December 24, 2013 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
My son showed me this in the New York Times and I thought you might enjoy playing. You answer a few questions and it tells you the three most likely cities where you were born.
It nailed me with Houston (where I was born), New Orleans (where my Daddy was born) and Little Rock (where my Momma’s father was born and raised). It nailed my son and his wife both.
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It gave me Jackson, MS, NOLA, and Mobile, AL. NOLA was correct, but there are a couple of answers which really nail it — poor boy, neutral ground, and I think one other….
1That was fun! I’m definitely TX/AR/OK sounding.
2It didn’t get close to where I was born, but it nailed the area I grew up in.
3Amazing! This is spot on. Where I live now, closest city to where my mom was from, closest city to where my dad was from. And everyone thinks I’m from far, far away!
4weird. It says Baltimore, Winston-Salem and Louisville. Never lived in any of those places and they’re not within 3000 miles of where I was born.
5It missed with me. Salt Lake City, Spokane, and Boise were the guesses. Sioux Falls was where I grew up. It was fun, though.
6A bit off for me. Richmond, VA, Jackson, MS and Baton Rouge, LA.
I was born in Bryan,TX, early life, New Orleans, LA, finished growing up near Bryan and in Houston.
We say Y’all in Texas and the median in a boulevard is an esplanade except in N.O. as the is an Esplanade Blvd. I think there it is called a median.
There were several other questions that I had to put other.
7I am a military brat who has lived from Hawaii to NC. It crashed .
8A total miss. Perhaps because I moved around alot as a kid (even Europe – twice). Alabam & Jersey but actually Virginia.
9It thinks that I grew up where my parents spent their respective childhoods.
10It was kinda NE of reality for me but I did spend my “learnin’ to talk” years in Hot Springs so Little Rock was pretty close to that.
11Got me too! Boston (born there). Worcester (west of Boston, but about 30 miles west of where I grew up). Providence RI(I lived in Rhode Island in my 20s). Some answers picked up on my time in New Orleans (where I often mistook natives for New Englanders, seriously). And Houston, which gve me the names for some things that don’t exist in Mass, especially highway related, haha.
12Missed me altogether. Baton Rouge, Birmingham, and Jackson. I lived near Birmingham about 10 years ago, but that’s my only connection. My Dad was from East Texas/Houston and my mother from Oklahoma. I was born in West Columbia. But I’ve lived from Hawaii to Massachusetts. A Texas friend recently asked me why I don’t sound like I’m from Texas.
13I’m just weird.
Got me – I’m from New York You guys. Excuse me while I put my sneakers on and afterwards I’ll enjoy a nice cold soda 🙂
14That was fun but it said I was from Jackson, Miss, Birmingham, Ala or Columbus, border of Ala and Georgia. I was born and raised in Pasadena, Tex. However I have family from or near all those places.
15Missed me: Baton Rouge, Jackson, and Montgomery. I have been in each maybe once. Fun to do, though.
16Thanks, JJ. It’s a reminder that we can retire away (happily in El Paso) but we bring our roots with us. Greater Chicago area always to age 65. Now, unlike Sharon, I’ll put on my tennies & have some pop. Fun quiz. Thanks again! And happy holidays!
17Kat Hale: Another Army brat, here. Born in El Paso, lived in California and Germany before moving back to EP, where I finished High School and attended UTEP. However, I have lived my entire adult life in DC; so, why this test located me in NYC and points north, I have no idea.
18Kinda missed me. It named Mom’s birth state, but Dad was a Yankee in the Air Force and we moved every 3 to 4 years. I’ve spent the last 45 years in LA and it missed that completely. I work for a large corporation and I was often asked what plant I transferred in from because of my lack of a distinct Louisiana accent.
Fenway Fran, I once insulted the dickens out of a young lady by asking if she was from New York. In no uncertain terms she told me she was born and raised in the Irish Channel in NOLA. That was when I learned there was a ‘big city’ accent.
19Houston, Shreveport, Jackson. My family is from the northeast but I’ve lived in TX since I was 9, almost 40 years, so that makes sense.
20It picked Grand Rapids, MI, and I was born in and grew up 50 miles south in Kalamazoo. It also picked Rockford, Illinois and somewhere in Kentucky (?).
21Missed me. Grew to adulthood in NM. Live in Tx. so maybe I’ve adjusted more than I knew, however some words I use are definitely NOT Texan. Possibly the originators of this quiz never heard of our 50th state?
22That was weird. It was spot on for me–I was born in D.C., lived in Arlington, Virginia, and moved to Baltimore. It had my Minneapolis-born husband who grew up in Northern Virginia pegged as a Southerner, though–Mobile, Jacksonville, and a city I’ve forgotten. He’s never even visited any of them.
23Hit me totally. Houston (Baytown). I think it’s crawfish and feeder roads.
24I’m born in Brooklyn, raised on Long Island, lived all around the world, spent the last 20+ years on the West Coast. It put me in Jersey City, which is one of the places around NY where my father grew up — so I’m pretty impressed with how close it is.
25Said was from Raleigh/Durham…North Carolina. I’m a 5th generation Texan who went to college in Atlanta and Athens, GA, London, UK… lived in Denver 35 years. Living in Abilene now, and have people ask me frequently where I am from. Interesting.
26Dead on Philly, of course. The only accent in America that’s impossible to lose.
Yes, Mary, Merry and Marry all sound different to me.
