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  1. TexasStake

    TexasStake Member

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    Depending on how you pronounce words such as "lawyer" and "highway" can pinpoint where your way of talking comes from. It guessed Huntsville/Birmingham/Chattanooga for me which is wrong, but considering I lived most of my life in Eastern NC and most recently 8 years in Houston that kind of falls halfway so that sounds about right.

    http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0

    Let me know how accurate it is!
     
    #1 TexasStake, Feb 28, 2014
  2. K mf G

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    got mine correct
     
    #2 K mf G, Feb 28, 2014
  3. Summer Song Giver

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    Nailed it to within three US cities, Houston being one of the three.
     
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    I learned my English in middle school in the United States in Houston. I would say it's 85% accurate in their location: http://nyti.ms/1pF51ux :eek:
     
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    [​IMG]

    It was pretty accurate and had me in Texas. Houston was not one of the top three cities though.
     
    #5 TreeRollins, Feb 28, 2014
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    Apparently I'm from the SF Bay Area and Honululu, even though I've lived in Houston my entire life. Lol
     
    #6 htwnbandit, Feb 28, 2014
  7. The Drake

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    Got mine right: Houston, Austin, Shreveport.
     
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    got irving, arlington and jackson, MS...

    not bad for a west texan born and raised, whose parents were from mississippi.

    I did find the "feeder" map interesting. Only the Houston area gave like answers.
     
    #8 DonkeyMagic, Feb 28, 2014
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    Got Houston, San Antonio and Irving. Got heem.
     
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  10. TexasStake

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    apparently Houston area is the only place in USA that says "feeder" road.... I thought that was the norm lol
     
    #10 TexasStake, Feb 28, 2014
  11. Haymitch

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    Irving, Amarillo, Rockford.

    The correct answer would of course be Houston.

    Apparently no one else in the south says kitty-corner.
     
    #11 Haymitch, Feb 28, 2014
  12. Dairy Ashford

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    Have aunts (like "fonts") there, but they're all West Indian; and I grew up east of 45, did two years of high school in New England, went to U of H and lived in the "heartland" for nine years. Power of television, I guess.
     
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    Paterson, Yonkers, New York City.

    Despite saying y'all, I'm from Northern New Jersey and was born in Paterson.
     
    #13 da_juice, Feb 28, 2014
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    Not when across or over there would suffice.
     
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    Got Austin, Irving, and Lubbock. Shoulda been Houston, but this test is pretty accurate.
     
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    And by there I mean New York.
     
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  17. Entropy

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    Now that I think about it, I've visited or lived in all of those places before too. Super Accurate, at least for me.
     
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    Probably something I picked up from my mom, who spent much of her youth in Indiana.
     
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    I knew this would be a dead giveaway. When you say it in front of people from other areas they always have a confused look on their face, then they figure out what you mean mid conversation.
     
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    Houston, San Antonio...and Little Rock?
     
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