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Audio Quiz

Below are pairs of recordings made by people born and raised in Seattle. First, click on the top item in each pair, and see if you can identify the word. Then, after you think you know what the word is, click on the second item, below it, to hear the same word spoken in the phrase in which it was first produced. Did you identify the word accurately when it was produced on it’s own? No cheating! After completing the quiz, click the right arrow below to view answers, and twice more to read the explanations.

 
     

Bag

Peg

Grocery Bag

Hang down by her back legs from a peg and pretended to be dead.

 

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