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[MIMIC]

They're two completely different vowels! Do you pronounce bet and bat the same?

I pronounce them the same.

 

[Rei no Otaku]

Of course not.

Ok good, now take the Ts out of those words and add "rry." See? Different sounds.

 

[I'm an expert]

I think I will. I really have shit I need to get done. lol



Of course not.

Take the be from bet. Put it in front of the rry. You can now speak English. It's ok if you put a lite accent on the be but it is not bA.

I pronounce them the same.

Hey man public school education is rough.

 

[Josephl64]

I've recently moved to Texas and I realize why everyone calls me a Yankee, my father is from Maine afterall...

(am I really that much of a Mass. person?)

 

[Bread]

Ok good, now take the Ts out of those words and add "rry." See? Different sounds.

yea that's basically the only way one could describe it. the e doesn't turn into an a.

 

[Coffee Dog]

Ok good, now take the Ts out of those words and add "rry." See? Different sounds.

you're trying to make logical sense of english. it's a shitty language. Strawberry is pronounced straw-barry because english.

 

[OfWhiteSkinOnRedLeather]

Ok good, now take the Ts out of those words and add "rry." See? Different sounds.

Take the be from bet. Put it in front of the rry. You can now speak English. It's ok if you put a lite accent on the be but it is not bA.

Sounds completely fucked up and unnatural. I'm sticking to my way.

 

[Aeana]

They're two completely different vowels! Do you pronounce bet and bat the same?

Does it matter? Those are different words with different origins. Just because you pronounce one letter one way in one word doesn't mean it's the same in another word. That's English.

 

[Arcteryx]

San Diego/Buffalo(lol)

Not really close at all.

 

[Not Spaceghost]

My three most similar cities were San Jose, Orlando and Honolulu but the DC area was lit up in pure red so I'm gonna have to give this test the thumbs up anyways.

Pretty cool stuff. I love regional dialects and other linguistic bananery.

 

[Khalifa Jayy]

It nailed me as a Northwesterner. Portland / Seattle / Salt Lake???



Mary. Kerry. Marry. Carry. Merry. Ferry.

They all have the same air-ree sound.



Lol nice.

Carey. Prairie. Hairy. Nary. Harry.

Same stuff. English is weird. Deal with it people.

 

[Bread]

you're trying to make logical sense of english. it's a shitty language. Strawberry is pronounced straw-barry because english.

straw beh ree is not wrong lol, not sure why you guys are making it seem like we are weird for saying it the way it is spelled.

 

[OfWhiteSkinOnRedLeather]

I finally got a map after seven or eight tries. Gave me Buffalo, Rochester and Springfield, MA. I'm in CT, even though the two NY cities are far from me, Springfield is pretty damn close.

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

From The Netherlands and it said I was New York, Jersey or Yonkers. Pretty much what I expected.

Least similar being Pittsburgh and New Orleans.

 

[I'm an expert]

Carey. Prairie. Hairy. Nary. Harry.

Same stuff. English is weird. Deal with it people.

These are all different tho.

 

[vas_a_morir]

Are we ok with bustin balls or is everyone in super senstitive mode..? You're from Kentucky lol.


Enduin bringin dat real talk. Respect.

I don't mind bustin' balls, but you gotta do better than that. You are in the "I could be perma'd at any moment" zone. I know that feel, bro. Just let it out.

 

[WanderingWind]

I can't figure out how to view the final map, but the last pic was all blue.

Dangers of a gypsy, early military brathood existence.

 

[Enduin]

I finally got a map after seven or eight tries. Gave me Buffalo, Rochester and Springfield, MA. I'm in CT, even though the two NY cities are far from me, Springfield is pretty damn close.

But I'm from CT, we can't be from the same place and talk so differently.

 

[Secks4Food]

I got Modesto, Fresno, and Bakersfield; I've lived in Colorado my whole life :/

 

[Rei no Otaku]

Does it matter? Those are different words with different origins. Just because you pronounce one letter one way in one word doesn't mean it's the same in another word. That's English.

The language still has rules.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bet
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bat

That being said, I'm just having fun with this. Don't take me too seriously since I have a thick, New England accent myself. A normal sentence from me would sound something like:

"I've been in the cah all day and I'm wicked tired. I was thirsty as hell on the way home and thought I was lucky when I saw a bubblah, but it was wicked warm so I just said forgedaboutit!"

 

[Ivan 3414]

But anyone who thinks or says Merry is the the same as Marry/Mary is an inbred moron.

Son, the only person who has revealed anything remotely concrete about their genetics and upbringing here is you.

 

[Sonicbug]

The quiz has my number. The bubbler question will out a south-eastern New Englander in a matter of mili-seconds. Rotary sealed the deal.

 

[I'm an expert]

I don't mind bustin' balls, but you gotta do better than that. You are in the "I could be perma'd at any moment" zone. I know that feel, bro. Just let it out.

Eh, if I weighed every post by fear of being banned I wouldn't post here. Why would someone want to be a part of that kind of forum? System wars is about the only place I have to hold back lol.

 

[InsanerBrainer]

From Oklahoma City and it gave me 3 cities in California.

I knew I didn't belong here.

 

[WyndhamPrice]

Of course it's going to nail down my region because it's the only one in the US that has mischief night.

