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NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 8:23 pm
by seeahill
Just 25 questions. Mine said Milwaukee or Madison WI. I grew up in a small town mid-way btwn them.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013 ... z-map.html
Re: NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 8:45 pm
by Gav
Cool, I'm from St Louis.
Re: NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 8:46 pm
by syaigh
Southern Maryland, right on.
Re: NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 8:46 pm
by seeahill
So are all Brits who live in Italy.
Re: NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 8:50 pm
by Gav
Are you calling me a nigger? Sorry Tim, I couldn't resist it.
Re: NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 8:52 pm
by seeahill
I'll survive, Gav.
Re: NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 10:02 pm
by kreator
I got Worcester MA. Grew up in small town near Worcester. We drink from bubblers and eat grinders.
Most people don't think I have any accent though.
Re: NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 10:07 pm
by milosz
Fort Worth, Lubbock, San Antonio. I grew up near Fort Worth, but I'm not sure it would have pegged that one without y'all - which I've only started saying when I interacted with people who expected a y'all. Until I was 18 it was always "you guys" and still is half the time.
Re: NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 10:44 pm
by baffled
Tucson, chandler, Mesa.
Born in Dallas, lived in Coppell til right before I turned 8, SF Bay Area ever since.
I get told I have an accent all the time, but didn't know I'd somehow morphed into an Arizonan.
Re: NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 11:09 pm
by Kirk
I've lived in Maryland my whole life, most of that in tobacco country/southern PG county, but it put me in central NC (Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Durham).
Related sites:
http://aschmann.net/AmEng/
http://www.businessinsider.com/22-maps- ... 013-6?op=1
Re: NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 11:12 pm
by Gene
Answered it straight.... but says I'm from Nebraska. Never been to Nebraska.
Re: NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 12:02 am
by Holland Oates
Pretty spot on.
Re: NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 12:03 am
by dead man walking
diagnosed my as from baltimore, philadelphia, or newark.
philly is correct. "hoagie" is the giveaway.
my old man was from baltimore,
Re: NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 12:58 am
by DrDonkeyLove
I've lived all over the country and picked up local vernacular everywhere and it still got me within 90 miles of my house.
Re: NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 1:24 am
by Turdacious
Doesn't seem to narrow it down much if you're from the PNW or states around it.
Re: NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 4:15 am
by Fuzzy Dunlop
Nailed Boston based solely (I'd guess) on the way I refer to a rotary.
That soda/pop/cocola/fizzy drank/dope question was rasiss.
Re: NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 4:22 am
by Cave Canem
Hit the fucking bullseye with me.
Re: NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 4:30 am
by Old Mother
dead on
Re: NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 2:31 pm
by Bob Wildes
Two or three states off.
Re: NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 8:20 pm
by Batboy2/75
Not even close.
Re: NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 8:22 pm
by nafod
syaigh wrote:Southern Maryland, right on.
You a SMIB?
Re: NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 8:32 pm
by buckethead
Batboy2/75 wrote:Not even close.
Mexico isn't on the map
Re: NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 8:36 pm
by Blaidd Drwg
Turdacious wrote:Doesn't seem to narrow it down much if you're from the PNW or states around it.
Boise to Seattle for me.
Re: NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 8:47 pm
by Freki
Lincoln/Omaha were my top two (b/c I say pop), so that was accurate being from Nebraska. And Baton Rouge!?!? Granted I lived in Atlanta, but have never been there.
And the Bawlmur-ese evidently isn't sticking.
Re: NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 8:59 pm
by buckethead
Nailed it
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