This is pretty cool. It nailed where I was from by the way I talked.

Try it out.


How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk - The New York Times

No doubt

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I should get my gf to do this. Born in Australia, mother is Russian (family escaped the Revolution, went to China, then Oz; Ma is 92 and still has accent), spent a couple of years in Hawaii as a teenager, then moved to British Columbia. Spent several years in the UK in the 90's, then Holland, then back to Canada to finish PhD, did post-doc.in Iowa City, now teaches in Bellingham WA. Sometimes when we're talking I think I detect a trace of east coast (Boston) - a place she's never lived.

I grew up in Va and it says I'm from the Newport News Va beach area.
Pretty close.

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Keep on Chooglin'

According to that they will never find me.

This is more about terminology. I wish it was voice activated to detect accents as I have become really good at 7 different accents.

I have fun with people on the pnone especially when I throw a change up during a conversation.

BTW supper/dinner=same-same

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Took the quiz. Has me from the midwest, Kansas and Nebraska. What's interesting is that I have never lived in the midwest. In the US I have lived only on the coasts, in Virginia and NYC in my younger years, and now live in Oregon. Spent significant amounts of time, summers, in Hawaii and California. Five years in Germany as a child and over thirty years in Japan as an adult.

I think I picked up accents from all over. Some of the questions I could have chosen more than one answer.

(But my momma, she was born in Kansas!)

We were in NW Washington on our way to British Columbia. We were asked if we were from Texas. It could have been worse.

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Mighty 90's,Trying 4 a 100!

They ain't got no way of identifying a "cowboy drawl."

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Eccentric old coot

For me, it was dead on.
Absolutely correct.

But then, my speech/accent
is perfectly American English.

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Ubi Est Mea

Said I was from Des Moines or there about. SoDak and CO is Me.

Got mine exactly. People here in SC are often guessing my roots correctly, when they hear my accent. But I'd swear it's them with the accent.

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Slava Ukraini!

A little the same for me. I use some some clearly British terms, ie "bags of..." and sometimes "windscreen", and seem to interchange US and Canadian expressions without knowing which ones I was taught in school.

Oddly, my gf swears that I say "aboot" for "about", which I am certain I don't! I just don't lengthen the "a" part of the dipthong as much as Americans tend to do. I listen to Minnesota Radio Classical and only occasionally am I aware of an obviously "American' accent. There seems to be a generally neutral "broadcast English" that is common to both countries.

In the early days of the BBC, Lord Reth insisted that the radio presenters (oops, there I go again- "hosts") use a standard "broadcast English" or "received pronunciation" (RP) devoid of regionalisms. Fortunately this is no longer the case.

BTW, Rusty and other ex-pats might enjoy 'avin' a larff with Sam Llewellyn's "Yacky Dar Moy Bewty"

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I'm impressed. It puts me in the central Jersey area, where I've lived almost all my life!

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Judge control not gun control!

Yes, I've always had a good ear for languages and dialects.

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No baby we aint

6518john should feel honored. Survey says I live in Little Rock.

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They can’t tell where I’m from but I do have a “you’re not from around here are you boy” accent. The peg my wife from Northeast Jersey every time.

My wife, daughter and I visited Niagara Falls about 15 years ago. We had dinner at a nice Italian (mob) place in Buffalo. The owner was an older fellow and he stopped by to see if we were enjoying the dinner. After about 60 seconds, he said to me "You are from Peoria, IL aren't you?" He only missed by about 40 miles.

I somehow got Boston, Springfield, and Tuscon. The first two are off by a state but fairly similar otherwise.

Springfield,Wichita and Lexington…hmmm….

I was born and raised in the tri-state area of Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia along the Ohio River. Many from there have a distinctive local accent that I can recognize immediately. There is actually a formal name for it, but I can't remember what it is. I have been away from there for a very long time, but I still have some of that accent.

I once, long ago, worked with a man who had been a Wehrmacht soldier during WWII. He told me that one of the problems in the German army was that there were so many regional dialects in Germany that communication among soldiers was sometimes very difficult. I once had a Cajun roommate in college, and he might as well have been speaking Mandarin Chinese.

The NAZI in "Inglorious *******s" was rather good at guessing origins of the Aldo Remy team.

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"Don't Give Up the Ship"

Omaha, Wichita, Albuquerque. ............... I live 45 miles east of Omaha

Incorrect. It says I'm from Long Beach, Pembroke pines and fort Lauderdale.
Its an interesting test.


So, no. I don't think it works well.....

[QUOTE=Rustyt1953;141319325]According to that they will never find me.

This is more about terminology. I wish it was voice activated to detect accents as I have become really good at 7 different accents.

I have fun with people on the pnone especially when I throw a change up during a conversation.

BTW supper/dinner=same-same

Maybe in Ohio, but the most common usages are Dinner is the noon meal, and the evening meal is Supper or either.

The Test pretty well nailed me.
In spite of moving around to a lot of places, hanging out with a lot of different folks, etc.
Married a Hoosier. But She was a S Indy easy going Hoosier from Vincennes.
Down Deep South they tell me that I have lost a lot of my Accent.

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Born in Canada. Lived in NJ and NYC before spending a good chunk of my childhood in England, went to High School and some college in Texas, a stint in the Army that took me to NJ, KY, and Korea. Grad school in Texas, and living in NM. You think that anyone is going to be able to decipher all that?

This is what it said for me, and I have never lived in the deep or Atlantic south.

