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12-26-2013 , 08:25 PM
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Originally Posted by nortino
I'm from the north of England but took the test anyway just to see what it would say - it came up with Newark / Paterson, Yonkers or Jersey City which kind of makes some sense since the New York / Jersey accent always seems closest to a British accent to me.
ewwww no

Last edited by ty71087; 12-26-2013 at 08:36 PM.
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12-26-2013 , 09:00 PM
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Originally Posted by BraveJayhawk
Grew up in Valencia (Los Angeles area). It guessed Fremont, San Jose (Northern California) & Corona. Very disappointed in myself
Born and raised in SF and got the exact same 3 cities as you.

Philly, Worcester and Providence were my least likely.

Freeway and aunt=ant were my giveaways apparently.

I've figured out the mary marry merry thing from watching people pronounce Larry on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Still don't know how people pronounce cot and caught differently.
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12-26-2013 , 09:01 PM
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Originally Posted by ty71087
ewwww no
Yeah, I know a lot of Americans regard the Jersey accent as pretty gross, but in the way they don't pronounce the "r" in words like 'car' it resembles how most people in England talk, although there's a lot of differences too. I would have thought that most British people would pronounce Mary / merry / marry differently too, which seems to make it narrow you down to the New York / Jersey area.
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12-26-2013 , 09:35 PM
They used to tell us in grade school in the Ozarks, that the upland South accent is from Elizabethan East Anglia.

Kinda puts some window dressing on that hick twang.

(I've moved around relatively alot and obv pick up the speech of where I currently am - 13 years in Sacramento area now)
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12-26-2013 , 10:58 PM
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Originally Posted by MyrnaFTW
Got the same three , its obv biased to be more exact to northeast takers. A hoagie though ?? Wow. You think hero or even sub would be still stuck in your lexicon.
Well, I get an Italian hoagie from bodega on the corner couple times a week, so I guess that made the hoagie pop up quicker in my mind :-)
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12-26-2013 , 10:59 PM
Did pretty well with me. Apparently "Devil's Night" is damn near unique to southeastern Michigan — I didn't know that.

Except for some reason it through Reno, NV in as a possibility with Detroit and Grand Rapids. wtf?
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12-27-2013 , 04:43 AM
I have also noticed that people from the East Coast pronounce the word "tournament" like torn ament and those from elsewhere pronounce it like turn ament.

There could be finer geographical distinctions in the pronunciation of this word, but East Coast versus rest of US is all I've got from personal experience.
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12-27-2013 , 04:49 AM
It was very accurate in my case. Does anybody know how this thing was put together?
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12-27-2013 , 05:19 AM
Some more maps in this link. I assume these come from the same underlying data collection effort that produced the New York Times quiz. Some of them were pretty interesting.

http://www.businessinsider.com/22-ma...ca-2013-6?op=1

Here's a link to a guy's website who analyzed a lot of this data (the individual map links on this website are not working at the time of this posting):

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jakatz2/project-dialect.html
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12-27-2013 , 05:34 AM
<-- portugal

says i'm from miami or fort lauderdale
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12-27-2013 , 05:41 AM
Grew up in South Carolina and Florida. Took the test multiple times out of curiosity. It seems that there the test isnt always exactly the same. Depending on which questions it asks I either get cities in Colorado/New Mexico or I get Jacksonville, FL.
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12-27-2013 , 05:48 AM


This was really surprising to me. Called them sunshowers all my life and it almost blows my mind that its not something everyone says.
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12-27-2013 , 06:08 AM
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Originally Posted by vhawk01
Do you pronounce vary and very differently?
Indeed.
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12-27-2013 , 09:25 AM


This one is surprising to me...I call it "sear-up." Because that's obviously what you call it, dammit. Do you guys (hey, there's another one!) really call it "sir-up?"
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12-27-2013 , 10:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Dominic


This one is surprising to me...I call it "sear-up." Because that's obviously what you call it, dammit. Do you guys (hey, there's another one!) really call it "sir-up?"
I call it sir-up, and that has never varied.
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12-27-2013 , 11:25 AM
Definitely never in my life heard sear-up. That's weird.
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12-27-2013 , 01:35 PM
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Originally Posted by LKJ
Definitely never in my life heard sear-up. That's weird.
you've never heard chris rock's "toss the salad"?

Last edited by tyler_cracker; 12-27-2013 at 01:36 PM. Reason: i prefer sear-up
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12-27-2013 , 01:38 PM
Worst dialect/accent?

- Boston
- New York/New Jersey
- deep south
- deep Midwest (Fargoland)
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12-27-2013 , 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Biesterfield
Worst dialect/accent?

- Boston
- New York/New Jersey
- deep south
- deep Midwest (Fargoland)
They're all terrible in their own way
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12-27-2013 , 09:19 PM


Not even close for me. Born in Cincinnati, lived in eastern Indiana/Indianapolis since I was 6.
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12-27-2013 , 09:49 PM
Well it does have Rockford as one of your top 3 which is only 2 hours from Indianapolis...

edit: wrong rockford nvm carry on
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12-27-2013 , 11:40 PM
I'm in the east coast of Canada. Only two hotspots were Maine/NH area, which is as close as possible to where I am, and Florida, where all the old people from my home town go for the winter. Pretty accurate.
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12-28-2013 , 12:45 AM
Nailed me. Born in Madison, WI, grew up in Milwaukee. Don't live there anymore, but I still talk like I do.

Had me at Madison, Milwaukee, and Rockford (IL).
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12-28-2013 , 01:12 AM
Pegged me as being from Cleveland because I call the grass between the sidewalk and street "tree lawn" and the grey bug a "potato bug."
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12-28-2013 , 01:35 AM
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Originally Posted by dlk9s
Nailed me. Born in Madison, WI, grew up in Milwaukee. Don't live there anymore, but I still talk like I do.

Had me at Madison, Milwaukee, and Rockford (IL).
they had my dad when he answered "bubbler" for a water fountain
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