Just for fun--a quiz

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Here's a little NY Times quiz to see where in the US your dialect is most like. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0

I'm American from Houston. I talk more like the deep south because my results were Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Jackson, Mississippi; and Birminham, Alabama. Will be interesting to hear how the Brits come out on this.

if you take it a second time you will get some different questions and maybe different results.

Y'all have a Merry Christmas!

[CowBoE 429]

Hahaha...this is very interesting and accurate test.

My test result show that I am most similar to Chicago area.

I lived in Chicago area for many years, until I moved to Houston in 2002.

Definitely, I noticed some difference in how people talk between Chicago and Houston.

My son went to Harvard and he's a linguist, so I will share this with him.

Not quite visa related, but it was excellent brain relaxer for the holiday.

Have a wonderful holiday.

[etrangais 947]

I'm from the east coast and my map suggest the same thing. Pretty accurate! I'm amazed!!!!

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

It will give you three city names that are most similar to your dialect if you scroll down from the results. The second time I did it (with some different questions), I move slightly west and picked up Houston, dropping Alabama. I think it was the name of the road that runs parallel to a major freeway-- forgot the exact description. The only red on the map centered around Houston.

[nobbie 105]

It would appear i sound like NY, Yonkers and Honolulu, I'm English by the way

[Owen_London 65]

New York, Boston, Jersey City.

Claiming that the road next to the main highway is the feeder was not enough to place me in Houston, even if it did generate a very small and very red spot on the map.

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

New York, Boston, Jersey City.

Claiming that the road next to the main highway is the feeder was not enough to place me in Houston, even if it did generate a very small and very red spot on the map.

I had no idea we were the only ones who said feeder.

So have you lived on the east coast? The farthest north I have lived is Austin for four years.

My English husband got San Francisco, Oakland, and Honolulu.

[Owen_London 65]

I had no idea we were the only ones who said feeder.

So have you lived on the east coast? The farthest north I have lived is Austin for four years.

My English husband got San Francisco, Oakland, and Honolulu.

No. I've never even been there. I think they must just be the closest to an accent from south-east England.

[Dan from MI 23]

I was curious and want to see if I sound like I'm from my hometown. I was surprised that the first thing it said was my exact town. It was because I said "pop" for a drink. It was funny to see different saying.

[lost_at_sea 995]

NY/Yonkers/NJ

Unsurprising. Expected it to come up as New England somewhere. I'm only British, from the South West of England (Cornwall).

I did have to tick "other" a lot. For example, in my family, woodlouse are called "crawlie-bobbers". I heard once that the name for these varies in the extreme in the UK.

I'll have to get the husband to do it. He's from Wisconsin, grew up in Indiana, then spent most of the last decade in SF (bar the 18 months in London with me - he did pick up a dew Britishisms in that time).

Edited December 25, 2013 by lost_at_sea

[Laura. 90]

NY/Yonkers/NJ

Unsurprising. Expected it to come up as New England somewhere. I'm only British, from the South West of England (Cornwall).

I did have to tick "other" a lot. For example, in my family, woodlouse are called "crawlie-bobbers". I heard once that the name for these varies in the extreme in the UK.

I'll have to get the husband to do it. He's from Wisconsin, grew up in Indiana, then spent most of the last decade in SF (bar the 18 months in London with me - he did pick up a dew Britishisms in that time).

I got those 3 too.

Also had to tick "other" quite a lot.

[Hotter Otter 1,211]

Strangely enough as a Brit from Devon I got Honolulu, LA and San Francisco.

Rotary indeed!!

[Vanitas 310]

So I'm moving to New England from the south/south-east of the UK and I get Houston, Jackson and Baton Rouge. Huh.

[isbjorn 4]

I got Reno, however I am moving also to New England - loaded with a thick Yorkshire accent and colloquialisms... should be fun.

[Pooky 3,781]

Providence, DC, or Baltimore.

One of the three is close to where our family calls home, although we aren't there at the moment.