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Do you have an accent?

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The New York Times thinks it can guess your area of origination based solely on the way you speak.

In a quiz published on the New York Times website on Dec. 21, readers were invited to answer a series of questions regarding their pronunciation of certain words and their terminology for regional terms.

At the end of the 25 question quiz, you’re given three cities where, based on your responses, the New York Times says you sound like the residents here.

So here’s what we want YOU to do. Take the quiz by clicking here.

Then, let us know what you find. Did it work for you? Did it accurately guess where you’re from based on your answers? Some of our editors have taken the quiz and found it to be surprisingly accurate.

Let us know how it worked. Comment in the comment section on this post. You can also tweet us your results (tweet mentioning @MTHSHawkeye). We want to hear from you.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0

The quiz and all associated graphics, questions and results have been created by and are property of the New York Times.

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Nick Fiorillo, Editor-in-Chief

Nick Fiorillo is the Editor-in-Chief of the Hawkeye and thehawkeye.org. This is Nick's second year of serving as editor. Last year, he led the Hawkeye in one of the organization's most dramatic transformations in decades, replacing the broadsheet newspaper with a feature based newsmagazine and an emphasis on online content.

Prior to serving as editor-in-chief, Nick was the local news editor during his sophomore year and was a staff reporter during his freshman year.

Nick was named as the 2014 Free Spirit Scholar from Washington state, and traveled to Washington, D.C. as the Washington state delegate to the 2014 Al Neuharth Free Spirit and Journalism Conference. He has received several state and national awards for journalism, including several JEA National Write-off Competition Awards. He was recently awarded the rating of "Superior" for Editorial Writing at the Spring 2014 JEA/NSPA High School Journalism Conference in San Diego, Calif.

His interests include journalism, politics, public policy, law and education. He plans on attending a four-year university and majoring in political science and social policy.

You can view his pressfolio here.

Twitter: @nick_fiorillo

LinkedIn: Nick Fiorillo

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