Regional dialect quiz

[TCJatko]

The closest of the three locations given to my answers is 100 miles away from me.

Interesting. It pegged my three most likely locations as Boston and Worchester, MA and Providence, RI. I've lived in New Hampshire for 40+ years, but am not a native New Englander. Pretty accurate, it seems.

 

[Carl_NH]

Interesting. It pegged my three most likely locations as Boston and Worchester, MA and Providence, RI. I've lived in New Hampshire for 40+ years, but am not a native New Englander. Pretty accurate, it seems.

Same here - first 20 years in PA and been in New England for 35 years and NH for 30, and Boston/Worcester was tagged and Chattanooga TN too.

 

[RobertN]

It nailed it; Sacramento. I was born and grew up in semi-rural outskirts of the Sacramento Ca area. Then have lived almost 30 years, about 30 miles east of where I was born.

 

[farmer2009]

It said Louisville and Lexington, KY and Little Rock, AR. I live about 2 hours from Louisville and 3 from Lexington. Although the western part of the state was a darker red than those two cities. I guess they only reference cities so large. Never been to Little Rock or Arkansas for that matter. Seems fairly accurate and was fun to take.

 

[jinman]

I found myself being torn between several answers, wanting to give more than one. For instance, I grew up wearing "tennis shoes" in the gym. In the US Navy, I learned to call them "athletic shoes" or "gym shoes". Later, as styles changed and prices soared, they became "sneakers." Today, they have become more brand specific rather than a generic term: Nikes, Reeboks, Adidas, Air Jordans. Also, where I grew up, there was no sidewalk and grass strip between. There was only grass and a gravel road. While stationed at the Phila Naval Base, I learned that houses had a stoop, pavement, and the street. There was no such thing as a sidewalk. The first time I heard that somebody drove up on the pavement and hit somebody, my first reaction was to ask why they were in the street in the first place? I quickly learned the difference between pavement and the street.

I had a niece who always gave me a hard time when I'd come home on leave from the US Navy. She always said I talked like a Yankee. Living up and down the east coast, west coast, and travelling around the world surely had an effect on my spoken language. Still, the test showed that I had probably grown up in the South and even showed my primary speech patterns matched North Texas.

 

[bp fick]

The quiz pegged me as living in a triangle of Wichita KS and Tulsa-OKC Oklahoma.
Lived too many places I guess.

 

[Dutch445]

has anyone taken the quiz with a private or incognito browser?
sort of an easy thing to do by identifying the ISP with our IP address....
just sayin...

 

[DT86]

I have to say it is spot on. I got Chattanooga TN, Knoxville TN and Greensboro NC but the darkest red area covered SW Virginia, which is where I've been my whole life, with a small bit over NE Tennessee and NW North Carolina.

 

[Chilly807]

According to this, I'm from New England.. pretty close actually.

Sean

 

[quicksandfarmer]

According to this, I'm from New England.. pretty close actually.

Sean

New England, New Scotland what's the difference -- unless you're English or Scottish!