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http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_america...nt_do_you_have

How about that. This quiz got me right, I grew up in southern Illinois.

Your Result: The Midland

"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't
have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania,
southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but
then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of
those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice
for TV and radio.

--
Ken Fortenberry

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Ken Fortenberry wrote in news:Ufhfh.6528
:

http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_america...nt_do_you_have

How about that. This quiz got me right, I grew up in southern Illinois.

Your Result: The Midland

"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't
have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania,
southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but
then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of
those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice
for TV and radio.


Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City,
Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City
(and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they
actually heard you speak."

Well, I guess it might have localized me correctly, to Brooklyn. I suppose
some of this comes down to what I say, not how I say it.

--
Scott
Reverse name to reply

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"Ken Fortenberry" wrote ...
http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_america...nt_do_you_have


"You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary"
but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions
like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you
call carbonated drinks "pop.""
Hmmm... it seems the quizzers pegged me pretty accurately.

Dan

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"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
...
http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_america...nt_do_you_have

How about that. This quiz got me right, I grew up in southern Illinois.

Your Result: The Midland

"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have
an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern
Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all
we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big
southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and
radio.

--
Ken Fortenberry

Way off. Had me as Midland too?

Op --Southern White Trash Cracker Redneck, according to Kenny's test--

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Ken Fortenberry wrote:
http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_america...nt_do_you_have

How about that. This quiz got me right, I grew up in southern Illinois.

Not bad. Born in Mississippi, but grew up in Chicago.

'Your Result: The Inland North

You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the
dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked
annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from
Chicago?"
'
- Ken

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"Scott Seidman" wrote in message
. 1.4...
Ken Fortenberry wrote in news:Ufhfh.6528
:

http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_america...nt_do_you_have

How about that. This quiz got me right, I grew up in southern Illinois.

Your Result: The Midland

"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't
have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania,
southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but
then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of
those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice
for TV and radio.


Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City,
Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City
(and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they
actually heard you speak."

Well, I guess it might have localized me correctly, to Brooklyn. I
suppose
some of this comes down to what I say, not how I say it.

"You may think you speak 'Standard English straight out of the dictionary'
[actually, I've known better for virtually all of my life.....but, DO go on]
but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions
like 'Are you from Wisconsin?' [it's not annoying, but yep] or 'Are you from
Chicago?' [very rarely] Chances are you call carbonated drinks 'pop.'"
[nope, not anymore]

A mere 13 questions. Interesting how little it takes to pin (rhymes with
gin) someone down to a particular geographical region. I wonder how many it
would take to map my genome. :)

Wolfgang

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On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:16:20 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_america...nt_do_you_have

How about that. This quiz got me right, I grew up in southern Illinois.

Your Result: The Midland

"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't
have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania,
southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but
then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of
those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice
for TV and radio.

So it concludes "the Midland" blah blah blah, but the bar charts have Boston
on top.

Waffling? Or just bad code?

/daytripper (definitely *not* from "the Midland"...)

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Ken Fortenberry wrote:

http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_america...nt_do_you_have

How about that. This quiz got me right, I grew up in southern Illinois.

Your Result: The Midland

"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't
have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania,
southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but
then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of
those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice
for TV and radio.

And I got the same result, even though I grew up in Tennessee and
have lived the past 26+ years in Texas.


Chuck Vance (just goes to show you ... something)

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On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:49:06 -0500, daytripper
wrote:

So it concludes "the Midland" blah blah blah, but the bar charts have Boston
on top.

Waffling? Or just bad code?

/daytripper (definitely *not* from "the Midland"...)

It said I sound like I'm from Fargo, eh.
--
Charlie...
http://www.chocphoto.com

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On Dec 11, 2:23 pm, Charlie Choc
wrote:
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:49:06 -0500, daytripper
wrote:

So it concludes "the Midland" blah blah blah, but the bar charts have Boston
on top.

Waffling? Or just bad code?

/daytripper (definitely *not* from "the Midland"...)It said I sound like I'm from Fargo, eh.
--
Charlie...http://www.chocphoto.com

Boston, Maine, or New Hampshire, but it shows Midland at the top of the
bah chaht.

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"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
...
http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_america...nt_do_you_have

snip

I'm pretty amazed.

Your result : Philadelphia
" You're as Philadelphian as cheesesteak..."

Born in Philly, lived there until I was 5, raised in Bucks County (50 mi. N
of Philly). Yet I sound nothing like my cousins who were raised IN Philly.

Didn't do quite as well on my wife - born & raised in Oregon. However, her
parents and grandparents, aunts & uncles were all raised in Wisconsin &
Minnesota from Scandinavian & German stock.

Your result: Inland North

And all in only 13 questions.

