow morphed into an Arizonan.
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I've lived in Maryland my whole life, most of that in tobacco country/southern PG county, but it put me in central NC (Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Durham).

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Answered it straight.... but says I'm from Nebraska. Never been to Nebraska.
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Pretty spot on.
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diagnosed my as from baltimore, philadelphia, or newark.

philly is correct. "hoagie" is the giveaway.

my old man was from baltimore,
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I've lived all over the country and picked up local vernacular everywhere and it still got me within 90 miles of my house.
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Doesn't seem to narrow it down much if you're from the PNW or states around it.
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Nailed Boston based solely (I'd guess) on the way I refer to a rotary.

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Hit the fucking bullseye with me.
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dead on
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Two or three states off.
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Not even close.
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syaigh wrote:Southern Maryland, right on.
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Batboy2/75 wrote:Not even close.
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Turdacious wrote:Doesn't seem to narrow it down much if you're from the PNW or states around it.
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Lincoln/Omaha were my top two (b/c I say pop), so that was accurate being from Nebraska. And Baton Rouge!?!? Granted I lived in Atlanta, but have never been there.

And the Bawlmur-ese evidently isn't sticking.
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Nailed it
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