I'm mostly interested in the results of non-Americans. Americans, feel free to take it too.
Post your results and say where you're from.
I'm curious what type of English you foreigners learned, and I'm curious how other Anglo dialects compare to American accents. I expect British to line up with New Englanders.
I've seen a couple foreigners take this and their English lines up with New York and California, places where movies & TV are filmed.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html
Pic-related is my map. I was born in Pittsburgh but moved to Kentucky at a young age.
>>57105727
Too lazy to take the quiz but I'm from southwest Arkansas and I guess a pretty standard southern accent. Not as twangy as Tennessee and not as strange as New Orleans/cajun.
>>57105795
It's only 15 questions. I've never met anyone from Arkansas so I have no idea how yinz talk.
Also are there any questions that made you go what the fuck? Even for me, I've never heard of a term for what to call it when the sun is out when it's raining. Apparently in Alabama this is known as the devil beating his wife.
Here ya go, scrub.
pretty sure these don't count as dialects..
Ever since I've spent a year in the Deep South, I speak with a weird mix of a Drawl and a German accent.
>>57106052
>Jew is most at home in New York
Color me surprised
>>57106036
Looks pretty Canadian. Are you from Ontario, by chance?
>>57106052
What do you mean?
Also
>how do you pronounce the first syllable of lawyer?
>rhymes with goy
>>57106090
kek that is weird. What part of Germany are you from? I spent time in Bavaria and Austria, so I got really good at rolling my R's and saying serwus and Gruß Gott.
>>57105851
Here, but there were 25 questions you lying cunt
>>57106103
Saskatchewan, although I have been studying French for the past year.
I didn't realize my city had a special snowflake term for grass next to a road
>>57106190
kek I didn't really count them I just made that up. Quiz looks pretty accurate then.
>>57106220
Tree lawn? Really Cleveland?
>>57106134
I'm actually from Bavaria.
We had an American exchange student here from NJ and he looked at me wird when I said to him "Lemme fix you sum to eat" kek
>>57105727
gr8 I do your gay quiz and it doesn't show me a map
i am better than u
>>57105727
I have the dialect of Sorry, an error has occurred. Keep this link to save your answers and view your map later.
>>57106261
>>57106308
Yeah it fucked up for me too at first. I had to click the blue button of 'this link' a bunch of times before it showed me. Oh well.
>>57106300
Are you Mexican?
>>57106321
>Are you Mexican?
umm...racist much??
>>57106240
It's like, the part of your lawn that the government uses to plant trees to line the streets. Tree Lawn. Makes sense to me.
>>57106261
Ditto.
>>57106244
kek I'd look at you weird too
International English
pretty close
need some more ausGODS to confirm
>>57106036
>>57106193
Took that quiz a few months ago, retook it just now.
ayyy
The blue parts are confirmed to speak incorrectly.
>>57106457
This is what I'd expect from a Brit based on American colonial heritage. Strong correlations with Virginia and the south.
>>57106428
>>57106451
The fuck type of English are they speaking in Pembroke Pines? I've never eve heard of the place.
>>57106398
Why? There's nothing wrong with Dixie slang.
>>57106457
suck my cock you faggot twink
i r mexican
>>57106412
From New York?
>>57106435
Midwest accents are to me the most neutral of American accents.
>>57106504
But to hear it coming from a German would be unusual.
>>57105727
It depends on who I am around for a longer time. I pick up bits and pieces and certain expressions. I've mostly been influenced by British and Irish accents since I used to work in an Irish pub for several years. When I studied in the US for a year, I dropped the British and picked up just standard Midwest pronunciation.
Now that I am back in Germany, my go-to accent is still British and Irish, even though some words I would still pronounce the American way.
>>57106504
Can someone explain cot/caught? How would you say them the same? I say cahht and cawwt.
>>57106539
>wind negro
holy shit
Everybody else is wrong.
>>57106584
by saying it as cahht and cahht or cawwt and cawwt
>>57106533
Naw, I'm in PA, but 2 minutes from the NJ border. I guess NJ rubs it off on us
>>57106584
>cahht and cawwt
those are both the same too
>>57106539
Even in the US, I do this weird thing where I pick up the speech patterns of the person I'm talking to. I'm like a social chameleon and it gets bad sometimes when I'm talking with "working class" folks because I start using bad grammar, but I can't help it. My cousin's friends are all in plumbing, HVAC, and similar trades, and I talk in double negatives and say ain't and shit around them.
Also those terms are hilarious. I've only ever heard Dust Devil.
There were a couple of questions I had to answer 'other' to, but here's my results as a bloke from rural Australia.
