So Where Are You From

[Riverwind (imported)]

My son found this little test, we both took it twice and the questions are different each time you take it.

Enjoy

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013 ... z-map.html

[tugon (imported)]

Lexington, Kentucky is somewhat close to Central Ohio. Interesting test and results.

[kristoff]

Pegged me straight-away to Minneapolis.

[tugon (imported)]

I retook the test and I really thought about how I say words instead of how I think they should be pronounced. This time they had me in Akron, Ohio and second place was Louisville, Kentucky. Pretty close both times.

[C&TL2745 (imported)]

The three cities it gave me were spread between eastern Nebraska and central Illinois. Iowa, where I grew up, is in the middle, and I've spent just over half my life in Illinois, so I'd say it was pretty accurate.

Sandi

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

It basically put me in Los Angeles.close enough.

[Dave (imported)]

It said: Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia

but I can haul ti back to Pittsburgh with two answers --

I call carbonated drinks Soda but everyone around me calls them "pop" …

Also, I don't use "yunz" as a collective pronoun or for anything else.

Back in college I had a Drama student as a roommate my first semester in the dorms and they had language classes to "unlearn" dialects and relearn proper speech. I heard all of the colloquialisms and still recognize them. I had to unlearn "and at" and unlearn "needs washing" while my Aunt who lived on Manhattan would say "Needs Warshed.

[Arab Nights (imported)]

“Nytimes not responding due to a long running script.” Sounds about right for a gotdanged liberal rag full of gobbledegook which can easily be replaced by the right thinking Arlen Advisor.

It finally coughed up that I was like Fresno, Stockton and Modesto. Well slap your grandma and call me foreclosed.

Back in university days, I popped in to see a prof. There was a grad student there. After talking for a bit, he had me pegged to either Idaho or Montana. I was impressed. That was his hobby.

[BossTamsin (imported)]

Not an American, took it anyways. It pegged me as Seattle or Tacoma, which is surprisingly close. Then again, it also suggested Honolulu, which kind of throws me.

[JesusA (imported)]

It placed me in Modesto, California – about half way between the town where I was born and spent my first 18 years and the town where I taught for 30 years before I retired. A little closer to the town where I taught. Where I've lived for the 15 years since I retired is a slightly lighter shade of red. There's even a small dot of the dark red (in a sea of orange) for the town where I grew up.