I enjoyed this and it pegged me. It only works within the US, though it might be funny for Non USa people to see where their accents would fit in best.
It asks how you pronounce certain things and what you call certain things and narrows down where you are likely from…
Mine said Pembroke Pines, Orlando, and one other place in Florida. I’m Canadian… but a lot of senior Canadians buy property in Florida because it’s warmer. “Snow birds”… so it’s not totally off.
LOL, I don’t think that works as an explanation since it is a future event affecting the past building up of a dialect. There must either be some other connection - coincidentally Canadians or Canadians from your neck of the woods have a similar dialect.
I do remember soda and pop issues, sneaker and I think it was runners in the part of Canada I spent the most time in. I can do a Canadian accent, a non-Quebec one that is, but I am not sure I could go back and answer the test that way. I hope other Canadians try it. I think if a bunch of Canadians correlate with Orlando, we should write the designers.
Albuquerque, Wichita, and Richmond.
Not bad since I am from the west , have family and friends from all over and live in the south.
Marietta Ga. and Canton, Ohio. My use of words reflect both; but since I was raised in the South, I still use old Irish words that are prevalent down there. “y’all”, “yonder”, etc. etc. And pronunciations are definitely different between the areas. Down South “fire” is “far.” Listening to Atlanta news broadcasts, I find the Northernization of Southern dialects. It seems like Atlanta could be just another Northern city. About 8 miles out of Atlanta, you’ll still get thick Irish dialect.
Interesting.
Mine were all pretty much the same city or surroundings: now my parents are foreigners and some of my friends were not born in the US and a number of their parents were not and I have not much of the local accent. Still it nailed me to one spot.
You however are spread out, accurately.
So it was accurate?
All mine were cities in south Florida. Ft Lauderdale, Pembroke Pines and another that was right in between em. 3 dots all in one spot. I guess that’s where I met so many of my friends during those formative years. The 3 cities were all very close and I’ve actually spent long periods of time in all of em, not years at a time, but cumulatively several years at least. Im red all over the northeast and I’m blue for about a 450 mile radius from where I actually live.
I dunno. My IE wouldn’t go to the recommended site. I do think that worldwide communication is destroying what once were natural dialects.
BBC British here: I got Yonkers, NYC and Jersey. I was expecting more New England/Canadian border.
I’m also English. I got New York and Jersey too. So maybe there’s something to it. But the results also came up with Hawaii!
The color aspect got me figured out real well, the cites named were down in Boston and the New York Area. I’m 5th Generation Northern Maine, haven’t been out of the state for more than two weeks at a stretch, so based on what other people are saying, I’m just gonna assume they don’t have any Maine cities loaded in the system and Worchester is as close they get.
Ucc, Maine is one of only a handful of states I can’t say I’ve visited. I’m totally coming to crash on your couch.
Do It, I have three.
I might have expected somewhere around Boston for that accent, but I guess diction is playing a big role. Even parts of the south. Too bad they don’t do separate compilations for word choice and accent.
I was expecting more New England, as Noo Joisey is much more different to Br.E. in vowel sounds than Bostonian. It’s possibly more that word choice is more similar there, having been more cosmopolitan in the early 20th century when British English was more international, while New England stuck with archaisms or thought up new things. Pure guesswork, though.
Rochester NY, Aurora IL, Springfield MA
Who knew “tag sale” is so limited, geographically?
Where did it peg you to?
Oh, one of those big, NE coast US cities.
Yes, I was surprised by some of the very regionalness of Words I thought were national. I had trouble with that one. I recognized all the terms. And where I grew up tag sale was possible, but where I lived as an adult, garage and yard sales were more the rule. And by the time I got interested in these things, I was in the second Place.