>>57106506
Such anger, I suppose if I had learnt I was speaking incorrectly my entire life that I too would be angry.
Poor thing.
>>57106584
you say cot like cot because it has an o in the middle. if it was spelt caht then that's how I'd say it
>>57106584
What are you talking about? cahht and cawwt are literally pronounced the same.
>>57105727
>British line up with New Englanders
Wow buddy, take it slow. Why would you think that? English dialects of britain have more in common with Australian than any American dialect. Do you know how normal people in England even speak? I mean not the Oxford English blokes? They have most likely more dialects than the whole of US. Check the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxm6fQLaiDI
>>57106626
where are you from that you think this?
>>57106689
>English dialects of britain have more in common with Australian than any American dialect
Ok but this is a quiz about American dialects. Yeah they are more similar to Australian accents than any American accent, but when compared to American accents, I expect them to be more similar to New England than elsewhere in the US.
>>57106634
>I pick up the speech patterns of the person I'm talking to
If this happens naturally to you and it doesn't sound fake, then it's a good thing. Even in German, I switch between High German and Bavarian, depending on who I am talking to. Elderly people, working class, people in bars, I usually adress in Bavarian accent, anywhere else I mostly go High German.
I remember when my friends' car broke in rural Kentucky and they wanted me to speak to the people in the carshop because they'd most likely understand me than any other of them.
A friend of mine from Australia actually picked up Bavarian German better than High German. It's fucking hilarious when he busts out those old timey expressions randomly.
>>57106608
Are you from Cali? I see your state flag is NC. My pride would be hurt a little if I didn't match up to my area's dialect
>>57106539
>>57106725
these can't be real top kek
>>57106725
>night jew
>>57106539
>Wind negro
Chile
>>57106725
>night jew
lmao. Kentucky has a weird accent. It's not as twangy as West Virginia or Appalachian accents, but it doesn't have the nice drawl of deep southern accents. It's still pretty twangy though. I'm surprised you were able to understand them. Also do you remember which part of Kentucky you were in?
>>57106663
by ahh i meant like the way spanish say the vowel "a" . like in taco.
Not sure what it means, to be honest
>Sorry, an error has occurred. Keep this link to save your answers and view your map later.
Stupid murrican server met a person from outside the country and doesn't know what to do kek
>>57106641
>>57106457
>>57106428
hawaii confirmed literally GOAT
>>57106742
Yes, I do live in NC. However, because of difficult circumstances in my life, I never exactly had a permanent home. Was born in Colorado and lived there until I was 5, then moved between Arizona, Alaska, and NC, so I don't really have an area to call home.
Also my mother is from California, she grew up in Glendale/Los Angeles/San Diego, so that's probably why my accent is more like California despite never having lived there.
>>57106808
It means you speak English like most people, and you don't call all "soda", "coke".
>>57106810
I had the same problem. I had to click the "this link" button with my middle scroll mouse button like 100 times before it showed my map in a new tab.
>>57105727
It said Boston was the most similar one.
>>57106689
Those bastards are copying us. We make England so they have to make New England. We speak English so they speak New English.
It's a conspiracy is what it is.
From Minnesota
>>57106810
>>57106840
>>57105727
Interesting, NYC is actually the only place in the US I have ever been to
>>57106838
I don't call any "soda" a "coke", irl I simply refer to then as carbonated drinks
Oh and OP I am from Manchester in the north if that has any bearing on the result found here:
>>57106457
>>57106785
Yeah, it's not my favorite accent either. I prefer the deeper south, actually. I'd love to be able to switch to a southern accent but I would need a lot of practice to get the right kinda sound to it. And as I said, you need to be there with people who have that accent to get it into your ear.
We were close to the border to Tennessee, right where the "heel" of the state is.
Is this good or bad?
>>57106917
>Grand Rapists
????
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0NkpcwYCfeX
curious to hear how other people speak english with, in accordance to their maps. Here I say two very northeast-sounding things
>>57106913
>mexican football
KEK
>orb chase
wew
>>57106913
>orb chase
GOD
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN
>>57105727
Embarrassing as someone who grew up on Texas...
>>57106954
Djeet yet? That's how my folks in Pittsburgh say it
>>57106725
>Night jew
>>57106935
Rapids lad, rapids
>>57106917
I believe the upper arm of Michigan is majority Finnish in population. You may have influenced how the lower glove speaks
I try to avoid sounding like American desu.
>>57107006
Jews glow when burning and the bugs glow in the night. Makes sense.
>>57106821
There's a reason for that.
>>57107003
Pittsburgh has some weird stuff going on. What's a yinzer? I assume it's like a Mass. "townie"?
