Weird! (or maybe weeuhd).

Everyone from Noo Yawk knows that people north of Greenwich, CT tawk fuhnny.

On Dec 24, 2013, at 5:26 PM, Ken Steele wrote:

> On 12/24/2013 1:15 PM, Claudia Stanny wrote:
>> I finally got a map . . . I think the site shares load problems
>> experienced on the ACA site.  :-)
>> 
>> I also adopted Jeff's strategy of selecting responses based on choices
>> I would have made growing up rather than usages I know about based on
>> where I now live. I could probably manipulate choices to locate myself
>> elsewhere. But I've already spent too much time on that site!
>> 
>> So the site placed me squarely (and correctly) in Detroit. (The night
>> before Halloween question is an easy give-away.)
>> 
>> My secondary cities reveal much about my years living in the south.
>> 
>> My daughter's map was interesting. Between listening to me, growing up
>> in Pensacola, grad school in the Midwest, and four long-term
>> residencies in France, her map is quite ambiguous and located her in
>> three cities where she has never spent more than 3 months. It thinks
>> she is a Washington, D.C. / Baltimore girl.  :-)
>> 
>> Claudia
>> 
> 
> The program placed me in Worcester MA, Boston MA, or New York City, which I 
> hear is located in the state of New York.
> 
> (I find the latter odd because I don't know of a Tennesee City or a North 
> Carolina City or a South Carolina City. And I thought Southern naming 
> conventions were repetitive. But I digress.)
> 
> Interestly, my daughter was identified as being from either Boston, 
> Worcester, or Springfield MA.
> 
> Ken

Paul Brandon
Emeritus Professor of Psychology
Minnesota State University, Mankato
[email protected]




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