What American dialect are you /r9k/?
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0
Live in New York so I guess it figures, but I've lived in a lot of places. Mostly large cities, so I tend to speak normally, and with out any quirky funny (see: inane) words for things and for that I'm very grateful.
>>24920150
Like pop, who the fuck says this, I can see maybe soda pop but pop just sounds dumb. I caught myself saying it after living in a suburb near Chicago for a few months and every time I did I would take a 5 out of my pocket and tear it up, probably took a hundred dollars to set me straight but it was well worth it
>>24920216
LOL fucking yankee faggot tearing up money
>>24919924
MARYLAND
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Lived in Florida since early childhood
Philadelphia
they really got me
>>24920264
nice accent, would definitely drink a coke with you
Ironically I live on the far west coast, but all my family is from Alabama.
From Texas and then sort of emanating out from there.
Have lived in Toronto all my life.
No one can explain it.
Live in Ontario.
I don't know what this means.
Devil's night is a fucking giveaway
shit was dead on
>>24919924
Spot on to be desu
>>24920403
the one that pegged me was "the devil is beating his wife"
my mom used to say that often
>>24920216
Soda pop sounds worse than just pop.
>>24920403
>>24920411
Shit anon
I just learned this past halloween that no one else calls it Devil's night. Blew my fucking mind
>>24920418
Yep. I said that once in California and people looked at me like I was insane.
>>24920429
I found out this halloween no one else calls it beggar's night, and that trick or treating usually happens on Halloween instead of the day before.
NYfag here.
The "specific" answers that pegged me in those cities are general things said over a wide area.
>>24920464
I don't use it in day to day conversation and it definitely would be out of place if I heard it used somewhere, but I'd understand what it meant
>>24920499
it took me until this quiz to find out that i'm in the only area that says mischief night
>>24919924
Makes sense, use to live in central Florida and then spent most of my youth to present day in NYC
>>24920499
What do you guys do on Halloween day then?
It's close enough, I think most people from CT/MA/RI have similar speech.
>>24919924
It actually guessed the city I'm fromChattanooga
I'm going to dismantle anything can be considered a robot in my house.
>>24919924
Because I have a certain personality disorder my speech is extremely adaptive. It's mostly generic northeastern but when I'm angry the dialect of my childhood rears its ugly head.
>>24920522
What area? California?
I remember them calling it Mischief Night on Rocket Power, so I knew of the term, but no one where I live uses it.
>>24920537
Parties, scary movies, everything else associated with Halloween. Apparently this is just a central ohio thing.
>>24920588
Philadelphia. Apparently only PA, NY, and NJ call it that
Should i be concerned?
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pic related
ORIGINAL COMMENT XDDDD
Wow, i'm perfectly generic. I'm actually from Alabama.
Actually pretty accurate, I grew up in Phoenix
>>24920616
That's kind of cool then, you get to celebrate it two days in a row.
>>24920627
Interesting. I'm from NY, but where I live if people pulled pranks they usually did it on Halloween night.
There are few new england terms I use that didn't show up
Surprisingly accurate, but I live exactly where the dark spot is on the east coat not the west coast
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>>24920588
north carolina and i've never even heard any hint of the night before halloween being a specific thing, let alone having a name
>>24920748
>surprisingly accurate
Most similar area is the West Coast
>but I live on the East Coast
>surprisingly accurate
Holy shit its fucking accurate. Born in Miami, small time spent in South/central Florida then grew up in NYC. Do people not call run in sunshine sunshowers?
holly shit, spot on. This thing is accurate tbhq
>>24920789
no, its when the devil's beating his wife you dip
>>24920779
No I'm saying i live exactly where the dark spot on the east coast is
>>24920789
Not run, rain
>drive through liquor stores
who has these kek
>>24920732
Same, I didn't get a question about grinders but that would've given it away
>>24920807
What the fuck kind of arbitrary shit is that? Sunshowers, its direct and accurate.
>>24920828
Louisiana, Wisconsin
>>24920829
Grinders yes.
There's a grinders restaurant in slc.
That and my dad grew up in boston so I grew up calling things wicked but I think that's genetic
>>24920789
It rarely even happens in some places.
>>24920837
it pegged me as from miami because of sunshowers pretty sure, actually canadian though
>>24920837
it doesn't even hardly ever happen so why would you need a specific word for it?
>>24920828
hicks
orijinaru komento dese ne
Live in Kansas.