>>57107026
can confirm driving past some random Binland university up there one time
>>57107064
rightful nz clay btw
>>57107034
homosexual
>>57106838
I really don't see where Americans got calling fizzy drinks "soda" from.
Is it a Spanish word or something?
>>57106954
>hey whataya updu, diđa eat yet, i'm towking heere
what are you a mobster?
>>57106533
>be German
>say "Y'all" during my oral English exam during Graduation
>mfw my English teacher gave me a worse grade because of it
please respond
>>57107151
(Tu)
>>57107109
Where I'm from, you call it either:
A) "Fizzy drink"
B) "Fizzy cordial"
C) "Cordial" (Although this usually refers to other, non-carbonated drinks)
>>57107116
too fucking roight
>>57107210
where the fuck are you from in Aus...SA? VIC?
In Queensland its called Soft-Drink
>>57107065
A townie is someone from Charlestown, right? Are they like Southies?
Yinzer is a blue collar native son/daughter. Yinz is the plural form of you. It's said to come from "you ones."
My folks are yinzers because they all worked for Union Steel or Union Rail, and talk in a heavy Pittsburgh dialect.
>>57107050
It all falls in place.
Most of the maps were entirely blue though
>>57107151
Canadian/10
>>57107210
pic related
>>57107109
In polish it's "woda sodowa" (sodium water). Looks like it comes from sodium, for whatever reason.
I-is this good?
>>57106935
Moldova colony. It's where local rapists are certified before being sent home.
>>57107116
English dialects with a plural you are the best.
Vienna
this is weird
Is this good?
>>57107210
It's either "fizzy drink", "pop" or "soft drink" here.
Cordial is a type of drink that is concentrated so is diluted with water to drink and is generally a fruit juice based thing.
>>57107322
Ginzo
>>57107257
I think Townies are working class suburbanites from MA, sort of like Southies but less urban. Pretty much like Yinzers
>>57107284
Picie gazowane
Fizzy drink
>>57107250
Tassie. I've heard people say soft-drink. I wouldn't say it myself, but I wouldn't bat an eyelid if someone said it. Just a bit less common.
>>57107346
Yeah, that's what cordial usually refers to here as well.
>>57107396
>picie
What are you? 8?
Do you also call your weenie "siusiaczek"?
>>57107210
American and I've NEVER heard cordial except when you're referring to the cordiality of a person.
"The woman I met was very cordial"
Strange
>>57107482
Ptasio ;)
>>57107489
americans are weird
I have no fucking idea
according to my results I'm pretty much a New Yorker
>>57107369
>>57107445
Never heard of that slur
Well it makes sense I suppose
>tfw has had a britbong accent since elementary school
>tfw no face
>>57107575
Lel, what a pleb
had to answer other for a few of these
am from hawaii apparently
>>57107615
This is actually what I would expect from a Brit.
>>57107617
starting to think hawaii is the promised land 2bh, seems to be the only part of america that talks properly
what type of English you foreigners learned
Okay
>i have no vord fo zis
>i have no vord fo zis
>i have no vord fo zis
>ai pranauns evrysin ze saim bikoz evrisin saundz rilly ze saim
>i have no vord for zis
>i have no vord for zis
Nice test
>>57107637
huh, I'm guessing the east coast is mostly British descent then or something?
>>57107538
Do you guys think watching too much South Park could give you a Colorado accent? Because I do watch a lot of South Park.
>>57107674
I took "I have no word for this" on most of them too
>>57107696
Yeah that's what you guys colonized the most. Most of the rest of the country was settled by Germans. American in the context of this map means English and Scots Irish who have been here since the 1600s.
>>57107489
You mean you don't have Vimto?
>>57107754
>>57107674
So did I. Americans are weird
>>57107674
>Russian sounding like Jersey city
not surprised
>>57107575
>elementary school
Fuck off yank.
LGTSS
>pronouncing Mary, merry, and marry the same way
This is pretty flawed. The map changed dramatically after every answer I gave. However, this is the end result.
>>57107817
vimto is an anagram of vomit
>>57107615
Strange, I got essentially the same as you but I put a few "other" options and it also gave me California.
13 colony master race.
>>57105727
calling them sneakers made me instant north-east.
Only ever been in Illinois and DC though.
>>57107865
>map changed dramatically after every answer I gave
kek it doesn't update in real time. It just shows you where that particular answer is most similar to, and then in the end it gives you a composite of those.
>>57107841
>Jersey city
What's wrong about it?
