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It should ask how you pronounce "Mary, marry, and merry"...

Actually from SW PA but point taken, grew up just as close to the WV line, maybe closer, than to dahntahn Pittsburgh. I think a big part of it is I've lived all over since graduating high school and have picked up different usages. The test is not so much dialect as particular word usages. In that respect it's trying to take the easy way out.

When I grew up, we called tennis shoes sneakers, I doubt that's still the usage back in those parts but don't know for sure.

Southern.

I'm from Mississippi and that's the way it is here. Everything is a coke, even a pepsi. If you say pop or soda people will wonder what the heck you're talking about. If you ask someone if they want a coke and they say "yes" you ask them "what kind?". Their answer could be Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Sprite, etc. It could even mean a Coke, but you've got to ask them.

Southern.



Always been told that too. Even by co workers who grew up here.

Driving truck, the farther North I went the farther South they judged me.

In Montreal, I was accused of being from Georgia.🤔

How you eat your pizza will say as much about where you are from as the way you speak.


PA born and raised
Texan for the last 25 year
Wife is British
I’m tri-lingual

Sheetz vs Buc-ees
Hoagie vs Sub

Placed me Midwest, yup. And Pop the sound it makes when it freezes and explodes in your car.

Born , raised and educated in the midwest but I have lived in the South since I was 22. Now 60. I got Southern. I do not talk with a southern accent but use southern words and phrases. I just picked them up over the years. I never noticed midwestern accents when I lived there but I hear it now when I go back up or run into someone from there.

I was fixin' to go to the corner store for cokes.

Is fixin to Texan and Southern? My corner store ain't on the corner.

^^^This^^^
Pretty much sums up N TX where I grew up

Southern

Carrie Underwoid is blonde. That's the only reason she won American Idol. I would NOT be surprised to learn she slept with Cowell.
She can't dance.
She sings the same songs, they just have different titles to the same beat.
Kelly Pickler won that season, she just has scruples!

Put's me correctly in the south.
But, hell, here in south Louisiana, there are dialects within dialects.

I can tell what part of the state you are from by you accent, whether you "make" groceries or go grocery shopping, and what you put in your gumbo.

Born in SC, raised in GA……I can exempt the test.

She's got a pair of good looking legs though, I'll give her that.

I am 4th generation Montanan, and I don't think I have any kind of an accent. When I was in the military mostly SE Asia, i never met another person from Montana and I could guess where most of the guys were from by their accent. I got used to a lot of southern accents including Texan. and the the northeast accents especially Boston, and New York and New Jersey dialects. But when I got stationed in Dover Delaware my last six months of 1970, I swore all of the people were from England with their accents. Especially the girls from Pennsylvania!
I have to say the accents I got the biggest kicks out of came from the southern states! Some of the best sayings I have heard and remember came from you guys. Like "fix'n to do something "hotter than a peach orchard boar" , " and the list goes on!!
I had one friend that I met at school in Denver that came from Dalhart Texas that I could hardly understand.
Now, I'm fixin to have another pop. Soda, from the guys back east!
Tennessee & Kentucky guys and Georgia boys kept me laughing.
One from my friend from Georgia who once said he was shaking like a dog schitting peach pits!!
Right now I'm fixun to eat me some fried corn meal mush!! ( my dad was from Oakville Iowa)

Creek from here!!

lucy had a pussy like s javelina hog, she bent over backards and i fugged her like a dog

South, they’re all cokes

I live very near Oakville

Southern