Interactive Dialect Quiz & Map

Kind of a fun quiz which matches up commonly-used words or phrases to specific areas of the country and provides a composite map at the end which incorporates the data from all the individual questions.

Pretty much nailed me. Thought both of my parents being from the South would have skewed my results a bit but apparently I’m a northern plains boy.

If anyone wants to check it out here’s the link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?ref=opinion

Interesting quiz. I’m definitely speak mid western haha.

Mine is very much Massachusetts although I don’t have a heavy accent (I use my R’s and A’s properly). I also have a bit of Southern Connecticut/New York and Pittsburgh thanks to Dad and Mom, respectively.

Most similar to Baltimore, St. Louis, and Raleigh. Makes sense as I’ve been in the Baltimore area my whole life.

It had me pegged already at the bubbler question. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I’m disappointed not all three dots were in Texas. I was born and raised a Texan. These results make me question where it all went off the tracks. On the other hand, throw out the outlier & split the difference, it’s right.

Nailed it. DC-Baltimore. Some NJ because half of my family is from NJ.

Said two north/central spots in NC and central Alabama. Weird as I’ve only driven through AL and I’m certainly not from the Winston Salem/Greensboro part of NC

Missed with me.

Showed me much further South than I have ever lived. Birmingham/Montgomery/Jackson MS. The furthest South I have ever lived was Memphis and that was just in college. I have only ever lived in Tennessee.

Some of the questions I thought had some interesting answers. Particularly the night before Halloween and rain with the sun shining. Never heard some of them before.

Had me all around Ohio, but nothing in Ohio. Strange.

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It showed my military brat upbringing. The was only blue in the extreme northeast.

It figured I was from either California - or New York. I guess being from Canada, and then living in FL for several year threw it…

I knew it! Im from Texas. :cool:

It pretty much nailed mine.

Akron, Columbus, and Omaha. Interesting on the Omaha.

Pretty neat find.

What’d yall answer for the access/service/frontage road question? That is the one that put me way out in Jackson, MS. I answered frontage.

Mine spread out drastically considering the size of CA, though I Reno was chosen for me.

My three were: Oceanside San Diego, Santa Rosa, and Reno.

I am guessing I use dialect from my mother who was born and raised in Northern CA- Reno “slang” from what I have experienced is similar- mixed with Southern CA from which I was born and raised.

I have to watch myself when speaking in Wisconsin to not seem like an outsider. :smiley:

Kept sticking me in Alabama/Mississippi…most people guess I’m from Georgia, so I was expecting a miss.

despite decades in the south and abroad,
Sneakers, grinder, catamount, and aunt instead of ant appear to have given me away

For the Midwest guys on here, how do you say the word “bag?”

When I say it, it Rhymes with “Stag.”

I am not sure how to spell it how some people say it here, but its something like “beg” in extreme cases.

That one caught me off guard the first time I heard it.