NYTimes Dialect Quiz

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LuckyMcSwervy

******************Philadelphia, Baltimore, Newark/Paterson.

Pretty much. I think "mischief night" locked it up for me.

Philadelphia, Yonkers, Newark/Paterson.
Hoagie sealed my fate.


I call it a sub but I still love Wawa's Hoagiefest.
"We do it just a little bit better. Wawa"


Now I'll have that jingle stuck in my head.

It's been stuck in my head since I read what you wrote!!! And the Shop Rite Can-Can jingle but I don't think you'd get that if you're from PA.
Oh I got it. Damn you.

[Southern_Man 0]

So I had my daughters take the quiz too. One daughter they placed in arizona and southern california. The others got Yonkers, Springfield, MO, and Pembroke Pines, FL. So none of us were identified with anywhere close to where we had actually lived and there was no overlap between the three of us. Not sure what that means except I guess we do not have a very distinctive way of speaking.

"What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

[LuckyMcSwervy 0]

david3

*********************Philadelphia, Baltimore, Newark/Paterson.

Pretty much. I think "mischief night" locked it up for me.

Philadelphia, Yonkers, Newark/Paterson.
Hoagie sealed my fate.


I call it a sub but I still love Wawa's Hoagiefest.
"We do it just a little bit better. Wawa"


Now I'll have that jingle stuck in my head.

It's been stuck in my head since I read what you wrote!!! And the Shop Rite Can-Can jingle but I don't think you'd get that if you're from PA.
Oh I got it. Damn you.

You're welcome. My pleasure.

Always be kinder than you feel.

[kallend 2,030]

shropshire

******Seems jolly confused by me :-)

Are you still in Cambridge, Tony?

Just a bit further North now John, at Downham Market in Norfolk (they do speak right funny up here).

Merry Christmas

Know it well - my first wife was from King's Lynn.

...

The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[shropshire 0]

kallend

*********Seems jolly confused by me :-)

Are you still in Cambridge, Tony?

Just a bit further North now John, at Downham Market in Norfolk (they do speak right funny up here).

Merry Christmas

Know it well - my first wife was from King's Lynn.


Small world aye?

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[JerryBaumchen 1,375]

Hi John,

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my first wife was from King's Lynn.

There was a bar in King's Lynn that a lot of the GI's frequented.

It was also frequented by the "I want to go to the promised land.' girls.



JerryBaumchen

[JerryBaumchen 1,375]

Hi Jeanne,

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we live in Americas version of Crappy English Weather...

You go spend a year in Norfolk, you'll change that tune.



JerryBaumchen

PS) Especially up near Hunstanton.

[shropshire 0]

JerryBaumchen

Hi Jeanne,

Quote

we live in Americas version of Crappy English Weather...

You go spend a year in Norfolk, you'll change that tune.



JerryBaumchen

PS) Especially up near Hunstanton.

Sunny Hunny .... say it ain't so

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[kallend 2,030]

JerryBaumchen

Hi Jeanne,

Quote

we live in Americas version of Crappy English Weather...

You go spend a year in Norfolk, you'll change that tune.



JerryBaumchen

PS) Especially up near Hunstanton.

I went to the beach at Hunstanton many times when I lived in Cambridge.

The locals call it "Hunston" IIRC.

...

The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[grue 1]

ryoder

This thing seems to be uncanny at determining your area of origin.

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

Here's my result:

http://i.imgur.com/AoDOxg8.jpg

Tucson, AZ, Pembroke Pines, FL and Ft Lauderdale, FL

Between the ages of 0-30 lived in (in no particular order)

Los Angeles
Sioux City, IA
Sanibel Island, FL (other side from FtL and PP)
Seattle, WA
Concord, CA
Faribault, MN
Sydney, Australia
Vermillion, SD
San Jose, CA
Melbourne, Australia



When I intentionally threw out the one result that I picked up here in Australia (roundabout) and took it again, I got Denver and Aurora, CO and Fresno, CA

Edit: Took it again and got a few slightly different questions. Now it's sure I'm from Chander/Gilbert, Mesa/Tempe, or Scottsdale, AZ

Edit 2: Took out the drive through liquor store answer and changed to "never heard of them" and got Santa Rosa, Seattle, and Minneapolis. That makes much more sense.

cavete terrae.