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luckykaa ([personal profile] luckykaa) wrote2013-09-04 06:03 pm
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That British City of Paris

Found on reddit; Someone used a free trial of Google consumer surveys to ask 1000 Americans to name a British city other than London.

Top results were Liverpool and Manchester. A few people knew Westminster was a city. Curiously Wales was in there, and bizarrely Paris. Two people even put Amsterdam!

Some of the entries in the Raw Data are much better. Aside from a few "I don't know"/"I don't care" answers ("111", "asdfasdfasdf" and so on), we have those quant cities of:

Dog
Do Scottish or Welsh ones count?
Faggotsville (thanks for spotting that [livejournal.com profile] davidbrider)
Huffingandpuffingshire
Mitt Romney!
Naryatoothintown
Newbugglesville
Quigley on Thames
ScrewUK
Stop requiring this. No one cares
Tits
Tomato
Whales
and
Worcesterhrirehamingtom

[identity profile] luckykaa.livejournal.com 2013-09-04 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
As a Brightonian I was pleased quite a few people picked my home town, and one person even put the actual city name "Brighton and Hove".