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fbhjr ([personal profile] fbhjr) wrote2013-12-29 10:24 am
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That language quiz

Not a surprise. I got the city in which I was born, the city where I have lived the last 32 years, and a city 40 miles away along the same highway.
http://nyti.ms/1jWYvzc
Yep, I’m from Massachusetts alright…

[identity profile] hotclaws.livejournal.com 2013-12-30 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I got the north east tip which as a Brit is about right.Talking of accents,did you know a lot of the Pony Express riders had broad Lancashire accents ? They went to the States after the cotton mills closed because of the Civil War.

[identity profile] fbhjr.livejournal.com 2013-12-30 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I hadn't known that, but it doesn't surprise me much.
There was a lot of movement of a lot of people after that war.