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New York Times Dialect Quiz

Benjamin Grimm Dec 23 2013 09:12 AM

Take the quiz For me, Long Island was bright red, with a yellowish haze around the greater New York area, a splotch of yellow around Miami, and a pale yellow area in central Texas. My brightest blue area was southern Iowa and most of Michigan.

Ceetar Dec 23 2013 09:19 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

New York/Yonkers/Philly bright red. Grand Rapids/Detroit/Milwaukee the least.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 23 2013 09:22 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

New York/Yonkers/Newark-Patterson.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 23 2013 09:22 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

Pretty much same as Grimmy here. What the hell is supper?

Ceetar Dec 23 2013 09:26 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Pretty much same as Grimmy here. What the hell is supper? That's what my Grandmother (Central NJ) calls dinner.

G-Fafif Dec 23 2013 09:32 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: New York/Yonkers/Newark-Patterson. That was me twice, though once I got Jersey City instead of Newark-Paterson (took it multiple times since I learned the questions varied). My Kansas-born wife got results that placed her from Michigan and Indiana until she stopped calling soda "pop" and was brought closer to home. I am so not from Spokane or Boise.

A Boy Named Seo Dec 23 2013 10:01 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

It pegged me as Long Beach, CA and Albuquerque, NM which was so weird I almost thought it was fake.

TransMonk Dec 23 2013 10:09 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

Most similar: Denver Least similar: Baton Rouge Very red where I actually live, though. Pale blue in NY/NJ. Youse guys talk funny.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 23 2013 10:15 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

I've gotta say, it's kind of shocking to me that "sneakers" is a regionalism.

seawolf17 Dec 23 2013 10:16 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

Missed me by a few miles -- put me in NYC, with a red band sticking up into the middle of New York State. So I guess it more or less got me. Probably confused by my regular use of "y'all." Nailed my wife as a Rochesterian, though.

batmagadanleadoff Dec 23 2013 10:27 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

I got this. Can't even get the usual 10 free articles/month anymore without being hassled.

themetfairy Dec 23 2013 10:28 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: New York/Yonkers/Newark-Patterson. Same here.

Chad Ochoseis Dec 23 2013 12:32 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

Newark/Paterson - Yonkers - Jersey City I lived in Chicago for ten years (age 26-36) and tried to rig my answers so that it would score me as a Chicagoan, and I wound up with Jackson (???)/Detroit/Twin Cities.

sharpie Dec 23 2013 12:54 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

New York/Yonkers/Jersey City

metirish Dec 23 2013 12:55 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

Most similar - New York ,Yonkers and Boston Least similar - Grand Rapids, Toledo and Detroit.

d'Kong76 Dec 23 2013 12:57 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

My Firefox crashed when I got my map. The pinpoints were Newark, Patterson, New York, and .... wait for it Philadelphia??? I'm going to have nightmares! Philadelphia, why I never!

Ceetar Dec 23 2013 01:26 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

Kong76 wrote: My Firefox crashed when I got my map. The pinpoints were Newark, Patterson, New York, and .... wait for it Philadelphia??? I'm going to have nightmares! Philadelphia, why I never! I think it's because Philly copies NY in so much. so i t's not that you speak like them, it's that they speak like you.

batmagadanleadoff Dec 23 2013 01:49 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

I got this. Can't even get the usual 10 free articles/month anymore without being hassled. I must be on the New York Times' chump list. I took the quiz. And got this:

Zvon Dec 23 2013 01:55 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

I must be on the New York Times' chump list. I took the quiz. And got this: I got that too, then clicked the "sorry an error occurred" link and it showed me the map. Site says its overbusy atm. Newark, Patterson, Phili., New York. Kool quiz.

cooby Dec 23 2013 02:32 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

I talk mostly like people from Boston, Arlington, and Lexington. And least like three cities in Wisconsin.

TransMonk Dec 23 2013 05:44 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

I can't understand a word you just said.

Rockin' Doc Dec 23 2013 05:49 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

I don't guess that any of y'all will be surprised to hear that I have been verified as the southern hick of the forum. I speak most like Winston-Salem, NC/Richmond, VA, and Montgomery, AL. Apparently the good people of Worcester, MA (what a surprise), Baltimore, MD, and Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN are least likely to be on the same page with me. Truth be told, I would expect that the majority of the population in the state of Massachusetts would be confounded and amused by my dialect.

MFS62 Dec 23 2013 09:51 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

Mischief night got me to Paterson/ Newark. Sneakers got me to Yonkers/ New York. Later

metsmarathon Dec 24 2013 08:05 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

how would you address a group of two or more people? x you all yous / youse you lot x you guys you 'uns yinz x you x other x y'all okay... how do i choose... and, why, yes, i am from the north western corner of new jersey, and i do occasionally bust out a y'all. i think i blame the fresh prince of bel air for that one, but i'm really not sure.

Benjamin Grimm Dec 24 2013 08:07 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

For me, the plural of "you" is always "you". I took the quiz again, choosing the most obscure (to me, anyway) answers, and I ended up with a deep crimson South Dakota.

metsmarathon Dec 24 2013 08:14 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

i went with "you guys", because i think that's my default setting, except in more formal arenas, where, of course, you is the plural of you. i'm a yonkers, newark, philly speaker, apparently. i guess that makes sense.

HahnSolo Dec 24 2013 08:15 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

NY/Yonkers/Jersey City. Who are all the weirdos who pronounce "crayons" as "crans"?

Ceetar Dec 24 2013 09:14 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

metsmarathon wrote: how would you address a group of two or more people? x you all yous / youse you lot x you guys you 'uns yinz x you x other x y'all okay... how do i choose... and, why, yes, i am from the north western corner of new jersey, and i do occasionally bust out a y'all. i think i blame the fresh prince of bel air for that one, but i'm really not sure. i interchange that one a lot too. you/you is just too confusing. you guys is probably my go-to, but I've probably said a couple of them in seriousness*. I'm tempted to sprinkle in a couple of the other odd ones just to throw off people about where I'm from. Just like i'm sometimes tempted to speak with a stupid accent to try to train myself off the Lawn Guyland one. Although 5 years in Jersey now might be creeping in, and I'm not sure that's better or worse. *I'm never serious.

metsmarathon Dec 25 2013 03:18 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

I think that all depends on whether or not you're picking up the hudson county accent...

batmagadanleadoff Dec 25 2013 03:29 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

If I take the quiz 10 times, will I have used up my monthly allotment of 10 free NYT articles, or will that count as just one article read? What if I take the quiz 10 times, but no more than once a day for 10 different days?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 25 2013 06:02 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz

That's a great point, because that's exactly the sort of thing we're discussing in this thread, and it's precisely the sort of matter with which we're equipped to help!