Take the American Dialect Test (if you dare)

[Jingthing]

See which American town or city that is closest to your dialect and which is the least similar as well.

http://spark.rstudio.com/jkatz/DialectQuizFull/

You can choose the long or short option.

I did the long option. It really WAS long. You've been warned.

In my case, the closest hit was NEW YORK CITY.

I never lived there nor did my parents but they were from the Northeast U.S.

The least similar was NEW ORLEANS.

That makes sense.

[rgs2001uk]

Mine came out as,

closet, Nth Calif or Utah, least East Coast.

Strange I have never been to either of those places, and spent most of my time around people from the Sth East.

[Totster]

Well, I'm from England and got most like New York and the New England area (?)

totster

[Jingthing]

Well, I'm from England and got most like New York and the New England area (?)

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totster

Your results were very similar to mine, but my high numbers were 53 percent and low numbers 43 percent. It could be Northeastern American English is more standard American English and I have lived all over the U.S. and also of course abroad.

Edited September 23, 2013 by Jingthing

[granuaile]

Interesting quiz, seems locked up at end (says "generating map" so I have no idea but was long so not taking again right now lol... Guess my Cincinnati childhood, Kentucky roots and career threw it for a loop... Maybe try again later... Was a bit trying, I had to say some words aloud... some things like drive-through liquor stores we had no special word for in Kentucky, don't remember having any in Cincinnati where state ran them, but we did have pony kegs in Cinci

Will leave the page alone for a while and try again tonight if nothing comes up...

[Tywais]

Took the short test and it was pretty close with midwest being the region - IL and IN where I spent most of my pre-Thailand life. Appears my Texas childhood had no influence.

[Jingthing]

I guess it might be interesting taking both the short and long tests to compare the results. I'll do that when I get over the trauma of the painfully tedious LONG test ...

[granuaile]

Third try at taking and it worked,... really hit it on the head with Cincinnati being the most similar (49.5%) and followed by Evansville, IN, Fort Wayne, IN, Cleveland, OH, and Louisville, KY - least similar were all in Texas and Louisiana...

[onionluke]

"I crashed into granpappy at the kittycat corner anymore ." LOL

Most Similar Cities 1 New York NY 42.3 2 Yonkers NY 41.7 3 Stamford CT 40.9 4 Elizabeth NJ 40.7 5 Boston MA 40.7

Least Similar Cities 1 Des Moines IA 35.2 2 Peoria IL 35.2 3 Joliet IL 35.2 4 Springfield MO 35.2 5 Lubbock TX 35

[Guemlum]

I come from England and my closest was NYC.

[Garry]

I think it was a quizz on how to use the word anymore. They asked enough f$cking questions about that particular word

[Ratsima]

I was raised in Southern California but went to university and lived as a young adult in Northern California. The quiz had me pegged as San Francisco Bay Area. Quite accurate in my case. I took the long quiz.

[slipperylobster]

test is too long. I know where I come from and how I talk because people tell me so.... I don't see the point and I became bored with the questions.....140?????

[dao16]

Yeah, if you are from the UK and getting something in the Northeast, that would make sense, as those are the only accents that even vaguely resemble anything from there. Still not the same thing, but more in that direction. I was surprised (several years ago now) to meet someone from Maine who I swore had to have been raised in the UK....she said no, that is just their accent in whatever part of Maine she was from.

[carib102]

They must not give a shit where I come from since all I get is a blank white page with a blue box in the upper left corner.

[maxman71]

Nailed me spot-on...San Francisco Bay area native.

[rebbu]

I'm from Ireland and my match was Yonkers.

[Songhua]

I'm from western Victoria, Oz but apparently I'd fit in best in Yonkers and least in Little Rock AR.

WTH is an 'easy course'?

[Songhua]

They must not give a shit where I come from since all I get is a blank white page with a blue box in the upper left corner.

You are the Nowhere Man, carlb.

[sunshine51]

I was pretty much raised all over the world but born in San Francisco.

It's ok by me...it fits!

[Sheryl]

Amazing, it got me exactly..Came in first for the precise city in the suburbs of NYC where I grew up followed very closely by NYC where I lived from my teens onward.

[Sheryl]

I'm from Ireland and my match was Yonkers.

Lots of people of Irish descent in Yonkers, or used to be. I'm of Irish descent and my childhood was in Yonkers. Neighborhood I grew up in wasabout 1/3, Irish a1/3 f Italian (second or third generation in both cases) and 1/3 Eastern European Jews.

[Saradoc1972]

Well, I'm from England and got most like New York and the New England area (?)

totster

About the same with me. Bit more southern like round Baltimore/Washington.

Things is I am German and not a native speaker but my learned BBC accent got a bit muddled up when I was living in Northern Ireland.

[Ulysses G.]

Well, I'm from England and got most like New York and the New England area (?)

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totster

People in New England use a lot of British terms, like calling pants "trousers" and so forth - at least they did when I was a kid.

[Jingthing]

OK, I found the short quiz results a little bit more accurate.

Top town - Yonkers NY 44.4

Also high - Philly (my parents city) and again NYC

Also high -- San Francisco (long time residence)

Neither quiz hit where I grew up.

Lowest

Lexington KY 29.2

and other midwestern/southernish burgs

[Ulysses G.]

Mine was pretty screwy. I grew up on a military base in Hampton,Virginia with soldiers from all over the USA and then lived in a bunch of other places, but mostly San Francisco as an adult.

Philadelphia is supposed to be my closet city, but I've never been there in my life.

[connda]

The test, is at the best, and educated guess by a linguist major with too much time on their hands. Too many factor involved to be the least bit accurate. So, I'll just call is so much B.S and leave it at that. Not worth wasting the time.

[HerbalEd]

The darn thing takes forever to open ... and I have a very fast internet connection. I actually would have liked to do this, but finally gave up out of frustration and impatience.

[Totster]

The test, is at the best, and educated guess by a linguist major with too much time on their hands. Too many factor involved to be the least bit accurate. So, I'll just call is so much B.S and leave it at that. Not worth wasting the time.

Bet it's fun fun fun in your house...

totster

[IsaanUSA]

Page doesn't work for me.