Bob Weinberger - La Grande, OR

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"Conan The Librarian" wrote

And I got the same result, even though I grew up in Tennessee and have
lived the past 26+ years in Texas.

the south. thay got thayut rat.

yfitons
wayno

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daytripper wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_america...nt_do_you_have

So it concludes "the Midland" blah blah blah, but the bar charts have Boston
on top.

Waffling? Or just bad code?

I'd say it's a pretty accurate diagnosis, amazingly normal with
heavy Boston overtones.

;-)

My top bar chart was Southern, ouch.

--
Ken Fortenberry

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I must have missed the top bar the first time around. I couldn't figure out
why it was getting everyone else, so I tried again, using the same responses
as the first time and got this:

"That's a Southern accent you've got there. You may love it, you may hate
it, you may swear you don't have it, but whatever the case, we can hear it."

Oh well.

Op

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"Opus" wrote in message
...

I must have missed the top bar the first time around. I couldn't figure
out why it was getting everyone else, so I tried again, using the same
responses as the first time and got this:

"That's a Southern accent you've got there. You may love it, you may hate
it, you may swear you don't have it, but whatever the case, we can hear
it."

Oh well.

Op

I'm not pretty either!

"You FAILED. You need to make make-up a part of your everyday life. I'm not
sure that that will help. I'm glad I don't have to look at you."

I scored 64%

That hurt!

Op

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Ken Fortenberry typed:
http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_america...nt_do_you_have

How about that. This quiz got me right, I grew up in southern
Illinois.
Your Result: The Midland

"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't
have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania,
southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but
then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of
those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good
voice for TV and radio.

" "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have
an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio,
southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know
you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities
like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio."

Hmmmm. . . This is what happens when you relocate from California to
Massachusetts. I'm obviously stuck in limbo.
--
TL,
Tim
-------------------------
http://css.sbcma.com/timj

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daytripper typed:
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:16:20 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_america...nt_do_you_have

How about that. This quiz got me right, I grew up in southern
Illinois.

Your Result: The Midland

"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't
have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania,
southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but
then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one
of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good
voice for TV and radio.

So it concludes "the Midland" blah blah blah, but the bar charts have
Boston on top.

Well, my chart *did* have Western on top, so maybe it's not all *that* far
off.
--
TL,
Tim
-------------------------
http://css.sbcma.com/timj

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Quiz said I was from Philadelphia.
So they missed by 50 miles too far west
and a little bit too far south.

.........I once bid a job to add an addition
on a house. The woman said "what part of the east
are you from?"

I said: "I'm from New Jersey. What part of Philadelphia
are you from?"

"How did you know that?" she asked.

.........it was the way she pronounced the word road:
as "raewd"

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A mere 13 questions. Interesting how little it takes to pin (rhymes with
gin) someone down to a particular geographical region.

Many years ago, probably during the '60s, Garry Moore (remember him?)
had a linguist as a guest on his show. The linguist had a blackboard
with about 20 lines of words on it.

He asked a lady volunteer from the audience to pronouce the first
line: greasy."

Then she pronounced the second line: Mary, marry, merry.

The linguist said, "You grew up in St. Louis."

The lady shrieked and said "You're right!"

Took only four words.

But I don't think much of this test. I grew up in SW PA. My accent
is very different from that of an aunt who grew up in southern
Indiana and that of a cousin who grew up in Ohio. Those areas can't
be lumped together.

vince

this test

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On 11 Dec 2006 10:31:56 -0800, "
wrote:


Ken Fortenberry wrote:
http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_america...nt_do_you_have

How about that. This quiz got me right, I grew up in southern Illinois.

Not bad. Born in Mississippi, but grew up in Chicago.

'Your Result: The Inland North

You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the
dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked
annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from
Chicago?"
'
- Ken

I got inland north, too. Followed by Atlanta. Last in line was north
central. Hmmm. Din't hardly never get nowheres outen Minnysoda, dere
in my whole dang life.
--

r.bc: vixen
Speaker to squirrels, willow watcher, etc..
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless. Really.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli

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On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:16:20 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_america...nt_do_you_have

How about that. This quiz got me right, I grew up in southern Illinois.

Your Result: The Midland

"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't
have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania,
southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but
then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of
those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice
for TV and radio.


Oh, yeah, it's really accurate - apparently, not only do I sound like
I'm almost certainly from Philadelphia (which I had been fairly certain
_was_ in PA), the quiz corrected my previously-held erroneous belief -
Philly is apparently in "north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or
Rhode Island." It hedged its bets, though - if I'm not from Philly or
the Northeast, I'm surely from the inland north, the midland, the south,
Boston, or the west. It does seem fairly sure I'm not from "the north
central"...and it may have finally gotten something correct, depending
on what it defines as "north central."

