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Old 02-28-2014, 09:31 AM
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Originally Posted by CFrance View Post
Not very accurate for me. I was born and raised in Pittsburgh, which has a peculiar accent found nowhere else in the country. But my parents were from Philadelphia and didn't have that accent, and worked hard for us not to acquire it. I went to college in the south. In my 40s I lived in Michigan for 25 years. The NYT put me somewhere around the Dakotas, states I've never even driven through!

Me too. Not sure it was the Dakota's but far from the place whose folks have NO accents. lol.
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