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Re: Does how you speak reflect where you're from?

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SirHurricane is not online. SirHurricane
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24 Dec 2013 06:13 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html
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drbat is not online. drbat
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24 Dec 2013 06:17 PM
lol this thing is wrong everyone says its soda from where i am
Everyone says Y'all
nobody says supper
everyone calls it a crawfish
noone has a term for it's raining while it's sunny
Everyone pronounces it Law not loy
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SirHurricane is not online. SirHurricane
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24 Dec 2013 06:21 PM
ROFL IT GOT ME

IT SAID I'M EITHER IN LUBBOCK, IRVING, OR SAN ANTONIO
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SirHurricane is not online. SirHurricane
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24 Dec 2013 06:23 PM
What do you call the small road parallel to the highway? Access Road (San Antonio, TX)
What do you call an easy high school or college class? Blow-off (Irving, TX)
How do you address a group of two or more people? Y'all (Lubbock, TX)
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drbat is not online. drbat
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24 Dec 2013 06:26 PM
Springfield Missouri

What do you call the small freshwater lobster often found in lakes and streams?

crawdad

Lexington Kentucky

What do you call a drive-through liquor store?

we have these in my area, but we have no special term for them


Columbus Georgia

How would you address a group of two or more people?

y'all


It is red over hwere i live but didn't say the city

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SirHurricane is not online. SirHurricane
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24 Dec 2013 06:28 PM
Yeah same, it was red for the y'all and blow-off and orange for the access road
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drbat is not online. drbat
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24 Dec 2013 06:30 PM
Did the test again and it thinks i'm from


Oklahoma City
What do you call an easy high school or college class?

blow-off

Irving
What do you call an easy high school or college class?

blow-off

Plano
What do you call an easy high school or college class?

blow-off
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jimbobucky is not online. jimbobucky
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24 Dec 2013 06:31 PM
Omg it said San Jose o.o
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Sharkeisha is not online. Sharkeisha
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24 Dec 2013 06:33 PM
HOLY CRAP IT GOT IT RIGHT

IT SAID I EITHER LIVED IN HOUSTON, SAN JOSE, OR HONOLULU
WITH THE RED EXTREMELY DARK IN THE HOUSTON AREA
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Sharkeisha is not online. Sharkeisha
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24 Dec 2013 06:33 PM
It said Houston cause we call it a feeder road
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24 Dec 2013 06:35 PM
Minneapolis/St.Paul, Spokane, Tacoma

The ONE answer that lead to it?

We say "kitty-corner"
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drbat is not online. drbat
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24 Dec 2013 06:35 PM
I call the big roads where you have high speeds a Highway
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Sharkeisha is not online. Sharkeisha
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24 Dec 2013 06:36 PM
We don't even have a name for that that's stupid I just say diagonal
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SirHurricane is not online. SirHurricane
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24 Dec 2013 06:36 PM
Took it again and I got Fremont, CA; San Jose, CA; and Irving, TX

What do you call the insect that flies around in the summer and glows in the dark? firefly for both California cities

How would you address a group of two or more people? y'all for Irving
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SirHurricane is not online. SirHurricane
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24 Dec 2013 06:37 PM
@NMS
I just say diagonal lolz

@drbat
imo there's a distinction between "freeway" and "highway", and no, it's not about the freeway being free

parkways aren't even fast so nope
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Sharkeisha is not online. Sharkeisha
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24 Dec 2013 06:38 PM
It says I am most least likely to be from Toledo, Detroit, and Philadelphia
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ratSgnitoohSi is not online. ratSgnitoohSi
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24 Dec 2013 06:38 PM
Rockford, Aurora, and Toledo.

Damn this thing is good.
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Sharkeisha is not online. Sharkeisha
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24 Dec 2013 06:38 PM
For me a freeway is no stops at all you're just going with the flow of traffic
A highway has intersections and stoplights
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SirHurricane is not online. SirHurricane
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24 Dec 2013 06:40 PM
"For me a freeway is no stops at all you're just going with the flow of traffic
A highway has intersections and stoplights"

*insert checkmark emoji here*
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nonrugsalt is not online. nonrugsalt
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24 Dec 2013 06:41 PM
Nebraska seems like a kinda moderate accent, like not a lot to make us stand out, but with a hint of south, because sometimes i find myself saying yall

"Rug, the only sport you can play is reading."-Blakster
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ratSgnitoohSi is not online. ratSgnitoohSi
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24 Dec 2013 06:42 PM
Pretty sure me using the word pop instead of soda gave away that I'm from the Midwest. XD
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Sharkeisha is not online. Sharkeisha
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24 Dec 2013 06:42 PM
Wow according to this map we're the only city in the country to call it a feeder road
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megaheifer is not online. megaheifer
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24 Dec 2013 06:43 PM
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SirHurricane is not online. SirHurricane
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24 Dec 2013 06:43 PM
BOOM SNIPE

On my third try I got Irving, San Antonio, and Austin for most similar
Akron, Worcester, and Providence for least similar
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Sharkeisha is not online. Sharkeisha
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24 Dec 2013 06:45 PM
Took it again and it says Houston, Irving, or Plano
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