>>57107858
Las Vegas/Reno/Sunrise Manor
I have to say that most of the questions where like "umm I only use english on the internet so, idk"
>>57107906
Oh ok, sorry for my retardation lel
>>57107482
>calling a sugary drink 'water' instead of a derivative of 'piti'
don't give into degeneracy, Poland
Btw, my English isn't good enough for me to be really able to get an answer from the test.
>>57107865
It's supposed to do that. They show the map of the last answer you gave.
It only applies so much for non-Americans either. Lots of Euros get New England/Northeast, but if you compared them IRL PAAK THE CAAR IN HAAVAAD YAAD is gonna be different than PARRK ZE KAH IN HARVAHD YAHD
>>57105727
Are you Rand Paul?
>>57107858
Yeah that one surprised me.
What part of yankland does this?
I have no idea what this means but I liked the test
>>57107858
>>57107924
How do you pronounce merry, marry, and Mary differently?
>>57107858
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0EtV7PFQkNy
>>57107817
Blackcurrants are actually illegal in America.
They wouldn't even know the flavour.
>>57108038
>mjoori
>>57108048
Good, they're absolutely disgusting. Miles behind redcurrants.
>>57107762
The south shall rise again!
>>57107817
The hell is vimto?
>>57107858
How would they even be pronounced differently? I'm legit surprised that >>57108008 is surprised by this, I didn't think they could even be pronounced differently
>>57108072
it's also how a lot of us pronounce maori :^^)
>>57107983
Yeah I've been bored since the campaign ended. Him and Ron don't speak like they're from Pittsburgh at all.
>>57108009
I'd assume you're influenced by the coasts since they're most portrayed in American media? Idk but this has been an enjoyable thread.
>>57107876
>>57108095
merry has a short "e", and marry has a long "ae".
That's how I pronounce it.
>>57108027
>>57108095
objectively correct pronunciations here >>57108038
>>57107898
>Calling trainers "sneakers"
What's wrong with you?
>>57108163
>objectively
>>57108202
>trainers
thank god that went right into boston harbor with the tea
>>57108202
Gym shoes or sports shoes
I don't know who the fuck all these people are who don't know what a cougar is or use the word ‘supper.’
>>57108202
I call them sneakers in general, but tennis shoes when there's an athletic connotation.
>>57107898
That's the flaw of this test. Some answers heavily locate you in a particular region. There are a few things that are almost only said in Pittsburgh, and if you say any one of them it will weigh you heavily to that region. Examples are
>night before halloween = devil's night
>plural 'you' = yinz
>long sandwich with meats and cheese = hoagies
>>57108249
Yeah I know what the technical differentiation between supper and dinner is, but I never use the word supper.
>>57108287
good thing those terms are retarded and no normal person would ever say them
>>57108202
>Calling sand shoes "trainers"
What's wrong with you?
>>57108334
Supper just sounds lame. Like something a kid would only say
>>57108038
How the fuck does Mary come out to Meery? I don't understand.
>>57108389
because that's how it's pronounced
>>57108239
No anon, it returned seeking vengeance.
>>57108335
At least they don't sound like the noises children make.
Well this is pretty inconclusive.
>>57108038
>>57108433
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1iABMDJeayM
I've never heard anybody in the US pronounce the three words any different than me. Is the US really the odd one out on this?
>>57108287
I didn't even know that there was a name for hallows eve, eve.
>>57108510
>http://vocaroo.com/i/s1iABMDJeayM
holy shit what the fuck is wrong with you?
>>57108510
hahaha ffs.
>>57108433
mArry, mAry, mErry
Do you pronounce A and E the same way?
>>57108536
this
>>57108536
It gained notoriety because kids would go out to cause trouble and JUST A PRANK BRO.
>>57108550
no, they're competely different
>>57108538
Marry and Mary are literally the same, the two r's make no difference.
Merry has a short e sound, rhymes with berry or ferry.
>>57108351
>sand shoes
>>57108510
You're right; everyone else is weird.
>Merry Christmas
>She's set to marry
>My mom is named Mary
Nobody says Meerry Christmas here.
>>57108510
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0FPaDScq56d
All three pronounced differently.
>>57108594
You're fucking retarded
>cat
>cwoight
>>57106457
r8
MIDLANDS REPPIN'
>>57108609
This website is for 18+ only.
>>57108450
It's actually ironic that all of the noises Americans make in fact sound like that of a child.
>>57108626
>cot and caught pronounced differently
???????
>>57108589
http://vocaroo.com/i/s07EEGwwYOe3
>>57108606
>first one
>MA-DEY
u wot m8?
>>57108656
I expect better bantz from an Englishman.
>>57108626
It seems that the pronunciation of marry, merry, and Mary is what's causing so many of you Anglos to place as New Yorkers.
