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

[Antilogic]

I don't think I've posted my dialect quiz thing, so I retook it and here it is:

It highlighted Des Moines, Detroit, and Buffalo, but I haven't been to any of those cities. I wonder if Youngstown or Cleveland was an option, those would have been a bit closer to home.

I've picked up on a few New Englander expressions, like sunshowers and referring to rotaries, as, well, rotaries. This is the only place I've seen them, so I use the local word for them. I also use a handful of Southern ones like access roads (hilariously, this is only used in Texas or Atlanta) but not y'all, I still say you all or you guys. Most of my picks, though, are Midwestern. Referring to Halloween Eve as the devils' night is apparently really popular in Michigan and Pittsburg--but Youngstown was a bit yellow there too, and I think I remember hearing that expression as a kid. Apparently, saying freeway is really Western, but calling them interstates wasn't an option.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I'm from the West Country of England, which will be obvious to anyone who would ever hear me speak. I haven't been to any other regions of England.

I took the American dialect quiz and it claimed the closest to my dialect was San Jose and Fremont.

 

[Dralix]

I consider myself a furriner.

 

[strijder20]

Yes, I consider myself a southerner in West-North Belgium.

 

[metatron]

Spoiler :

Allegedly we have this whole country further south, where people live on those diagonal things that aren't even man-made.

Heck, i even have a bijbeltegel.
It's secular admittedly - it has a pony on it, but i think i can rest my case anyway.

 

[strijder20]

Heck, i even have a bijbeltegel.

Oh, I didn't know you were Dutch. What is it? Never heard of it before. A tile with a verse of the bible on it?

 

[KMRblue1027]

Exactly as expected lol. Extreme association with the greater Philadelphia region. They're Hoagies dammit.

 

[Joecoolyo]

I wasn't expecting this map to be that precise

 

[Zack]

Jesus, you guys are very particular with your accents.

 

[KMRblue1027]

Jesus, you guys are very particular with your accents.

My big three it highlighted are extremely local, Hoagies, Sneakers, and Mischief Night (Which I didn't even know there were other terms for it).

I'm quite proud to have a very non-standard accent that you very much.

 

[Antilogic]

What Zack said. I'm amazed.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Canadians can't do that quiz I swear, we must've taken a lot of terms and words from the Brittish or wherever.

While I aced the Great Lakes area for accents and pronunciation as expected, terminology threw me off to the point my map was redder in Florida and California than the Great Lakes.

Also that shoes question is confusing. I've heard and used nearly every term offered there interchangeably and regularly for indoor gymnasium shoes.

edit: did it again this time ignoring certain questions like sunshower, and got other questions like the insect one (Potato bug, which is apparently only used in Nevada and Buffalo), the cities I got most closest to me are Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Buffalo. As a Torontonian, this seems about right.

 

[Domen]

"Which European country should you live in" test:

http://sreda.org/igra/?lang=en

My result was... Bulgaria (1st attempt) and Denmark (2nd attempt).

"In which World War 2 army you should have fought?" test:

http://quizfarm.com/quizzes/new/Puukkoo/in-which-world-war-2-army-you-should-have-fought/

I scored as France / Poland - both at 94% (I had a "tie breaker" question, which probably decided why it showed up as France not Poland):

 

[Antilogic]

I use "running shoes" since I do mostly running. As it turns out, the map is mostly blue for that answer.

 

[KMRblue1027]

I use "running shoes" since I do mostly running. As it turns out, the map is mostly blue for that answer.

At least here running shoes are actually different than standard sneakers, they usually have extra padding in comparison.

 

[Till]

When i'm in the North, i consider myself a Southerner. When i'm in the South, i consider myself a Northerner. When i'm in the rest of the country, i wish i weren't.

 

[Antilogic]

At least here running shoes are actually different than standard sneakers, they usually have extra padding in comparison.

Oh, there are all kinds of specialty shoes for different exercises. I guess I've started referring to all gym shoes/tennis shoes/etc. as running shoes kind of like how Southerners call soda coke even if it isn't actually coke.

 

[metatron]

Oh, I didn't know you were Dutch.

No, i'm German.
I just assumed that our Anglosphere friends know the object - if at all - by it's Dutch name.

What is it? Never heard of it before. A tile with a verse of the bible on it?

You never heard of it before?
It's a tile with a scene (usually biblical) on it. *shrug*
You know, like these:

Spoiler :

 

[metatron]

Yes, I consider myself a southerner in West-North Belgium.

I'm sorry. I'm feeling really dumb right now.

Had i been able to make like three of my brain cells cooperate i would have understood why it would be possible that you are not familiar with bijbeltegels.

 

[Camikaze]

I don't particularly consider myself an Eastern Australian, and I've never heard anyone describe themselves that way. We don't tend to think in those terms, because it doesn't really occur to us that people might live anywhere else in the country.