There was also a moderate similarity with the dialects of coastal states. We may earn a commission from links on this page. I've taken both, and got the same results. Want to get your very own quizzes and posts featured on BuzzFeeds homepage and app? But this test placed me pretty much solidly in the Deep South (either that or Kentucky). I guess if I'd taken it to be a passive-knowledge question, I probably would have checked "mischief night" as being what I think of as the default term used by those who have occasion to refer to it. I found certain questions impossible to answer accurately, because of the structure of the test. And that was a little weird because some of her answers weren't in accordance with the midwest city she lives in now, but that city where she grew up. Bert Vaux My map came up with Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Rochester and Providence. So whatever it's doing, it seems to be doing it consistently. (But I guess if the British Isles were included in the survey I would probably end up somewhere in the ocean.). decision trees), lazy algorithms store all the training data they will need need in order to classify something and dont use it until the exact moment theyre given something to classify. Look at the map with the results of your survey. What do you call the level of a building that is partly or entirely underground? Youre viewing another readers map. Oh well. Which look liked this: Based on your responses, the map at right shows the overlap between your speech and the various dialects of American English, as measured by data from the Harvard Dialect Survey, conducted by Bert Vaux and Scott Golder. Selected legacy data from the previous Harvard dialect survey. I'm a third generation Rochesterian (NY), and the quiz pegged me exactly. About the survey: Many of the questions used in this quiz are based on those in the Harvard Dialect Survey, a lignuistics project begun in 2002. At the end it gave Baltimore, Winston-Salem, and Greensboro. (The dialect quiz used to be hosted on his site but was always facing server issues, so it's great that the Times agreed to host it Katz is now an intern for their graphics department.) It may be a distinctive usage a 'Where'd ja learn that? Chair, Institutional Review Board for the Social and Behavioral Sciences The rest of my (long) life has been spent in the mid-Atlantic east coast states. The Florida panhandle also showed moderate similarities. It gave me Anchorage and Miami. I tried it a few times and it never managed to pick cities anywhere near where I've lived all my life. The original questions and results for that survey can be found on Dr. Vaux's current website. It pretty much nailed me. about your participation, or report illness, injury or other problems, Maybe the "y'all" and the "yard sale" thing pushed them over the edge? 2372: Dialect Quiz - explain xkcd The survey doesn't tell us how much more the distinctive question factored in (they might not even know). Language Log Interactive dialect map - University of Pennsylvania the final vowel in "Monday," "Friday," etc. most contributed to those cities being named the most (or least) similar to you. To obtain more information about the We hold major institutions accountable and expose wrongdoing. ), could you say you feel: How do you pronounce , as in "Abbas was a famous Shah of Iran"? My map placed me in Denver and Aurora, Colorado, a place I've visited exactly twice in my life, and Minneapolis/St.