Where y'all from? -

[Silver]

For all you American folk out there. My mom found this NY Times test that's supposed to determine where you're from based on your dialectal tendencies.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0

This is my map. I've never actually been to Texas, surprisingly enough, but then again my mother - who also scored with hers all in Texas - isn't from there either so I guess it's some north-south amalgam that leads to us being dropped in Texas, haha. (When my mom took the quiz as if she were using her childhood dialect, it dropped her in Pittsburgh, which is the actual city of her childhood, and my dad took the test once and landed right in Mississippi, which is where he's from.)

Do your results match? Are you surprised by them? Share!

 

[Null]

I have an odd way of pronouncing most things because I spent a lot of my time growing up online. I get that weird thing where a lot of words I use are pronounced horribly wrong because I only see them in text.

The graph was really incorrect for me, it thought I was from the central US.

 

[littlebiscuits]

ooH THE BRONX/ YONKERS. Pretty much matched. Now yous guys know my terrible problem with the second person plural verbs.

 

[exball]

Which ever one of you motherfuckers that puts hoagie or grinder is a scrub.

 

[Silver]

pssh my mom used to call em hoagies when she was a kid (pittsburgh/new jersey dialect)

 

[cypocraphy]

Philadelphia.

Big surprise.

 

[Leonid Brezhnev]

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=1&

this isn't even close i've never been there

 

[LM 697]

They got it right.

 

[Dormiebasne]

I apparently speak like someone from the southeastern region of the United States. This is a shocking revelation.

 

[Pine Tar]

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=1&

Apparently, I'm from Phoenix or Reno. That surprises me as I've never been anywhere close to there.

 

[hm yeah]

i got santa rosa, fremont, and san jose - all very close together in california.

i've lived in fairbanks, ak all my life and my parents are from washington.

 

[tehpope]

Spokane / Tacoma. Pretty accurate, considering I lived in Central Washington for 20-some years.

 

[pickleniggo]

New York. So, yeah. Thank god I didn't get Long Island.

 

[Ariel]

Jersey City, Buffalo and Newark/Patterson. It's the words, not the pronunciation though, because i'm from Australia.

 

[Axiom]

New York, apparently. Not surprising, my parents come from there and I spent my formative years not consistently hearing any other American accents.

 

[Dollars2010]

I got Minneapolis / Saint Paul. I'm from northern Minnesota so it makes sense.

 

[Sexual Stallone]

 

[Some JERK]

No matter where I go, my habitual use of the word "freeway" to describe large, multi-laned roads always outs me as having grown up in southern California.

 

[Ariel]

No matter where I go, my habitual use of the word "freeway" to describe large, multi-laned roads always outs me as having grown up in southern California.

We use it in Australia.

 

[Grey]

We use it in Australia.

Another Aussie? When did this happen?

Also: http://nyti.ms/1kE17B0