rocketman Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Here is the test. Even though I lived in the South for years, it still nailed my Western New York roots. Spot on. Pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosemarie Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Pretty accurate for me, too. Said I was from the NY/NJ/PA area. I was born and raised in Philadelphia and I live in South Jersey now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 My "map" was a bit further South, than I would have guessed. Interesting! CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darling67 Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Here is the test. Even though I lived in the South for years, it still nailed my Western New York roots. Spot on. Pretty cool. I did this a couple weeks ago... a friend posted it on FB. It was pretty accurate for me, as well. I grew up in a region where there was a lot of spill-over from surrounding regions in other states. Connecticut's "Southern Fairfield County" gets hit by parts of New York City and neighboring New Jersey—much more so than the upstate regions of Connecticut, itself, which is influenced heavily from Massachusetts "culture". My test results showed that. Fun stuff. I love these kinds of quizzes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vacamartin Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Amazing...............Showed 3 cities that I've lived in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxson50 Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Missed me by 400 miles, but to be fair I moved about every ten years or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grampa Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 I tried twice and both times the website stopped responding and got no answer sent back to the start. But then many people have said I must be from a different planet and maybe this is proof. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karloff Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 thats amazing. Eastern Shore of Md. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bender 4 Life Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 within 60 miles of where I sit......not bad at all !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibson Artist Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Here is the test. Even though I lived in the South for years, it still nailed my Western New York roots. Spot on. Pretty cool. I Got providence, worcester, boston. Seeings how i live 10 mins away from providence it was dead on. We talk funny in rhode island anyways, we say things like New Hampsheer, and i told you tree dimes, and battrees, Cahhhhhhr, we dont say living room either, we say Pahhhhhhla. Several clients of mine in different areas of the country giggle at my accent. fun test, ill give it to my gf and daughter tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveFord Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 You can take the boy outta Joisey but you can't take the Joisey out of the boy or so it seems... I'll never forget the first time this girl asked me if I wanted my pop in a sack, I wasn't quite sure what she was offering, ha, ha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksdaddy Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 It says I'm from San Jose. I live in Caribou, Maine. I don't think it could get any further away. Now seein' as how it's Seardee mornin', I spoze I'll go out in my dooryard and work on my will bairns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbluesplayer Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Yeah, it nailed me twice. First for my New England roots, and then when I answered with all the Tennessee type expressions that I use now. Hey youze guys!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigzag Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Pretty good. Placed me in Greensboro and Winston-Salem, NC, and Birmingham, AL. I was born and raised in Charlotte and lived in Winston-Salem for three years. Actually, my accent is Charlotte; I can pick that out a mile away. It is interesting that they have been able to accurately identify regional colloquialisms and pronunciations that well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Farnsbarns Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Put me about 5500 miles too far west. You'd think they might state at the beggining that this only works for, and will assume the US. Sigh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanvillRob Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Was very accurate, but I had to forget how I pronounce many words now and respond as I said them as a kid. There was no 'supper' when I was a kid, but after being in the Army, I'm well acquainted with the term now. And being in the Truck manufacturing business for 13 years, I KNOW what a semi-trailer is, and I tend to call an tractor pulling a semi-trailer a "Class 8 Truck". So, I answered as I would have as a young guy and it put me right in California. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Interesting. I come from either Minneapolis, up-state New-York (right next to the Great Lakes) yet my closest match was, oddly enough, Honolulu..... P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaiser Bill Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Not even close...three cities were mentioned that I've never been to. Strange...but results are results. I'm originally from Erie, Pa...they chose DesMoines, Boise, and Spokane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdgm Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 It doesn't do Woking then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeman Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 I got Rockford IL, Aurora IL and Detroit MI. I live about 40 miles from rockford and 20 from aurora. Not bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capmaster Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Put me about 5500 miles too far west. You'd think they might state at the beggining that this only works for, and will assume the US. Sigh. English is not my first language, we learned or better said tried to learn Oxford pronunciation at school, and my foreign dialect might be rather unusual. So I just did the test only for being curious. They put me to Providence, RI, Yonkers, NY, or New York City. However, in contrast to Farns I can't complain about it. Doubtlessly my result would have been a very different one if they had auditioned me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NHTom Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Mine Gave me Worchester, Ma........Arlington, Va..........and Washington DC I grew up in NH, lived for years on OH, then again in RI then back to NH, so I guess its got all similar zones. NHTom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamGuy Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 It pretty much nailed that I was from Maine, even after living in So. oregon for 15 or so years… pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bender 4 Life Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 it put me at Birmingham Al, and Columbus Ga. , which I live almost directly between, and Montgomery Al., which i'm 100 mi. north of. my main dialect is Birmingham, 60 miles to my west. so fer noww ah'd say thet that test iz purdy dern clost to raht!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 I've done this before and it never works for me. I've lived all my life in north Florida and it puts me in Kansas! My dad grew up in Chicago and my mom in NJ. Maybe that is the reason. Then again perhaps they are onto something... maybe I have a southern twang but not really a southern vocabulary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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