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How Y'all, Youse and You Guys Talk

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How Y'all, Youse and You Guys Talk - by Josh Katz and Wilson Andrews/ Sunday Review/The Opinion Pages/ The New York Times.com

What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer all the questions below to see your personal dialect map.



Richard
 
My results proved that you CAN take the girl out of NY And Take the NY out of the girl, lol!
 
After answering all the questions, I didn't get a map. Obviously, my speech it so correct that it either represents everywhere, or nowhere. Y'all.

Jim
 
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Passepartout said:
After answering all the questions, I didn't get a map. Obviously, my speach it so correct that it either represents everywhere, or nowhere. Y'all.

Jim
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No map here either.
 
The map took a few seconds (maybe 30) to show up, but was fairly accurate, although it pegged my answers to three northern CA cities. I didn't notice any questions that would make the NorCal/SoCal distinction clear (I was not asked to define "hella" or asked about the secret menu at In-N-Out so how could they know??)
 
No map for me either, and I did it in Firefox and Safari.
 
Took the quiz again- this time using Firefox instead of a mobile browser. Interesting. It asked some different questions, and up popped my map when done. It nailed me pretty close. Within a couple hundred miles of where I grew up and still spend the majority of my time.

Jim
 
klpca said:
The map took a few seconds (maybe 30) to show up, but was fairly accurate, although it pegged my answers to three northern CA cities. I didn't notice any questions that would make the NorCal/SoCal distinction clear (I was not asked to define "hella" or asked about the secret menu at In-N-Out so how could they know??)
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It finally came up for me in Chrome. Just had to give it some time. Even though it doesn't include Canada (where I grew up) it was as close as it could get I guess with Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Minneapolis/St Paul.
 
So, the map says I'm either from Denver (went there on my honeymoon), Springfield Missouri (never been), or Overland Park KS, which is very random. Unless you have lived in Kansas City (spent a year there), I cannot imagine you'd ever know where OPKS is.

I'm from Ohio. The map doesn't seem to think so though.:shrug:
 
My results said I matched most closely to Greensboro, which is a little more southern than I am, as I was born and raised in Maryland but most answers had orange or red that made it up to my area. Apparently I don't talk at all like anyone from the West coast.
 
It pegged me! New York....yup :whoopie:
 
The map works with Firefox - in fact you get a map for every question.

The location was dead-on for me.
 
I got pegged to exactly where I grew up- NY metro, with a little influence from my upstate cousins.

Mr. H, however, grew up in So Cal, although his family's roots are in NC. The quiz placed him in Jackson, Mississippi, Shreveport, Louisana, or Brownsville, Texas. He did spend some time in Corpus Christi, Texas for flight training but never really lived in any of the places in his map. Maybe So Cal + No Carolina somehow = Shreveport, LA!

H
 
It got me right, having grown up on Long Island with parents from Brooklyn.
Also interesting to see the map confirm where people with that background moved to. As Jerry Seinfeld says, "My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned 60 and that's the law."
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West Coast - No suprise

MULTIZ321 said:
How Y'all, Youse and You Guys Talk - by Josh Katz and Wilson Andrews/ Sunday Review/The Opinion Pages/ The New York Times.com

What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer all the questions below to see your personal dialect map.
Richard
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California is a long state so picking West Coast doesn't pinpoint any closer than 700 miles North-N-South

...Mark (San Jose, CA)
 
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KauaiMark said:
California is a long state so picking West Coast doesn't pinpoint any closer than 700 miles North-N-South

...Mark (San Jose, CA)
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My results give me 3 West Coast cities, specifically - did your results only say "California"?
 
Comparing my final map to that of Conan's shown above is an interesting contrast. Whereas Conan's is mostly blue, my map is mostly yellow/orangy with only tiny patches of bright blue at Rhode Island. My three cities are each near the CA Bay Area - not an area where I've spent any considerable time other than a few vacations.

My AK and HI are both fairly dark orange (a 'rust' color?). My birthplace, family roots and long-time residence are shaded "warm" but not "hot."

I think the map is a fair representation of my having been born on the East Coast (NJ), lived most of my life on the West Coast (San Diego) with family roots in the South (New Orleans) and a job that is largely virtual interfacing with the entire globe. How interesting. No wonder we confuse people when we travel!
 
It pegs me correctly as living in Vegas. But I really have been more a Los Angeleno these past twenty years. Interesting how it picked up Vegas, since this has been home just recently.
 
Pegged me as New Jersey, shame I've never been there. I suspect it's my mixed Wisconsin/NSW roots. The only one that made both sides happy was the bubbler question, it's bubbler in Sydney and bubbler in Madison....
 
I took it twice and both times it had Birmingham as one of the cities. The first time it had Raleigh and Greensboro with Birmingham. The 2nd time, it had Nashville and Oklahoma City. I have never lived any of those places, but my mother lived in the Memphis area her entire life and my dad was from South Carolina, so that is where I must have learned the southern terminology of all these things. My dad was in the military and we moved around a lot until I started 8th grade and moved back to Memphis.

I would have thought that since I lived 33 years in eastern Kansas before moving to Central Missouri and then to Arizona, that I would have had more of a Midwest dialect. I quit using y'all back in 1968. Folks back in Memphis think I am a Yankee now!

Coke & Service road are the ones that tagged me for the south. The interstates all have Service Roads for the farmers in cotton country.
 
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Amazingly I was places exactly where I live and learned to speak American English. Minneapolis/ St Paul. :hysterical: I have to mention it to my boss when I return to work from my two weeks on St Maarten.
 
Got me exactly 3 hours from the small town where I grew up.
 
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