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[batbeg]

It pegged me as being from Baton Rouge which really isn't that bad considering I've spent 12 years in Texas, 9 in England, and 4 in Oklahoma. I was never going to be kind to that test.

 

[gdt]

Goddamn! It pinpointed me to the freaking city!

 

[moiph]

No map.

Edit: Took several minutes to appear. It did get shockingly close, though it incorrectly associated me with a neighboring city (one which has vastly different dialect than where I am from, and is proud of this).

 

[Rentahamster]

Just wait a while, the map takes a long time to load, apparently.

 

[DrBo42]

The hell...

Obviously it's a sunshower dude.

 

[3Sixty]

It's ok, not many people can apparently handle the harsh truth that Mary, merry, and marry are completely different words that sound nothing alike

Wait. People don't pronounce Mary, merry and marry differently?

Edit: Somehow missed this was already a couple of pages. Woops.

 

[OceanicAir]

In my quest to get a working map I took it 3 times and finally they worked.

I have 2 Bostons (pretty much where I was born)

2 Arlingtons,(never been there before)

1 San Jose, (never been west of Illinois)

1 Durham, (never there either)

3 southern Nevada (think there was a glitch with that survey though)

The Arlingtons and Durhams might have come because I have lived in the south (TN) for a while.

 

[Kansoku]

This is exactly what I got.

Same, and I'm from Brazil.

 

[MarzipaNMOS]

Well I'm from Long Island so this is how they're said around here:

Mary is pronounced like scary.

marry is pronounced like Harry.

merry is pronounced like berry.

wow, masterful troll

 

[Erehtih]

Whoa this thing is crazy. Time to get them hoagies

 

[vas_a_morir]

No map...

NEvermind, it loaded. It just takes a while.

Ladies and gentlemen... I am from Kentucky. Pretty spot-on. I've taken it 3 times to see if there is any difference. I get Lexington, Tulsa, and springfield every time. I took it once answering just like how I think people form where I am from answer, and it was even more accurate. Kentucky was blood-red, the rest of America was yellow and blue.

 

[thoseAREmySHOES]

My map took a while to load, but it pegged me for Madison, WI, Milwaukee, WI, or Grand Rapids, MI. Most of my family is from Milwaukee, so that's where I got most of my dialectal habits from.

 

[DopeToast]

Didn't get my city, but all of mine were still in the Midwest at least, one of which was in my state. I'll take it.

 

[Kusagari]

I got Philly, Boston and Providence and I'm from South Florida.

One of the defining answers for me was calling it a hoagie though, which I picked up from my parents who are from around Philly.

 

[otapnam]

Boston or glendale.


Im from norcal. Way off

 

[Rayis]

As I'm not a native speaker it didn't work on me, my pronunciation and vocabulary is all over the place.

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

Quiz is way off for me. Spent half my life in North Jersey (near NYC), the other half in Massachusetts (Boston), my three top answers were Montgomery, Lexington, and Baton Rouge, and it lied about one of my test answers in the results page.

http://nyti.ms/1cotL61

 

[johnsmith]

mine
nyti.ms/JSf2DV

I do live in Utah, just north of SLC so it nailed that. But I grew up in East LA, nowhere near Modesto, but at least that's relatively close and that area's still red. Never been to Seattle though.

 

[Basileus777]

Well it nailed me. But it's not that hard when I'm from North Jersey. Calling it "hero" alone narrows it down so much.

wow, masterful troll

Huh?

 

[Khalifa Jayy]

All Cali cities for me, which is accurate, but I use a lot of the words in there. I just tried to default to the word I most likely learned first or used most as a child.

 

[kittenbreath]

did this and it correctly pegged me as a richmond, va native. apparently the giveaway was "brew thru".

 

[User 100115]

I'm from New Mexico, I broke it.

(No map)

http://nyti.ms/1couzrv

Did it peg me as New Mexican?

 

[A Link to the Past]

Didn't get me. Thought I was in either Boston, Newark, or Pembroke Pines, but I'm in Minnesota.

 

[John Rabbit]

wtf at those drive-through liquor store names. they're called drive-through liquor stores.

it gave me sacramento, scottsdale, and mesa/tempe. i live in chandler so close enough.

