American accent test

[Tom Zurinskas]

Let's make up a sentence with key words which when read aloud shows the region of dialect of the speaker.
Uisng Bert Vaux's dielect survey would help.  http://www3.uwm.edu/Dept/FLL/linguistics/dialect/maps.html
The shortest sentence with the best descriminators wins.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
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> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:44:36 -0700
> From: blukoff at ALVORD.COM
> Subject: Re: American accent test
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Poster: Benjamin Lukoff
> Subject: Re: American accent test
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> It correctly guessed that I am from "The West," but honestly, that's pretty
> boring. It could have asked me about the vowels in "writer" and "rider" and
> seen if I were from the Northwest....
>
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Tom Zurinskas  wrote:
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>> This site tries to locate your American accent. For me it came close, but
>> just missed.
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>> http://gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have
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>> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
>> See truespel.com - and the 4 truespel books plus "Occasional Poems" at
>> authorhouse.com.
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