nytimes's united states 'dialect map' quiz

Treecko said:
I've lived in Illinois all my life. \o/

also loling at:

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Apparently no one except for Ontario has a word for this, but they included it anyways.
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You mean Ohio?
 
That's Ohio. There's an area of white (half way between familiar and not familiar) that makes it look like it's off the map.

I've always called that region the boulevard, but that probably means I've just been using the term incorrectly.
 
Apparently I've got close ties to Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, and Pembroke Pines, Florida, just because my most distinctive answer was "sunshower." It also tied me in with Maine and Southeast Texas (where I'm from).

I really wanted to be able to click multiple answers for some questions, especially when it came to the "roly-poly" question.
 
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This is after being back in New Jersey for a few months. I have a horrible habit of picking up dialects so if you give me a few months anywhere else it'll definitely show.

Also it's a Hoagie, not a sub. Get it fucking right you goons.
 
Jellicent said:
"What do you call a big road on which you drive relatively fast?"

GDI, we've got the New Jersey Turnpike, Atlantic City Expressway, Garden State Parkway, Trenton Freeway, and more highways than I can count. Why is multiple choice not allowed and wtf is a throughway?
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Yeah we're like the only state that does not have a defined name for major roads. Everything has its own name, and the roads are referenced either by Route # (HOLLA 614!), Interstate number (I-95, I-195, I-295, I-287, etc.), or their actual name if the previous two can't be used (ACExpressway). Meanwhile you go to Pennsylvania and it's either 'the Turnpike,' 'Northeast Extension,' or 'I-78.' And in Virginia literally everything is called the highway besides 495, which is affectionately referred to as 'The Beltway.'

Also anyone living in a 20 mile radius of the Garden State Parkway refers to their hometown by the exit number. Mine's exit 74 for example, and an Ex-girlfriend's is 98.
 
Steamroll said:
Also it's a Hoagie, not a sub. Get it fucking right you goons.
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It's called Subway, not Hoagieway. :p

Quiz put me in Fresno, Glendale, and Long Beach, CA. I live in TN, grew up in VA, never been farther west than Memphis. Because I refuse to say y'all, I guess?
 
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Very interesting quiz. The results seem pretty accurate since I'm from Michigan. I found it interesting that calling the night before Halloween "Devil's Night" is pretty much a Michigan-exclusive term.

Also, drive through liquor-stores... wut?
 
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I live near Pittsburgh, but honestly I don't think I talk much like a Pittsburgher (no yinz or anything like that). Apparently calling pop "pop" is enough though to put me there.

I'm really surprised though at the amount of people who think that a drive thru liquor store is odd. Pennsylvania has pretty strict alcohol sales laws but yet there's one in my hometown that I went through all the time with my parents as a kid.
 
Interesting quiz and similarly interesting results for someone who was born and raised in Arkansas. Granted, I was aware beforehand that I don't use most of the common dialect shared throughout the south alone, consequently due to my father being from New York and the fact I don't live in rural Arkansas.

http://nyti.ms/1iPBCqF

EDIT: my second attempt - http://nyti.ms/1gs0wm2 - the one constant is I don't speaka da midwest
 
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1. Baltimore
2. Pittsburgh
3. Arlington

I'm from Pittsburgh and I didn't really expect it to guess that so thats p cool. I didn't think I really used any of the distinctive slang but it knows somehow hahah
 
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This is quite interesting, considering I'm from Sicily, my English level is only high school and the only time I actually spoke English outside of the internet was during an excanghe with Dutch students.
 
Actually got right around my area, even got the name of my city. The main differences it seemed were the use of the word drinking fountain and pronouncing "cot" and "caught" differently.
 
I had never heard of mischief night until I moved to New Jersey, and sure enough there and Michigan were the ONLY two places on the map (well, kindasorta part of Iowa too) where that phrase is used.

Also I ended up with Arlington VA, Richmond VA, and Durham NC. Considering I spent most of my life in northern VA (fairly near Arlington) but in a more "southern" type neighborhood and area (culturally similar to Richmond and Durham) this makes perfect sense. Pretty cool though that it was that accurate with 25 questions.
 
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