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What is your dialect? - Twitchin Kitten - 05-04-2015
Found this poking around and found it interesting.
The results for me showed I am most likely from the NYC, Baltimore or DC area.
They give you a set of words or phrases and a list of how they're said and ask you how you pronounce each one or what you call each one.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html
RE: What is your dialect? - twisteroo - 05-04-2015
They got me down as either michigan or buffalo.
RE: What is your dialect? - ralgith - 05-04-2015
Spot on. Spot, freaking on.
http://nyti.ms/1EaZwaV
RE: What is your dialect? - twisteroo - 05-04-2015
Sneakers and pop must have been the clues to put it over the top.
RE: What is your dialect? - ralgith - 05-04-2015
We don't call them sneakers here. We call them tennis shoes.
RE: What is your dialect? - Vizth Hal - 05-04-2015
http://nyti.ms/1Eb2SLd
RE: What is your dialect? - Twitchin Kitten - 05-05-2015
(05-04-2015, 05:36 PM)twisteroo Wrote: Sneakers and pop must have been the clues to put it over the top.
(05-04-2015, 05:44 PM)ralgith Wrote: We don't call them sneakers here. We call them tennis shoes.
It's not "pop" for soda too - I had to break Matt from calling all soda 'coke'.
He's always said sneakers though.
RE: What is your dialect? - Twitchin Kitten - 05-05-2015
It's interesting about all the different words for the same thing though. If you hit the link again it gives you a new variety of questions.
RE: What is your dialect? - ralgith - 05-06-2015
(05-05-2015, 07:26 AM)Twitchin Kitten Wrote:(05-04-2015, 05:36 PM)twisteroo Wrote: Sneakers and pop must have been the clues to put it over the top.
(05-04-2015, 05:44 PM)ralgith Wrote: We don't call them sneakers here. We call them tennis shoes.
It's not "pop" for soda too - I had to break Matt from calling all soda 'coke'.
He's always said sneakers though.
Bullshit, everywhere I've been in Michigan it's pop. Calling it all Coke is a southern thing. Sneakers oth, I have heard, but it is a distinct minority heh.
RE: What is your dialect? - twisteroo - 05-06-2015
I kinda thought soda was a southern thing and coke was more like Georgia and Alabama kinda thing.
We had a discussion recently about when did dungarees turn into jeans.