The New York Times "Where Are You From?" Test

[twinklesweep]

Try this and see how accurate it is for you:

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

[billethkid]

not evenclose.

[Barefoot]

Try this and see how accurate it is for you:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html

It showed my highest affiliation with the New England area. Which is very accurate because I grew up in the Canadian Maritimes, practically neighbors.

[Ecuadog]

Spot on.

[redwitch]

Last time I took this test it put me in and around Oakland, California, which was very accurate since I'd lived in the Bay Area for much of my adult life. This time, for some reason, totally different locations -- Jackson, Mississippi; Rochester, New York; Honolulu, Hawaii; and the Bay Area. Personally, I'd guess this go-round is the more accurate since I have a tendency to use words as I learn them and continue using the words from that region. The West Coast uses freeway a lot; I don't. San Franciscans drink soda, I drink Co-Cola. And so on and so forth.

[kellyjam]

They nailed it. Fuggetaboutit.

[manaboutown]

They got me...again!

[laceylady]

Interesting. It put me in NYC, PA and NJ I was born and lived for the first 20 years. I lived in WA state for the past 35 years! Apparently it had no effect on me!

[JSR22]

!00% correct

[Jhooman]

I'm from southern California and it pegged me correctly.

[Carla B]

It correctly put me in Houston (35 years) for "feeder road," something Florida should have learned to build along the freeways.

[Parker]

Totally wrong.

[buzzy]

Good grief, I must be a New Yawker, specifically a Long-gi-lan-der

[jblum315]

They nailed it. New York City, North Carolina and Florida. Nothing remains of my childhood in Virginia.

[perrjojo]

Kinda spooky y'all. It said Fort Worth, Tx. Guess where I was born and raised?

[OBXNana]

That was fun and 100% accurate.

[KYWildcat]

OMG..Only from the South..you all!

[buggyone]

I "tested" my wife's cousin who is visiting us here in The Villages. She is from NE Iowa. The test put her in Southeastern Minnesota/NE Iowa. We were all surprised!

[twinklesweep]

I think it's pretty impressive that of 18 responses, 16 were amazingly accurate. What a cleverly designed questionnaire!!!

[JB in TV]

There were a few questions that I had a hard time answering...one example: I may use several words for a semi truck, sometimes I call it a tractor-trailer, sometimes an 18 wheeler...

Interesting test :)

I was born in upstate NY, moved to CA when I was 4, then AZ for the last 20 years before coming to TV a year ago. The test put me in San Francisco or St Lake City.

I'm sure many of the words we individually use are influenced by what our parents called things, as well as local words/pronunciations.

[senior citizen]

Try this and see how accurate it is for you:

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



Absolutely amazing. Even though we have not lived in our birth city for over 45 years, getting close to 50 years "away".....it actually had our birth city of Newark, New Jersey at the end of the test. Spookily eerie, to say the least.

I took the test first and then sent the link to my husband's computer.

We both thought we'd come up in the New England category, having lived up here for our entire adult life.
Thanks for sharing. That is a keeper, for sure.

A little bit of "fun" while the snow piles up around us......about 18 inches now.... with more to come through later morning. Grateful that we have our power......and heat. The drifts are higher than the 18 ". Our entire area is being told to stay off the roads due to hazardous travel. Everything is closed.

[Cedwards38]

Amazing accurate Y'all!

[TrudyM]

I guess it shows me that my parents and high school influenced me more than I thought. It thought I was either from New York or Jacksonville. My parents were from New York although I never lived there and I went to Boarding school down the road in Montverde with roommates from the deep south and lived in the Jacksonville area when I was in first grade. I need to go get a grinder and some tonic now.

[mikeandnancy1112]

Pretty accurate!! I am from the South and Mike is from the North.

[JP]

!00% accurate eh!

[Walt.]

Yikes! Apparently my high school years in Yonkers carries more weight than my 40 years in Florida. Who knew sneakers and sunshowers were regional? Amazed to see the actual city pinpointed.

[BamaComfort]

Perfect!!!!! Alabama every time!!!!!!!!!

[CFrance]

Not very accurate for me. I was born and raised in Pittsburgh, which has a peculiar accent found nowhere else in the country. But my parents were from Philadelphia and didn't have that accent, and worked hard for us not to acquire it. I went to college in the south. In my 40s I lived in Michigan for 25 years. The NYT put me somewhere around the Dakotas, states I've never even driven through!

[graciegirl]

Not very accurate for me. I was born and raised in Pittsburgh, which has a peculiar accent found nowhere else in the country. But my parents were from Philadelphia and didn't have that accent, and worked hard for us not to acquire it. I went to college in the south. In my 40s I lived in Michigan for 25 years. The NYT put me somewhere around the Dakotas, states I've never even driven through!


Me too. Not sure it was the Dakota's but far from the place whose folks have NO accents. lol.

[CFrance]

Not very accurate for me. I was born and raised in Pittsburgh, which has a peculiar accent found nowhere else in the country. But my parents were from Philadelphia and didn't have that accent, and worked hard for us not to acquire it. I went to college in the south. In my 40s I lived in Michigan for 25 years. The NYT put me somewhere around the Dakotas, states I've never even driven through!

Me too. Not sure it was the Dakota's but far from the place whose folks have NO accents. lol.

Well, I guess "in my 40s" I couldn't have lived in MI for 25 years!:loco: Amend that to when I turned 40, I moved to MI for 25 years. Still... NYT didn't come close.

[BS Beef]

Mixed results for me. I grew up in central Ohio. It put my 3 cities as Tulsa, Oklahoma City, and Springfield, MO. But Central Ohio was deep red indicating a good match there as well.

At any rate it was fun.

CFrance I can't believe it didn't have you down pat for Pittsburgh. Where else could "Yinz" be from :laugh:

[HDriders]

spot on for me

[CFrance]

Mixed results for me. I grew up in central Ohio. It put my 3 cities as Tulsa, Oklahoma City, and Springfield, MO. But Central Ohio was deep red indicating a good match there as well.

At any rate it was fun.

CFrance I can't believe it didn't have you down pat for Pittsburgh. Where else could "Yinz" be from :laugh:
Rully! 'Specially since the last place I lived there was "dahntahn!"

[kagney123]

New Jersey Correct....