[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.

[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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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.

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by 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/2...-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]

Originally Posted by 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/2...-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..