Dixie master race, black lives don't matter.
>>24919924
really accurate honestly
>>24920464
Californian here, I have never ever heard of a term to describe rain during the day it's just fucking rain during the day.
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>>24920873
I'm talkin about the places where it does happen
>>24920216
>I would take a 5 out of my pocket and tear it up, probably took a hundred dollars
stupidest thing I'll hear today
"Kitty Corner" yall americans ruin english
>>24920900
It's a sunshower fag.
northfags git
>>24920898
im from newark btw
>>24920828
It's called the deacon lane. I was surprised it wasn't an option because I've never heard it called anything else before.
>>24920900
its not rain during the day its rain when its still bright and sunny out as opposed to overcast and grey
perfect weather for a rainbow
>>24920757
I call it Hallow's eve, though I got it from a song.
Looks like I can blend in nicely language wise in about 1/3 of the USA. I'm from SoCal.
Though seriously, people sometimes call soda tonic?
>>24919924
Pretty close, but I'm actually from the orange part of NJ.
I had absolutely no idea that "sneakers" wasn't a completely standard term.
>>24920216
Daily reminder that if you call soda "pop" you should just kill yourself
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i'm near baltimore
>>24920893
Fuck damnit, I bet the Jews did this.
Pic now related.
>people call soda coke
what is this shit?
I never remember hearing it and I live by the coke headquarters.
>>24920900
>California
>Knowing about rain
>>24921066
There was a couple minutes of drizzle last night, I swear! Please send water.
>>24921056
I like you
>>24921019
seconded
>>24921058
I know right, I once heard some fag call a sheet of paper tissue a kleenex, he also called small plastic food storage bags with a zipper seal ziplocs.
>>24921104
>Sir do you happen to have small plastic storage bags with a zipper seal?
>Yes here is a small plastic storage bag with a zipper seal.
>>24921104
shut up smartass.
plastic baggies and tissues are all similar and interchangeable. Soda aren't at all.
>I'll have a coke
>what kind
>a sprite
that's weird and dumb
I live in Toronto.
>>24921016
Yeah, in the Midwest they call them tennis shoes.
>source: midwestern mom
>>24921045
Nigga its a roly poly
mfw I live inOntario
>he calls a water fountain a bubbler
>>24921104
>>24921149
This guy gets it, there's no difference between brands of tissues and resealable bags, but there's a difference between Coca Cola and Sprite.
>>24921159
this is the only correct answer to be honest family
>tfw live in one of two places that call them access roads
thought that was the term desu
>>24921187
Where in Ontario? I'm >>24921154, kinda funny that we managed to get different parts of the US
Boston accent master race.
>>24921199
GET THE FUCK OUT OF WISCONSIN ROASTIES
>>24921199
It's a drinking fountain, dipshit
guess where i live :^)
>>24921272
Then what do you call soda fountains? :^)
i'm from a pretty accent neutral part of australia
i guess the new york dialect has the most similarities between old british pronunciation
>>24921005
Hallow's Eve is Halloween(See the similarity in writing?).
You should read about the history of the conversion from pagan holiday to christian holiday. You might learn something you ape.
>>24921284
a dumpster?
I'm a little more eastern than DFW area, but they probably don't have markers for deep East Texas.
I use crawdads and crawfish interchangeably. We had a little spring near the creek behind the house where they were always burrowing.
>>24921284
Same desu.
I can't pinpoint any answers that felt particularly NY though. Is "sunshower" really a New Yorker thing?
I'm Canadian, but 40 minutes from Washington so it makes sense
>>24921417
>Is "sunshower" really a New Yorker thing?
No, not particularly at least.
People have been saying it's a Florida thing.
>>24921417
Apparently "sneakers" is a ny thing
>>24921329
>the history of the conversion from pagan holiday to christian holiday
who cares nerd
Just outside of LA
I'm Canadian.
I...didn't expect this.
Aussie here
>>24919924
Somehwat accurate
I live in Dallas Texas
Born in Virginia, live in Washington
I'm from the Canadian Prairies, raised in the badlands.
My accent only shows when I sing or drink, my dialect is slurred formal.
>>24921200
Is there a difference between Coca-Cola and coke though?
>>24921230
Toronto area
>>24921622
>Eh Philip how's aboot fucking me up the ole' mooshole with your poutine plank eh?
>I'm leaking maple syrup just thinking aboot it eh?
