If you’d like to take the Dialect Quiz to find your three most similar & different cities, click here. Take our ever-popular dialect quiz to see what the way you speak says about where you’re from. No matter where you come from, your speech is going to be affected by the people speaking around you. The data for A New York Times dialect quiz in 2013 found it could correctly identify where most people live based on a handful of responses to how they say. Depending on who you ask, upwards of two dozen dialects have been identified across the country. Boise- Q: How do you pronounce the second syllable of pajamas? A: with the vowel in palm. Turns of phrase, slang, and accent all work together to make the dialect you speak, and there are probably more of them in America than you realize.Spokane- Q: What do you call a big road on which you drive relatively fast? A: Highway.Detroit- Q: What do you call the night before Halloween? A: I have no word for this.This was pretty interesting since I haven’t been to any of these cities so far.Īgain, the results are based on giving the most distinct answer to a question for each.

My least similar map tells me that I am most different from Detroit, Spokane and Boise. What do you call the rubber-soled shoes worn in gym class or for athletic activities? sneakers. So my answer of sneakers is what links me most to New York, Jersey City & Yonkers. The results are based on me giving the most distinct answer to a question for each of the three cities listed and the question happened to be the same for all. Joseph Lhota THE NEW YORK TIMES How Y'all, Youse and You Guys Talk / dialect - quiz - map.html DATA. I didn’t know that Jersey City or Yonkers had a distinct dialect but I’d guess that the reslts are accurate. After taking the quiz, the map showed my dialect to be most similar to New York, Jersey City and Yonkers. I was born in and have lived in Brooklyn, New York my whole life.

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