Where are Y'all from? Your Dialect Says A Lot.

[dnoblett]

I saw this a while back, try this quiz, from the way you say things this quiz can determine where you are from in the USA.

 

How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk

What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer the questions to see your personal dialect map.

 

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/Misc%20Junk%20for%20posting/DialogMap_zps98d11227.jpg

 

http://nyti.ms/1DUfVp1

 

After doing the quiz, you can learn more about how it was created here: http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2014/12/31/nyt-dialect-quiz

 

MORE:

http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/cambridge_survey/

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4676

[Thomas Promise]

I got Detriot, Chicago. Here is one dialect that is a lock.

 

 

[tsap seui]

Missed me by....that much, Ninety Nine!!1 I ain't no Arkansas, Texas, or flat Oklahomie. Probably 800 miles more east from them states. By the way, one of my relatives called carbonated sugary drinks...."Pepsi Dope", or just "dope"...."I need to go buy me somemore ah em air Dopes".

 

Rawknee

[warpedbored]

Couldn't be more off. Rochester, Buffalo and Milwaukee.

[dnoblett]

Couldn't be more off. Rochester, Buffalo and Milwaukee.

That would be me, click the take quiz button in the map and it should start a new quiz.

[warpedbored]

Same one I took last time. This time was closer. Wichita, Spokane and Albuquerque.

[Dennis143]

Pretty much right on...

http://i58.tinypic.com/4kz9qs.png

Born, raised and still living Californian

[Dennis143]

Couldn't be more off. Rochester, Buffalo and Milwaukee.

You probably have some colloquialisms passed down from your family that you are not even aware of... maybe?

[warpedbored]

Possibly but to my knowledge I have no ancestors in the northeast. My parents are from Nebraska.

[Catherineli]

As a gentile from outerspace, I know nothing of your dialect. I only know some people make "h" silent when pronouncing "human" and "herb". Rawknee, pls know I only mimic your southern English by writing. My English pronunciation and listening are both very weak. I learned English from Chinese people and I speak English to Chinese people as well. My Chinese accent gives me a big headache when speaking English. I don't understand everything when face to face talking with a native English speaker due to my Chinese environment.

[Mick]

Nailed me right on the head - Birmingham, Montgomery, Jackson.

[Doug]

Dallas & Irving, Texas

[warpedbored]

As a gentile from outerspace, I know nothing of your dialect. I only know some people make "h" silent when pronouncing "human" and "herb". Rawknee, pls know I only mimic your southern English by writing. My English pronunciation and listening are both very weak. I learned English from Chinese people and I speak English to Chinese people as well. My Chinese accent gives me a big headache when speaking English. I don't understand everything when face to face talking with a native English speaker due to my Chinese environment.

I've met a few Chinese people who can read and write English perfectly yet can't understand me nor I them when speaking. Still a lot more Chinese can speak passable English than Americans or British can speak Chinese.