Dialect quiz

[ButterflyBlood]

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html

Pretty spot on. Here's my map: http://nyti.ms/1OTvoKu

So not only is where I currently live (Minneapolis/St. Paul) one of the top 3 cities, where I grew up is also rather dark colored (North Dakota)

My bottom three unsurprisingly are all in the south.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. pretty cool - put me where I was born and lived for 22 years. I am now nearly 60

Two words gave it away - "rotary" for traffic circle, and "bubbler" for drinking fountain. Very particular to where I was born, it seems! (Providence, RI - we've lived in Raleigh NC for the last 23 years!)

[mackerel]

2. Sorry an error has occurred.

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[TreasonousBastard]

5. All that work and that's what I got too.

[ailsagirl]

3. Fascinating! Thanks for posting

It's interesting how people who don't live in the US persist in describing our accents as an "American accent," (as if there were one accent that covers our huge country). There really is no such thing as an American accent. There are a wealth of different dialects all over the country-- not only dialects, but the different words we use to describe the same thing (e.g., pail or bucket?). I love the language diversity of our country!!

[csziggy]

4. Interesting and wrong - it says my speech pattern is most like the Minneapolis area

But I've never lived there - grew up in Central Florida and live in North Florida.

I did grow up with a grandmother from Escanaba, Michigan, listening to her friends from the Upper Peninsula and my great aunt's friends from Oberlin, Ohio. My husband's parents were from Minneapolis but he was born and raised in Panama City, Florida.

[Art_from_Ark]

6. My three cities were all in the central part of California

I've never lived anywhere near them.

[Behind the Aegis]

7. Interesting.

All three "most similar" cities are in states where I have lived, in the case of one, I actually lived in that city as a child. All Southern cities, of course.

[fizzgig]

8. louisville, jacksoville and tallahasse

i've lived in colorado my whole life.

[LiberalElite]

9. .

NY, Newark & Jersey City. Last time I took this Yonkers, NY was in there too. (?)

[mnhtnbb]

14. Yonkers came up for me this time, too.

Also, Newark and Paterson.

I grew up in Chatham, NJ but spent the first 3 1/2 years of my life in White Plains.

[femmocrat]

10. Pretty accurate for me.

The darkest red was right over where I grew up.

[Wounded Bear]

11. hmmm I guess they averaged my responses.

They put me in central California, where I have never spent any significant time in my life. Barely drove through on many occasions, but never stopped for more than to fill the tank or to eat.

I did grow up in Western Washington and spent 40 years or so in Southern California, and am now back in Western Washington.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Man, Did This Nail Me

It shows Aurora, Rockford and Chicago. (I grew up in Joliet, which is actually bigger than Aurora, so a little surprised it's not on the map.)

But they have me from that band that wraps around Chicago 40 to 80 miles in to the northwest to the southeast.

Pretty cool!

[mnhtnbb]

13. Accurate for me, too.

[geardaddy]

15. Minneapolis/St. Paul, Rockford, IL, Madison, WI

I was born and raised and currently live in Mpls, but I went to college in Upstate NY and lived in East Asia for five years. Now, if they asked what I called things in Chinese, that might make me more of a Beijinger.

Took it a second time and some of the questions were different. This time got Mpls/STP, SLC and Buffalo, NY.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html

[BlueJazz]

16. Put me in New England. I'm Australian so that's close enough.