Language/Dialects Test

[Honor]

This one's for Professor [MENTION=18819]nicolita[/MENTION]! Find out where in the United States your dialect is from by taking this short 25 question quiz: http://spark.rstudio.com/jkatz/dialectquiz/.

Most Similar:
1 New Bedford MA 48.2
2 Falmouth MA 48.0
3 Fall River MA 47.5
4 Plymouth MA 47.0
5 Brockton MA 46.4

Least Similar:
1 Duluth MN 30.9
2 Green Bay WI 31.4
3 Madison WI 31.8
4 Rockford IL 31.8
5 Minneapolis MN 31.9

Funny. I've never been to Massachusetts, but I guess I should go and meet some people who speak like me. (The place I am from did show up on the map as very red, though, so this test was accurate for me outside of naming the top 5 cities.)

 

[93JC]

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[Honor]

"Server overloaded

Sorry, but the server is too busy to fulfill this request right now. Please try again later."

Wah! I'm sorry on behalf of that university. I hope that gets fixed ASAP

 

[93JC]

Wah! I'm sorry on behalf of that university. I hope that gets fixed ASAP

How about http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?obj_id=9827 ?

For what it's worth I tried this one and surprisingly it was able to discern that I'm not American. I think it was that question about the pronunciation of 'pasta'...

(And I got your rep; no, it's not back.)

 

[Redbone]

I got through.

It said that my dialect is most like the good people of Texas--Mesquite to be exact. Haha...hit most of the spots in the South.

Least like Wisconsin and Illinois.

 

[93JC]

I finally got through. The results are all over map (pun intended).

Most similar cities:

Independence, Missouri - 39.5
Lee's Summit, Missouri - 39.3
Detroit, Michigan - 39.2
Warren, Michigan - 38.5
Livonia, Michigan - 38.5

Least similar cities:

Milwaukee, Wisconsin - 29.0
Racine, Wisconsin - 29.1
Tuscaloosa, Alabama - 29.7
Albany, New York - 29.8
Hartford, Connecticut - 30.1


I'm not sure what makes 'Missoura' a hot-spot, nor Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania. Big western cities—Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles—jive with my accent and dialect in my experience. Most people aren't able to discern me from someone from somewhere on the west coast, based only on my speech.

I find it kind of funny that Milwaukee is the lowest spot out of the entire country given that that Wisconsin-Minnesota accent seems to be commonly thought of as something close to my western Canadian accent. Funny that more northern cities like Albany and Hartford are 'cold' spots on the map too. And yet 'Bahston' looks pretty 'warm'.

 

[five sounds]

[MENTION=16139]Honor[/MENTION], yes!! This is awesome!

Most Similar:
Livonia, MI 50.4
Warren, MI 50.3
Toledo, OH 49.5
Detroit, MI 49.5
Ann Arbor, MI 49.3

Least Similar:
Lynn, MA 30.0
Lowell, MA 31.4
Worcestire, MA 31.6
Providence, RI 31.6
Brockton, MA 31.8

They got me dead on. Talk just like everyone else in my region. Do you guys have names for sunny rain? I have no word for that, but the options were so cool!

 

[93JC]

Do you guys have names for sunny rain? I have no word for that, but the options were so cool!

I don't have a name for sunny rain. The better question is what the hell is "the little gray creature (that looks like an insect but is actually a crustacean) that rolls up into a ball when you touch it?"

I got to that question and my face went Same with the question about "the small road parallel to the highway".

"What do you call the paper container in which you might bring home items you bought at the store?" also threw me for a loop. Paper? Paper bags (or whatever term you might prefer) have been scarce since I was a kid. The stores switched to plastic a long time ago, and now they're slowly phasing out bags altogether. At many places you're expected to bring a bag with you.



It's interesting to note that the spread between "most similar" and "least similar" for you and Honor is about 20 'points', whereas for me it was only about 10, and the highest was only 39.5 vs. closer to 50 for the two of you. I guess it really can tell, to an extent, that I'm a 'furriner'.

 

[five sounds]

I don't have a name for sunny rain. The better question is what the hell is "the little gray creature (that looks like an insect but is actually a crustacean) that rolls up into a ball when you touch it?"

I got to that question and my face went Same with the question about "the small road parallel to the highway".

"What do you call the paper container in which you might bring home items you bought at the store?" also threw me for a loop. Paper? Paper bags (or whatever term you might prefer) have been scarce since I was a kid. The stores switched to plastic a long time ago, and now they're slowly phasing out bags altogether. At many places you're expected to bring a bag with you.

