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Old 02-28-2014, 05:33 PM
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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!
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Me too. Not sure it was the Dakota's but far from the place whose folks have NO accents. lol.
Well, I guess "in my 40s" I couldn't have lived in MI for 25 years! Amend that to when I turned 40, I moved to MI for 25 years. Still... NYT didn't come close.
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