 

[Bread]

The language still has rules.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bet
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bat

That being said, I'm just having fun with this. Don't take me too seriously since I have a thick, New England accent myself. A normal sentence from me would sound something like:

"I've been in the cah all day and I'm wicked tired. I was thirsty as hell on the way home and thought I was lucky when I saw a bubblah, but it was wicked warm so I just said forgedaboutit!"

what are you from fawl rivah?

The quiz has my number. The bubbler question will out a south-eastern New Englander in a matter of mili-seconds. Rotary sealed the deal.

weirdo south shore people, i always make fun of my friends who use bubblers

 

[OfWhiteSkinOnRedLeather]

But I'm from CT, we can't be from the same place and talk so differently.

I'm from Fairfield County. I'm sure that explains it.

 

[Rei no Otaku]

The quiz has my number. The bubbler question will out a south-eastern New Englander in a matter of mili-seconds. Rotary sealed the deal.

 

[vas_a_morir]

Eh, if I weighed every post by fear of being banned I wouldn't post here. Why would someone want to be a part of that kind of forum? System wars is about the only place I have to hold back lol.

Naw, just sometimes you gotta lay low for a hot minute. lol

 

[Arment]

I had the no map issue but when I went back into the tab everything was there all of a sudden.

Anyways, I've lived in many different places (Florida, North Carolina, California) but it looks like I gained most of my speech patterns from California. Although it only gives me one city from California (Corona) and gives me two from Nevada (Las Vegas and Paradise).

 

[Colonel Mustard]

Of course it's going to nail down my region because it's the only one in the US that has mischief night.

I've always called it mischief night?

 

[Twin Drive System]

From Sac. Test gave me Oakland and San Jose. Pretty close.

 

[Rei no Otaku]

what are you from fawl rivah?

Close. Rhode Island.

 

[I'm an expert]

Naw, just sometimes you gotta lay low for a hot minute. lol

Dude back there called half the people here inbred lol, and he kept his head high. I want to be like that!

The mischief night question is weird, I could swear I've seen popular media call it that too. Didn't think it was so specific to one area.

 

[Enduin]

I'm from Fairfield County. I'm sure that explains it.

Litchfield county. I know nothing about CT outside of my town in the middle of nowhere despite living there for 20 years. It might as well be in another country.

 

[Smo21]

Cheated, I'm from Toronto Ontario Canada. Said Spokane (Oregon?).

 

[Bowler]

They nailed it

 

[Fou-Lu]

I'm Canadian, but it says I am most likely from Tacoma. Mostly because I call a mountain lion/panther a cougar.

 

[Ivan 3414]

Dude back there called half the people here inbred lol, and he kept his head high. I want to be like that!

Yeah, I pronounce the three Mary words the same, and it pegged me as Washington DC, Baltimore, and Richmond, VA. I guess those areas are nothing but inbreds. =(

 

[OfWhiteSkinOnRedLeather]

Litchfield county. I know nothing about CT outside of my town in the middle of nowhere despite living there for 20 years. It might as well be in another country.

Yeah, Fairfield County might as well be another country when compared to the rest of the state. We're looked down upon due to our unfortunate close ties to New York City and Westchester County, NY.

 

[I'm an expert]

Yeah, I pronounce the three Mary words the same, and it pegged me as Washington DC, Baltimore, and Richmond, VA. I guess those areas are nothing but inbreds. =(

I'll take the above advice and keep low but VA...... VA.......

 

[daycru]

I don't mind bustin' balls, but you gotta do better than that. You are in the "I could be perma'd at any moment" zone. I know that feel, bro. Just let it out.

Have you gotten the weird PMs yet?

 

[Sonicbug]

weirdo south shore people, i always make fun of my friends who use bubblers

We're all a little weird here.
I blame elementary school, and their providing coffee milk to us as children!

(A lot of Rhode Island weirdness snuck into Plymouth at some point.)

 

[Ivan 3414]

I'll take the above advice and keep low but VA...... VA.......

...Maybe that was a bad example. For what it's worth I'm not from there anyway. <_<

 

[thesoapster]

Yeah, I pronounce the three Mary words the same, and it pegged me as Washington DC, Baltimore, and Richmond, VA. I guess those areas are nothing but inbreds. =(

So what you're saying here is you're inbred? Neat.

It got it mostly right. I'm from central MD (~1 hour from Baltimore). Hottest spots on map were Baltimore, New York, and Yonkers...and oddly all of Hawaii.

 

[sqwarlock]

Got Salt Lake City, UT; Glendale, AZ; and Tucson, AZ. I live in Glendale, so I'd say that's pretty damned accurate.

 

[Kid Ska]

Oh damn. They nailed me.
It was probably mischief night that gave it away.

 

[toohectic]

While retaking the quiz, I noticed that according to the map, 90%+ of the US pronounces marry/mary/merry the same. It's only a very small region in the north east that indicates that they are pronounced differently.

Also, I find it funny that some of these answers are obviously not common to any region. If you choose them, the whole map displays a uniform max "least similar". Why did they even include these options?

 

[Jakeh111]

Im from St. Louis and the quiz states im either from St. Louis, Springfield MO, or Greensboro NC. I really had no clue people had a term for when it rains on a sunny day.

 

[Slayer-33]

http://nyti.ms/1l7aZiJ

Nailed!