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Eerily accurate quiz about your American dialect

Pretty accurate. Says I'm from De-troit :)


Reli said:
Right on the money for me (Michigan).

Who else answered "blow off class"? Here's the map for that answer -- I have no idea why the red area would be a perfect diagonal like that..... it doesn't make sense. There is no cultural connection between Michigan and Texas. :wtf
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"blow off class" is from MI? I didn't get that question on my version of the quiz, but wouldn't that have been playing hookie or ditching class? I'm from the thumb and Detroit areas, so maybe it's different where you're from.
 
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palada said:
"blow off class" is from MI? I didn't get that question on my version of the quiz, but wouldn't that have been playing hookie or ditching class? I'm from the thumb and Detroit areas, so maybe it's different where you're from.
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No, the question was what do you call an easy class that people take just to get an easy A.
 
Grew up in Lafayette, live in Martinez. My results were Santa Rosa, reno, and Stockton. :dunno

I had multiple answers for a few but could only pick one. The one about rain when it's sunny confused me. I just call it rain :laughing
 
Says I'm from Seattle/Portland Oregon. Spot on.
 
Has me picked too far south. I grew up in North Carolina, but it suggests Atlanta, GA or Birmingham, AL or Jackson, MS.
 
As a kid we all called those little gray bugs that ball up a potato bug but later in life I started calling them roly polys
 
Put me in Milwaukee and Stockton. I spent two years in Wisconsin, kindergarten and 1st grade, so I could imagine that would have some influence. They mentioned my use of the word kitty-corner.

But other than a couple of years in Oregon, I've spent the test of my life right here in the south bay. They placed me in Stockton because of my use of the words, frontage road.
 
Squidly McSmearstain said:
Has me picked too far south. I grew up in North Carolina, but it suggests Atlanta, GA or Birmingham, AL or Jackson, MS.
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I grew up in NC and it picked me Winston-Salem, Greensboro, wow kinda eerie. Well played, linguistics professors.

Glad I'm in California now though. :laughing
 
BLU_G.6K said:
As a kid we all called those little gray bugs that ball up a potato bug but later in life I started calling them roly polys
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I use roly poly, pill bug, sow bug, and wood louse interchangeably. A potato bug looks like this:
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Abacinator said:
I use roly poly, pill bug, sow bug, and wood louse interchangeably. A potato bug looks like this:
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Potato bug is a PNW thing I found out later in life. I also grew up using the term coke for any kind of soft drink. Apparently coke is a Deep South term but never lived in the Deep South when I referred to it as a coke. Then when I did live in the Deep South at age 12 everyone called it a soda water and in Arkansas they called it a sodie or sodie water.
 
The very first question had me in Pittsburgh, Pa-where I was born.
Then it spread me all over the map, I have lived all over the U.S.
It ended with the whole map being brown.
 
Rel said:
Got mine right as well, I'm a southern boy.
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All three of mine were southern. Birmingham & a couple other southern cities. Funny thing I was born in the north and lived there in my early life, but spent from age 6 to age 13 in the real south. Never lived there after that, but those are the years you pick up dialect.
 
BLU_G.6K said:
Potato bug is a PNW thing I found out later in life. I also grew up using the term coke for any kind of soft drink. Apparently coke is a Deep South term but never lived in the Deep South when I referred to it as a coke. Then when I did live in the Deep South at age 12 everyone called it a soda water and in Arkansas they called it a sodie or sodie water.
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In Iowa Coke was "dope". :laughing coke is definitely a southron expression. That is what I learned there.
 
dunno if my opinion matters cuz I haz a GED but I believe only certain keywords bounces you around the map and questions about the drive thru liquor store pinpoints where you are from (south) or not (California)...

doesn't quite matter how you say the words but rather what you call it..
 
The quiz places me in Orange County -- Anaheim and Santa Ana/Irving -- even though I was born & raised in Frisco.... :thumbdown
 
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