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In the thread about pronouncing Creek vs saying Crick, I stated that in the service, my buddies made fun of my Pennsylvania “hillbilly” dialect.
I drank cans of pop, while they drank soda, a group was called “”youns”, and I pronounce radiator with a short A. Raddiator.
I’ve always cut the grass rather than mow the lawn, said Aunt as ant, and other things I say pinpoint where I grew up!
I had posted a language test here years ago, but was unable to find it.
That one put me just south of the Dixie line in northern Maryland.
Not bad, heck I can be there inside a half hour without really massaging the speed limit.
This One puts me in the northeast, so I guess these things ain’t far off the mark!
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I grew up in PA as well, speak with a fairly annoying yinzer accent, and every one of those tests puts me in either Kentucky or Oklahoma. This test just told me I'm "Southern". So much for the test.

Try being from Texas.

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I am! LMBO!
I was introduced to a couple while visiting family in
"Ill-annoy" (Illinois). When I addressed them as "sir" and "ma'am", the lady laughed and stated, "You're from Texas, aren't you!".
When I replied, "Yes, ma'am.", I thought she was going to lose it!
She spent the rest of the night asking me questions just to hear me say, "ma'am"! LOL!
She was cute, married and I was 13 years old....doggone it!

BTW! Down in east Texas, everybody drank Coke!

"Hey! I'm going to the store. Want a coke?" (little "c")
"Yeah, bring me a Dr. Pepper!"
Of course, if you just answered, "Yeah!", you got a Coke! (capital C)

I grew up in South Dakota and it pegged me in the Northeast.

Spot on for me NE

It said I was from the deep south..... go figure!

What most people never think about is the fact that Eastern PA is just a little further North in the Appalachian mountains than W. VA. and E. KY... Not surprisingly, a fair amount of similarity in speach and attitude...

Even though I've now lived most of my life in the northeast, I still speak southern and tha't what my test showed.

My wife is from Hazelton, Pa. and her test said northeast.

In Iowa it is a bottle or can of "pop". If it's a group it's "you guys" regardless of sex. Cut the grass and mow the lawn is interchangeable. We have no accent unless you are from the bottom row of Iowa counties. They sound like Missourians and the top row of Iowa counties sound like they are from Minnesota.

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Puts me in the Northeast.

Wasn't even close for us both

Says I'm Southern.

GTF outa here......

This might be the most accurate thing I've ever seen on the 'fire

“Southern”…imagine that.

Don’t care for Carrie Underwood and aint wore no cowboy boots since I was totin cap pistols in the A & P

By the way, the answer to the first question is "fooler".

I know right!!!

Where was that choice ??


We called it a dee-dee too.

I have spent all but 2 months of my 71+ years smack in the heart of Iowa, yet it placed me in the northeast.

Southern

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

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.

Test was whack Jack.

Mid western is understandable, given the sample size.


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They must picture you guys with a head cold, asking for kwaaaaafeeee!

When I went back to Maine for 3 yrs to recruit.
Everyone said I had a accent and used southern phrases they had to have explained

To me it sounded like they all had a speech impediment.


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LOL.. I don't feel so bad now! If it had said I was from NJ probably would've cried.

You got: Southern United States

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!


Guilty as charged.

Years ago, Boston did a study on the number of Crows killed on the highways.
It was concluded that the vast majority of them were killed by trucks.
As you know, Crows help clean up roadkills.
While they’re doing this, their buddies in the trees would yell Caw, Caw, Caw. And they got off the road.
But the lookouts in the trees couldn’t yell truck!
I doubt it’s true, but then again, I’ve talked to some folks from Beantown, and I gotta wonder!
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Ever notice how few crows get hit? Considering hanging out at The BlackTop Buffet?
Only ever saw a few.
Pretty smart for Bird Brains.