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[Dali]

It's an access road you heathen!


I felt the same way for many of them. Expect for the drive through beer/liquor store. I've always called these magical places 'beer caves'. Same with everyone else I know.

Not gonna even argue as apparently a very limited area says service road lol.

 

[Juice]

Hahaha, calling the night before Halloween "Devil's Night" basically means you grew up in the metro Detroit broadcast region, LOL.

Guess I got caught.

 

[StayDead]

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

I'm English and the same thing occured.

 

[Dali]

I still can't believe those are even a thing.

They are in LA and I'd imagine not many other places which is why I thought the question was kind of a cheap one. One of the answers asks you to basically state they exist where you live. That's not linguistic sleuthing. :/

 

[Lamel]

WOW it perfectly nailed mine.

 

[Jarrod38]

Took the test I live in Ohio but it says I'm the the Kentucky and Tennessee area.

 

[Aeriscloud]

The darkest red is incredibly accurate.

 

[TheDrizzlerJ11]

I got 3 cities in Jersey. Consider this South Floridian offended.

 

[Mike M]

Retook the test (result even showed up on iOS!), got Santa Rosa, Sacramento, and Oxnard this time. A little better, I did grow up in Fresno and lived in Santa Barbara for a while.

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

Took it a second time, got NY/Boston/Providence.

Slightly different questions seems to have fixed it.

 

[Darksol]

No map here but the only question they needed was pop. I can't leave this part of the country and say that without someone looking at me funny.

What part of the country are you from? Near the US/Canada border?

I'm in Canada, and we all say "pop". In fact, the only time I ever hear anyone say "soda" is when they say "soda pop", lol.

 

[Darksol]

A garage sale and a yard sale are different things.

To you. I've used both terms interchangeably all my life

 

[TheDrizzlerJ11]

What part of the country are you from? Near the US/Canada border?

I'm in Canada, and we all say "pop". In fact, the only time I ever hear anyone say "soda" is when they say "soda pop", lol.

Pop is a Midwest/ Chicago thing.

 

[Face it Tiger..]

I apologize for how poorly I cut the picture..

Toronto cat here though.

 

[mugurumakensei]

I always assumed everyone just called it a semi truck.

I call it a semi, semi truck, 18 wheeler, freight truck, and big rig.

Of course, I call a feeder road multiple things as well in that I call them frontage and service roads too.

Same for freeways, I call them highways, freeways, and interstates if they happen to also be an interstate highway.

I also say y'all, you lot, and you all depending upon the attitude I am addressing a group with.

For this quiz, I just chose which one I would use when addressing my folks.

 

[daviyoung]

UK but I'm most like New York, Washington DC and Yonkers (?!).

Red in Texas, San Fran, Miami, Georgia and Hawaii too.

 

[velociraptor]

I'm from London.

The map suggests I am from Jersey City, Yonkers or New York.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Boise, Reno, and Wichita. Not even close.

 

[FyreWulff]

It said my most similar three cities were

Lincoln, Nebraska
Spokane, Washington
Salt Lake City, Utah

from Omaha, Nebraska.

Some of the questions felt like cheating, like asking if you had drive through liquor stores or not.

edit: since it won't give me the share link:

 

[Dali]

To you. I've used both terms interchangeably all my life

How can it be a garage sale if they don't have garage? I let the little signs littering the grassy area between the curb and the sidewalk for which I have no name determine what it should be called. But if it's advertised as a garage sale and I pull up and see no garage I ask for management right away

 

[FStop7]

Q: What is the closest interstate highway to your home?

A: The 101.


"You are from Southern California!"

... MAGIC

 

[I'm an expert]

I'm from London.

The map suggests I am from Jersey City, New York.

Why wouldn't you speak like cities begun and named by the British?

And putting "the" in front of numbered roads..so weird.

 

[SpeedySwaf]

Can't share it, but got a map with a dark streak or red going from all of the west coast before petering off around the Midwest. In all fairness, the Cincinnati area (where I grew up) was one of the redder spots.

