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Wish you could have found the test from a few years ago it was outstanding

How about a tirty - tirty Winchester from the "valley people" hayna or no?

This thread brings me back to a Johnny Carson episode from the 80's. His guest was a linguist, who had a list of 10 words. Asked 3 random audience folk to read the list of words. Told them where they're from, if they moved during their lives, and pretty much nailed them within 50 miles of their living address or birthplace. Good stuff.

Big surprise, I tested Southern. There are so many different Southern accents/dialects though that this test does not narrow it down much. Even within the state of Tennessee there are at least three different dialects. My father's people from the East TN mountains sound very different than my mother's people who are from the Middle TN farm country.

Yeah, I’m gonna have to go back looking for it.
That’s the one that stuck me in northern Maryland.
PoBoy, other than my time in the Army, I’ve lived in Pennsyltucky all my life (except for a summer in eastern Montana).
I’m sure that if you look through my post, you’ll see that I use “fixing to” an awful lot!
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Told me I was a Damm yankee like that 6 or 7 yr old kid down the street yells at me when I drive by..

Then to add insult even more.
After that test says I'm from New England area.
It has a fuuuking picture of New Jersey as a area graphic aid reference for NE in general...



I'm from fuuuking Maine not New Jersey/ Guinea central...
And that Maine accent which is pretty fuuuking distinct still rears its ugly head at times even after leaving the place for good in 1983...


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In my family we don't have much of an accent.
My brother majored in German in college and he won a scholarship, to study for one year in Germany. He got along well over there and could speak quite well with the Germans.
But there was a gal from North Carolina on the same program, she too was fluent in German. But she had a deep Southern accent, and the Krauts could not understand a word of her German. Brother had to translate Southern German, in to German so the Krauts could understand her.

Test didn't have proper answers. It is a crab and tenners and yinz.

I grew up in a small southern AZ mining town. Mostly Mexican families, my family was Italian with Grandparents born in Italy.
My test says I'm from the South................WTF is with that?

Maybe because my favorite TV show was Andy Griffith?

RESULT:

You probably like Chicken Fried Steak and live below the Mason Dixon Line. You probably know every word to every Carrie Underwood Song and love your cowboy boots even more than your beer. You're Southern!

I don't know any Carrie Underwood Song.

They didnt ask me if I knowd the words to almost every David Allan Coe song.

My wife's Mother moved here from Mass. around 1975, in her twenties.
You can barely hear it, and only with some words.

But get her talking about childhood or Massachusetts, and it comes roaring back.
When she and her mother would talk, I couldn't interpret fast enough!

You gotta be Pa.

When I rolled into Ft. Devens, Ma. in 1982, I felt like I had landed in a foreign country. I couldn't go off base without an interpreter from the South that had been there for awhile. Pissed me off when people couldn't understand me.

Thirty eight years later, my wife still has a hard time understanding some of my family.

New Fpcking JERSEY? Are you kidding me? This is a TRAVESTY.

Dave, it said similar for me.


How in the hell can a Rez Montana cow farmer sound east coast?

Said I was mid western.

And you're a damn Eskimo, what a bogus test.

That's a good point, round eye.