Eerily accurate quiz about your American dialect

[kevin 714]

No one born and raised in sf says Frisco

 

[Stormdragon]

Not too accurate for me, although it mostly wants to call me a Californian.

I use roly poly, pill bug, sow bug, and wood louse interchangeably. A potato bug looks like this:

That would be a Jerusalem Cricket, or alternatively a Child Of The Earth.

Here's your Potato, or Sow Bug:

 

[Squidly McSmearstain]

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.

Wow. I grew up in Winston-Salem. Where are you from?

 

[vato_loco]

No one born and raised in sf says Frisco

After hearing the City referred more & more as San Fran -- it's probably a techie attempt to differentiate themselves from the locals -- I find myself using Frisco a lot more, mostly to mess with the transplants.

San Fran? You've got to be fuckin' kidding me!

 

[Arminius]

Not too accurate for me, although it mostly wants to call me a Californian.




That would be a Jerusalem Cricket, or alternatively a Child Of The Earth.

Here's your Potato, or Sow Bug:

I Southern Louisiana they call roly polys doodle bugs.

 

[Arminius]

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.

Kentucky the real south? Hmmm, not sure I agree. It's said that Kentucky is the northern most southern state or the southern most northern state.

 

[Abacinator]

Not too accurate for me, although it mostly wants to call me a Californian.




That would be a Jerusalem Cricket, or alternatively a Child Of The Earth.

Here's your Potato, or Sow Bug:

If you Google image search potato bug, it will give you a shit load of Jerusalem crickets.

 

[Zerox]

Wow. I grew up in Winston-Salem. Where are you from?

Near Asheville, great motorcycle riding roads there too.

 

[afm199]

Kentucky the real south? Hmmm, not sure I agree. It's said that Kentucky is the northern most southern state or the southern most northern state.

Well poot to you.

 

[Arminius]

Well poot to you.

I've only spent time in Louisville and can vouch it's just as southern as any southern state I've been to or lived in.

 

[Arminius]

Near Asheville, great motorcycle riding roads there too.

I was just in Asheville two weekends ago. I could totally live there one day. Must try Troy and Sons Moonshine and Highland Brewery if you're ever there.

 

[CABilly]

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.

I figured that was the Stockton one.. Because the frontage road off 99 is called Frontage road

Crawdad I guess is Santa Rosa. Which one is for Reno? And Sac? It was close for me, but only within 80 miles. I wonder which ones combine to make Modesto.

 

[V4]

i think there's a pattern here..

"never heard of that term"

"never used that term"

"no idea what it's called"

"don't know"

"no idea"

= educated in Santa Rosa...

 

[GPzPop]

statistics? how do they work ?

 

[Shaggy]

I took it again and got different questions. This time is said SF, Oakland, and Fremont. That's a little better.

 

[jh2586]

Mine said Bakersfield, Modesto and Fresno.

I'm from Oakland

 

[Blankpage]

I wasn't born in the US and spent most of my life outside of it so not surprised it had me all over the place. I've never been to any of these places:
Boston
Augusta
Honolulu

 

[tonedeaf]

I've lived in Dublin, Ireland; Bowling Green, Ohio; Walnut Creek, CA and spent a lot of time with my dad who's Texan. I went into the test thinking, feeling lucky, punk? The test nailed it. Fresno

edit: joking aside, that's still eerily close to walnut creek

 

[sanjuro]

BTW, I lived in NYC, Buffalo, New England, New Orleans and now here.

My results are different every time I take this test.

 

[Cycle61]

Roundabout put me in Reno, Yard Sale put me in Fresno, and kitty-corner put me in Spokane.

I've lived up and down both coasts, and probably adopted more than a little southern from my girlfriend over the last couple years. Actual origin is in Tacoma, Washington. Wonder if that's on the map.