Thinking of moving to Kentucky..

gunbunny said

This is super true.
I live in Ohio, and literally less than a mile from the Kentucky side of the Ohio River.
I had to teach myself to not speak with the "Kentucky drawl". Didn't realize I had it so bad until I went into the Army.
50 miles or so east of here, the West Virginia accent is prominent and just north of that is the Pennsylvanian accent is strong.
The Cincinnati area has a strong German heritage and a lot of German speech patterns have been misused in English.
I could on forever, but if you come here, you're going to hear a little of everything.

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There was an online diction analyzer that claimed it could pinpoint where "you were from" by answers to about 20 questions.

It got me, but it took all 20 questions.
(You could retake it, and view how it narrowed down the geographical area)

The last question was- "what do you call these?"




Before that question, the areas it had not eliminated were fairly large and contained a significant portion of the Pacific Northwest, parts of Canada, and almost the entire great lakes region (minus Wisconsin and Chicago).

My answer- "gym shoes", took that and reduced it to the area between Cincinnati and Dayton (which is correct), and a very small area just outside of Akron.

Coincidentally, my wife is from that exact area near Akron!