My Regional Dialect Test Results

The Times posted one of those dialect discrimination tests. I'm always on the fence as I respond to some of the items in these questionnaires. If I were back East, I might use different words and perhaps different pronunciations, but my default position has become full on Chicago. So I repeated the test, going with my responses leaning toward my language and accent as a teen in southeastern CT. Then I did it in my preteen, NY mode. The questionnaire...
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