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nytimes's united states 'dialect map' quiz

That's so weird... I could have sworn it was up there. I even saw it in a Stephen King novel set in New England (they basically all are) and I know he's from Maine. Hm, maybe if I find the video I can post it.
(And it might have been the difference between "The Devil" and "Satan", small variation, but that might be why)
 
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I am from Minneapolis so this makes sense, though I've never been to Arizona or the Lower Peninsula of Michigan Oo
 
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I assumed this wouldn't be accurate but for me it is wildly accurate. I was born in Florida, have long since resided in Missouri, and have family scattered in a line between. Its interesting that they could tell something like that from the words we use.

Also, I just lolled at some of the options. Will someone please admit to calling rain during clear skies "the wolf giving birth"? Is that a real?
 
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Lived most of my life in Rochester, and I was born and am going to school in the Albany region which is bright red.... pretty damn accurate. I'm impressed.
 
Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and Augusta-Richmond were mine, but pretty much the entire south from Texas eastward was red. This state has ruined me.

EDIT: Took it again and got Fort Worth, Arlington, and San Antonio. Touché, NY Times.
 
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Took this when it first came out and got the same results as this time: Modesto, Fresno, Bakersfield. I live in Ontario which is a 2 hour drive from Bakersfield. The other two are in Central California but California as a whole is completely red/black. I have a nice random red spot near St. Louis which is where my mom's side of the family is from and I know I borrow from there. My dad's from philly and I have speech patterns very similar to my extended family, but the fact that I don't call a "fast car" road a turnpike among many other things detract from that.
 
This thing pegged me as a St. Louisan (where I grew up), apparently because I pronounce "Cot" and "caught" differently. My second and third where Baton Rouge and New Orleans, mostly because I picked up "y'all" from living in the south for a while.
 
One of my three least similar dialects is where I live... time to go outside. Anyway anyone with any sense knows that poboys and subs are two different things.
 
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Dis tes' real po-ho. Stay Hawaii, we get da mos' unique dialect. Alla kine linguist students across da US stay study how fo' talk like one moke, yet dis tes' nevah wen' use Hawaii terms. Auu-weh, das real babooze.


edit: Los Angeles and Boston as my 2 and 3-- LA, sure, but Boston? Since when is "Sneakers" an east coast thing?
 
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This is incredibly interesting; my two closest matches are Central Pennsylvania (where I've grown up and currently live), and the Midwest, where my dad comes from. It's weird too, how many of these terms are completely alien to me. This is a really cool article/quiz.
 
"What do you call a big road on which you drive relatively fast?"

GDI, we've got the New Jersey Turnpike, Atlantic City Expressway, Garden State Parkway, Trenton Freeway, and more highways than I can count. Why is multiple choice not allowed and wtf is a throughway?



This was quite accurate, though. NJ / Philly was all dark red, with a bit of the north-east kinda yellow and everything else just blue. Lived in NJ and Philly my whole life, so spot on for me ^.^
 
I wonder if you can use this test to also think about how "standard" your English is-- that's not the intent I guess, but one would think that the less blue, the more yellow/orange, the closer your speaking is to the "American standard". maybe?
 
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"What do you call a big road on which you drive relatively fast?"

GDI, we've got the New Jersey Turnpike, Atlantic City Expressway, Garden State Parkway, Trenton Freeway, and more highways than I can count. Why is multiple choice not allowed and wtf is a throughway?
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This. Even out in western PA we still use a ton of these terms (colloquially referred to as "the turnpike," "parkway west," etc.). I guess the question is more "What would you call this road if you don't know it's name?"

also can we get more Pittsburgh people itt
 
lmao, compare to my location on the left:

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edit: apparently we dont have locations in the postbit anymore, but it's plano tx
 
Like every test in my life, I got an A. I wonder how much of the language I learned is secretly/not so secretly racist...

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edit: omg at darkie and me posting back to back, clones clones clones
 
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bubbler is the largest tip-off ever lol, when i went to school in boston people from out of the area actually had no idea what i was talking about. if they really wanted to pin down the location they could have asked what i call a glass of milk with ice cream blended in (it's a cabinet)
 
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bubbler is the largest tip-off ever lol, when i went to school in boston people from out of the area actually had no idea what i was talking about. if they really wanted to pin down the location they could have asked what i call a glass of milk with ice cream blended in (it's a cabinet)
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I have a friend who grew up in Green Bay, and she legitimately had a shirt with a water fountain on it that said, "IT'S CALLED A BUBBLER." Apparently that's a Wisconsin thing as well.

I took this a while back but couldn't remember what I got, so I took it again.

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I've lived in Illinois all my life. \o/

also loling at:

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Apparently no one except for Ontario has a word for this, but they included it anyways.
 
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