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took again and gave a little more thought to my answers



Lubbock

Amarillo

Fort Worth

all my family on my dad's side is from the pan handle specifically Lubbock and some from Amarillo.


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Of the three cities, one was my hometown!


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Got me, one of my three was Detroit, and I grew up 5miles from there.

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Pretty close about 150 miles off.


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Lincoln, Omaha, Des Moines


I live and grew up in Denver, but born in Des Moines family is from that area

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Damned accurate...I live in SWOK, family from the KCMO area, shows OKC, Tulsa, and Springfield, MO.

My wife's family is from Western OK and the Texas Panhandle, and my daughter shows to have traits from OKC, Springfield, MO, and Amarillo, TX...Interesting.

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Gave me Reno, Boise and Salt Lake City.
What was interesting to me is that my darkest areas were over the Sierras, the Rubies and the Rockies.
Mountain folk all talk the same?


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Des Moines

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Stockton Calif.

I grew up 50 miles SW of Des Moines. (Winterset) 125 east of Omaha. I have never been to Stockton Calif. and have only been through the airport in Los Angeles 2 times. I guess a lot of Iowegians have moved to Stockton. kwg


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I lived 50 miles or so from one city for three years and I have lived for 42 of my years on the very light red fringe of where they think I'm from. Whats funny to me as I think of the questions is that many of the pronunciations would vary with my perception of the people I am talking to and the environment I'm in at the time.


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Took it again, some of the questions changed. This time I ended up as an Okie.

Language is interesting, but the dialects and local usage are being diluted both by mobile people and TV.

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Weird. Unbelievably accurate.

It came up Madison & Milwaukee which is 40 - 100 miles from where I was born and lived for the first 35 years of my life.


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WOW! Talk about nailing it!

Result showed a Google Earth picture of my boyhood home!


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Stockton, Modesto and Salt Lake City!

Not that accurate, but I can think of why those were picked.

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...Actually Sycamore, you are sort of right....
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Took it again, some of the questions changed. This time I ended up as an Okie.

Language is interesting, but the dialects and local usage are being diluted both by mobile people and TV.


Very true, and by education level.

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...Actually Sycamore, you are sort of right....
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Came up Jackson MS, Columbus GA, and Wichita KS.

Born in NJ and raised in GA just north at Atlanta.


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It put me right between Ft. Worth & Lubbock. Which is about exactly where I'm at.
Pretty amazing Quiz results.


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Mine came up as Cincinnati, Akron, and Dayton.

I'm from Cincy. However, Mom was born in Akron and Dayton is one of the spots she lived as she was growing up.

I'd say it was pretty spot-on. Gym shoes gave it away. Only someone from River City calls sneakers "Gym Shoes."

"Tree Lawn" came from Akron. "Lightning Bug" came from Dayton.



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I tried to answer as honestly as possible and it dang near nailed my current location. Which is far from where I grew up. It's also weird because many people question where I'm from and say I don't use words common to where I live. Mostly, I think, because my parents never lost their dialects and accents.

So I took it again and tried to deceive it. And it put me in the same location.

I'm not sure what to think about this. I'd call BS on the test and say it's using the location of the nearest internet server, but some of you seem to indicate otherwise.

Weird.

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