NYT dialect test will pin point where you grew up

Thatcher II · Post by **Thatcher II** » Mon Jan 06, 2014 9:00 pm

I'm from Yonkers. Yipeddy-fucking-do.

Thatcher II · Post by **Thatcher II** » Mon Jan 06, 2014 9:08 pm

Gene wrote:Answered it straight.... but says I'm from Nebraska. Never been to Nebraska.

Answer it gay and it will work because that's who you are.

Bud Charniga's grape ape · Mon Jan 06, 2014 9:14 pm

Got it for me: NYC.

It seems like a couple of questions are weighted more heavily than some of the others. For example, I've always called sneakers, well, sneakers. I never thought of that as a particular New York-ism, but apparently it is. I tried to take the test a couple of times, changing many of my answers significantly, but keeping the "sneakers" answer, and I got New York regardless.

Also, like Fuzzy said: my mom grew up in western MA (Pittsfield) and we sometimes referred to traffic circles as rotaries. I answered that on one of the tests I took, and got Boston as a possibility.

TerryB · Post by **TerryB** » Mon Jan 06, 2014 9:37 pm

I already know where I grew up.

Shafpocalypse Now · Post by **Shafpocalypse Now** » Mon Jan 06, 2014 9:49 pm

Pretty close.

Apparently calling the night before Halloween 'Devils Night' is the big one for me.

Batboy2/75 · Post by **Batboy2/75** » Mon Jan 06, 2014 10:11 pm

If I factor out words I picked up in military, it actually has me pegged.

Factor back in the words I picked up in the military and it has me smack dab in the deep south.

seeahill · Post by **seeahill** » Tue Jan 07, 2014 12:16 am

Bud Charniga's gaping asshole wrote:Got it for me: NYC.

It seems like a couple of questions are weighted more heavily than some of the others. For example, I've always called sneakers, well, sneakers. I never thought of that as a particular New York-ism, but apparently it is. I tried to take the test a couple of times, changing many of my answers significantly, but keeping the "sneakers" answer, and I got New York regardless.

Yep. I'm pretty sure using "bubbler" for a water fountain puts me in Wisconsin

Gene · Post by **Gene** » Tue Jan 07, 2014 12:23 am

Gorbachev wrote:
Gene wrote:Answered it straight.... but says I'm from Nebraska. Never been to Nebraska.
Answer it gay and it will work because that's who you are.

Go step on a landmine and meet Jesus you Socialist Wanker.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Tue Jan 07, 2014 4:09 pm

Newark, Baltimore and D.C.

I live roughly in the middle between Newark and Baltimore, closer to Newark.

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Tue Jan 07, 2014 4:11 pm

Dialect Survey Maps and Results:
http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/maps.html

tough old man · Post by **tough old man** » Tue Jan 07, 2014 9:48 pm

Horrible miss. Stockton, Modesto, Reno.

IGX

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