Grey crustacean is a rolly poley
Road parallel to the freeway is a service drive

Haha I didn't get the rolly poley question though! Did you take the long form?

 

[93JC]

Haha I didn't get the rolly poley question though! Did you take the long form?

No, it just happened to be in the 25 that I got.

You can see the full list of questions here: http://dialect.redlog.net/

 

[Lady_X]

hey...says server is overloaded for me too. i feel like i've done this test before tho.

 

[93JC]

hey...says server is overloaded for me too. i feel like i've done this test before tho.

You probably did. It says the survey that the test was attached to was completed ten years ago...

 

[Lady_X]

You probably did. It says the survey that the test was attached to was completed ten years ago...

oh well...the benefits of having a shit memory! everytime is like the first time haha

 

[cafe]

It thinks I'm a Texan, but I'm a Hoosier. Guess it's not that different?



Most Similar Cities
1 Denton TX 55.6
2 Frisco TX 55.5
3 MacKinney TX 55.1
4 Irving TX 55.1
5 Corpus Christi TX 54.8

Least Similar Cities
1 Waterbury CT 33.3
2 Buffalo NY 34.3
3 Providence RI 34.4
4 Cheektowaga NY 34.8
5 New Haven CT 35.2

 

[garbage]

!?

I grew up in the midwest and have never been southwest. What is wrong with me I don't even

 

[Lady_X]

Most Similar Cities
1 Olathe KS 53.0
2 Wichita KS 53.0
3 Independence MO 52.5
4 Springfield MO 51.9
5 Lee's Summit MO 51.7

Least Similar Cities
1 Hamilton NJ 31.8
2 Newark NJ 32.1
3 Bridgeport CT 32.1
4 Brick NJ 32.1
5 Stamford CT 32.1

 

[five sounds]

Am I the only one they got so directly? I think all top 5 are within an hour of where I live, haha.

 

[Little Linguist]

This one's for Professor [MENTION=18819]nicolita[/MENTION]! Find out where in the United States your dialect is from by taking this short 25 question quiz: http://spark.rstudio.com/jkatz/dialectquiz/.

Most Similar:
1 New Bedford MA 48.2
2 Falmouth MA 48.0
3 Fall River MA 47.5
4 Plymouth MA 47.0
5 Brockton MA 46.4

Least Similar:
1 Duluth MN 30.9
2 Green Bay WI 31.4
3 Madison WI 31.8
4 Rockford IL 31.8
5 Minneapolis MN 31.9

Funny. I've never been to Massachusetts, but I guess I should go and meet some people who speak like me. (The place I am from did show up on the map as very red, though, so this test was accurate for me outside of naming the top 5 cities.)

THIS ROCKS!!!!! <3333

My results:

Most Similar Cities
1 Lowell MA 46.4
2 Nashua NH 46.0
3 Falmouth MA 45.8
4 Springfield MA 45.4
5 Hartford CT 45.4

Makes sense - I grew up in Groton, CT and Leominster, MA before moving to West Warwick, RI and then Germany.

 

[Coriolis]

This one's for Professor [MENTION=18819]nicolita[/MENTION]! Find out where in the United States your dialect is from by taking this short 25 question quiz: http://spark.rstudio.com/jkatz/dialectquiz/.

Most Similar:
1 New Bedford MA 48.2
2 Falmouth MA 48.0
3 Fall River MA 47.5
4 Plymouth MA 47.0
5 Brockton MA 46.4

Least Similar:
1 Duluth MN 30.9
2 Green Bay WI 31.4
3 Madison WI 31.8
4 Rockford IL 31.8
5 Minneapolis MN 31.9

Funny. I've never been to Massachusetts, but I guess I should go and meet some people who speak like me. (The place I am from did show up on the map as very red, though, so this test was accurate for me outside of naming the top 5 cities.)

Intresting. I am from New England, and I got:

Most Similar Cities
1 Elizabeth NJ 44.0
2 Lowell MA 43.6
3 New York NY 43.1
4 Albany NY 43.0
5 Kendall FL 42.9

Least Similar Cities
1 Grand Rapids MI 30.4
2 Ann Arbor MI 30.8
3 Lansing MI 30.9
4 Livonia MI 31.5
5 Flint MI 31.7

 

[mintleaf]

Most Similar Cities
1 Independence MO 53.9
2 Lee's Summit MO 53.4
3 Olathe KS 53.3
4 Wichita KS 52.6
5 Lawrence KS 52.1

I'm from Ohio, but that was red, too.

Least Similar Cities
1 Bridgeport CT 28.9
2 New Haven CT 30.0
3 Danbury CT 30.3
4 Newark NJ 30.3
5 Stamford CT 30.5