 

[Mike M]

Someone tell me where it says I'm from, this broken shit is broken as shit and doesn't display for me.

http://nyti.ms/1coueoG

EDIT: Loaded up on another computer. Salt Lake City? Holy shitballs, not even close.

 

[mugurumakensei]

Pegged me as being from Houston. The give away was that I used feeder road.

 

[Izayoi]

Yup, as I thought, has me pretty much pinned.

http://nyti.ms/1jx317b

 

[Hop]

Aw, crap. I talk like I'm from Jersey.

http://nyti.ms/1jx1WMF

I'm not even from Jersey. I've been there, like, once.

 

[mugurumakensei]

I'm from New Mexico, I broke it.

(No map)

http://nyti.ms/1couzrv

Did it peg me as New Mexican?

Nah pegged you as being from Wichita more than any other followed by Denver and Overland Park.

 

[SJS]

Placed me squarely in the NYC region. That's an extremely good approximation.

 

[JohnDoe]

Non-American, but I got Philly
Is that a good thing?

 

[Enduin]

Pretty accurate. Though I grew up in CT all my family is from LI/NY. They left out a lot of questions I thought they would since I would always get into language matches with my LI family over how to say words since they pronounce things like Orange as Ahrenge and weird shit like that. Plus I went to school in Chicago and was exposed to a lot of crazy talk from them and all the Wisconsin people.

http://nyti.ms/1couRi3

 

[I'm an expert]

Non-American, but I got Philly
Is that a good thing?

Filthadelphia is a wonderful place.

 

[vas_a_morir]

Non-American, but I got Philly
Is that a good thing?

It's the east-coast dialect you hear the most on television, so most foreigners will get philly/NY/DC.

 

[Bread]

So they're all pronounced the same way then.

I don't see how you can pronounce scary and mary differently, but berry is completely different.

 

[demon]

I'm from around Chicago, and have lived in Madison since college.

I wasn't really sure about the yard/garage sale one. The question described a yard sale instead of a garage sale, but I wonder if considers them the same thing. Normally I say garage sale because those are more common around here, but I wouldn't call someone selling a bunch of their shit on their lawn a 'garage sale'.

 

[coldvein]

THE DEVIL IS BEATING HIS WIFE

 

[User 100115]

Nah pegged you as being from Wichita more than any other followed by Denver and Overland Park.

*grumble*

They should have had a question like:

"What's a more accurate representation of shock?"

'Oh gosh'
'Yikes!'
'Eeeeeeeeeeeeee' -New Mexican answer

 

[Red Comet]

http://nyti.ms/1cowXP6

Dead on. I'm from South Central PA.

 

[thefro]

Two different browsers, two blank maps.

 

[ratcliffja]

How do you get the link to your map? Hitting the chain button doesn't seem to do anything, nor do the facebook or twitter buttons.

 

[OceanicAir]

Someone tell me where it says I'm from, this broken shit is broken as shit and doesn't display for me.

http://nyti.ms/1coueoG

Don't know how but it says you're from Santa Rosa, Salt Lake City, and Boston. From east to west man.

 

[mugurumakensei]

How do you get the link to your map? Hitting the chain button doesn't seem to do anything, nor do the facebook or twitter buttons.

It took like 2-3 minutes for the maps to load.

 

[Erehtih]

Non-American, but I got Philly
Is that a good thing?

Our cheesesteaks are dangerously delicious.

Spoiler

seriously you might die while buying a cheesesteaks.

 

[Mike M]

Don't know how but it says you're from Santa Rosa, Salt Lake City, and Boston. From east to west man.

LOL, none of those are even close. I broke its brain.

 

[demon]

By the way, the map took about 30-45 seconds or so to show up for me. I'm using Waterfox.

 

[Angry Fork]

Took the test like 4 times on firefox trying to get it working, ended up having to use opera. It was correct.

 

[FLEABttn]

*grumble*

They should have had a question like:

"What's a more accurate representation of shock?"

'Oh gosh'
'Yikes!'
'Eeeeeeeeeeeeee' -New Mexican answer

The longer I live here, the weirder I realize the locals are.

--//--

http://nyti.ms/1jx2JgA

Not too far off from where I grew up. I was a little more south though, Tri-Valley area.

 

[Barkley's Justice]

I just filled that damn thing out and none of my answers were displayed. *kicks over website*

 

[torontoml]

From Nova Scotia, got Boston, Newark, and Glendale.