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NY Times vocabulary quiz determines where you are from by Mark Frauenfelder
Tuesday December 24th, 2013 at 1:49 AM

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The New York Times has a 25-question, multiple choice survey about word usage and pronunciation (e.g., "How to you pronounce "aunt?").

I took the test and the pattern my dialect most closely matches is from Stockton, CA, Denver, or Aurora, CO. I was born in Denver and grew up nearby in Golden and Boulder. How well does the survey do in pinpointing where you grew up?

    






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zippy72
3765 days ago
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Said I come from Minneapolis, San Fran or Honolulu. So apparently those are the three most Yorkshire cities in America :)
FourSquare, qv
Romanikque
3769 days ago
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The better your vocabulary, the less accurate this survey becomes. At least that's what I think in my informal, non-scientific, and half-inebriated state.
Baltimore, MD
jhamill
3777 days ago
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Sorry, I'm not from New York.
California
bibliogrrl
3778 days ago
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Completely nailed me as Chicago and Layne as Minnesota. Pretty interesting.
Chicago!
jprodgers
3778 days ago
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There should be some kind of option to report where you were from, as this was way off for me. Interesting, as the other comments seem to indicate otherwise.
Somerville, MA
angelchrys
3778 days ago
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It was pretty accurate for me--Overland Park, Kansas City and Springfield.
Overland Park, KS
farmjope
3778 days ago
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Nailed it exactly
bglasgow80
3779 days ago
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Pretty close, just 150 miles from my hometown.
samuel
3778 days ago
It nailed my hometown: Cleveland. It was 'tree lawn' that did it.