>aftawoods wes can go participate in the feminism rally
>>24919924
Mustard rice reporting in, I'm the generic newscaster/vocalist/professional.
Houstonfag here. "Feeder road" is what really got me, otherwise I guess I'm a califag according to this quiz.
>>24921646
No, there's not.
>>24920304
Hello fellow Marylander....
Not from the US, I guess I get a little bit from each of the most populated areas
>>24920216
Literally everyone I've met in northern pennsylvania says pop.
Texas here. Originally from California, moved 10 years ago when I was 10 years old.
I'm from Australia. Did i go well
>>24921730
There are more deer and elk here than moose, especially young deer.
There are (almost) no native ruminants in the badlands; it's a moderate desert composed of mesas, some green.
Nunavut is fairly far and distinct, and poutine is an American thing. What's popular here is beef, venison, or elk in a spice based off of a pickling rub for a deli meat. Served kind of like a steak sandwich with a grilled baguette with garlic butter. Pretty much everyone has had it and has liked it whereas poutine is only popular with youths..
Guatemalan here.
Does this reflect the dialects on TV shows?
>>24922008
>poutine
>American
no its a quebec thing
>yinz
>Curiosity delay
>mountain screamer
>dope
>peenie wallie
>the wolf is giving birth
What the fuck guys, seriously?
>>24922158
yinz is a pittsburgh thing, yes theyre essentially retarded
>>24922127
Wife is from Quebec; it's a tourist thing.
FUCK OFF YANKS
>>24922226
im from quebec it isnt
>>24922260
Tourist spotted
so I guess I'm the only one then kek?
>>24922277
I doubt tourists would be fluent in French, or born and live in Quebec the whole life.
What was his name, the Depathed?
>>24922311
proofs or gb2 jew york moishe
>>24922310
I thought that was some dank meme snuck in or a fake word to trip up people giving dishonest answers. Where are you from?ive hearheard roly polies called pillbugs on rare occasions, even wood louse, but never peenie weenies or whatever you called it. I'm on mobile so can't see shit captain.
I live in eastern KY so it's pretty accurate
never been to cali, but ive lived in texas all my life.
yee haw
I'v lived mostly in Germany...
Texas here
>>24922370
who else would want people to think theyre from such a place
>>24919924
Why is my map so red and orange?
I guess I'm normal as fuck. I'm from Georgia though.
>>24920692
I got something similar (slightly lighter in ABQ area, darker in horizontal strip east) but I'm from KC area.
Wisconsin here. This is dead on.
I was raised in Atlanta so pretty accurate.
Born in chicago, lived there for 10 years
have lived the past 11 in Colorado
Colorado is a pretty neutral accent I think
I'm from Northern California so it's about right
I guess this works for me.
Seems like NE vernacular is pretty unique.
Apparently I have a Phoenix dialect, but grew up in Idaho/Washington boarder area (spokane/coeur d' alene) area. I live in Ohio now, that probably fucked with my dialect a little bit.
I say soda pop, not pop, and or soda.
I say "jockey box" when referring to the glove compartment.
I say "Movie house" when referring to the theater or cinemas.
Where I grew up, the dialects are old. We have ancient word for things.
>live in LA
>get LA
Spot on 2bh. Fucking roly polys, soda, freeways, and fireflies.
Dayum
Live in Eastern SD, but a lot of my family comes from Minnesota.
I'm from Australia and I have no idea what this result is supposed to mean.
Seeing as my entire family is from california, this is no surprise. I've grown up out east though.
Not sure i feel about this
>>24919924
Considering I'm actually from Longuyland this is dead on.
My sister moved from where we live in Ohio to Hawaii, and everyone made fun of her for the way she said shit like "pants" and "ranch" (I guess we say something more like "payants" and "rayanch"), so now she does this god awful British thing she thinks is fooling everyone where she says "ponts" and "ronch", even though she's been back in Ohio for like, five years, and if you address it she throws a fucking hissy fit.
>>24920216
"Soda pop" sounds like something you get from a soda jerk when you go to the drug store with your sweetheart, you faggot.
>>24920616
I really don't think it is. I've lived in Dayton, Columbus, and Zanesville, never heard of "beggar's night" in my life.
Pretty accurate. I'm surprised
well it got the exact city i live in
weird stuff
spot onn
Who /midwest/ here?
