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US dialect quiz can predict where you are from with surprising accuracy

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DrForester said:
The hell...

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All of a sudden, I want to use all those terms for when that happens.
 
Ok this thing cheats like a motherfucker.

It predicted Fresno, Oxnard, and Long Beach. I live in Long Beach. It must be going off my IP for that last one lol.
 
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Thats unreal... It freaking NAILED me right at Chicago. I thought maybe it would just get close, Illinois at best, but it actually got Chicago.. Incredible.

Strange to see that moving to KCMO hasn't had much effect heh.
 
Western New Yorker here, and my top 3 cities ended up being Stockton and Modesto, California and Reno, Nevada. My area was a orange-red, though, so it was close.
And by close, I mean the opposite side of the nation.

For kicks, my bottom 3 cities are Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana and Jackson, Mississippi.
 
I got the whole Ohio Valley and most of the plain states. I'm in Ohio, but it had like 12 states or so wiggle room.

Still, an amusing exercise.
 
firehawk12 said:
You mean the devil doesn't beat his wife where you live?
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I work with somebody who says this. She mentioned it and got a room full of "What the fuck did you just say?" stares. She immediately ran around asking people what they said in that situation and was astonished that she only found one other devil wife beater.
 
Honolulu
New Orleans
New York

I'm from the UK, guess they couldn't get a good regional picture for me and ended up with random places.
 
Said I was most likely from Michigan or New York. Okay then. I'm from West Virginia.

Edit: did it again and got Akron, Columbus, or Cleveland. Not bad, not bad at all.
 
Pretty crazy. It hit Washington state which is where I grew up from elementary to middle school and also was very red in New Mexico which is where I've been since.
 
I'm from the UK. The test found that my dialect shares much more in common with the west coast and the north-east (and Hawaii - Honolulu was a suggested city) than the rest of America.
 
Rei no Otaku said:
It knew I was from Rhode Island which isn't surprising. It really only takes like two questions to figure that out.

"What do you call something you drink water from?" and "Do you pronounce Mary, merry, and marry differently?"

I think we're the only place that calls it a bubbler and thinks that all three of those words sound completely different.
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i knew when they asked about the bubbler, it was game over for me (providence). i'm kinda surprised they didn't ask about 'wicked'.
 
1. Detroit
2. Yonkers
3. New York City

I was born in Detroit. Wow. Seems like the deciding question was about what we call the night before Halloween (Devil's Night).
 
It guessed all cities in Arizona. Should have been Colorado.

Everyone called easy classes in College blow off courses, and it did not say it was common in Colorado. Wrong.

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This is makes me laugh I speak the polar opposite of New York City
 
Born in D.C., Raised and have lived in MD my entire life thus far.

Top Three:

Yonkers
Newark/Patterson
New York City

Least Three:

Bosie
Spokane
Des Monies
 
Born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. Got Omaha, Nebraska when I first did the test. Did it a second time and got the Pacific North West as my location.
 
Archaix said:
I work with somebody who says this. She mentioned it and got a room full of "What the fuck did you just say?" stares. She immediately ran around asking people what they said in that situation and was astonished that she only found one other devil wife beater.
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I'm sure there's an interesting story in how that phrase came into being... but man, it's so weird. I suppose the devil is the rain that is beating the "wife" that is the sunny day? lol

equippedwithtowel said:
Hoyl shit, same. Incidentally the ontario "accent" is hella flat.
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I guess it just goes to show that we get all our culture from the south. But for whatever reason, half of it is from Florida and the other half is from Boston!
 
Holy shit, this is mindblowingly accurate.

1. Honolulu
2. San Jose
3. Long Beach

Born in Hawaii. Majority of my family residing in the continental US live in SJ and LBC.
 
Apparently Service Road is a big deciding factor. That, and the obvious "Ya'll"

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Born in Birmingham, raised and lived in Georgia for 25 years, now live back in Birmingham. 98% of my relatives are from Alabama. Guess it couldn't be helped.

Least like Cities are the ChicAAAgo/Great Lakes region. Milwaukee, Detroit and Cleveland.

So, not doing too bad then.
 
Way off for me. I'm a Florida native that's lived in North Carolina for the majority of my life. I got Fresno, Modesto, and Santa Rosa California.

I guess it's time for me to head west.
 
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