Regional dialect quiz

quicksandfarmer · Dec 21, 2013

From today's NY Times, this quiz asks you 25 questions about how you talk and then pinpoints on a map where in the US you speak most like.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html

It's a more general-purpose version of the Southern English quiz.

It put me within 10 miles of where I was born.

aczlan · Dec 21, 2013

That was entretaining, it says Grand Rapids or Detroit Michigan and Spokane Washington... The only one I have been to was a plane change in Detroit...
It also shows me as talking similar to NY for the area West of Syracuse (which is close).

Aaron Z

AaronS · Dec 23, 2013

Interesting. The 3 cities it listed as most similar for me were Louisville and Lexington KY and the Augusta GA/Richmond VA area. I live an hour west of Louisville to I guess it may have some merit.

MacLawn · Dec 23, 2013

Whew, it's very accurate! All of America is blue to me! Lived in Japan over 30 years and speak Japanese. Reckon I still walk to the drum beating in me old haid.

Reyer Farms · Dec 23, 2013

Pretty neat. I like the "I have no word for this". I had no word for grass between sidewalk and street. Thanks for sharing.

murphy1244 · Dec 23, 2013

It moved me to Michigan

dragoneggs · Dec 23, 2013

Reyer Farms said:
Pretty neat. I like the "I have no word for this". I had no word for grass between sidewalk and street. Thanks for sharing.

Me neither... but it pretty much nailed me. It predicted Tacoma, WA and that is about 30 miles away from me!

k0ua · Dec 23, 2013

I am pretty close to Little Rock, even though I actually live in SW Missouri, but I have spend the last 13 years in the presence of Arkies.. so some of it has to rub off:thumbsup:

SPIKER · Dec 23, 2013

murphy1244 said:
It moved me to Michigan

Same here I think they need to update their northern ohio speak to get a better more accurate model BUT I have to say there were many questions could have had several answers too.

it actually asked me like a dozen extra questions (ok maybe 5 or 6 re-asks or new ones) but still had me from area 500 miles west or so...

BUT then again most Ohio folk have very little "accent" so people always ask where I'm from (when I was out west and down south.)
Mark

Furu · Dec 23, 2013

I have lived a lot of places but I would not have thought my most likely locations would end up more than 1000 miles from anywhere I have ever lived. Two of them I have never even been in or around. The other I drove through once 20 years ago for 15 minutes or so.