NY Times vocabulary quiz determines where you are from I took it and it gave the Three Cities that I most likely came from, it said Milwaukee, Detroit or Toledo. I was born and raised in Milwaukee. My wife took it and it identified Charlotte, Greensboro, and Winston-Salem as the most likely cities, and she was raised in North Carolina.
for some of the words I would pronounce it several ways but did not give me a choice Like I call them subs, hoagies or heros For me it had listed Baltimore Philadelphia Newark/Patterson Considering I was born in Brooklyn and was raised in New Milford NJ and West Orange NJ. West Orange is in the same county as Newark. Newark is the county seat for Essex county. My parents grew up in Patterson. I moved to Wilmington and would visit Philly and eventually worked in a town called Dundalk which is a suburb of Baltimore.
It listed mine as Jackson, Winston-Salem or Greensboro! I was born and raised in MI but went into the Army when I was 17. We've lived here for 24 yrs though, the most of any of the places we've ever lived.
My answers were: Durham, Richmond and Raleigh. I didn't grow up in any of the three places, but live in one of them now. I've lived in North Carolina for around 18 years now. Sherry
Neat! Boston, Yonkers, and Newark/Paterson NJ I grew up in southern NH (basically a suburb of Boston) and have a lot of relatives in northern NJ...
It got the right coast??? DC, Baltimore & NYC. If your diction / pronunciation isn't geographically influenced I think it freaks it out? What I think is more interesting about their quiz is if you view your map image, .... then copy the link address to it ........ then paste it into MS Word, with standard margins, it takes 90 pages to show it.