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Only a cold warrior

Da haitch is silent in tree
Heyna?
Dere ain't no tee in Scran'n
Couple two tree beers.

Old coal cracker vernacular.

Edit: corrected myself.

Also, it misread me. It fluctuated from Northern New Jersey (shoot me now!!) and Philadelphia.

NEPA natives do use similar terms (hoagie instead of subs, you guys etc), but things like tray of pizza instead of pizza pie are unique to the Coal region.

And we don't sound like we're from Joisey or Lon Guyland.

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It got me correct. I grew up on the Kansas-Oklahoma border and that is where it pegged me. With a secondary of Stockton, Ca. Which has a large population of descendants of Okies and Jay Hawkers from the dust bowl/depression era.

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Lubbock/Irving/Fort Worth for me.

That’s actually pretty close, as I was raised in West Texas (San Angelo area) and the Hill Country (near Austin). But I also use words that are better recognized in West Texas proper. Like “larrupin’”. larruping | Dictionary of American Regional English

Living where I do, I’ve discovered there is a VERY distinct difference between west texas and east texas accents. I’ve been made fun of in the fast food lane because they cant understand my WT drawl.

My stomach is bilingual. Either word signifies that it's time to eat.

In school I had lunch box not a dinner box.

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The test has a flaw. Having lived in many different places and adapted to most, it's not a question of how I say things, but what I must say to be understood by the locals. The linguistic devices I use in NV are totally different to those I use when in the UK.

The test has me coming from LA, Glendale and Anaheim. Sure wish I had rich family in those Anaheim Hills.

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Release the Kraken

The quiz put me in S. Central Arizona. It put me in Phoenix, Tucson or Glendale, each by a single response in the quiz! Hardly a scientific method.


Born in Omaha, NE and lived there through through high school. Trinidad, CO 1963-64, then US Army 1964-67, then Salt lake City, UT for the past 55 years. In other words, not even close!

In 21 years in law enforcement I became quite proficient in identifying the region somewhat proficient in identifying where a person was from in the US, Canada, UK or much of Western Europe by listening to them speak, from their accent, not specific word/phrase usage.


It would have been interesting if the quiz had attempted to identify military brats and career personnel by service!

"When in Rome..."

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As Prof. Higgins boasted in My Fair Lady,
(See Higgins' Boast about this)

I'd sure get that if I were to go to the tiny town in S. Kentucky where my biological father grew up!

My oldest son's wife is from Germany, her maternal grandparents were from two different villages next to each other by about 8 miles (10KM). They had an arranged marriage and couldn't understand each other during the wedding, since the family is still going, you can see they figured it out!

Before she married my son, my D-I-L was the office manager of an electroplating firm in the Frankfort area. They had a customer from Bavaria, that had an accent so strong nobody could understand him! So, she would just hang up on him, until he would have someone else call back! She would always say Bavarians were just German Hillbillys, until my son explained that one branch of the family tree was from Bavaria. Which is what I tell people about my taste for thick beers!

My wife's roots are Prussian, the tall lean people that always wanted to conquer the world (Fredrick the Great is in the woodpile somewhere!)! My roots are Bavarian Hillbillys, all we ever wanted to conquer was a KEG! Our kids are very orderly and authoritative when working, but then like to have several beers when the work is done!

Ivan

Had a girl say “you’re not from around here are you” in a bar in a small town in NV. "No", I replied, "and neither are you". She seemed staggered that I (British bloke) could pick out her accent from the other Americans in the place. She was from Oklahoma, so she stuck out almost as much as me.

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There are a few N. American terms that might get you blogged on the ear in the UK and vice versa

- "I have an early appointment in town, so could you knock me up at 6?"

Store clerk (pron. "clark" of course.)
- Can I help you, sir?
- Yes, I'm looking for a fanny pack...

WHAP!!!!

Just that I must be from a “rural area” since I’m full blown hickerbilly.

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Mark

As I recall, Kaiser Wilhelm II, whose father was Prussian, had a thing for woodpiles as well.

The one time I said something about a Fanny pack to my 15 yr old Scottish cousin she burst out laughing while her mom blushed.She got even redder when Jenny explained it to me 😂

They had me way West of where I grew up and lived most of my life. Maybe since I worked in Ill., MI.,Ohio, and Pa. for years and picked up some local sayings.

Went to school in the Bronx 241st & Gun Hill rd.

Can people tell where I come from based on how I talk? Absolutely. Nobody has ever mistaken me for being from anywhere other than the USA!

I've lived in NJ since 1961 yet the first time I heard the "Joisey" accent was a few years ago-from a young woman who in Trenton, in the middle of the state.

" Ya-you-betcha fer sure "

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John

A hobby of mine is guessing where people grew up by their accents. I have gotten pretty good at it.

Proud member of the DAY Club here!

Never thought being raised in Cincinnati made me a Yankee thou.

I'm gonna put it on my business card.

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It put me in Reno, Salt Lake or Stockton. 3 towns I've never been to and 2 states I've never even visited. It was pretty red where I am though. Louisiana was the only dark blue on the map. Apparently I am definitely not from there, but there's a chance I could be from Texas or Mississippi. The only other blue on the map was a small part of PA and NJ. Other than that I could be from anywhere. I might be from Vermont but suffered a head injury some time ago.

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Missed with me Put me in Iowa. But, then I don't have any accent or colloquialisms. LOL