Dialect Quiz

[westen44]

Mine was just how I speak and what I know from here, not from what I may have picked up, as in ignoring drive thru booze... that must be the NYLon thing...

There is also the conscious effort going on among some people to use British terms in American English.  These articles get into some of the specifics.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19670686

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19929249

[the mojo hobo]

When I took it, it placed me around Rockford, IL and Madison, WI.  Growing up in the NW suburbs of Chicago, it was pretty close.  One word that I think locks me into the region is crayfish.  Rather than crawfish or crawdads, crayfish seems to be used in a very narrow region of the country.

I put me in Rockford, Madison, and Aurora. Born in Chicago, but I did spend a lot of time in Aurora. But having lived in Ohio for quite some time I refer to a drive-through liquor (beer and wine) store as drive-through.

And it was crayfish in the creek.

[westen44]

A little more info about the dialect quiz which I just happened to find.

http://boingboing.net/2013/12/24/what-we-can-learn-from-dialect.html


Edit:

By the way, among other things, this addresses the issue of how someone might test as being from a city he might not have ever even been to. 

[rahock]

I grew up in Houston, and we said kitty-corner. But pop is a northern thing. We called it soda water -- that may not still be true, but it was when I was growing up. Calling all soft drinks coke was a deep south thing.

"Pop" is pretty specific , even in the north. Only a handful of places, including Michigan where I'm from, use that term. As the world becomes a smaller place, these regional things are becoming less and less. I find myself using the term "soda" more often these days.
Rick

[Pilgrim]

I grew up saying "pop" but since I was born in Iowa I'm not surprised to hear that it may belong to the upper midwest.

[slinkp]

They nailed me... I was raised on Long Island (NY) by ex-Californians

What do you mean not everybody says "sneakers"??

I remember being baffled as a kid that every time we left the state nobody knew what a "hero" was.