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Old 12-23-2013, 09:56 AM
 
Location: Dallas, TX
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It looks like I have to buy an MacBook to use NYT website.
Apparentely you gotta take this test on your MacBook air while sipping fair trade coffee from Colombia to get accurate results.

I call BS on my three cities.
I've never been to Honolulu and somehow I have an accent from there.
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Old 12-23-2013, 10:02 AM
 
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It was accurate for me.

Grass between a street and sidewalk. Never heard of such a thing.
I was amused at the drive up liquor store question. I have never heard of those. I'm not sure what states those at in either but it sounds like a horrible idea lol!
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Old 12-23-2013, 10:05 AM
 
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I was amused at the drive up liquor store question. I have never heard of those. I'm not sure what states those at in either but it sounds like a horrible idea lol!

I know that there are drive-through liquor stores in Pennsylvania but I've never been to one and have no clue how they operate / what they're called.
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Old 12-23-2013, 10:13 AM
 
Location: Round Rock, Texas
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Surprise...

My personal dialect is New York.
Cities: New York, Newark, Yonkers

There are drive thru liquor stores here in Central Texas.
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Old 12-23-2013, 10:16 AM
 
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New York, Greensboro and Mobile?
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Old 12-23-2013, 10:20 AM
 
Location: New York City
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New York, Yonkers, Patterson.
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Old 12-23-2013, 10:22 AM
 
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New York, Greensboro and Mobile?
Lol! Did it say what words were most similar to those in Greensboro or Mobile? And do you have any family from the south?
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Old 12-23-2013, 10:23 AM
 
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Lol! Did it say what words were most similar to those in Greensboro or Mobile? And do you have any family from the south?
Mobile - service road
Greensboro - yard sale

I have family that live in the south now, but we're all from Brooklyn by way of the West Indies.
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Old 12-23-2013, 12:24 PM
 
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It's accurate if you think carefully about the questions and answer it how you actually say things, not how you think you say them. This can be tricky because when you read a word, the pronunciation in your head might be different than what comes out your mouth. I had this issue with the Mary, marry and merry question. I had to take a few minutes to think about how I really pronounce the words.
Again for me completely inaccurate and that might be because I spent part of my childhood overseas (2 years in England and then in countries where English was not the first language). So it is possible I absorbed other pronunciations not typical to the places that I have lived in the USA.
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Old 12-23-2013, 12:45 PM
 
Location: Brooklyn, NY
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New York, Newark/Paterson, Yonkers. No surprise there. Least similar to Des Moines, Salt Lake City and Spokane. And they didn't even ask the strongest marker of being from the NYC area on Joshua Katz's survey. (Do you stand "on line" [NYC] or "in line" [everywhere else]?)
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