>>57108484
You got the southern master race like the rest of us. I got some Commiefornia based on a selecting "other" a few times so they don't count.
>>57108661
Cot as in lot/ bot/ mott
Caught as in bought/ court
Now FOY (No one over here pronounces them the same you bloody yank)
>traffic circus
>>57108606
>oi it's t'ree fookin differen wairds
>>57108510
Lad...
CYKA BLYAD DESU
>>57108606
Maadi, Miidi, Meeri
>>57108670
That's marry.
>>57108700
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0ashLCKhTrf
Fucking Southerners I swear.
>>57108589
Marry is pronounced with a lowercase a and MAry is pronounced with an upper case a.
>>57108703
literally nobody says that
everybody says roundabout with the exception of a handful of people in boiston who say "rotary" for whatever gay reason
>>57108666
>pronouncing the vowels differently between marry and Mary
>the only difference is 1 r vs 2 r's
>merry is somehow meery
What is even your mindset behind this?
>>57108727
sneaker master race.
>>57108626
What in gods name. How did you manage to get the northern wastes? You Midlanders truly are a strange group.
What am I
>>57108741
NOT THIS FUCKING SHIT AGAIN!
MIDLANDS = SOUTHERNERS TO THE NORTHERN LOT
MIDLANDS = NORTHERNERS TO THE SOUTHERN LOT
Make up your damn minds! Also your pronunciation of anything is irrelevant with that shit-tier accent.
And I pronounce caught/bought as you pronounce court
>>57108798
Finnish.
Here you go
>>57108752
>letters are pronounced differently depending on case
What sort of English fuckery are you trying to pull now? I suppose you'll tell me Adam and attack have different vowel sounds at the beginning?
>>57108626
I wonder if the way the yanks work is that different regions here settled different states.
>>57108785
No idea.
>tfw vikes fan as well
>>57108830
Ignore him, he's chatting some absolute shit.
>>57108661
How disabled is your mouth? Where in the UK are you so I know to avoid it.
>>57108816
i guess were kind of the same
>>57108762
mary is the one that sounds like meery m8, try to keep up
like this, best children's book reporting in btw
http://vocaroo.com/i/s07WuTEA3LnV
>>57108836
Likely. I don't know about England English, but there are definitely remnants of Scots-Irish all through out Appalachian English.
>>57108871
Not as disabled as your mums was last night after I had my way with her.
>>57108808
Everyone South of Newcastle and Carlisle are Southern fairies.
>And I pronounce caught/bought as you pronounce court
Barbaric.
>>57108871
Please do.
>>57108912
>Anyone north of LESTER
>calling anyone barbaric
You're a grim lot up there you lot.
>>57108694
That wasn't banter, you all speak like children.
>Ah'll ride muh sgooder to ged a glaz oh wader in muh sneegers then on ta wallmard
I'm not taking any stupid quiz. I speak 'fuck-off-you-fucking-cunt' dialect, with some 'lick-my-fucking-balls' mixed in.
>>57108986
japan does it again
>>57108986
The sergeant a bit harsh waking you up this morning?
>>57107250
i'm with you cane toad
sydney raised
>>57108966
I've never heard someone speak like that. Want to try again?
>>57108964
>mfw "Lester" is a genuine first name in America
Do you think they wanted to call their children "Leicester" but couldn't work out how to spell it?
>>57108986
ohrrr prease sirr prease no banrar fro youuou
[Via Google Translate: Fuck off you nip with your shitty banter]
>Ontario
should just move to BC already and get it over with
>>57108741
Ah, you're a Scotcuck. That explains your linguistic problems.
You and the yanks have a rhotic accent, it is why you both sound silly.
>>57109043
>"Lester" is a genuine first name in America
yarns, not even yanks are that dumb
>>57108816
my nigga
>>57108009
>>57109059
Do they not have drive-thru liquor stores in other countries?
>>57109043
>Right, let's get mah boys name down on dis here birth sertificayt
>L...E...I? S?
>GOD DAMN IT MERRY! HOW YOU SPELL HIS NAME AGAIN??
>>57109098
n-no
>>57108893
http://vocaroo.com/i/s12A6QfEHis6
How I pronounce it
do other Australians call the strip of grass the "nature strip"?
>>57109083
Your mum says I have an e-rhotic accent.
>>57109103
My fucking sides.
>>57109133
strange and unnatural 2bh
>>57108830
No because both of those words are uppercase pronunciation. I'm not talking about capitalisation in grammar, I'm talking about upper and lower case letters.
You know, ay for a and ah for A.
