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Post by Apple on Dec 23, 2013 23:10:57 GMT -5
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msventoux
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Post by msventoux on Dec 23, 2013 23:34:26 GMT -5
It was dead on for me too. It's apparently pretty obvious that I'm not a Southerner...or an Easterner.  |
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Apple
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Post by Apple on Dec 23, 2013 23:37:54 GMT -5
The biggest deciding factor on my map was the "potato bug".
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2013 23:48:47 GMT -5
Put me dead center of Pittsburgh and Philly, or in other words exactly where I am. That was a fun one...
Hoagie and Yard Sale seemed to be my big ones...
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Post by steff on Dec 23, 2013 23:56:37 GMT -5
I got Houston as one of my choices & it's where I was born & raised. It was Feeder Road that pegged me to Houston...LOL
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Anne_in_VA
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Post by Anne_in_VA on Dec 24, 2013 7:56:58 GMT -5
Interesting! It put me into the deep South (MS and AL) but I'm originally from CT and currently live in VA. Maybe it's DH's influence since he's from GA?
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Lizard Queen
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Post by Lizard Queen on Dec 24, 2013 8:17:22 GMT -5
Wow, I went through the quiz really quickly, and didn't even read through everything, and this quiz still pegged me to Grand Rapids, Detroit and Toledo. (I'm close to GR.)
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Post by MarleyKeezy78 on Dec 24, 2013 8:26:13 GMT -5
Yep, Detroit, Grand Rapids and Toledo. Detroit girl here, lol!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2013 8:31:04 GMT -5
Sneakers put me in the Buffalo/Rochester area (correct), but POP pegged me as Grand Rapids, MI? It was a fun quiz. Thanks for sharing!  |
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Post by Regis on Dec 24, 2013 8:37:01 GMT -5
Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Springfield (MO). Missed by a bit - I'm a born and raised Hoosier!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2013 8:39:14 GMT -5
Beggar's Night didn't even make the cut!  |
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Post by fwjone819 on Dec 24, 2013 8:48:59 GMT -5
I must be an alien. I took the quiz twice and never got a map placement at the end.   |
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Post by Lizard Queen on Dec 24, 2013 8:55:33 GMT -5
Yep, Detroit, Grand Rapids and Toledo. Detroit girl here, lol! Me too! I didn't know Devil's night was just a Michigan thing. Lucky us, lol. I think Detroit invented Devil's Night, and not in a good way. |
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Post by busymom on Dec 24, 2013 9:42:14 GMT -5
Yup, this test pegged me as a Midwesterner. But, also said I'd fit in Spokane, WA. 
That was fun. I saw some terms while taking the test that I'd never heard before. |
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Post by simser on Dec 24, 2013 9:48:47 GMT -5
Mine was actually way off- virginia beach and 2 cities in Florida. However, if you look at the map as a whole it had pretty red New York and Virginia (parents from upstate NY, raised in VA). One of my "questions" was the service road one- that threw off my answers because I learned about that when I lived in Dallas. Dallas was red on that map, but it didn't flag.
So... Good quiz unless you speak weird because you moved around a lot. Or had transplant parents. But I enjoyed it!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2013 10:37:01 GMT -5
Mine was was interesting, maryland, VA and Alabama  Mine may not be very accurate being from England then coming to the states and living in TN and now NFL. |
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Post by swamp on Dec 24, 2013 10:45:17 GMT -5
Sneakers put me in the Buffalo/Rochester area (correct), but POP pegged me as Grand Rapids, MI? It was a fun quiz. Thanks for sharing! I also was put in Buffalo/Rochester |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2013 10:46:24 GMT -5
I think it means you need to move!  |
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Post by cael on Dec 24, 2013 11:16:26 GMT -5
Mine was pretty good - Boston, Worcester (accurate) but then Denver somehow? lol. Apparently 'bubbler' was my most Worcester thing and it's also an upper midwest thing, and 'highway' was the most Denver thing. I dunno, I feel like people around here call it the highway too. Oh well, DH is obsessed with moving to Denver so I guess that's a good sign? |
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Post by snapdragon on Dec 24, 2013 11:58:31 GMT -5
Mine was way off - clear across the country off -- Milwaukee, Rochester and buffalo!
