Big Suprise!

My most similar areas Detroit and Grand Rapids Michigan.

Have lived in Michigan, Ohio, Utah, California, Oregon, Texas, Pennsylvania & Florida.

Spent most years of my life in southeastern Michigan with grandparents in southwestern Michigan and currently live in southwestern Michigan.

No real surprise there.

Mac (imported) wrote: Fri Dec 27, 2013 8:07 pm Big Suprise!

My most similar areas Detroit and Grand Rapids Michigan.

Have lived in Michigan, Ohio, Utah, California, Oregon, Texas, Pennsylvania & Florida.

Spent most years of my life in southeastern Michigan with grandparents in southwestern Michigan and currently live in southwestern Michigan.

No real surprise there.

Ohio, gee maybe we have met. So you thought the test accurate?

tugon (imported) wrote: Fri Dec 27, 2013 8:29 pm Ohio, gee maybe we have met. So you thought the test accurate?

I doubt that. You were not even thought of when I lived in Ohio (North Baltimore 1948-1949); I was only 5 years old then.

Windhoek/ Namibia ,south west africa ! were the sun alwaus shines ! reg. GWENY

As a dutchman they placed me in Boston. The other two cities were Los Angeles and Glendale. Massachusetts was very deep red, Hawaii was deep red, the north region of LA and south region of SF were deep red, California and Utah were rather red and New England was very red.

Uncanny! It put me in Chicago and the surrounding area where I spent my first 25 years, went to school and formed most of my vocabulary. No longer in Chicago but remained close, between Milwaukee and Chicago.

If you were born outside the USA and didn't speak English as first language then you (most likely) learned the colloquialisms of the person who taught you English or the first City you lived in when you started speaking English all the time.

I think that this website also picks the nearest USA towns when it encounters a person from the English Speakers in the rest of the world.

I had to learn what I said that was purely Pittsburghese and scrub it from my writing. In doing that, I discovered that I also picked up bits of Manhattan accents and southern accents from either living there or from friends. It seems I mimic accents in my writing and speaking.

I came back to add: I was fortunate enough to hear Werner Von Braun (The rocket scientist) give a lecture at University back in 1969 or '70 and he spoke not only with a refined German accent but a Alabama accent because that was where he came to the USA after WW2. It was a strange combination to hear for the first few sentences.

I think if you are one of those people who has lived all your life in one area it nails you to your location, where it get confused is for people like me who have lived all over the USA dontchuknow. In southern California where I was born and raised it was called coke or soda, here in Wisconsin its pop. Its not bad up here, but go to Boston if you really want to here English spoken differently, or the deep south.

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I had a go at the quiz just for fun as I live 15 miles south of Birmingham here in the UK any way it looks like the quiz has me from New York so is that a good thing or not?

jako9999 (imported) wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2013 8:22 am I had a go at the quiz just for fun as I live 15 miles south of Birmingham here in the UK any way it looks like the quiz has me from New York so is that a good thing or not?

I would think that New York or the New England states would be the closest to your home area.