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

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Damn, pretty accurate. I got Corona, Riverside and Anaheim (the latter I live like 10 minutes away from). Cot/caught pronounce the same + drinking fountain.
 
My results were quite interesting since I moved a lot and was a linguist so I liked to analyze stupid shit. The three cities selected were all the way on the other side of the country but at least my hometowns of Cleveland and Cincinnati were dark red.
 
I grew up as an expat, so while my accent is General American, my expressions are from all over the place unless they sounded too silly to adopt. I've never heard anything other than "sunshower", but apparently this counts as my most distinctive answer and puts me in either Florida or New York, even though I have zero relatives in either place.
 
I got some dumps in Nevada. Wrong as fuck but I answered a couple questions with the 'don't know' answer a few times so I dunno.
 
San Fran, LA, and Honolulu. My Pacific Ocean brothers. A friend got the same result, so I guess that's where they are throwing New Zealanders.
 
I'm Ontarian and I got Boston or Miami. That sounds very wrong lol and I never knew both of those cities had even a similar accent :P

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firehawk12 said:
I'm a Canadian from Ontario and these are my results:
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I am either from Boston or Fort Lauderdale. lol
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Woah I'm not alone lol.
 
Perfect for me. I grew up in New Orleans and Northern Virginia, and went to college in new York. My cities were Yonkers, Newark/Patterson, and NYC. Seems the way I pronounce Cot/Caught differently put it over the top. My darkest area was NY state, with Maryland and the gulf coast states close behind.
 
This worked incredibly well for. Deep dark red right where I was fun. It finally explained the kitty-corner katty-corner thing I have since I moved to the sound.

perfectchaos007 said:
I was most surprised that the road alongside a highway is only called a "feeder" in the Houston area. I've always called it a feeder.
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Its a service road you crazy Houstoners. :)
 
They nailed it, but I'm not surprised. There were two answers that pretty much spelled it out for them: referring to sugary, carbonated beverages as "pop" and the night before Halloween as Devil's Night.
 
Born in NY and spent most of my growing up in California, now reside in TX. It gave me Amarillo, San Antonio and Tallahassee.

I've only been to one of those cities, and it was just driving through with only one short stop (Amarillo).

The access/service/frontage road one is what gave me Amarillo and San Antonio. I didn't know which to pick as I've used all three terms.
 
This is amazingly accurate. Like, within 15 miles.

KC REPRESENT

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Any other KC peeps around? I'd like to see if your map is close to mine. It's been said forever that Kansas City is the first western city. I agree with that, but it's also the northernmost southern town and the southernmost northern town.
 
Nailed it. The three cities are the ones I grew up in, worked in, and currently live in. Crazy.

Also, as a bonus, I am least like Ohio. I'm pretty sure that's a mark of success.

iosefe said:
Mine was spot on. Seems sunshowers was the key answer for south Florida
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That's funny. I'm in South Florida and I answered "I don't have a word for that" for that question.
 
What's weird is for me it marked Santa Ana, which is a neighboring city (literally about two miles away), so close enough for me.

What I found odd though is my wife is from China, and has only lived here for six years. The weird part is she has lived in Orange County ever since she got here, but loves and wants to live in LA. It marked LA for her.

I have no idea what's the different between LA and Orange County dialect.

Edit - And when she took English in China, I believe they taught her British English. I frequently catch her talking with a British accent.
 
PantherLotus said:
This is amazingly accurate. Like, within 15 miles.

KC REPRESENT

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Any other KC peeps around? I'd like to see if your map is close to mine. It's been said forever that Kansas City is the first western city. I agree with that, but it's also the northernmost southern town and the southernmost northern town.
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Wow, yeah, I just took it and I got... Springfield (MO) and Wichita! Haha. The third one was Stockton, California. So, I dunno on that. But the red was all around KC. Uncanny.
 
Is this a dialect quiz? Or what things exist in your area but not anywhere else quiz?

Either way, it was within one state of being correct, which is pretty good I guess.
 
Question 9 all blue started to recover until question 12 and 13 became all blue again. I was thinking my answers were throwing it off but it pinpointed exactly where I am from down to 3 cities in close proximity to each other. Sneakers was my most distinctive word.
 
Quiz nailed it for my dialect, which is probably not surprising. Most distinctive question in my quiz was apparently answering "sneakers" for athletic shoes. I remember looking through the maps of the original survey a while back and getting a kick out of how many different ways people refer to the same things. I love dialects. Same survey also taught me that drive-through liquor stores are a thing.
 
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