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How Do You Like Them Apples, Bahston?
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Gawker is doing a bracket tournament to determine America's Ugliest Accent. Boston's the top seed, with Scranton and New York next. But Pittsburgh might be a winner at the fourth seed, because yinz rilly talk weird n'at. The accent that comprises part of my speech pattern, Philly, is fifth, and I'll stipulate that it's an awful accent indeed; the other half, New Jersey, isn't even in the top 16, maybe because people think that Jersey is half New York and half Philly. But when the New York Times did that accent quiz, it correctly placed me both in Philadelphia and Paterson, NJ, so there IS a difference. Anyway, this could be a fun topic, but I gotta go with Pittsburgh to sweep past Philly in the quarters and upset Boston in the semis to face Minneapolis in the finals and win it all. (Gawker)
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