I live within 30 miles of Seattle!
I blame all the reading I do because I use several words for one thing and don't know if it's regional or not.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2013 11:59:34 GMT -5
You need to move too, snapdragon!  |
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Post by Cookies Galore on Dec 24, 2013 12:21:32 GMT -5
I got Philly (duh), Baltimore, and Newark/Paterson, NJ.
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Post by engineerdoe on Dec 24, 2013 12:37:15 GMT -5
I got Des Moines, Detroit and Grand Rapids. Since the UP was the darkest red it could be I would say they got it right but didn't have an actual city in the UP to give me. I remember not being able to buy eggs on Devil's Night. It was just in Detroit where parts of the city would be burned. I also remember being told that it was because of Devil's Night that most of the houses in Detroit were brick.
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Post by sapphire12 on Dec 24, 2013 21:31:21 GMT -5
I'm pegged for DC, NY and Newark. Ok DC and NY I get; both are transient cities with people from everywhere.
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Post by tallguy on Dec 24, 2013 22:00:55 GMT -5
It gave me Seattle, Portland, and Southern California. The three places I am most tied to. Not bad. Least similar were Philly, New Jersey, and Mississippi. Thank God for ALL of those being dissimilar. |
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Post by Tennesseer on Dec 24, 2013 22:48:05 GMT -5
deminmaine - My most similar cities are Springfield (where I was born) and Worcester,Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island. You can take the boy out of southern New England but you cannot take southern New England out of the boy. Least similar cities are Pittsburgh, Pa, and Houston and Corpus Christi, Texas.
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Post by Tiny on Dec 24, 2013 22:57:16 GMT -5
It put me in Aurora, IL (and Madison WI/someplace in Minnesota)... it's right I'm in a suburb of Chicago - just closer to Chicago Kitty Corner seems to have been the term that got me close to home.
So, what do you all call that area between the sidewalk and the street... other than the Front Lawn when it looks great and the tree is alive and any concrete is in good working condition OR you call it the City's property when the tree is dead/dying (or the tree is doing so well - it's killing the grass under it!) or the concrete (the courtesy walk or Carriage walk or curb)is broken (because the City is suppose to tend to the tree AND the concrete out there.) ? I didn't have a good answer for that question since I don't have a single word/phrase for it. |
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Post by Tennesseer on Dec 24, 2013 23:04:00 GMT -5
It put me in Aurora, IL (and Madison WI/someplace in Minnesota)... it's right I'm in a suburb of Chicago - just closer to Chicago Kitty Corner seems to have been the term that got me close to home.
So, what do you all call that area between the sidewalk and the street... other than the Front Lawn when it looks great and the tree is alive and any concrete is in good working condition OR you call it the City's property when the tree is dead/dying (or the tree is doing so well - it's killing the grass under it!) or the concrete (the courtesy walk or Carriage walk or curb)is broken (because the City is suppose to tend to the tree AND the concrete out there.) ? I didn't have a good answer for that question since I don't have a single word/phrase for it. I had no name for ìt either. |
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Post by mmhmm on Dec 24, 2013 23:06:43 GMT -5
LOL! I got Montgomery, Alabama, Washington DC, and New York City for the most similar, and Stockton, CA, Des Moines, Iowa, and Pittsburgh, PA as the least similar. I got a lot of completely blue maps. I may speak some dialect of Alien. |
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Post by Tennesseer on Dec 24, 2013 23:18:07 GMT -5
mmhmm - if you want to see the actual survey, here is the link. The test is closed but the facts snd data are interesting. The actual test had 122 questions. I wonder if they could ask how people pronounce 'wash' (waash). Here it is pronounced 'war-sh' Dialect Survey
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