Determine Where Your Dialect Comes From

[D'Snowth]

I saw a friend of mine on Facebook took this little survey thingy, and it looked interesting, so I took it myself.

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

My results, however, were pretty redundant, it said my dialect was most like Knoxville... which is where I'm from, so...

 

[CensoredAlso]

I saw a friend of mine on Facebook took this little survey thingy, and it looked interesting, so I took it myself.

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

My results, however, were pretty redundant, it said my dialect was most like Knoxville... which is where I'm from, so...

Awesome, it got mine exactly right as well.

You know, I've honestly never heard of a drive thru liquor store, lol.

 

[D'Snowth]

Neither have I, but then again, we don't have any actual roundabouts in Knoxville, however, I know that's what they're called, because that's what the driver's manual says. That, and I've never heard of a thing that goes across two parallel lanes on the highway diagonally, or whatever it was.

Interestingly, my friend who originally posted it on FB is from Kansas, but the survey said her dialect was from places like Baltimore and Providence.

 

[Sgt Floyd]

Welp, it guessed I was from Philly, which I am from (Or Newark...or some place called Yonkers)

Thing is though, the one question about what you call a big road or whatever, (highway, freeway, ect,) is weird one and I'm not sure if the people who wrote it, understand what a turnpike is. A turnpike is a specific highway in which you pay tolls...so...i dunno, that one was weird to me. Actually if you search turnpike, the Philly turnpike is the first result.

but the hoagie question was the one that determined it for me since hoagie is almost exclusively used in Philly and the surrounding areas

 

[CensoredAlso]

Thing is though, the one question about what you call a big road or whatever, (highway, freeway, ect,) is weird one and I'm not sure if the people who wrote it, understand what a turnpike is. A turnpike is a specific highway in which you pay tolls...so...i dunno, that one was weird to me. Actually if you search turnpike, the Philly turnpike is the first result.

I noticed that too, I just took it as they were trying to see if the word "turnpike" meant anything to you.

 

[charlietheowl]

I got Providence, Rhode Island, and I'm from Connecticut, so I'd say that was pretty close.

I haven't heard of drive-through liquor stores either, those sound like accidents waiting to happen.

 

[D'Snowth]

for me since hoagie is almost exclusively used in Philly and the surrounding areas

Not necessarily; we say hoagie down here too.

 

[Sgt Floyd]

Not necessarily; we say hoagie down here too.

really? Because everywhere I go I see them referred to as subs and they look at you like you are mental if you say hoagie

 

[Slackbot]

Hmm. Santa Rosa, San Francisco, and Reno.

I was born and raised in Georgia.

 

[Oscarfan]

Yeah, they got me pretty close.