Fun "Dialect" Quiz

[quirky3]

Fun dialect quiz....it guessed that I am from Buffalo, Rochester or Grand Rapids! (Niagara Falls is right next to Buffalo!)
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0

[shcisamax]

Quirky That was really cool.

[Rollie]

Pretty cool. It had me down pat. Now I'm going to get a drink from the bubbler.

Rollie

[2BNTV]

Bummer. the script stopped running on my PC so I will take it later.

I'm sure it will say I'm from NY and or CT.

Cool test!

[Giggles]

It's showing me somewhere between Springfield, Yonkers and Newark/Paterson. OK, I'm from Connecticut.

[Giggles]

Bummer. the script stopped running on my PC so I will take it later.

I'm sure it will say I'm from NY and or CT.

Cool test!

It stopped on mine alsothe first time. It worked fine the second time I took it.

[keithwand]

Nailed it. Answers Detroit (I am), Grand Rapids and Aurora, IL.
Devils Night. Only in Detroit I guess.

[Avista]

Born in Chicago, lived in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and 30 years in Florida. Shows I still have that Midwestern dialect.

[quirky3]

It stopped on mine alsothe first time. It worked fine the second time I took it.

The same thing happened to me! The first time I got a script error, but it worked the second time. There is a delay of a few seconds as it figures out the answer.

[2BNTV]

I give up. It bombed the second time also. I am using my son's PC, so I will try it when I get back home. :ohdear:

[shcisamax]

NY Yonkers Springfield. I took the test twice and some questions changed. I came out the same both times. Ct an hour from Manhattan born and bred.

[wwddww]

I live in IN. now, but grew up outside of Akron, Ohio. (Tallmadge)

It nailed. I am impressed. Thanks for the fun.

[pooh]

Showed CA cities for me....who woulda thunk....:D

Thanks! Merry Christmas!

[manaboutown]

It showed I was from Albuquerque which is where I lived from age 2 to 22. Unbelievable! BTW, I made sure to use the terms and pronunciations I heard and used as a child. The primary key phrase which nailed me to Albuquerque or Denver was "frontage road".

What astounded me was that it correctly identified my southwestern home town although my mother was from Baltimore and my father from NY/NJ. I feel I must have picked up some of their accents but I guess what one hears from one's peers at school outweighs parental accent influences.

[graciegirl]

Thanks quirky, that was fun. It did "stick" for awhile and apparently my speech is "stuck" in the Midwest.


I am gonna go and pour myself a pop and enjoy the rest of the Christmas movies on the Hallmark Channel and know that the kids with be here in 48 hours.

[JMEZARIC3]

The selected cities,Newwark NJ,Baltimore MD and Arlington VA were off but the map was right on NEPA(Northeast Pennsylvania).

[Schaumburger]

I spent years 0 through 18 in Dubuque, IA. Years 19 through 53 in the Chicago area. I took the quiz and the selected cities were Des Moines, IA, Rockford, IL and Aurora, IL. Very close!

[delima2000]

Right on said Detroit, Toledo Grand Rapids and I'm from Wyandotte, mi half way between Detroit and Toledo,oh. And we had a cottage near Grand Rapids.

[Ceafolks]

Wow!! That quiz is simply amazing. It not only had the region right...it had the city right. :bigbow:

[janieb]

apparently I sound like I come from a city that starts with D - Detroit, Des Moines and Denver

[tainsley]

Hey you guys, I always knew I was from Philadelphia!

[onslowe]

Great little test - thanks Quirky! Hey youse guys, take it - it's not meant to bust your sneakers. LOL. Identified me with NYC/Yonkers area perfectly.

[graciegirl]

Who can correctly show how most Pittsburghers say " downtown"?


And folks from Brooklyn say "coffee"?


Bostonians "Parking their cars" is easy.


I love to listen for accents and dialect. Since I have unaccented speech just like ALL Ohioans. ;)

[redwitch]

Downright scary. At least two of my answers were downright Southern; two NY/NJ; and it still came up with Oakland, CA; Anchorage, AK; Fresno, CA. I'm seriously impressed.

[graciegirl]

Downright scary. At least two of my answers were downright Southern; two NY/NJ; and it still came up with Oakland, CA; Anchorage, AK; Fresno, CA. I'm seriously impressed.



Yeah baby, but Du bist ein shoenes madchen. (THAT is all I can say in German but obviously can't spell it)


We are all workin' on a southern belle accent, y'all.


PTurners is SO pretty.

[Carl in Tampa]

I certainly enjoyed that. My results map showed a swath across the South reaching from Texas to Florida, with the color pale on each end and deep red in Louisiana, where I spent six years in New Orleans.

Interesting since my early years were in Texas, from which I moved to live in Florida. Louisiana was in years centered around my 40th birthday.

I never accepted that I had a Southern accent until I shared an office at the White House with two former New York City cops. THEN I knew.

:read:

[Barefoot]

Fun dialect quiz....it guessed that I am from Buffalo, Rochester or Grand Rapids! (Niagara Falls is right next to Buffalo!)
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0

This quiz showed that I am from Buffalo or Rochester! Actually, I'm from Canada (Ontario). I took a similar quiz a few years back, and it showed I was from Northern Michigan. Since there are no Canadian locations, the quiz picks our nearest US neighbors.

[mgjim]

Great quiz - thanks for posting it Quirky.

It got me right.

[Taltarzac725]

Fun dialect quiz....it guessed that I am from Buffalo, Rochester or Grand Rapids! (Niagara Falls is right next to Buffalo!)
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0

Tried it three times but just gives me the bottom half of the US for a map with no cities. I have moved around a lot though and have a tendency to use the words common to the area I am in at the time.

Eight or nine years in Milwaukee to Reno for about fifteen with stop overs in Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. (BYU to the University of Denver to Scottsdale) Then to California with stop overs of length in Minnesota and Illinois (JD at the University of MN to helping family near Chicago). Then to Florida in 1996 or so and have been here since moving to the Villages from Palm Harbor (near Clearwater) since 2005.

[Jaggy]

Yes.. nailed me directly into not only my state but the city..

[cmfjr]

Thanks for posting this quiz! Took the test and I can't believe just how accurate it is. Born in Chicago and lived the last 40 years in Milwaukee before relocating to TV. It listed both cities, unbelievable. It is a great party ice breaker.

[ugotme]

FUHGEDABOUDIT!

Ise don no how dat thing gessed where Ise was frum!

I nos dat I dont have any accent so hows cood dat be.

Youse gotta be kiddin me!

[patfla06]

They have me from NY and NJ.
Grew up on Long Island, lived in NYC and lived in NJ!

[jbdlfan]

We took this quiz on FB and it was perfect 5-0 for people at my school. All scattered roots, but it was right every time!

[murray607]

Fun dialect quiz....it guessed that I am from Buffalo, Rochester or Grand Rapids! (Niagara Falls is right next to Buffalo!)
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0

It won't give me an answer. I am able to get to question 25, then nothing.

Maybe I am confusing it and it figures out that I am really in Canada.

[Bavarian]

It had hard time with me. Grew up in Philly, but spent most of my adult life till now in Southern Maryland. I guess some Maryland slipped in.

[kwtoman]

Best it could do was put me in the western states (I grew up in Oregon, but spent 21 years in the Navy).