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[Allegheny]

@Oznell  Some where/some how years ago, I picked up "eh".  Can't shake it.

[golding76]

I have that one, too, Allegheny!  Have no idea how I acquired it, but it remains stubbornly in my discourse.

I'm often asked if I am Canadian because of it.

[Oznell]

Ha, ha, you two, and for some unknown reason, I never said "eh"!

[geezerette]

@Allegheny

Having grown up “across the bridge” from Canada, I sometimes fall back on the “eh” too.  Mostly when I’m speaking with someone who obviously has that accent themselves.

I took the test a second time since the first didn’t have an end result for some reason.  The second time I did get a result, and it was dead on!  One of the three cities was right where I grew up.  

Coincidentally, the second city was where a great-nephew moved to, and the third city was where a cousin had moved years ago.

[golding76]

Folks, I obviously needed to refresh my mind on the definition of "dialect."

Dialect, a variety of a language that signals where a person comes from. ... A dialect is chiefly distinguished from other dialects of the same language by features of linguistic structure—i.e., grammar (specifically morphology and syntax) and vocabulary.

Sound is not part of the definition.

Embarrassing for me.  I do not remember all that I once knew (I think, LOL).

[Scooby Doo]

Nailed it.  I think it was the last question about Caramel that did it. 

When I've traveled to the South, I've been told that I have an accent.  lol

[geezerette]

I also think that some of the questions might have been generational or age-related.  Some that I answered had no one else in the whole country similar to my answer.  That I know to be false, since I know people my age that speak the same way or use the same expression.

[GinzTonic]

Spot on.  Boston all the way...!!! Probably an easy one!

[SharkE]

had me at St. Louis not to awful far away from Southern Ind where used to live. Couldn't understand lot of the questions, though. About vowels and syllables LOL

[cotton4me]

It pinponted my city, right on the button.  

Some of the expressions they asked about I'd never heard before.