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
 
Des Moines, IA, Lincoln, NE, and Fort Wayne, IN.

Not bad, considering the first city is in my state and they're all in the Midwest. Woot.
 


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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