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Eerily accurate quiz about your American dialect

Reli said:
OK fess up, who the hell picked choice 2,3,4, or 5 to this? Those choices are fucking retarded! :laughing
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Yep, I heard the Devil one way back. I'm pretty sure an aunt told me it. I don't "call" it that, but it's something I think of every time it happens.

"The devil is beating his wife, and she is crying".

They placed me in a couple towns in Wisconsin, and Stockton.
Well I did spend two years, kindergarten and 1st grade, in Waukeshaw and Pewaukee Wisconsin, so I guess that had an influence. They tagged my use of the words "Kitty-corner" to there.
But then they tagged my use of "frontage road" to Stockton. Never set foot there.

So... Close. But not quite.
 
Nitewaif said:
I picked #3...the devil is beating his wife. Born in Memphis and raised in Memphis and north MS.

My 3 results were Birmingham AL, Jackson MS, and Columbus GA.
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I once picked up a hitchhiker from somewhere in the South that, when we encountered a thunderstorm, opined that "the devil's beatin' his wife with a silver chain."
 
Pfff, mine said I was from Santa Rosa, but I grew up in Marin!


Actually pretty eerie!
 
I heard "The devil is beating his wife." for raining while the sun is shining from friends and such growing up. I've never used a particular phrase for it or thought it was weird. Wind can blow rain drops around.
:laughing
 
I got Freemont, Stockton and San Jose. :rofl
 
The top one is a solpugid and the bottom one is a isopod.
I called them mole crickets and pill bugs respectively for the survey.

Ernie, they use "dope" in Tennessee as well. I always got a kick out of a store there that had painted on the side in a huge display "Home of the big red dope" I kept looking for some retarded ginger dude.

For me this survey said Stockton, Salt Lake and Madison Wi.
I tried to answer using terms I grew up with and declined on those I knew I picked up later in life.
I grew up, more or less, in Dayton, Ohio area and that place was fed from Southerners after WWII. People use many different terms for the smae thing even today, like lightning bug and firefly, which interestingly enough was an answer on the survey.
Never saw a roundabout until I lived in Scotland.
Never saw a frontage road until I lived in Texas.
I can't wait to see how this survey fares for people I know that use distinct vernacular.
 
It gave me three cities:

Sacramento
Modesto
Santa Rosa

It figured I was from Santa Rosa because of the word "Crawdad" (among other things I'm sure).

That is crazy accurate....
 
DrSwade said:
The top one is a solpugid and the bottom one is a isopod.
I called them mole crickets and pill bugs respectively for the survey.

Ernie, they use "dope" in Tennessee as well. I always got a kick out of a store there that had painted on the side in a huge display "Home of the big red dope" I kept looking for some retarded ginger dude.

For me this survey said Stockton, Salt Lake and Madison Wi.
I tried to answer using terms I grew up with and declined on those I knew I picked up later in life.
I grew up, more or less, in Dayton, Ohio area and that place was fed from Southerners after WWII. People use many different terms for the smae thing even today, like lightning bug and firefly, which interestingly enough was an answer on the survey.
Never saw a roundabout until I lived in Scotland.
Never saw a frontage road until I lived in Texas.
I can't wait to see how this survey fares for people I know that use distinct vernacular.
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The top one is a potato bug, and the bottom is a Polio Bug! I think I picked up frontage road in Tx as well, lived there 3 years.
 
The quiz didn't work. But maybe that's because I was raised by east coast parents in the midwest, with 2 years in England and now a decade in California.

The quiz has me pegged to where my parent's are from, New York City, based I'm guessing on my use of "sneakers" and "soda." Never lived there, and anyone that's met me in person would know I'm Midwestern... enough that in college I was nicknamed "Ohio" within a week of arriving at school. I drop a lot of "y'alls" and "yonders." Add some drinks and out comes "a whole 'nother" "go'on git" and references to possums, squirrels, ground hogs, and farm animals.

Also, we always called them Armadillo Bugs. Wasn't an option. Maybe that was just something my parents or friends made up? Definitely knew the difference between those and centipedes and millipedes though.
 
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MysterYvil said:
I took it three times, and it gave me Rockford/Chicago/Aurora each time. First 25 years of my life were spent in Chicago, and apparently 24 years in CA hasn't erased that.

I usually hear "The City," and you can actually hear the capital T.
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I'd say "the city" for SF if it were in context, that is, relative to Marin, the Peninsula, or the East Bay. But outside of the Bay Area "The City" will always mean "New York City" to me.
 
are the answer's order randomized? I grew up in the south and in Chicago and have traveled/lived in lots of places. I picked the first one that resonated with me and feel that my answer could be different if I took the time to look through the WHOLE list before selecting...
 
I grew up in Sf, California. It pegged me as Long Beach, Honolulu and New York. :laughing
 
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