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Old 09-11-2013, 09:47 AM
 
Location: The Flagship City and Vacation in the Paris of Appalachia
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1 Pittsburgh PA 18.9
2 Columbus OH 18.5
3 Akron OH 17.1
4 Cleveland OH 17.0
5 Buffalo NY 16.7

Seems pretty accurate to me
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Old 09-11-2013, 09:49 AM
 
Location: North by Northwest
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Both quizzes, long and short, are closed at the moment.

Hopefully they'll be back up soon though. The comprehensiveness of the listed cities alone made me quite excited (it included my home suburb of 60,000)!

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Old 09-11-2013, 09:53 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh area
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You can browse the results for all of the questions in the long quiz though. That is fun.

I'm trying to see which of my answers in the short quiz got me Jackson, MS (I think it was, I didn't note all the cities) as top. Or it might have been Abilene, TX. I think both of those were on my list. It's very odd given I've never even been to those areas let alone lived there!
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Old 09-11-2013, 10:20 AM
 
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My favorite was: 'what do you call it when the rain falls while the sun is shining?' While there's no such expression here, apparently elsewhere it is referred to as 'the devil is beating his wife'

WTF
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Old 09-11-2013, 10:20 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh area
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So it looks like the things pushing me south are:

crayon as cray-ahn (north more likely to say -awn)
cot/caught being different (there are many word pairs like that around here that are spoken alike)

But I can balance those with:

sneakers
you guys

So it's picking me based on marginal things. I also said scratch paper, which is marginally north. I said water fountain, which is marginally south but also in a lot of north. Saying "other" for the service road thing seems to have pushed me south. And saying that yes we have drive-thru liquor but no special word seems to push a little that way, heh. (We have drive-thru beer distributors. Close enough for this thing.)

Everything else looked even less like my answer pushed one way or another.

I didn't find the light rail/trolley/etc question. Is it in that big list?

Guess I'm divergent. Shouldn't admit that, it's dangerous.
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Old 09-11-2013, 10:25 AM
 
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Pittsburgh also seems to be pretty unique in that they 'cut the grass' rather then 'mow the lawn'
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Old 09-11-2013, 10:27 AM
 
Location: Beaver County
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My favorite was: 'what do you call it when the rain falls while the sun is shining?' While there's no such expression here, apparently elsewhere it is referred to as 'the devil is beating his wife'

WTF
Lol....I have always used that expression. I remember the strange look that my Pittsburgh born husband gave me the first time he heard me say it.
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Old 09-11-2013, 10:52 AM
 
Location: somewhere near Pittsburgh, PA
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The "caught" - "cot" thing was surprising to me. I thought Pittsburghers were pretty unique in pronouncing both words the same, but apparently everyone in the west does too!
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Old 09-11-2013, 11:22 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh area
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Pittsburgh also seems to be pretty unique in that they 'cut the grass' rather then 'mow the lawn'
My neighbor always says he has to cut grass, yeah. I usually mow the lawn though.

And since we're talking about language, it damn well can't be "pretty unique".
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Old 09-11-2013, 11:46 AM
 
Location: Center Township (Pittsburgh), PA
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