Do you consider yourself a (InsertCompassDirectionerHere) of your Country?

[classical_hero]

I am from the South West of Western Australia. Pretty much sums up my geological position.

 

[Kennigit]

oh yeah, for USians this has given pretty accurate results:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html

dialect quiz

 

[Zack]

oh yeah, for USians this has given pretty accurate results:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html

dialect quiz

This question is just terrible:

What do you call the large, wild cat native to the Americas?

I have no idea how to respond. That is incredibly vague.

EDIT: Anyways, this is my map.

 

[Kennigit]

some questions are more terrible than others yes, but of ~7 people I've seen take it/report their results, they have been fairly accurate, and the test I just took was very accurate (pinned Arlington VA and Washington DC).

Though I think there is maybe ~45 questions or so and you get asked ~25, so a lot is luck of the draw.

Also you learn that some people have bizarre local phrases. A lot of my answers are "no concept or no word for this"

edit: pic

 

[Phrossack]

That quiz was really biased towards drivers. I had no idea what a lot of the terms referred to. It was still fairly accurate, though. Trouble is, I tend to use words and pronunciations from a lot of different regions, even those outside America, and a few people have mistaken me for a foreigner of some kind.

 

[Light Cleric]

And this is why I want to punch people who lump together "the South" as one monolithic region(I actually typed "monogamous" at first, frig me).

I was born and raised in southeast Louisiana(I now live in Georgia), and I don't really feel any connection to the South as portrayed in media at all, culturally or otherwise. I could give people 40 guesses and they would probably not guess that's where I from given how I talk and how I look, although a few people have mentioned I have a hint of some sort of accent on certain words.

I like how it recommended Reno, Nevada as being very similar, too. That's...odd.

I also like how it asked if you call a sub a "poor boy"; nobody does that. You call it a po-boy, you twits.

That quiz was really biased towards drivers. I had no idea what a lot of the terms referred to. It was still fairly accurate, though. Trouble is, I tend to use words and pronunciations from a lot of different regions, even those outside America, and a few people have mistaken me for a foreigner of some kind.

It really was. This is what skewed my score a lot, I think. I don't think most people say "service road" or "neutral ground" outside of where I grew up.

 

[LamaGT]

I wasn't born here but I definitely picked up the Northern accent and behaviour. The division here is mostly North-South with some regional variations. Personally I find the Southerners to be kinda rude, especially the Neapolitans. They're also the ones who clinged on to the dialects much more, so that while in the North there's at most a difference in pronunciation and a few peculiar words, in the South they sometimes just speak in their pure dialect

 

[danjuno]

I'm from the DC area and identify with the North (or at least the Mid-Atlantic), but I got Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Pembrook Pines (which is also in southern Florida). They could have at least put me in the Orlando area, considering that's where almost all of my trips South are. I was also surprised that my opposites were Detroit, Philadelphia and Buffalo.

Spoiler :

 

[classical_hero]

I am an Australian that should be living in the North-east due to the way I speak, Specifically New York, Yonkers and Jersey City. That means the rest of y'all don't pronounce words properly.

Here is my map.

The main reason is because I say sneakers for the shoes you use in the gym with rubber soles.

 

[Kennigit]

the heat map is more relevant than the top cities listed though, since some weird things happen on specific questions that make your "city" be off (eg the question that is "what do you call rain while it is sunny outside" pins sunshower--what I call it-- as yonkers, new york or all of florida, iirc).

 

[Zack]

I am an Australian that should be living in the North-east due to the way I speak, Specifically New York, Yonkers and Jersey City. That means the rest of y'all don't pronounce words properly.

Here is my map.

The main reason is because I say sneakers for the shoes you use in the gym with rubber soles.

should be living in the North-east due to the way I speak, Specifically New York, Yonkers and Jersey City. That means the rest of y'all don't pronounce words properly.

should be living in the North-east due to the way I speak ... y'all don't pronounce words properly.

living in the North-east due to the way I speak ... y'all

living in the North-east due to the way I speak ... y'all

Nope.

 

[Algeroth]

I live in Prague. I guess there is not much other countries with so central capital city.

 

[Antilogic]

I'd identify most as a Midwesterner, although I've lived in the South and New England long enough to have learned local expressions for most of the Eastern US.

Not-Westerner is also appropriate, since I've only been over the Mississippi River for a grand total of about three weeks (one campus visit to UC Berkley, three conferences).

 

[classical_hero]

the heat map is more relevant than the top cities listed though, since some weird things happen on specific questions that make your "city" be off (eg the question that is "what do you call rain while it is sunny outside" pins sunshower--what I call it-- as yonkers, new york or all of florida, iirc).

To be honest, most of the questions I got a dark blue and some questions I got various colours. I also never knew that Yonkers was an actual town.

@Zack.

 

[Zack]

To be honest, most of the questions I got a dark blue and some questions I got various colours. I also never knew that Yonkers was an actual town.

@Zack.

"y'all" is the most southern word imaginable.

 

[Antilogic]

Yonkers used to be a bigger industrial town with a lot of immigrant communities, if I recall. Now it's basically a suburb of New York.

 

[Domen]

If I lived in the US, it seems that I would be living somewhere over this huge territory:

Spoiler :

Now I finally know what language are they teaching in Polish schools. It is not English, it is Missourian-Oklahoman.

I live in Prague. I guess there is not much other countries with so central capital city.

Warsaw used to be central, before they moved Belarus and Ukraine westward into Poland, and Poland westward into Germany.

Now Warsaw is clearly in Eastern Poland. From Poznań we have 280 km to Warsaw and 240 km to Berlin - as the crow flies.

From Warsaw to Niemirów at the Polish-Belarussian border there is a distance of 150 km - as the crow flies.

 

[luiz]

Brazil is officially divided in 5 regions, which have some distinct cultural and economic traits. They are the North, Northeast, Midwest, Southeast and South. I'm from the Southeast, the most populous and industrialized of all regions (though the South is generally nicer).

More generally speaking, the country could be divided in just two regions: a developed Center-South and a poor North. In fact people from the Northeastern region (the poorest) call all the people from the South and Southeast "southerneres", and refer to those regions (in particular São Paulo, which is actually on the Southeast) as the "Wonder South", because it's so rich and prosperous when compared to their miserable home states.

 

[bugwar]

"y'all" is the most southern word imaginable.

You might could hand me that clicker or else I’m fixin’ to mash that Po’Boy into her pocketbook caddywompus.

You will?
Well Bless Your Heart!

 

[Zack]

None of those are more common than y'all.