Regional American Dialects

[+ azdr0710]

I think this has been discussed before, but not in a while, it seems.....one of my favorite topics.....I took this test and it directly ID'd the city my mother's side is from and one in which I lived as a kid for a few years (though it didn't zero in on where I've lived continuously since age 12)....very cool....be honest!....don't answer what you think is correct - just what YOU traditionally have used thru your life!!

 

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

[rvwnsd]

It pegged me.

[MsGuy]

Spot on for me.

 

I would never have guessed that there was an isolated 100 mile blob north and east of Jackson,Ms., that preferred the term "frontage road"?

[Guy Fawkes]

It errored out and wants me to check back...

[bigvalboy]

It errored out and wants me to check back...

Me too...

 

but then I took it again, and it gave me the results. Not too bad. It came within 100 miles of where my parents are from, and 200 miles from where I grew up.

[stop]

wow this is pretty impressive because I am from both the Midwest and rural PA so I have a blended dialect and this honed in on that.

[BabyBoomer]

On the money.

 

~ Boomer ~

[+ honcho]

It errored out and wants me to check back...

 

I took it twice, got errored out both times.

 

My mom was from chicago, dad was from plains montana, I grew in ABQ, went to college in PDX for 4 years,

and have been in the (SF) Bay Area since 1972.

 

So I'm not surprised that my use of the language sent the poor automaton into a tizzy!

[mike carey]

So I'm not surprised that my use of the language sent the poor automaton into a tizzy!

Unsurprisingly, it couldn't work me out either!

[cany10011]

Wow....I'm from Toronto and it pegged me as from Rochester. I live in nyc and another city it identified me from is Newark,NJ. Pretty accurate.

[+ sync]

Very close.

[Epigonos]

Interestingly in located my in Sacramento CA which is a bit off from Los Angeles County but at least it is still the same state.

[KJJ]

Got me dead on.

[liubit]

I am not a native speaker, but my dialect came out as NY. Actually, that is the US city where I have lived the longest. Good result, at least for me. Thanks for sharing, azdr.

[AndreFuture]

That was fun. It located me as where I've lived the longest, which makes sense. There were some terms that I used to use when I was younger but stopped because they sound silly (like rolly polly).

[sincitymix]

I think this has been discussed before, but not in a while, it seems.....one of my favorite topics.....I took this test and it directly ID'd the city my mother's side is from and one in which I lived as a kid for a few years (though it didn't zero in on where I've lived continuously since age 12)....very cool....be honest!....don't answer what you think is correct - just what YOU traditionally have used thru your life!!

 

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

wow it was pretty spot on. New York and Nevada totally in the orange

[+ Charlie]

It basically nailed me on two of the cities: Newark/Paterson (a few miles from where I was born and raised) and Philadelphia (where I lived much of my adult life), but the third city indicated was Jackson, MS, which I have been to briefly only three times in my life.

[+ azdr0710]

There were some terms that I used to use when I was younger but stopped because they sound silly (like rolly polly).

 

 

hey!!....a roly poly bug is where it's at!....my (half) midwestern roots, you know!

[geminibear]

Spot on for me.

[amused1]

Yikes, it found my birth city and current city. Scary. :0

[+ deej]

I grew up in the midwest and have lived on the east coast, the west coast, and in the middle.

 

It placed me in Denver/Aurora? Not quite! (Although I do have relatives in the area and, mother did retire there, and my sister lives there today. Perhaps more rubbed off than I thought.)

[BgMstr4u]

My parents were from northwestern Pennsylvania, but I've lived almost all of my childhood and adolescence out west and it pegged that - southwestern Washington State and southern Nevada must equal southern California (where I've lived off and on for 23 years) linguistically Long Beach, Glendale and Fresno (never been there!).

[marylander1940]

http://www.epicderp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/funny-guys-country-Yinz-map.jpg

 

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6YTV3k9LQW8/UrdYnLG29dI/AAAAAAAAJBM/upl_vEAbdng/s1600/Accents+of+America.JPG

 

Valley accent example?

 

 

Canadian/Minnesotan/Idahoan accent?

 

[Guest]

Yikes! It got me pegged for Fremont or SF, California, and my home town of Oakland, where I grew up, is right between the two.

[Kuriousity]

Mine was 400 miles off.....I do not live at Ft Benning....