Pop or soda? Crick or creek? Interactive quiz figures out what you speak, but good!

[Veer_G]

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

I suppose you could fudge the answers and play a bit, but truthful answers give really accurate results.

SEPA? Hell, yes!

 

[BPaulk]

It worked for me.

 

[mtrmn]

pop or soda? neither--everything's a "coke" regardless if it's a root beer, Sprite, orange or what. "Let's stop and get a coke. What kinda coke you want?"
In some cases, usually with older folks, it's a "cold drank." Emphasis on the "cold."

Creek.

I couldn't see the quiz on the work computer.

 

[Dirty D]

I broke the website, Fresno, CA, Brownsville, TX and Jackson, MS. But to be fair, I have lived on all 3 coasts and a US territory.

 

[TOP PREDATOR]

worked for me too. being from coal cracker country nepa, our "languages" are even different from town to town.

the phrases and words in the "merry Christmas uncle daddy - pennsyltucky" parts are extra spooky!

 

[Veer_G]

worked for me too. being from coal cracker country nepa, our "languages" are even different from town to town.

the phrases and words in the "merry Christmas uncle daddy - pennsyltucky" parts are extra spooky!

You didn't grow up calling green peppers "mangoes," did you? That one always killed me.

 

[Victor N TN]

It only missed me about 200 miles. I guess I can live with that.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Got me right on... neat survey!

Cheers,

Sirhr

 

[ZLBubba]

Yup, this test pretty much nailed it: highest correlation was southern Indiana through southwest Ohio, exactly where I grew up. I'm just glad I haven't lost those regional ticks despite living elsewhere for the past 15 years.

 

[cav has been]

Yeah right, showed me from south Cali./Nevada border to the Cannudian border. I guess that's close,the correct side of the Mississippi river anyhow.

 

[Slapchop]

Spot on accurate for me. Thanks Veer!

 

[SledDog]

It nailed where I grew up. Devil's Night is the giveaway for me.

 

[Cartman]

Didn't even get the right state for me. But to be fair I was raised by a foreigner.

 

[Trevor300wsm]

Got within 100 miles for me. Pretty cool.

 

[Barneybdb]

Apparently I live somewhere near Yonkers, not Australia?

 

[milo 2.0]

Mine covered 7 states, both where I grew up and live today. There were 3 questions I'd never heard terms for???? Curb grass?

 

[jhedg]

I don't know what kind of voodoo this thing uses, but it picked the exact city I live in, and where I was raised. I don't know??? NSA has something to do with this

 

[jameslee]

Named my hometown. Haven't lived there for 40 years.

 

[Sweetyzfd]

Pretty good..... Worked for me

 

[scap99]

I guess Houston is an anomaly...I've done it twice now and it says I'm from Shreveport, Baton Rouge, or Birmingham...

 

[fmrabnmp]

Jesus, I have become my wife. All my answers put me in the area she grew up in!

 

[pmclaine]

All you have to do is use the word "Rotary" and you become a Masshole instantaneously.

All other questions were useless reading time in my case.

 

[LegioX]

The map is full o shiite, Stockton and Modesto, Kali. And Reno, NV......Not even close

 

[kz45]

The first map is Baton Rouge! Nail on head

 

[Veer_G]

Apparently I live somewhere near Yonkers, not Australia?

We may have to call ICE on your ass!

 

[TOP PREDATOR]

You didn't grow up calling green peppers "mangoes," did you? That one always killed me.

yep! i still make that mistake today.

also phrases like:
"turning up, shutting off the lights",
"look at that across the way",
"about 1/2 hour away (using time rather than distance to measure travel),
"cross the crick",
every destination was preceded by "goin' up..." for future tense, "down dare (there)" used for past tense.
Midnight mass at 8:00pm,
"couple or two / three (means more than 1, even if it was 6 or 7)",
"getting under the covers" (meant putting on another blanket),
"booties" (are slippers),
"highballs" (mixed drinks)
"grog" (beer)
"piggies" or "pigs in the blanket" (stuffed cabbage. weird that blankets are used here, but covers used for blankets when referring to actual blankets!)
"spaghetti, ziti or rigatoni" (used for all pasta, no matter what size or shape)
"spaghetti sauce" (anything used to cover pasta no matter what color or what's contained in the sauce. also interchanged with some soups & stews)
"night crawlers" used for all larger worm varieties of fish bait, "red worms" were smaller sized, no matter the color.
"winda" (window)
"nightgownd, drownded, throwed, walkeded, goed, did you went to the store?
"corpse house" a viewing at a funeral home.

the best is "hayna-or-no" (do you agree or not)

so many more retarded words and phrases its hard for me to "writed" them all down, but this local radio station did this bit that wraps up our dialect. be warned you may piss your pants whether you are from here or not:

http://www.coalregion.com/jonesy_hayna-family.mp3

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"jonesie" was an actual person that talked just like that, and lived in Eynon (Archbald)! got F'd up really bad on LSD, built choppers 'cause God told him to then beat the shit out of them 'cause they got possessed by the Devil, thought the government puts microphones in our bloodstreams and tags on clothes, and wasn't afraid to start preaching many of his outlooks in the middle of any public outing including how the local bigfoot populations were actually aliens that came to bring redemption to residents that were not clean of spirit.

