My Accent

I wouldn't have the faintest idea on this one, so I will opt out.

I was intereted in that list of towns and cities, though. A fair wee number of them have their equivalents over here in the UK - but ours are the true originals - you just copied them! ;-)

Here are the UK versions from that list:

ABERDEEN - Aberdeenshire, Scotland
FLINT - Flintshire, Wales
HARTFORD - Cheshire, England (plus several more Hartfords in the UK)
PORTLAND - Dorset, England
ROCHESTER - Kent, England

and, of course, this one - the original family home of your first American President, which ultimately gave the name to your capital city -

WASHINGTON - County Durham, England

Another place of pilgrimage for Americans in the UK is Sulgrave Manor, in the depths of the Northamptonshire countryside, in England. That too seems to have some ancestral links to George Washington I think. I will have to check it out.

Where would you have been without Britain when it came to naming many of your towns and cities and counties? Maybe we should impose some kind of copyright commission fee on you guys for every one of your communities with an original British name! That should provide quite some income for our Treasury coffers! ;-)

Sulgrave Manor, ancestral home of George Washington, the first American President following the ex colonials' arse kicking to the horrible, imperious, arrogant British.......

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northamptonshire/asop/south_northants/sulgrave.shtml

Francis,

Your accent sounds very West coast to me. You also sound like you're about 80 years old.

>> Maybe we should impose some kind of copyright commission fee on you guys for every one of your communities with an original British name! <<

Actually that would be a trademark, not a copyright.

So, I guess we can conclude that all cities in the Western US and in Canada all sound exactly alike.

List of guesses so far:
-Phoenix or Las Vegas or other West Coast cities
-Northwestern US or Canada
-Canada or the US bordering Canada
-San Francisco
-Canada
-Ottawa
-Northwestern US or Canada

So far, out of the cities listed, no one has guess the correct one as yet.

I will remove the incorrectly guessed cities and revise the list:

Aberdeen, South Dakota
Albany, New York
Boise, Idaho
Calgary, Alberta
Ceder Rapids, Iowa
Charleston, South Carolina
Chicago, Illinois
Dallas, Texas
Denver, Colorado
Flint, Michigan
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Hartford, Connecticut
Helena, Montana
Miami, Florida
Portland, Oregon
Rochester, New York
Seattle, Washington
Tucson, Arizona
Vancouver, British Columbia
Washington, District of Columbia


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Francis, I think the community is losing its patience. Won't you tell us now where you're from?

Well, the whole point is to try to pin it down to an exact city.

You sound Canadian. You used @ in strEssed, and Q in jQb.

Rounded vowel in jOb is so Canadian.

Canadian or Valley Girl. You have a shift of E--> @ and A---> Q

It's Vancouver or Valley Girl accent. Strong CVS but no Canadian raising.

>> You sound Canadian. You used @ in strEssed, and Q in jQb.

Rounded vowel in jOb is so Canadian. <<

Don't you mean /E/->[{] ?

What's a Valley Girl?

San Fernando Valley accent.

>> What's a Valley Girl?
San Fernando Valley accent. <<

However, that's not one of the choices on the list.