 

[mugurumakensei]

How can it be a garage sale if they don't have garage? I let the little signs littering the grassy area between the curb and the sidewalk for which I have no name determine what it should be called. But if it's advertised as a garage sale and I pull up and see no garage I ask for management right away

Just means it's an uncovered garage sir.

 

[Barzul]

I live in Arkansas (4 years) and it had me in Florida, it's interesting because I didn't grow up in the US. At least it got the South part right.

Jacksonville, Florida. Tallahassee, Florida and Mobile, Alabama.

 

[ClivePwned]

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

same, though replace LA with New Jersey.

All they needed was bottlo or for the beer barn question and they'd nail it.

 

[daviyoung]

Why wouldn't you speak like cities begun and named by the British?

New York began as a French, then Dutch colony (New Amsterdam) and Jersey had Romans, Vikings and French there before the British.

 

[Barzul]

Pop is a Midwest/ Chicago thing.

We use pop in South too, well a lot of my friends here in Arkansas do. I still say soda.

 

[Graphics Horse]

I'm from London.

The map suggests I am from Jersey City, Yonkers or New York.

Yeah I got the same.

I'm English and the same thing occured.

I had to wait for a while before the map appeared.

 

[Jackpot]

Answered as an Englishman. Tells me LA and San Fran are the closest match.

 

[I'm an expert]

New York began as a French, then Dutch colony (New Amsterdam) and Jersey had Romans, Vikings and French there before the British.

Your lies border on treason.

 

[Salmonax]

Pronounce Barry. If you pronouce it like berry, something is wrong.

Ominous.

 

[Colonel Nasty]

All sodas are cokes

 

[Graphics Horse]

What's with all the names for Woodlice?

 

[OfWhiteSkinOnRedLeather]

What's with all the names for Woodlice?

You mean a roly poly? A lot of people don't know what they're talking about.

 

[I'm an expert]

Ominous.

See a doctor.

All sodas are cokes

This is how we identify more..rural..people.

 

[notworksafe]

I got Oakland? Not quite...

 

[Nemesis121]

nailed me

NYC

This..

 

[daviyoung]

All sodas are cokes

you mean all cokes are sodas, right?

 

[Barzul]

Where the hell do you have drive through liquor stores? Didn't know such a thing existed.

 

[Rei no Otaku]

Mary (virgin) is the same as marry

No they're not. Mary and marry sound quite different.

 

[FyreWulff]

No they're not. Mary and marry sound quite different.

Gonna need a vocaroo for this

here's me:

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1dFnkQeFicn

 

[Jacob]

The New York Times has a quiz which asks various dialect related questions and then gives you a heat map showing the place you most likely are from.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0

It successfully guessed that I'm in Baltimore, Philadelphia, or Yonkers. Though I was a little surprised to see the latter in that list with the first two.

 

[Barzul]

No they're not. Mary and marry sound quite different.

Nope the same. Well to me at least.

 

[I'm an expert]

No they're not. Mary and marry sound quite different.

Yeah, gonna need you to give me an audio example. All I can think of is you really stretch the a sound like apple.

 

[daviyoung]

Yeah, gonna need you to give me an audio example. All I can think of is you really stretch the a sound like apple.

Marry: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/marry
Mary: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Mary

I guess it makes sense to have them all sound alike if you're used to Fairy and Ferry and Craig and Greg sounding the same.

 

[Arsenic]

The map took about a minute to load. Should mention that in the OP.

 

[Anbokr]

It guessed right (state-wise at least)! California.

 

[Colonel Mustard]

Took the test I live in Ohio but it says I'm the the Kentucky and Tennessee area.

We're all midwest-Appalachian bumpkins. There's a five-state area it can put you in and still be accurate.

What part of the country are you from? Near the US/Canada border?

I'm in Canada, and we all say "pop". In fact, the only time I ever hear anyone say "soda" is when they say "soda pop", lol.

Pop is used heavily around the KYOWVA area. Congrats, you may be a red neck.

 

[Dai101]

http://nyti.ms/JSyNet

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I'm Mexican living in Mexico