 

[powder monkey]

This site has been around forever and has some insight on the Pop vs Soda debate. : )

The Pop vs. Soda Page

 

[0311 Hesco]

Dead on for me, then the second city it listed is only 50 miles away! This is a conspiracy!! Haha

 

[Texar2]

I couldn't click the link. Didn't want to give the ny times the satisfaction of knowing I visited their website. I already know where I'm from. Merry Christmas. Gonna go back to watching Josey Wales now.

 

[triceratops3]

was spot on for me. Born and Raised in Pittsburgh.

 

[High Binder]

This is the EXACT same result I got and I've NEVER even been to that part of the country, closest I've gotten was Great Lakes for basic.

 

[Petrov]

I am so western NY/ n PA it is painful.

 

[Veer_G]

This is the EXACT same result I got and I've NEVER even been to that part of the country, closest I've gotten was Great Lakes for basic.

For those of you who are feeling miffed by less-than-stellar results, bear in mind that only so much can be determined in a 25 question survey, especially one that is designed to do a broad separation up front by asking the "second person plural" (yinz, youse guys, you lot, etc.) question first.

There is a 140 question version that does a better job, but it'd be out of the question to ask someone to do that as an amusement. Also, bear in mind that it was designed for North Americans, not Brits, Kiwis, etc.

Some background:

Beyond "Soda, Pop, or Coke": Regional Dialect Variation in the Continental US

Maps of original responses:

Dialect Survey Results

 

[Mister Ridge]

Apparently I'm from Virginia, despite having lived within 5 minutes of the PA/MD border my whole life. I would much rather be in Virginia. Or Pennsylvania. Or Kentucky. Tennessee. Montana. Texas. North Carolina.

 

[HAZORD]

This thing put me in Modesto CA, Fresno CA and Tucson which isn't right. I've been through Tucson and Fresno but never lived there. I was born and raised in Idaho but I've spent time in upstate Utah, Upstate New York, Huntsville, and Southern California.

I think I'll take it again and change a few answers to see what I get next.

So, I took it again and changed answers on about 3 or 4 questions where there could have been a different answer that was equal. I actually got more questions the second time through. It skipped some of the questions the first time for some reason. Anyway, it still gave me Modesto/Fresno, but it also gave me Boise which is my home. That part is scary.

So, I took it for a third time. I got a lot of the same questions, some new questions, and some that were on the test the first time I took it. I've still never gotten the crick or creek question. It seems to want to put me in Modesto/Fresno because I chose firefly. It also put me in Salt Lake where I did live for an accumulated 8 years.

I would suggest you take it more than once.

 

[Handloader]

This map shit me all over the country, But to be fair, I was born in American Europe and my father drug me all over the country/countries as he was in the Air force. I was in the Army, and I still do not have a state that I call home, go figure...maybe this map was right!

 

[Decoy]

WTF! It said I was born in a trash dump.

 

[RyeDaddy]

It NAILED me precisley. My map is exactly the same as Veer's and I grew up in the Newark area. That was pretty cool.

 

[tt123]

Not being from the US I suppose it wasn't really a fair test, but it says that I'm either from Springfield, Anchorage, or Honolulu.

 

[Veer_G]

It NAILED me precisley. My map is exactly the same as Veer's and I grew up in the Newark area. That was pretty cool.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and suppose that there ain't no good pastrami in DFW?

Just as it was:

Best deli in Newark - Review of Hobby's Delicatessen & Restaurant, Newark, NJ - TripAdvisor

 

[Punisher29073]

I'm from SC. It showed me being from LA or MS. Relatively close I reckon.

Ryan

 

[Switchblade]

It pegged me for Nor-Cal(Stockton, so maybe 30 miles short) and Albuquerque, NM(a few hundred miles short). Being raised between Nor-Cal and So-Cal by a granny from the Arkie side twin village of Moffet(One on each side of the border of Arkie and Oakie, separated by a two lane blacktop off of Rt66)
The words were mostly accurate, and the Cali drawl still exist with the heavy slang that is a bastard mix of surfer and arkie

 

[bogeybrown]

Pegged me in NOLA, but when they offer "neutral ground" and "poor boy" (should be po boy) as answers I'd imagine it takes the guess-work out of the equation.

 

[doctordoctor]

wow. that was pretty close. It told me Northern California but I'm form southern. My family comes from Utah though so that could be the mix. I did grow up with my grandparents 2 streets over.