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original posts <a guessmyheritage="" community.livejournal.com="" href="http://community.livejournal.com/guessmyheritage/204015.html#cutid1">here</a> and <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/guessmyheritage/205805.html#cutid1/">here</a><br /><br /><div class="ljcut" text=" Answer"></div><div class="ljcut" text="the answer"><div class="ljcut" text=" Answer"> </div><div class="ljcut" text="the answer">We are sisters! (I’m 23 and Badassknitter is 15.) <br /><br />We come from London, UK and as far as we know, half our grandparents are of English decent (Yorkshire region) one was Scottish (from Edinburgh) and the other was born in Yorkshire but adopted so although it’s most likely he was also of English decent, we can’t tell for sure. <br /><br />I wanted to do this because it looked like fun but also because I was curious what people would assume. I live in Norway at the moment and most people recognise from my accent that I’m not Norwegian (pretty hard to miss!) but assume I’m German instead of English for some reason. It could be that my accent is more like most Germans but I wonder if its how I look too. <br /><br />My Fav Guesses – Jewish (that would be cool – I’m really into Jewish history) and Norwegian (I’d fit in sooo much better here if I was lol!) <br /><br />Most guessed – Russian and German (5 each) then Polish (4) then Norwegian and Swedish (3 each). <br /><br />Correctly guessed by - <div class="ljuser"><a href="http://rudegirl-4life.livejournal.com/profile"><img style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px" height="17" alt="[info]" width="17" src="http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif" /></a><a href="http://rudegirl-4life.livejournal.com/"><b>rudegirl_4life</b></a></div> (well done, got both parts!) and <div class="ljuser"><a href="http://lacrimae-lunae.livejournal.com/profile"><img style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px" height="17" alt="[info]" width="17" src="http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif" /></a><a href="http://lacrimae-lunae.livejournal.com/"><b>lacrimae_lunae</b></a></div> (got English). <br /><br />Badassknitter <br /><br />Fav guesses - Had to be french, russian and german :) Was surprised at the guesses for russian and ukrainian....! <br /><br />Most Guessed – German, Irish and English (4 each) then French, Russian and Scottish (3 each) <br /><br />Correctly guessed by - <div class="ljuser"><a href="http://rootfive.livejournal.com/profile"><img style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px" height="17" alt="[info]" width="17" src="http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif" /></a><a href="http://rootfive.livejournal.com/"><b>rootfive</b></a></div> and <div class="ljuser"><a href="http://thought4food.livejournal.com/profile"><img style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px" height="17" alt="[info]" width="17" src="http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif" /></a><a href="http://thought4food.livejournal.com/"><b>thought4food</b></a></div> got both (woot!) <div class="ljuser"><a href="http://rococodoll.livejournal.com/profile"><img style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px" height="17" alt="[info]" width="17" src="http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif" /></a><a href="http://rococodoll.livejournal.com/"><b>rococodoll</b></a></div>  <div class="ljuser"><a href="http://broken-kamiya.livejournal.com/profile"><img style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px" height="17" alt="[info]" width="17" src="http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif" /></a><a href="http://broken-kamiya.livejournal.com/"><b>broken_kamiya</b></a></div> and <div class="ljuser"><a href="http://so-there.livejournal.com/profile"><img style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px" height="17" alt="[info]" width="17" src="http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif" /></a><a href="http://so-there.livejournal.com/"><b>so_there</b></a></div> got one out of 2. <br /><br />I thought it was interesting how much more accurate guesses for Badassknitter were – also, she didn’t seem to attract so many ‘way out there’ guesses. This obviously isn’t the space for involved discussion but I was thinking a bit about how the odds are, if someone guesses English, French, etc they have a good chance of being partially right (what with a lot of people on here being Americans) so maybe some people ‘guess safely’ but also, a lot of people guess Native American (for example) fairly often and I’ve yet to come across someone who (knowingly) IS partially Nat. Am. on here. I’m wondering what exactly is behind the way people make these guesses… </div></div>

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