Whoever wrote the quiz has obviously never been to Charleston, much less
heard someone from there speak...and Dallas is most definitely not a big
"southern" city...of course, since there are only about 73 people left
_in_ Florida that are actually _from_ Florida, I can well understand
confusion on that one: How do you pronounce "Feliz Joyeux Chanukah?"
and "That shizzles my nizzle, OG?"...."You're a Guatemalan Jew from
Quebec who got to the south counties via a Jet Blue raft from Havana,
or, a hip-hopping wigger on the way to Pliff Dribbly's crib to par-TAY
with the Coo-vass-ee-A and Cokes"...

R

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wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_america...nt_do_you_have

Oh, yeah, it's really accurate - snip

Well, apparently it works pretty well for most people.
And if it didn't work for you at least it gave you an
opportunity to issue forth a rant about whatever the
hell it was you were ranting about.

--
Ken Fortenberry

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Ken Fortenberry wrote:
http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_america...nt_do_you_have

It pegged me closely enough for a mid-Atlantic, south of the
Mason-Dixon Line resident; but I was initially unimpressed with my
identification with the Midland category. That really seemed like a
"catch all" for anybody without a discernable accent until I realized
that my "lack" of an accent is somewhat of a conceit.

Given the other quizzes on that site though, I'm rightly skeptical of
its actual merit. I scored just as highly as a Mainer as I did in my
home state.

Joe F.

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rb608 wrote:

Given the other quizzes on that site though, I'm rightly skeptical of
its actual merit.

Yeah, I scored 100% on the Canadian quiz.


Chuck Vance (OK, so it probably doesn't hurt that I married one)

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"vincent p. norris" wrote in message
...
A mere 13 questions. Interesting how little it takes to pin (rhymes with
gin) someone down to a particular geographical region.

Many years ago, probably during the '60s, Garry Moore (remember him?)
had a linguist as a guest on his show. The linguist had a blackboard
with about 20 lines of words on it.

He asked a lady volunteer from the audience to pronouce the first
line: greasy."

Then she pronounced the second line: Mary, marry, merry.

The linguist said, "You grew up in St. Louis."

The lady shrieked and said "You're right!"

Took only four words.

I remember the show, but not that episode. At any rate, the trick was
already VERY old by then.*

But I don't think much of this test. I grew up in SW PA. My accent
is very different from that of an aunt who grew up in southern
Indiana and that of a cousin who grew up in Ohio. Those areas can't
be lumped together.

One shouldn't think much of this test, beyond "it's cute" or "it's kinda
fun"......that sort of thing. However, it does contain the germ of some
very important and powerful ideas. But then, you already knew that.

Wolfgang
*can anybody here say "shibboleth"?

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wrote in message
...
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:16:20 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_america...nt_do_you_have

How about that. This quiz got me right, I grew up in southern Illinois.

Your Result: The Midland

"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't
have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania,
southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but
then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of
those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice
for TV and radio.


Oh, yeah, it's really accurate - apparently, not only do I sound like
I'm almost certainly from Philadelphia (which I had been fairly certain
_was_ in PA), the quiz corrected my previously-held erroneous belief -
Philly is apparently in "north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or
Rhode Island." It hedged its bets, though - if I'm not from Philly or
the Northeast, I'm surely from the inland north, the midland, the south,
Boston, or the west. It does seem fairly sure I'm not from "the north
central"...and it may have finally gotten something correct, depending
on what it defines as "north central."

Whoever wrote the quiz has obviously never been to Charleston, much less
heard someone from there speak...and Dallas is most definitely not a big
"southern" city...of course, since there are only about 73 people left
_in_ Florida that are actually _from_ Florida, I can well understand
confusion on that one: How do you pronounce "Feliz Joyeux Chanukah?"
and "That shizzles my nizzle, OG?"...."You're a Guatemalan Jew from
Quebec who got to the south counties via a Jet Blue raft from Havana,
or, a hip-hopping wigger on the way to Pliff Dribbly's crib to par-TAY
with the Coo-vass-ee-A and Cokes"...

Leading one to wonder whether becoming ever more boring and stupid is the
result of an uncontrollable compulsion or a deliberately active
pursuit......like a hobby or something.

Wolfgang

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On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:55:39 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_america...nt_do_you_have

Oh, yeah, it's really accurate - snip

Well, apparently it works pretty well for most people.
And if it didn't work for you at least it gave you an
opportunity to issue forth a rant about whatever the
hell it was you were ranting about.

Budweiser...and, of course, how the Clintons are gay Nazis...no, no, no,
not Bill and Hillary...Hillary and Chuck...

HTH,
R

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Wolfgang
*can anybody here say "shibboleth"?

I can't. I have a lithpth.

vince