What dialect of American English do you speak? - Quiz.
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Yellow dot is where I grew up (0-15 y.o.), purple dot is where I did boarding school (16-18), blue dot is where I did college (19-23), and green dot is where I am now (24+), so it's not that off
[QUOTE=kimr120;50033310]Do anybody even fucking live in Rochester?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=gary spivey;50033347]The guy who came up with the garbage plate
That's about it[/QUOTE]
:c
I live like 45 minutes northwest of Raleigh, NC and it was my top city, but I don't even have a drawl
I got St. Louis, Madison and Grand Rapids
Weird, never heard northern American accents all my life
And I'm Italian
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All of my family is in Spokane area and I was born and raised in Alaska.
Currently living in Las Vegas.
Pretty interesting.
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This thing's first mistake is saying a New Yorker sounds like they're from Jersey
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Considering I live here, and currently am living in [URL="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-mayor-faces-complexities-of-poverty-crime-in-reviving-njs-largest-city-2015-6"]Newark[/URL] as well this makes a lot of sense.
I learnt a lot about some interesting American expressions doing this, like wow.
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I've honestly never knew drive through liquor stores where a thing until this quiz
Or a lot of the expressions at all and I travel a lot
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Florida here I come.
fuck, i wanted to make it all blue but it seems it doesnt take other as an answer
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"Bubbler" "Ya der hey" "Up nort"
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spokane makes sense since both my parents went to school in eastern washington
[QUOTE=HazzaHardie;50036140]I learnt a lot about some interesting American expressions doing this, like wow.
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There's a reason that when you pick "I have no term or expression for this" it's just a red map
[QUOTE=Recurracy;50036373]fuck, i wanted to make it all blue but it seems it doesnt take other as an answer[/QUOTE]
It's that fucking cot/caught question, isn't it
[QUOTE=Snowmew;50036560]There's a reason that when you pick "I have no term or expression for this" it's just a red map[/QUOTE]
Because in general there is no term but some specific areas tend to have one.
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Pretty accurate I'd say
I'm the dark red dot in the middle of Massachusetts.
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from a small town near Cincinnati, got Louisville, KY. it's okee
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This is a shitty quiz.
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Yellow dot is where I grew up (0-15 y.o.), purple dot is where I did boarding school (16-18), blue dot is where I did college (19-23), and green dot is where I am now (24+), so it's not that off
:c[/QUOTE]
You visit the abandoned subway here yet?
It correctly guessed my hometown.
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Almost entirely because of this question:
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It just crashed halfway through the quiz for me, so I guess it couldn't figure it out.
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...I live in Dallas.
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SLC born and raised.
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makes a ton of sense
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;50037402]It correctly guessed my hometown.
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Almost entirely because of this question:
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I know a Hoagie is a type of sandwich, but a cold cut on bread is obviously a sub. Though to be honest I can't tell you what a hoagie is.
[QUOTE=OvB;50037886]I know a Hoagie is a type of sandwich, but a cold cut on bread is obviously a sub. Though to be honest I can't tell you what a hoagie is.[/QUOTE]
haogie = sub
It's fairly accurate
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Born and grew up in Nashville, lived the last 11 years on the Florida Panhandle
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Bay Area born and raised
From january:
[QUOTE=ScottyWired;49451779]Queensland is basically Australian Florida[/QUOTE]
And this proves it:
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A Canadian sounding incredibly similar to someone from a mostly-rural state across the border? Who'd have imagined! Wait, why do I also sound like a Floridian?
I've actually read up a lot on dialects, and it's kind of interesting how local accents can become. My parents have completely different accents - my mother grew up in a small town of mostly Scottish and German descendants, and her and her family's accent sounds quite a bit like that of someone like Tommy Douglas - the 'classic' Canadian accent one might see in old films. My Dad grew up in Toronto though, and he has a more neutral urban accent similar to that of the late Rob Ford. So my own has changed, though I tend to code-switch depending on where I am.
Unlike the US though, many Canadians are actually pretty ignorant (at least where I can see it) to the diversity in accents and dialects. I'd probably say the most pleasant American accent to me is actually the really light dialect of the northwest, merely because their odd pronunciations of 'o' and 'u' sounds tends to get my attention.
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