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[SBH]

I'm Australian and there is no map at the end. MAYBE THEY KNEW

I'm finnish and it took a while to load.

Just wanted to know where the map would place me . The results were:
New York
Saint Louis
Baltimore

 

[BowieZ]

Australian here -- apparently I would best fit in in Miami/Fort Lauderdale.

 

[AlteredBeast]

While my hometown was definitely deep red, it said I mostly resemble Stockton, Santa Rosa and Modesto California. Thats like 1700 miles away! Lol

 

[Jhriad]

lol, turn off adblock and it works.

I don't have adblock. Shit still doesn't work.

 

[Grover Cleveland]

My most similar cities were apparently:

Baton Rouge
New Orleans
New York

That's not...right. I admittedly have a pretty ambiguous dialect. I live in pretty rural North Carolina where most people have heavy country Southern dialects, but I don't. In fact, most people here would say I talk "Northern".

 

[Plywood]

son of a bitch

 

[DrForester]

The hell...

 

[WeAreStarStuff]

Grew up in Northern VA; it nailed me.

 

[Watevaman]

Got the state I live in but it labeled cities that aren't near me.

 

[Blue Ninja]

I'm Australian and there is no map at the end. MAYBE THEY KNEW

I'm Belgian, and there's no map either. THEY'RE ON TO ME.

 

[hom3land]

Thats pretty interesting. It was right on my location, and I spent a few years when I was really little in Northern Nevada, apparently thats where I learned potato bug.

 

[Jhriad]

Can anyone see my map? Little curious where it put me.

http://nyti.ms/1co6qRM

 

[Korey]

Need a title change to "US dialect quiz can't predict where you are from with surprising accuracy"

 

[inky]

I got Jersey, Yonkers, New York.

I ain't American.

 

[Y2Kev]

LOL NYT. That old rag. No map.

 

[Mii]

Worked on an iPad for me. Map loaded fine.

Yonkers / Philadelphia / Newark.

I was born and raised in the CA Bay Area, and I currently live in Boston, so no idea how that resulted. Highly populated part of the tri-state area was all very red. Maybe too much TV?

 

[siddx]

Interesting, I was all over the place. Which I thought might happen since I didn't grow up in the US and then moved around a bit while there so my slang/speech is a clusterfuck of different regions and countries.

 

[Blue Ninja]

I got Jersey, Yonkers, New York.

I ain't American.

Heh, likewise.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

WTF is this page?

I can't see my results in Firefox and IE crashes..


http://nyti.ms/1co7o0q is my result.


Edit: Now it says "New York". Feels good.

 

[shanshan310]

Watched the map go from light blue to navy. Ended up with a blank page I even use a bunch of those words; bubbler, traffic island, garage sale...

THERE'S A WOLF IN THE HEN HOUSE. REPEAT.

 

[nynt9]

Non-American who spent 5 years in Texas and 5 years in Maryland. No map. Typical.

 

[TheAtomicPile]

No map for me. What a waste of my valuable Sunday morning lounge time.

 

[gutshot]

Can anyone see my map? Little curious where it put me.

http://nyti.ms/1co6qRM

Here ya go:

 

[casnix]

Nailed it. Phoenix, AZ. Took awhile to load the map though.

 

[RumblingRosco]

I couldn't see the map either on mobile, but then I clicked the "link" sharing option and the map popped up.

It was totally accurate. Put me as really warm near St. Louis and Illinois and cold everywhere else, which is basically spot-on.

 

[Jhriad]

Here ya go:

Neat. Actually from western Nebraska but I doubt they've got enough data from the sparsely populated western half of the state to actually put a dot anywhere with certainty. I'm surprised it got that right with me answering the frontage road question with 'Feeder.' I lived in Houston for a while and picked that up since I didn't really call them anything before then.

 

[Zoc]

I'm Canadian but I got Denver and Reno. Weird.

 

[Goldrush]

A drive-through liquor store sounds like a magical place.

 

[hidys]

As an Australian I got New York, Yonkers and Los Angeles.

 

[Az]

If you don't get a map, give it 30 seconds it will pop up.

 

[StopMakingSense]

Guys, the map took me like 10-20 seconds to show up, so be patient with the results.

 

[Wubby]

http://nyti.ms/JRXlEu

Whoa it did work (map only loaded on my iphone though, not pc or ipad). Santa Ana / Irvine.

 

[injurai]

waste of time...

 

[Fury Sense]

i got nothing. the tree lawn question came the closest

edit: retook it and it gave me a pretty accurate map

 

[Yamauchi]

It gave me 3 suggestions, one of which was correct.

Pretty surprised, to be honest.

 

[GungHo]

The hell...

I'm quite curious about "the devil beating his wife". Where is that crazy shit from?

 

[Brawly Likes to Brawl]

The three suggestions were New York and two cities in Florida. I've lived in both the the Northeast and Florida so far so its pretty accurate.

 

[Stet]

Told me Buffalo. I live in Toronto, so that's pretty much the closest I can get.

What the hell is a drivethrough liquor store?!

 

[coopolon]

I grew up in a military family where we lived on both coasts as well as over seas.

Like, 75% of the map is bright red or yellow.

 

[RoboPlato]

Yeah, it was spot on.

Some of the regional things are really weird. I remember when someone at work came up to me and asked where the bubbler was. I had no idea what he was talking about and he couldn't think of another word for it.

 

[ZZMitch]

Boston, Worchester, Providence.

Not bad considering I live in Maine! Dunno if they had any places in Maine even registered heh.

Rotary gave it away.

 

[I H8 Memes]

I thinkm this whole thing is a scam to get people to turn off adblock on the NY Times page.

 

[MikeHattsu]

I'm quite curious about "the devil beating his wife". Where is that crazy shit from?

http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_80.html

 

[Draxal]

Newark(Paterson)/Jersey City/Yonkers and I'm pretty much in the middle of that triangle.

 

[Rehynn]

Part New England and Part Bay Area.

Makes sense though, as most of my family lives in CT but I grew up with music from California. I'm Hungarian BTW.

 

[Rei no Otaku]

How do you pronounce them?

As someone who pronounces all three the exact same (along with cot and caught) I don't even know how you'd get three different pronunciations out of that.

Mary would sound like mare (the word for a female horse), merry would sound like the vowel sound in "met", and marry sound like the vowel sound in "mat."

 

[GungHo]

What the hell is a drivethrough liquor store?!

A DWI enablement station.

 

[ZZMitch]

Told me Buffalo. I live in Toronto, so that's pretty much the closest I can get.

What the hell is a drivethrough liquor store?!

Not an LCBO that's what

 

[water_wendi]

Quiz was way off for me.

 

[Buddha Beam]

Took it twice and it doesn't work for me. No map at the end. Even the share links don't do anything.

Fuck it.