NYT Dialect Quiz

It named a town about 10 min away from where I live, so it was pretty much spot on for me.

Mine was VERY accurate as I live in southwest Missouri and got the city I recently lived in, just 1 hr from my hometown...and the two largest cities in Oklahoma (the next state over).

I admit that I was a bit surprised by my results, though, because frequently I have strangers asking if I'm from the North or have lived elsewhere.

It put me one state over. Not bad.

I was born and raised on the West coast of Florida, but my top three similar cities were Irving, Arlington, and Fort Worth-all in Texas (where I've never been) lol.

I grew up in the Oklahoma City area, but the quiz puts me in Texas locations (Amarillo, Lubbock, San Antonio).

It was interesting for me because it told me my dialect is native to a city/town I moved away from when I was only 9 years old and have never been back to since. I think that says something about at what ages we are most susceptible to influence and when we start becoming less susceptible. I haven't picked up any of the regional dialects or slang words for any of the places I've lived since. And despite having lived in Pittsburgh since 2002, now, I still do not speak with a discernible Pittsburgh accent or use any of the local words or grammar cues.

I was born in Miami, FL and lived there until I was 5 years old. From there we moved to a small suburban town about 45 minutes outside of Miami called Pembroke Pines. It guessed those two for the first two, which was dead on, and it was kind of creepy how it isolated it specifically to Pembroke Pines. For the third, however, it was WAAAAY off. It said Yonkers, NY. I have never been there in my life, or anywhere near there.

I live in southeastern Connecticut. The quiz put me in the New York City area - so I'd say it was pretty close.

Of the three top cities suggested, I have lived in two, and currently still in one of those two, but am originally from a city 70ish miles away from both.

I thought the sandwich question was interesting as according to the result maps at the end only people in southern Louisiana call it a "poor boy" which is the closest answer. We actually call it "poboy".

ETA: here's a link to the quiz for those interested:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html

It was very accurate for me and I was shocked. It came up with Des Moines wich is the capital of Iowa and then Omaha- which is on the boarder and Lincoln. I guess it could tell I was a midwesterner!

Yeah, I was thinking that and then I had my husband listen to my answers and confirm my answers are really what I say. So, I don't know lol. But it seems pretty accurate in general! There were phrases I hadn't even heard of; like a special word just for the night before Halloween? Interesting quiz

Mischief Night!

I am Canadian but I thought I'd try it out to see if it bordered my province, which it did! I was dead on for Detroit (GO WINGS!) and Buffalo which are the two places you can get in to from Windsor and Niagara Falls in Ontario.

Mine got my city right.

4 hours from where I was born, 2 hours from where I went to high school, and 7 hours from where I live now. Not bad

Yup. pegged me too!

oh another thought why it might be off!

I was noticing that some of the way it worded things were the "old way" I would say words such as when I was a child, and I've adopted some newer words after school and moving.

I tried to answer the quiz as if I was speaking in my old mannerism. For example, I say soda now its easily recognized, but growing up everything was coke if it was bubbly we called it coke.

That might be another reason it was off your words change.