American Dialect Quiz

[JohnnyB]

Took the test again and I got more accurate results

I live close to Yonkers, NY

[Gooding]

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...-map.html?_r=0

Yeah, they got it right. My dialect is apparently compatible with Arlington, VA, Durham, NC and Winston Salem, NC.

Arlington


Durham


Winston-Salem







These maps show your most distinctive answer for each of these cities.



Arlington




What do you call a traffic situation in which several roads meet in a circle?

traffic circle


Durham




What would you call a sale of unwanted items on your porch, in your yard, etc.?

yard sale


Winston-Salem




What would you call a sale of unwanted items on your porch, in your yard, etc.?

yard sale







About This Quiz

Most of the questions used in this quiz are based on those in the Harvard Dialect Survey, a linguistics project begun in 2002 by Bert Vaux and Scott Golder. The original questions and results for that survey can be found on Dr. Vaux's current website.

The data for the quiz and maps shown here come from over 350,000 survey responses collected from August to October 2013 by Josh Katz, a graphics editor for the New York Times who developed this quiz. The colors on the large heat map correspond to the probability that a randomly selected person in that location would respond to a randomly selected survey question the same way that you did. The three smaller maps show which answer most contributed to those cities being named the most (or least) similar to you.



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