the Dialect Quiz -see if others can tell exactly where your from by how you talk!

Dialect Quiz

The data for the quiz and maps shown here come from over 350,000 survey responses collected from August to October 2013 by Josh Katz, a graphics editor for the New York Times who developed this quiz. The colors on the large heat map correspond to the probability that a randomly selected person in that location would respond to a randomly selected survey question the same way that you did. The three smaller maps show which answer most contributed to those cities being named the most (or least) similar to you.

my results



:lol::lol::lol:

 

Most of my cities were on the west coast. CA and Hi.

 

Baltimore, Washington DC and Arlington. Which is strange since Philly is much closer than DC or Arlington. I guess because I say "sub" rather than "hoagie."

 

Mine says Chicago, Rockford, and Aurora....because I say kitty-corner and gym shoes. LOL.

 

i got Santa Rosa, Modesto & Oceanside but I don't live in CA...maybe because I travel so much I have adopted ways of saying things

 

I say kitty-corner? but tennis shoes instead

 

Catty-corner and sneakers here. And dinner and supper are the same except on Sunday - dinner is in the afternoon. Lol.

 

i don't say supper at all...but use the word sub for a baguette sandwich...

 

Alabama

I surely don't get how that works out.

 

Fremont, Santa Clara, Reno


Pretty accurate.

 

Most: Long Beach, Glendale (CA not AZ) and Corona
Least: Detroit, Rockford and Toledo

 

Most similar: Baltimore, Richmond, Greensboro

Least similar: Spokane, Des Moines, Grand Rapids

 

Most similar: Philadelphia, Newark/Patterson, Providence

Least similar: Forth Worth, Houston, Lubbock[/QUOTE]

*This quiz was a bit difficult to answer completely since I still use and have my Aussie words.

 

This was interesting,as I ve never lived anywhere but Germany

 

Be-you,

The Americans that you mostly associate with, are they from those areas? I remember meeting some German girls who'd never left Frankfurt but spoke with a heavy Texas twang., that they picked up from the dudes they mostly hung with.

 

No,actually the 4 guys I was in a relationship with were from Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and North Carolina.
Especially the Memphis guy I was with for on and off 5 years,so that would make most sense for my dialect to sound like.But he and the North Carolina guy spent parts of their childhood in Germany,due to their fathers' military job.

 

the funny part is I KNOW this test is an ego shock for some people where were thinking "I'm better than these people around here...I DON'T talk like these fuckin Bamas I'm MORE articulate than that..*arrogant chuckle*"

then they take the test and find out they are JUST AS BAMA as the people they think theyre better than

 

Gilbert (AZ), Overland Park & Kansas City (KS) because I say garage sale and we don't have a term for the drive though liquor stores ... lol

 

I didn't even know those existed lol

 

Beat me to it! I guess it really depends on state regulations.