Your accent (NY Times Map)

Driftmaster130

Driftmaster130

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


Mine: http://nyti.ms/1FiAbSF
 
it guessed san jose, santa ana, and irving

none of which are even close lol

i don't like how a lot of the questions only let you pick one option, especially the yard sale one. i use yard sale and garage sale interchangably
 
Heh, some of the terms I picked were the darkest shade of blue (meaning no one uses it) which was strange because most were quite common here until I realized that it was a map of just the United States.
 
Well I did it once and got Las Vegas and 2 other cities really close to each other. Like seriously they were so close together I couldn't read them.

Then I tried it again and well one of them is right which honestly surprised me, but the other two not so much.

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I was given Chicago, Aurora, or Rockford, Illinois which is pretty exact for where I do live.

It was the cot/caught and gym shoe questions that probably did it.
 
Guys, what does this say?
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?r=0210488k040001000j8021000120400j0800224040000b0400&_r=0

I can't read it on my phone.
 
Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN; Santa Clarita, CA; and Santa Ana/Irvine, CA

Also for mine Seattle was correct and the question was I call the cat a Cougar
 
I've done this before and remember getting somewhere in California. Took it this time and my most close city is Worcester so I guess it got better.
 
Lyn said:
Pfft I'm not even American but I did this anyway.
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i got los angeles, glendale, and fresno so i guess thats ok
west coast 4 life
 


Sounds about right since I'm in South California...
 
http://nyti.ms/1yVk2Lh

edit: whoops accidentally hit the quote button
 
It got me pretty accurate. All 3 cities in the Midwest including Detroit, MI which Michigan is the state I live in
 
here http://nyti.ms/1CocCAQ

All in the same area pretty much, New York/Yonkers/Jersey City.

A lot of those answers ended up with completely blue maps. I don't know anything about this map though, I'm not a map person.
 
http://nyti.ms/1yVAiMq

Seeing as Buffalo is just across the lake from Toronto, it makes sense that that's the accent it'd say I have, but Canadians mostly sound the same from Ontario and westwards due to the rapid expansion due to the railway, so the West-coast cities make sense too.
 
I call it sunshower, but only because I read it in a Simpsons comic.

Nobody else around here uses that word.
 
They're actually isopods, not insects (too many legs); they're technically woodlice, but I call them pill-bugs. They're soooo cute.

I forget which answers I gave resulted in dark blue maps. A couple were pretty surprising, tho, I know that much.
 
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