What does the way you speak say about where you’re from?
 

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

Tells me I'm from the NYC area, which is accurate.

I did this yesterday and I was from the Boston/Worcester/Providence area. Of course. We drink from bubblers, biatches! :)

Mine said I was in the Detroit/Toledo/Grand Rapids area. Of course, we drink pop and drink from drinking fountains.

Same here! Rotaries all the way! I mean, I hate the things, but that's the only word to call them.

Gulf Coast and Long Island - amazing.

Mine was very Texan with "hot spots" in Maryland and the midwest. Pretty darn accurate.

Mine is from Boston, Providence, Worcester

Northern California and Northern Georgia. Didn't see that coming at aaaaallll. :p

It placed me in California, and even named a city a few miles from where I used to live.

Native Washington DC all the way. An "ant" is a bug. An "ahhh-nt" is your mother's sister. Also rocking the traffic circles, sodas, and potato bugs.

In case there was any doubt, n'at
http://i.imgur.com/z5gvc2W.png

I took it several times because some questions had different options that I use. I always ended up between the Texas/Louisiana border and the Alabama/Georgia border, no further north than Chattanooga or Little Rock. Odd, as I'm a native Texan.

Columbus and Jackson, MS and Montgomery, AL. I grew up in Atlanta, live in Nashville. Who knew roly poly bugs had so many aliases?

Yeah - told me Detroit & Rochester. I've never been to Rochester.
Weird

Nailed it. Northern California.

Gotta love linguists.

Ha. You can make it do anything you want.

I am so tickled that it got me right! No one EVER guesses Louisiana for my accent. I guess the words I choose would be a better clue.

http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x...a/image-12.jpg

Rochester, NY or Rochester, MI?

AOII Angel, I *think* it's based on the lexicon of each region and also on some phonetic variations in pronunciation. I make fun of you because I can't understand what you say when you start talking Louisiana. And you guys make fun of me for "you guys". In grad school I had to learn how to say "cot" and "caught", "ant" and "aunt", etc. There were some diphthongs and a few vowels missing from my phonological inventory (or is it my phonemic inventory? I forget). No one in California had trouble understanding what I was saying.

Or maybe it's like the Facebook giraffe and it can pry into your life and know everything just based on how you say "pecan".

Bwahahaha

Very accurate!
 

My test nailed that I grew up in Philadelphia! I am a midwest transplant and everyone has always teased me for my regional vocabulary, and I guess it does show. :)

In real life, I don't have the traditional Yinzer accent (Example: Here, this is hillarious)

BUT- I do have a Pittsburgh vocabulary. When I was a sophomore in college, I made an offhand comment about a "gumband", and...crickets...
It blew my mind that this word I had said all my life that was NOT UNIVERSAL. I also felt super validated when I lived in Northern Ireland and "slippy" is totally part of the vocabulary.

I had Fort Worth, Shreveport and Lubbock.

Born in Fort Worth, lived in east Texas (Tyler, not too far from Shreveport) until I was 13, then back to Fort Worth/Dallas until I was 30.

No connection to Lubbock whatsoever, but I guess it had to give a 3rd option.

So, yeah, a pretty accurate representation.

**Side note- anyone else completely disturbed by "The devil is beating his wife?" Seriously? Who comes up with these things and then who repeats it enough to become part of the regional vernacular?

Ha. Doesn't bother me at all. I guess since it was part of the vernacular.

It nailed my hometown as well as the city were I went to school for 5 years, as well as Yonkers which was odd, but same area. It also showed some hotspots in the Inland Northwest, which makes perfect sense. I apparently picked up more there in 3 years than I thought.

Nailed my hometown (Chicago/NWI) with a hotspot in my new home city (DC)

I got Rockford IL, Madison and Milwaukee WI. I haven't lived in any of these places but I have lived relatively close, within 3 hours or so, of all of them. I retook the test today to see if I'd get a different answer. While there were a few new questions this time (kitty corner), I still got the exact same cities! I was particularly curious since I've lived in so many different cities around the country and have picked up phrases along the way. For instance, soda is pretty universally understood. Pop is not. I grew up with karmul, but when I learned the food was named after a guy whose name starts like care, then I changed my pronunciation. My ex-husband always said katty corner which just bugged me. But then so much did...

Oh, and least similar: New Orleans, Birmingham and Montgomery. No big surprises there!

Mine was spot on.

If you want to listen to a real-life Rhode Island accent complete with phonetically-spelled words this video is great: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikdawnIY8RA
Starts about 45 seconds in and I love it.

Portland/Vancouver (my hometown)
Reno (never been, but had an aunt who went there a ton, perhaps her influence)
Santa Rosa (no connection.

S*** Boston Guys Say. A classic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao3lqNqXZrg

Fremont/Stockton (My hometown San Jose, CA)
Milwaukee - Now that's weird. Never been there and I do not know anyone from that area. My immediate family is from the Boston area.

^^LIKE!

It's so funny because I grew up in boston (and have been told many times about how I have an accent), but I lived in philly for a while too, and I feel like once I said that I call a cold sandwich a hoagie they ended up putting me in the philly and new england region

That I am southern.

That I am not southern. lol. I'm Californian.

Mine came out Fort Worth, Lubbock, and Dallas - hilarious since those are the only three places I have resided since age 4.

I got Springfield (MA), Worcester, and Boston. It's a ROTARY! Siri needs to learn this. I do not know of these traffic circles she speaks of.

These were the 3 least like me!