Dialects, got to love them

[CobyRupert]

Here’s a quiz that tests your dialect:

How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk (Published 2024)

What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer all the questions below to see your personal dialect map.

www.nytimes.com

Edit: …and localized vocabulary too.

 

[dstig1]

I have a coworker that is Chinese and durn near impossible to understand. It is like a third language - not English, not Chinese but the 2 cut together. For example we have another coworker named Garth. When this person refers to him it sounds exactly like Gus. It takes everyone a while to figure out the translation that gus=garth... Just one example, there are many. it is entertaining watching the new people for a while.

 

[Wagtail]

Aussies are infamous for dropping an 'r' in their pronunciations; Cairns is pronounced 'Cans'. (Not to be confused with the film festival place 'Cannes') Anyway...

I was having my motorcycle worked on whilst I was at work and went to their Showroom to pay for it. It turned out that their workshop was a few 'doors' down the road at the "ca-pa". The what? The "ca-pa".

Oh, the car park. <I still chuckle about that>

 

[k0ua]

Aussies are infamous for dropping an 'r' in their pronunciations; Cairns is pronounced 'Cans'. (Not to be confused with the film festival place 'Cannes') Anyway...

I was having my motorcycle worked on whilst I was at work and went to their Showroom to pay for it. It turned out that their workshop was a few 'doors' down the road at the "ca-pa". The what? The "ca-pa".

Oh, the car park. <I still chuckle about that>

And many of us here that don't watch Aussie TV don't know what a car park is either

 

[Alien]

What else is it called James?

 

[Billy Bee]

What else is it called James?

Around here, we have the parking lot, like at a supermarket, or a park and ride for car poolers who share a ride into the cities.

 

[Frankenkubota]

Somebody.....Churchill? said....

2 nations, separated by the same language.

2 words you won't hear anyplace else

1. Bubbler.....that's a public drinking fountain on a street corner in Milwaukee Wi. They took them out years ago but try asking someone from N. Dakota, where's the bubbler?

2. Spendy....most everyone I know says...pricey. I was on a long flight from Italy and i overheard the guy behind me said...spendy. I turned around and asked, are you from Portland or Seattle.

Seattle

 

[OzKioti]

And not really dialect, but words and their meanings - some years ago I was with a group of folk from USA travelling through a country town here when they spotted a sign on a business "Smash Repairs". What's that, they asked?

Turns out they only knew of these businesses as a panel shop, or an auto body shop.

And then there's a shifter = crescent wrench, and lots of people here keep a torch in their glovebox...

 

[Sigarms]

And not really dialect, but words and their meanings - some years ago I was with a group of folk from USA travelling through a country town here when they spotted a sign on a business "Smash Repairs". What's that, they asked?

Turns out they only knew of these businesses as a panel shop, or an auto body shop.

And then there's a shifter = crescent wrench, and lots of people here keep a torch in their glovebox...

You don't go around in the USA asking others if they have a fag and if they love spotted dick

 

[Jchonline]

I have worked with so many people that have accents I am pretty good at understanding them all. Ironically probably the hardest for me is Louisiana deep swamp stuff….but my wife understands it perfectly! She lived there 8 years when she was younger.