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[Mysterious]

Got Santa Rosa, San Joke and Honolulu. I live in Toronto, so I would've expected NYC. :\

 

[Bam Bam Baklava]

Not very impressive when you consider a lot of the questions are basically asking you if you know what such and such is. Like a drive through liquor place really has nothing to do with dialect it just kind of eliminates variables when you answer the question. So if you never heard of one there's only so many places you could be from.

 

[yukonrye]

I'm from Charlotte, NC. Had me at Winston-Salem, Greensboro, or Atlanta

 

[Narroo]

Yay, I got Massachusetts!

 

[Osorio]

From West New York, NJ

Got Newark/Paterson, Jersey City, and Yonkers

That obvious I guess.

 

[Overdoziz]

Well then.

 

[squall211]

Holy shit. It nailed mine.

As a side note, cot and caught are pronounced differently.

I don't get how anyone could look at those two words and pronounce them the same.

 

[Bluekaveli]

Funny is, I could be anywhere but this test is actually inaccurate. I have taken voice classes and it's quite absurd.

 

[Zippedpinhead]

It was right about where I live now, but terribly wrong about where I grew up.

I've never lived in New England or North Carolina/virginia. And where I have lived or grown up are all cool locations...

 

[Goodacre0081]

odd results. Tacoma WA, Arcadia FL, Honolulu HI.

I live in Vancouver BC

 

[LarryButz]

Mine was way off. From Cali but my results were from Michigan and 2 other states south from it.

 

[Baron Aloha]

No map for me.

 

[Keyser Soze]

I am from Ireland. Told me I was Yonkers NY...

I believe there is a big Irish community in Yonkers, so I will accept this!

 

[Rentahamster]

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

I pronounce it straw-berry because English.

 

[Spanx McFranks]

Whoa, I just retook this test and it was spot on in the north Texas area. What was with my first try?

 

[IcyBlueStrawberry]

I'm from Ontario, but I apparently speak as though I'm from Baltimore, Washington DC, or Boston.

I have no idea what this means.

 

[Timedog]

It got my city.

 

[moojito]

What kind of barbarians wouldn't call a carbonated soft drink ginger?

 

[GDGF]

I'm from Georgia.

(People always tell me I sound like I'm from California, though. Even people from California.)

 

[Monocle]

Surprisingly accurate for me. Nailed the regions I've lived in for most of my life.

 

[Steamlord]

Apparently I have a fairly non-regional dialect. The three guesses are pretty close, though. If you added a fourth point so that they formed a rhombus (or more of a trapezoid I guess) that fourth point would be about exactly right.

 

[Deleted member 102362]

Picked the exact area where I live. Not bad.

 

[MIMIC]

Whoa, I just retook this test and it was spot on in the north Texas area. What was with my first try?

It was way off on my first try, and dead-on for my second try.

I think it was because I called insect that curls up into a ball a "rolly polly" the first time around. I haven't seen them in a while, and forgot that I used to call them "potato bugs" when I was growing up.

 

[Freshmaker]

It decided I'm from Glendale AZ because I don't have a specific term for drive through liquor stores.

Colorado's a bit further away than that.

 

[hairypeckpeck]

i'm from san diego. at least they got social right...

 

[RobbieH]

I am from Ireland. Told me I was Yonkers NY...

I believe there is a big Irish community in Yonkers, so I will accept this!

Also from Ireland. I got New York, Yonkers (woo) and Pembroke Pines.

 

[Sobriquet]

It was way off on my first try, and dead-on for my second try.

I think it was because I called insect that curls up into a ball a "rolly polly" the first time around. I haven't seen them in a while, and forgot that I used to call them "potato bugs" when I was growing up.

I call them roly-polies or doodle bugs. Not sure which region each one comes from. Where did it put you for roly-poly?

 

[MIMIC]

I call them roly-polies or doodle bugs. Not sure which region each one comes from. Where did it put you for roly-poly?

I don't remember exactly, but I think it put me in Florida for that specific question.

 

[Sobriquet]

I don't remember exactly, but I think it put me in Florida for that specific question.

I guess I could've picked that up when I lived in Georgia.

 

[finowns]

The drive through liquor store??!!?

 

[Freshmaker]

The drive through liquor store??!!?

It's convenient.

 

[Kaldea]

I'm from central Canada and in the two times I did it, it had plenty of dark red in the closest states. Vastly different cities each time but I can understand since the questions were different.

It nailed my cajun husband though.

 

[Ivan 3414]

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

Pretty sure...I didn't say that.

 

[ChoklitReign]

Why won't it generate a map in Chrome 31? Anyway, I've lived in Georgia but I probably talk like a Midwesterner or Pennsylvanian.

 

[Archer]

25 questions and no map at the end. So obnoxious.

Same.

lawl

 

[Trent Strong]

It was accurate for me, but mostly because of "potato bug". If the potato bug question wasn't in there, I don't think it could have narrowed me down to Utah.

 

[DUFFMCWALIN]

mine I think
Edit: nvm broke it on my tablet

 

[ShowDog]

Well I just wasted time answering all the questions and no map showed up on my iPhone. Really lame because the questions segment was formatted for mobile.

 

[hateradio]

I didn't get a map. That's lame.

I did notice that my answers were usually dissimilar to my region or the whole US.

 

[BIGWORM]

Got me in between San Jose and Long Beach, which is correct, as I live in the central valley.

 

[HiResDes]

I really say you all, so I think I threw this thing off, but I was trying to answer like the average citizen of Ohio, and it gave me too southern results - http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=1&

 

[Kettch]

Apparently I have nothing like a North Carolina dialect, despite living here my entire life. It did guess my mother's hometown though, so I suppose that's accurate.

 

[Rich!]

UK citizen here

apparently I grew up in L.A

 

[Lionheart1337]

Yonkers NYC and Jersey or something.

I`m from Brooklyn.

 

[Fragamemnon]

Jackson, MS and Baton Rogue, LA. They nailed it (grew up in Vicksburg, MS).

 

[sonicfan]

I'm from Ontario, but I apparently speak as though I'm from Baltimore, Washington DC, or Boston.

I have no idea what this means.

Actually, I have noticed a similar speech pattern with English speakers from Ontario and people from Mid Atlantic region, certain words pop out at me occasionally. There were many people from that area who were loyal to the crown during the American Revolution who moved up to Ontario. It could be a legacy from that time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Empire_Loyalist

My map has me from Michigan, with Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Toledo OH most similar. I grew up in Northern Michigan, but many of my friends I had when I was young had moved up from the Detroit area. I also went to college in southern Michigan not far from Toledo.....and lived in the Detroit area for several years after college, then in mid Michigan.

Since then I have lived in New Mexico, North Carolina, and now East Texas, my speech is probably changing a bit now. My sister moved down to North Carolina in the early 1980's and married a local guy, she has this weird hybrid accent now...

 

[gutter_trash]

i find it awesome that some of you get opposite maps then mine

 

[The Iron Yuppie]

Fairly accurate, I mean all us Midwesterners are the same to you guys right?. I feel it cheated a bit when it asks about drive though liquor stores when those simply don't exist in many states.

http://nyti.ms/1d1XAaN

 

[Entropia]

Not an LCBO that's what

There's a drive through Beer Store here in London.

 

[Droplet]

LA and Fremont. Damn, that's pretty accurate considering I'm from LA but go to school near Fremont.