>>24921045
Potato bugs are those little brown assholes you never actually see alive, but whenever you touch a tree in late summer their skins cling to fucking everything.
Someone help me out, I can't find a picture.
>>24921045
I called them potato bugs and rolly pollies and I am from Idaho.
Live close to DC, so it was really accurate
Sunshower, roly poly, LAW-yur , island, truck, you guys , turnpike,rubbernecking
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Cam you guess it?
Why would anyone call a roly-poly a centipede? Roly-poly's are harmless little creatures, while centipedes are the stuff of nightmares. That's like calling vaginas and scorpions the same thing.
>>24924497
scorpions aren't harmless m8
they'll sting your shit
>>24924542
That's exactly what-
Oh, okay, I get it.
>>24924542
Not nearly as dangerous as vaginas.
>>24924493
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FUCK THIS
HONOR MY FLORIDA DIALECT
I live in Overland Park
Well done NYtimes
>gave me three commie-fornian cities
>got mad and immediately closed the tab
>>24924655
Holy shit, another overland parkian?
It's funny, it actually said I had a west coast accent.
Britbong here.
These are my 13 colonies, faggots.
>Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane
I'm Canadian and located immediately north of North Dakota
Close enough eh
>2015
>not calling it a roly poly
>>24925248
forgot to mention I live in phoenix, az. so it's not terrible incorrect.
Not really surprising to me.
>tfw no one ITT shares your dialect
floridian here, i don't leave my house and most of my answers were "i don't have a word for this" or "other"
Not even american, I'm from the North-East of England
btw we have the comfiest accent in existence
most americans can't understand us though
this is how i talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhHLmhchLrU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY4TT3VtR8o
Nice to c that it's accurate
>>24925740
>Geordie accent
>good
Most grating accent on the planet, other than Scouse. You will always sound like an uneducated pleb.
>>24924276
We /masterrace/ m8
>Sorry, an error has occurred. Keep this link to save your answers and view your map later.
>>24925740
>Sounding like some sort of drunken Slavic language when speaking English
Why
Muhwahkey as fuck senpai
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not surprised that much by the result though
>>24925764
Is that why its the friendliest accent in Britain?
I will always be able to find call center work if i want it
>>24925841
>Slavic
One of the few majority Germanic accents left in the British isles, along with Yorkshire and East Anglia
>>24920840
Wisconsin resident here. Never heard of one until that question came up and I'm disgusted by the concept of that.
>>24926001
Same, and I live in Racine which is like, fucking bar capitol
>>24925931
>call center work
Can other British people actually understand what you're saying? I only managed to catch like 1/10 words in the examples given.
Shieet. Greetings from Finland.
Commonwealth, here I come!
>>24926076
Not if i'm talking like i would to my mates, but i can make it so southerners can understand me
People from Scotland and Yorkshire can usually understand me the easiest
>>24926139
Interesting
I have no idea where "Geordie" is but I'm assuming you are the distant descendant of a Danish rape baby in the Danelaw from ca. 1000 AD. Is this correct and if so how the actual fuck did the accent survive so long
This stupid thing actually got something right, I was born in Rhodeisland.
>>24926230
Actually the Danelaw didn't really get much of a foothold north of the river tees, so the Geordie accent is closer to how the Anglo-Saxons would have spoke than the vikings (who would have sounded more like Yorkshire or East Anglia)
We still have Norwegian loanwords like hjem for home and bairn for child (even though its barna or something in norwegian)
>>24926299
That's pretty cool, m8. Thanks for the information.
>tfw my country has only existed for a few hundred years and there are no cool old accents
>>24926365
Where you from m8?
>>24926376
Western Canada. White people have only lived here since around 1870.
The only "old" accent we have is native american and can be accurately depicted as follows
>aey dehr whaitey, yoo gottah smoehk errwhatdehr, ne'remind? ahl fookin stahb yoo.
>>24926412
What about the eastern parts of canada where they speak gaelic
or newfoundland
its still your country
>>24926466
I can't understand those people at all. A lot of them moved to my part of the country when our economy was good and theirs was shit (currently they are just both shit). They are about equally incomprehensible to me. They're also located so far away that despite being in the same country it's like going from the UK to Spain or something.
Listening to Newfoundlanders speak is like listening to Scots for me. Genuinely can't understand a fucking word they say. They're nice people though, almost all extremely polite, even the poorest of manual laborers.
