See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)

[CrazyCracka420]

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

Would be cool to see the Euro's take the quiz too, seems to be pretty accurate for 'muricans.

It pegged me 100% accurately (I'm from Minneapolis/St Paul)

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[Osiris]

Taking it now some of the questions are hard to answer. you have a word for the day before halloween? O.o and stuff like drive through liquor store and you apparently have names for bits of grass next to a road etc that ive never thought of or heard of, roads are different names but lets see what it says.

What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
Answers
the devil is beating his wife and the wolf is giving birth <--- wtf lol


http://nyti.ms/KiXt05

From Kent England

[CrazyCracka420]

Makes sense it would see you being from that area of the the US if you're from England.  I've heard people speak who grew up in NY, but moved to Boston for years, come to where I live and they sound like they are English

Yeah some of the questions are weird.  I've never heard of a drive through liquor store, and we don't have a name for the day before halloween where I'm from.  In a lot of places in the country on a suburban street, it will be road, then a strip of grass, then a sidewalk, and then the grass in the main part of your yard.  We never had a name for that little strip of grass.

The first 15 or 30 feet in your yard (at least in the state I live in) is called the easement, and the city technically owns it, even if you are responsible for the upkeep.

Some of the possible answers they had were definitely rofl worthy. 

[Osiris]

yeah the Mary Merry and Marry apparently is only red in that tiny dot that is new york lol

[CrazyCracka420]

I pronounce all 3 the same, I believe the answer that I choose is what the majority of the US did (most of the country was red)

[Laufknoten]

I'm from North Carolina according to this test. Greensboro to be more precise but pretty much the whole area was dark red.

[CrazyCracka420]

I'm from North Carolina according to this test. Greensboro to be more precise but pretty much the whole area was dark red.

Where are you actually from?

[Osiris]

I can see how Mary and Merry can sound similar but Marry and Mary? Interesting how it varies so much in one country let alone across the pond

[Laufknoten]

Where are you actually from?

Cologne, Germany. 

[Utrakil]

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Well I am from germany. guess I haven't met enough people from central US.

[CrazyCracka420]

I can see how Mary and Merry can sound similar but Marry and Mary? Interesting how it varies so much in one country let alone across the pond

How do you pronounce Marry?  Is the vowel the same way you'd pronounce something like "tar"?

[Leesin]

Taking it now some of the questions are hard to answer. you have a word for the day before halloween? O.o and stuff like drive through liquor store and you apparently have names for bits of grass next to a road etc that ive never thought of or heard of, roads are different names but lets see what it says.

What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
Answers
the devil is beating his wife and the wolf is giving birth <--- wtf lol


http://nyti.ms/KiXt05

From Kent England

I got exactly the same, from Essex, http://nyti.ms/KiZo4E.

I did another test like this a while ago and it had the same result, it makes sense considering the British colonies were all up the east coast and populated by the English. The further you go west, the further you go into a mish mash of dialects and accents crafted from all kinds of europeans mixing with the British.

[Osiris]

I pronounce it like this guy (he is a bit of a douche) 18 seconds is when he says them all. The women too (psst heskey nub that link just goes back to the website ^^)

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[Macropus]

I seem to be from either Baltimor, Washington DC or Richmond. Not bad. 

[Osiris]

there was a little thing where it said share