27It put me in northern California, where I lived for 8 of the 25years I was in the USAF, but I grew up in West Virginia, so it put me about 2500 miles from my early vocabulary.
28It got my growing up (and back living again) on the West Coast,with some Texas (where I have resided),Missouri/Kentucky/Tennessee(where my grandmothers family on my dads side lived from the 1700’s through to the California move in during the Dust Bowl).Oddly enough,nothing from my moms Mid-Western,English major in college,side-even though I spent many (miserable) years living there.Guess I really did NOT want to pick up the “funny” way the people in “Wi-Scansin” talk.Within a year of moving to TX.,I picked up the accent,and even native Texans thought I was from there.Guess my dads Southern roots,and all the kids I went to school with that came from the same kind of backround as me,shaped my lingo and accent.I know when we moved to the Mid-West,everyone thought we were from the South,because of our California “Okie” (as it was called) drawl.
29Missed—put me in Ca and Salt Lake–yea! I hate being from Tucson,crAZy!!!
30I have never been to SLC except to drive through, but I did rent a room from a LDS bishop’s family for a while in my youth, and the town I stayed in in Utah was his family name, Layton–great skiing at Park City!
And I lived for 30 years in Northern Ca–so that makes sense–losing my “ghettospeak” in an upper middle class lifestyle…
Fun exercise!
Wow what a long survey. The little map kept on changing colors. Finally at the end when it started its tabulation The Program Died. For the record I am from the Texas Hill Country.
31Despite the outcome, I am not from Providence, Rhode Island. I was born in Michigan but bred in Canada. Maybe it was all those elocution lessons along the way. Vividly remember being taught never to drop certain consonants.
32http://www.cbsnews.com/news/dc-santa-claus-shot-with-pellet-gun-during-toy-giveaway/
This Santa landed in the wrong neighborhood. Sorry for OT,but it is X-mas related.
33Well, it put me in 3 southern cities in AZ. LOL I was born and raised in IL, lived for a very long time in N. CA and the Bay Area; moved to S. CO where I am now and have been for 10 years next year! It was totally off the mark for me!!
34Oh this was fun! It gave my 3 most likely birth locations as Shreveport, Baton Rouge and Jackson. I’m from Beaumont, lived in Dallas for 30 years and have been in Austin for 8 years now. My daddy always said that Beaumont was supposed to be in Louisiana but got lost.
My husband threw it for a loop. He was born in Copenhagen and grew up in Denmark, where he learned English from watching American TV. He went to a multi-national school in Swaziland during his high school years, where English was the common language and the teachers were British. He returned to Denmark for college and lived there until about 10 years ago when he moved to Texas. He has never been to Detroit, Grand Rapids or Toledo; the cities the quiz predicted as his most likely birth locations.
35It was off the mark for me too. I was raised in South Texas and spent almost half my life in Los Angeles. Of course, in LA you live and work among a lot of people from other states and some things just rub off.
36Providence, Newark and NY.
Close enough, LI!!!!
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37Stay warm (-3 here tonight) stay safe and have a wonderful evening and Christmas Day!
I did this the other day and some of the questions were a little different. At that time it put me in Arizona. Today I took it again and it was spot on—So. California, where I was born and raised. Gnarly, dude!
38I wasn’t born in B’ham, but all parents and grandparents were.
39Nailed my dialectic.
Amazing.
Even caught that I’d gone to Andover Academy instead of a local high school.
I placed me somewhere in Aladamnbama which may seem odd for a Brooklyn born, Westchester/Ulster/Orange/Rockland County New Yorker. But I lived for several years in Chicago and downstate Illinois (near Hannibal, MO) before moving to Pennsyltucky and those 3-1/2 years in Hel – er I mean Houston – taught me to say y’all and y’alls instead of you, younz, yountz, and similar Pennsyltucky terms. It’s a darn good thing it didn’t get into grammar or I’d have been stuck on whether “Let the dog out” means to put the dog out or to allow the dog to stay out (If John Lennon had been a Pennsyltuckian the song would have been Leave It Be). And that whole thing with infinitive verb forms which don’t need used hereabouts.
40Nailed it. Sweet home Chicago- though you couldn’t pay me to live within 100 miles of the place now.
Any body else get a “be it known” Texas Democrat card in the mail?
41It would have caught me had I checked the word “yinz” which many Pittsburghers use, but my family and I don’t so it totally missed.
42Chandler/Gilbert, Mesa/Tempe,Arizona and Rochester,New York. Not bad for someone who was born in NW iowa and has lived within twenty miles of my birthplace my entire life.
43Don in Penn.-my folks were married in Hannibal,Mo back when.
44Way, way off… it has me either in Tulsa or Toledo, two places I don’t think I’ve ever been (though may have passed through at some point or another). Have some Pittsburger usages from my parents, raised in western NY, lived mostly in Indiana and Kansas City as an adult, until I moved to Texas… then Mexico. But Tulsa????
45If it missed you badly, try it a second time. You’ll get different questions.
462nd time had all Ca–don’t mind anything is better than crAZy.
47Merry Christmas–off to evening service!
New York City; Patterson, New Jersey; and Baton Rouge, LA. Born and raised in New York, but after living in Houston for 20 years (and learning to say y’all) you’se guys had corrupted my speaking.
48Boston, check; New York, check; Montgomery, Al, huh? Have I been spending too much time reading this blog?
49Nailed me right in the middle of Mississippi. Thought (and perhaps hoped) that MAYBE my bleeding heart liberal politics would affect my linguistics. Guess not!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to y’all!
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