A Highly Accurate Language Quiz That Can Tell Where You Grew Up
Published: January 01, 0001 | Author: A.I. Nexus | Category: Financial Strategy
Do you pronounce it “Roof” or “Ruf?” “Water” or “Wuhter?” Are little river shellfish called “crawfish” or “crayfish” or “crawdads?” Depends on where you grew up.
I loved this new dialect quiz at 
the New 
York Times, and thought you all might dig it too. It managed to place me pretty accurately—it had me in southern Minnesota/Illinois, u31.com เข้าสู่ระบบ while I grew up in Indiana with family from Minnesota. But more than the way it identified me, I really enjoyed the questions and possible answers. So many of them were idioms I hadn’t even thought about, and several u31 ทางเข้า of them had changed for me as I moved from southern Indiana to south Florida to San u31 เข้าสู่ระบบ Francisco.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"1488603196","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"uncategorized","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"uncategorized","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); The quiz is based on the Harvard Dialect Survey, and it’s taken into account more varied idioms and pronunciations than I knew existed. Go take it, and comment below with how accurate you thought it was for you. (And sorry non-Americans, 
this one’s really just for regional dialects. Though I’d be interested in what it finds for you, too!)