>>24926509
Fair enough m8
my actual dialect is predominantly yorkshire, plus scottish influence (accent wise highland), with a muddle of regional slang from all over scotland and broadly the north of britain... probably some east midlands there too.
>>24919924
hella wicked
thanks Stephen King, non-native speaker btw
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Can someone post the image? Keeps saying error occurred
Got an error. That's too bad. Now I'll never know. Could've spent that time playing some vidya.
>tfw rolly pollie
>tfw tennis shoes
>tfw pop
Am I really the only /ohiobot/ here? Or have you all just killed yourselves from the boredom?
brit here
I am Dutch desu lads
ive pretty much been shaped by the internet
shit how did they know
Dr Pepper is my favorite kind of coke.
Ne Loozyana btw
>>24926846
Fellow Ohiofag reporting in.
I say potato bug, tennis shoes, and use pop/soda interchangeably.
They put me as being from Toledo, Grand Rapids, or Rockford. I'm from Cleveland, close enough.
>>24920150
unsurprisingly the northeast is red, born and raised in NYC.
Aussie, Donald Trump's looking set to kick me out :^)
>>24919924
I'm Russian-American, grew up in Russia. This test is dogshit.
>>24919924
>mfw i'm actually Italian
Didn't know there were so many wops in boston
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>>24925924
So what we can tell so far is that brits fit in most in new york and... hawaii? as well as the east coast and deep south generally, and that we would stand out like a sore thumb in michigan.
Apparently I have a hard Boston accent and I didn't even realize... well at least I don't say caw instead of car like all the steriotypes would say.
I feel like the only person in the country who pronounces things exactly like they're spelled.
Virginia born
>>24927351
But those soft Ah's are the best.
>>24919924
ausfag here
http://nyti.ms/1ILsTth
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I'm German and therefore got most of my English through the internet, so this was to be expected.
According to this (and everyone else) I have a slightly less exaggerated version of the accent from Fargo, the movie and TV show.
It makes sense since I'm of Scandinavian descent and live in Fargo.
I am not sure what this means
t. Britbong
Am swedish,
I didn't know my dialect was that distinct.
Those niggers got me
>>24920514
parkways man
>>24920951
basically due to certain weather patterns and atmospheric shit sunshowers only occur on the humid eastern coasts of continents. basically the US northeast and Japan are the only ones to get it but also have it still be irregular enough to get it's own name.
>>24924277
Are you talking about a fucking cicada?
>>24920828
i live in a major metropolitan area that has them
I'm English and apparently match only with New York, Jersey and Yonkers.
>>24928173
Out of American accents, southern accents are the closest to British ones, linguistically.
>>24928173
Britbong as well, got a similar result.
I'm surprised, Southern. My accent isn't even close to sounding Southern.
Well, seeing how English isn't my native language, I assume this is understandable, as I learned most of my English through TV.
>Most similar cities: Los Angeles, Anaheim, Glendale
I'm from the Deep South, but I specifically trained myself not to speak like a backward dolt. Guess it worked.
>>24928921
You probably sound like a cunt
'murica is a shitty country
>>24928850
I've noticed a lot of British actors go for southern roles
>>24928966
More like he probably sounds like a lispy queer.
Scotfag.
>springfield, providence, yonkers
no surprise, I live in connecticut
Eastern European slav here, apparently I use the midwestern dialect
>yonkers, providence, new jersey
I'm Irish.
New Jersey and they got me exactly
>>24920304
Howdy Marylander I'm here too how you be?
Brummie from the UK here
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>>24929750
well there goes what i said earlier about britfags (>>24927347)
except for hawaii. we still all have that as a hotspot. how funny.
PENNSYLVANIA
WE OUTCHEA NIGGAS
I remember taking this way back w hen it was first made
I'm from south Louisiana and it pinpointed me pretty correctly
too lazy to fill it out again though
>maw, there's a mountain screamer over on the kitty wampus!
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>>24920873
it happens often in places where there's a specific word for it.
>>24930404
it's a pity the test is america only. as a britbong, we do have a term for it, it just wasn't listed.
it's called "typical british weather". i also call it "rainbow weather" becausei'm a raging faggotrainbows happen when the weather is like that.
I'm not even an American, I'm a slavbot
I was born in NY, lived in Maine most of my life, but traveled to DC and Chicago and Florida a lot and I've lived briefly in TX and GA since turning 18
Hm. I wonder if it's really noticable to people out of state.
