US Dialect Map. How Do You Speak?

[TetRefine]

This is a cool quiz that determines what region best fits your linguistic dialect. 

 

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

 

Of course, I'm a pure-bred, through-and-through Yankee and got Worcester, Springfield, and Newark. Doesn't get any more Northern than that. 

[Valkyrie]

I'm a true blue Western New Yorker.   The strongest correlation was Buffalo (where I'm from) and Rochester, with Grand Rapids thrown in. 

[K.C.]

Haha, mine is Baltimore (where I am from) and Rochester with a sprinkling of Milwaukee

[Arpeggio]

Mine was Buffalo, but most Northerners say I sound Southern. XD

[Ashi]

Though pretty much a cosmo speaker in general, but it turns out I resemble a New Yorker the most..., how ironic.

 

EDIT: took the test again, now I am a San Joser.  LOL

Edited May 15, 2014 by Ashi

[Kitt]

Big surprise - i register Yonkers, Newark, Philly.  

[Ashi]

Anyways, we should have something like "Do you speak Californian?"  Quiz or something similar.  Or do you speak Silicon Valley or do you speak like a San Franciscan....  LOL

[Valkyrie]

Anyways, we should have something like "Do you speak Californian?"  Quiz or something similar.  Or do you speak Silicon Valley or do you speak like a San Franciscan....  LOL

I'm sure something like that is already in existence.  They have quizzes for everything! LOL 

[Bill W]

It got me in the correct general area.  I didn't realize I sounded so typical. lol 

[blake_logan]

That was kind of scary.  My main city is half way between the house I've lived in for the past 20 years and the house I'm getting ready to retire to.

[mickey1952]

No real surprise here. I got Irving, Garland (both Dallas suburbs), and Springfield, Mo. Having spent the majority of my life in the Dallas area, this seems pretty logical. Not sure about Springfield though.

[Mark Arbour]

 Evidently, when you take a Californian and put him in Missouri for a couple decades, you get a guy who sounds like he's from Michigan.  

[jkeele777]

Mine was Shreveport, Jackson & Birmingham. I was born in Vicksburg, MS, but have lived in Texas, Arizona, California, Indiana, Florida, Oklahoma, and Mississippi.  Mostly Texas though - twenty or so of thirty seven years.

[JamesSavik]

I speak High Southern.

 

In other words i have a southern accent and I sound high.

[Ron]

I'm pegged at Grand Rapids, Fort Wayne or Cleveland. I grew up a 50 minute drive away from Cleveland. It was my answer to the question of what the space between the road and the sidewalk was called. I answered, tree lawn, and that got me. Drinking fountain matched the other cities but all firmly place me in the Great Lakes area of the Mid-west. Very clever.

 

 

edit to add: This reminds me of the scenes in Blade Runner somewhat. I wonder if there were any facial tells when I answered the questions that might have further pinned me down.

Edited May 16, 2014 by Ron

[Thorn Wilde]

I took the quiz just for shits and giggles, and got Providence, New York and Glendale. I don't know what this means.

[methodwriter85]

   I got Philadelphia, Rochester, and Newark. Shocker.

 

   This is a girl from Delaware doing an accent test, and since she doesn't sound Slower Lower to me, this has to be close to what my accent sounds like:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO31RnLlmew

 

    Interestingly enough, go down like 40 miles South in the state, and you got the Slower Lower Delaware Accent:

 

 

    You can pretty easily tell if someone is from Northern Delaware or Slower Lower Delaware. Central Delaware (which is Dover and Smyrna) is a toss-up, naturally.

 

  I think the north Delaware accent is mainly just a slowed down, monotone version of the Philly accent. I don't do the "crown", "wooder", or "crick" thing. I do the Delaware accent when I say "home" or "on", though.

Edited May 16, 2014 by methodwriter85

[Gene Splicer PHD]

Grand Rapids MI, Detroit MI and Buffalo NY.

 

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

 

...is grammatically correct and actually means something: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

 

AND NOW I SEE THE LETTERS IN THE WORD BUFFALO AND THEY DON'T MEAN ANYTHING

[Valkyrie]

Grand Rapids MI, Detroit MI and Buffalo NY.

 

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

 

...is grammatically correct and actually means something: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

 

AND NOW I SEE THE LETTERS IN THE WORD BUFFALO AND THEY DON'T MEAN ANYTHING

You just broke my brain.   LOL 

[JamesSavik]

A primer on southern dialect:

 

[GrimIsaac]

I got Reno Santa Rosa and Colorado Springs

[GrimIsaac]

Grand Rapids MI, Detroit MI and Buffalo NY.

 

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

 

...is grammatically correct and actually means something: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

 

AND NOW I SEE THE LETTERS IN THE WORD BUFFALO AND THEY DON'T MEAN ANYTHING

Holy crud, thats both mind blowing and weird

[TalonRider]

St. Louis, Amarillo, and Lubbock.

[Canuk]

i am obviously not from the US.  I am generally considered to have a soft Australian accent (ie a more British version of Australian).  So when I do this "test" it gives me Minneapolis/St Paul, Detroit and Yonkers. intriguing!