American Dialect Quiz

[zitronenhai]

A little bit ago, this American dialect quiz was floating around on Facebook. People who have lived in a lot of different regions of the US, or have lived abroad, got some less predictable results. My results pinned me dead-on.

Comments

[chezmax]

I know the test doesn't really apply to me, but it says my dialect is most like Buffalo or Minneapolis/St. Paul or Grand Rapids. All of which are probably pretty similar. I might have thrown it off by not knowing about 'native cats of north america' (there aren't any here, and I'd think of a lynx first)

[zitronenhai]

Based on what I understand of spoken English in your part of Canada, all of that makes sense.

[rivertumbled]

Whoa.
I took it and I got Baltimore, DC, and a DC suburb.
I have never been to Baltimore, and I've only been to DC once...

[zitronenhai]

Weird! So weird! I don't even know what to say!

[rivertumbled]

I know! I think I must have done it wrong. Or I have just lived in too many places....

[zitronenhai]

I think that is the likeliest reason. Outside of my few years in S TX, I have lived in NE KS, and it (boringly enough) shows.