Try this fun little "dialect quiz." After answering 25 questions about the way you speak, the program will give you the three towns/cities with speech patterns most similar to yours, and the three least similar to yours.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?r=8044400104000s2000j00040204001050j0jj10020020l0400
Buster is evidently Mr. Midwest. My 3 most similar cities are Cleveland, Akron and Rockford, IL. My 3 least similar are Boston, Cambridge and Springfield -- all Massachusetts. If I tried to
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