Author Topic: Dialect Quiz -- Where Are You From? (Read 4929 times)

Freddie · « **on:** July 20, 2014, 05:37:45 AM »

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html

Take the quiz and report where it says you are from.

Post your results (there is an option to share at the end and you can get a link.)

Here was my result: http://nyti.ms/1nr2O77

lubaby · « **Reply #1 on:** July 20, 2014, 07:07:02 AM »

They got mine right

http://nyti.ms/1liddfP

Moes Tavern · « **Reply #2 on:** July 20, 2014, 07:08:31 AM »

They got me

http://nyti.ms/1nKGy2k

Freddie, are you originally from the Chicago area?

george · « **Reply #3 on:** July 20, 2014, 07:33:15 AM »

Here's mine: http://nyti.ms/1ligfR9

I think the real fun would be to challenge yourself to answer the questions in such a way that it will tell you you are from a specific city, not the one you are actually from

avadah · « **Reply #4 on:** July 20, 2014, 07:50:36 AM »

Got me too. (You guys.)

What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining? The devil is beating his wife.
Never heard that term before.

Sport · « **Reply #5 on:** July 20, 2014, 07:55:55 AM »

They got me as well.
http://nyti.ms/1lijb05

AnonymousUser · « **Reply #6 on:** July 20, 2014, 08:15:25 AM »

They got me too.
http://nyti.ms/1nKMloJ

ChaimMoskowitz · « **Reply #7 on:** July 20, 2014, 09:56:40 AM »

missed me.

MC · « **Reply #8 on:** July 20, 2014, 10:07:08 AM »

It was the "freeway" that gave me away

ChaimMoskowitz · « **Reply #9 on:** July 20, 2014, 10:10:10 AM »

Quote from: MC on July 20, 2014, 10:07:08 AM

It was the "freeway" that gave me away

what was the question? we all don't get the same questions.

MC · « **Reply #10 on:** July 20, 2014, 10:11:52 AM »

Quote from: ChaimMoskowitz on July 20, 2014, 10:10:10 AM

what was the question? we all don't get the same questions.

What do you call the thing where you drive fast? (Or something along those lines)

Sport · « **Reply #11 on:** July 20, 2014, 10:18:40 AM »

Quote from: MC on July 20, 2014, 10:11:52 AM

What do you call the thing where you drive fast? (Or something along those lines)

Streets?

chucksterace · « **Reply #12 on:** July 20, 2014, 10:21:20 AM »

Umm, didnt get me - http://nyti.ms/1nKYA4x

MC · « **Reply #13 on:** July 20, 2014, 10:23:18 AM »

Quote from: Sport on July 20, 2014, 10:18:40 AM

Streets?

Lol. I knew I phrased it badly. The exact question was:
What do you call a big road on which you drive relatively fast?

highway

freeway

parkway

turnpike

expressway

throughway/thru-way

a freeway is bigger than a highway

a freeway is free (i.e., doesn't charge tolls); a highway isn't

a freeway has limited access (no stop lights, no intersections), whereas a highway can have stop lights and

other