re: #28 Barefoot Grin

The dialect quiz from the last thread was quite accurate. Even though I have significant influence from my Georgia mother, it nailed me as somewhere between Aurora, Il and St. Louis, MO.

That dialect quiz didn’t work at all for me. Here, see what I mean:

Wait, what????

It pinpointed me as being from the New York/New Jersey area, when I’ve never been there in my entire life. I don’t even have relatives from there—they were from eastern Oklahoma. Born in Richmond, California, have lived in the Bay Area, Houston, Austin, Salt Lake City and Phoenix.

I suspect what this dialect quiz may be picking up is the vast amount of reading I did as a child in the 1960s. (Seriously. I read EVERYTHING I could get my hands on.) Back in those days, New York was the king of publishing and pretty darn Northeast-centric. Unless the book was written in a dialect, I suspect what I read was edited for Northeastern style.