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Can someone please tell me which bug they were talking about?!

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Can someone please tell me which bug they were talking about?!

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My first reaction to taking this again (we’ve done in Linguistics for Lang. Teachers, and I thought it was so interesting I showed a good friend of mine!), was how interesting the maps on the side are. Here are my answers and my thoughts

1. “You guys.” This is my default, although I’m trying to get away from gendered language. The map was right.

2. “Drive through liquor store”. My home town had one of the few drive through liquor windows in SE Wisconsin, and I never heard a proper name for it. According the map, I’m missing out on something. Anyone know what it’s called?te

3. Pa-JAM-as. But mostly just PJs. Map was right.

4. Traffic circle vs roundabout. I call them roundabouts, because that’s what they call them in England (My family had many English ways growing up.) but mostly it’s just kinda fun to say! The voice on Google Maps calls it a traffic circle, so I just assumed that was the American/Midwestern term. And according to the map, only google calls it that.

5. Mary and marry, but merry. According to the map, I’m the only person in the US who does this.

6. I’ve never put much thought into freeway vs highways, but I-94 (The interstate I’ve traveled the most) doesn’t have stop lights or intersections, so I went with that. A quick Google search told me all freeways are highways, but not all highways are freeways. Freeways have controlled access and are meant for high-speed traffic.

7. I use “sneakers” and “tennis shoes” interchangeably, but mostly “sneakers.”

8. Lightning bugs and fireflies are the same! Which I had never given much thought to until this quiz.

9. I mostly say “dinner”. “Supper” seams more formal to me.

10. “Anty” Lisa and “Anty” Shelly.

11. BUBBLER! Heck yes! I love that the map highlights only SE Wisconsin!

12. I think I’ve heard of “rubbernecking” before, but I don’t really have a word for this term.

13. Mostly semi and semi-truck but I’ve heard tracker-trailer, but mostly just semi because it’s shorter.

14. Crayon rhymes with “man”. Looks to be just a MN/WI/MI thing.

15. Median or boulevard.

16. WHAT BUG ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT?!

17. Been like bean or been like Ben? I wasn’t quite sure when I first read that.

18. Looks like most of Wisconsin, with the exception of Milwaukee, uses the word “frontage road.” Infact, I think there’s a road in Madison called “Frontage Road.”

19. I’ve heard the night before Halloween referred to as “mischief night”, but that’s not a date that was recognized growing up.

20. Crawfish, crawfish and crawdaddy.

21. Thank you Subway for that.

22. Car-ml. My family wasn’t English enough to call it carra-mel.

23. Blow-off class or “easy A”.

24. Kitty-corner. Deep red for Wisconsin and Minnesota.

25. Garage sale.

According to the quiz, I’m either from Madison, Milwaukee or Buffalo NY.

I grew up between Madison and Milwaukee, so this is pretty good!

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This was a fun survey! I had never heard of it or taken it before! My results were very accurate. I got MPLS Milwaukee and Madison. All my life I have been known to have a thick Minnesotan accent, particularly when I say "boat". I have lived in MN my whole 24 years so it makes sense. I have traveled a lot and have a lot of British and Australian friends so I do feel like those are the only accents that have really had an impact on my dialect. When I am with Americans from other regions they tend to notice my accent right away and can guess where I am from, I kinda like it, its part of my identity

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I got the cities Minneapolis, Detroit, and Madison. I would say this is pretty accurate considering I lived in Minnesota for most of my life. While taking the test though, there were a few times where I wish I could have given multiple answers because sometimes 2-3 of the words were things that I would say. I also noticed that with some of them, the term I use has changed. For example, I grew up using the term "tennis shoes" but now I usually call them "sneakers" or "athletic shoes." I'm not sure where the difference comes from. My most recent job involved working with English speakers from England, Scotland, Australia, Canada, and South Africa so I think that has influenced the way I speak a little bit. - Samantha V.

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The results of my survey point to Milwaukee, WI, Madison, WI and Rockford, IL as my most similar cities. I was born in Milwaukee, did my undergrad at UW Madison and my mother's mom was born and raised in Rockford, so the results make perfect sense! I've lived in Minnesota long enough to know that it's a drinking fountain, but a bubbler, though! At this point, I've spent more of my life in the Twin Cities than I have in Wisconsin, so I'm surprised that I haven't picked up more Minnesota linguistic habits. I guess the southern Wisconsin influence is pretty strongly ingrained!

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I have taken this survey a couple of times and this time the three cities where my dialect fits have shifted north and west a bit. This time they were Rockford,IL, Madison and Milwaukee. While I have lived in Minnesota now for 22 years, I have never lived in Wisconsin or Illinois. I was raised by parents from Michigan and Indiana, lived in both of those states myself along with a few others further south. Apparently my years in MN are having an effect! When I first moved here I remember having an argument with a neighbor about kitty-corner vs. katty-corner. I now use both of them apparently and can't remember which one I was committed to before.

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The results of my survey were spot on! It indicated that two of the most similar cities were St. Paul, MN and Madison, WI. I was born and raised in Sparta, WI which is about half between the two. The data indicated that right off the bat the way I pronounce "aunt" and "been" were give aways both coming in around 75% for pronunciations in the state of Wisconsin. An even bigger percentage (80% +) for how I pronounce "lawyer" and "Mary/marry/merry".

The survey results do not surprise me as I have been told by family and friends that live in the south, that I "speak very Midwestern".  I don't have any negative feelings towards people who are able to identify where I am from based on the way I speak. I do have friends that get very offended and I think it is because they think that people make negative assumptions about them based on where they are from.  LMB

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I found my results pretty accurate. I grew up in Southern California, but mainly in the greater Los Angeles area. The 3 of the most similar cities shown were all from SoCal: San Jose, Los Angeles, and Glendale. San Jose was interesting since it isn't in Southern California, but I know that there are some differences between SoCal and NorCal dialects. I suspect that I may have been affected by my time spending Winters up North with my relatives that lived in Lake Tahoe and the Bay Area. One big surprise was how it brought up the city of Glendale which I lived in multiple times throughout my life. My surprise comes from the fact that it is just one of many smaller cities that reside within LA County that are within a few miles from one another such as Hollywood, Santa Monica, or Inglewood, yet it has its own dialectal differences.

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I uploaded my results to Facebook and made a snarky comment about my results, saying I was offended the quiz would suggest my dialect is most closely related to a region outside my native area. (A complete joke to anyone from those regions.) A lot of comments were in agreement, offering condolences at my results. I think it's funny how most people don't want to sound like they are from a different area. As if it would make you sound unintelligent or odd maybe? Interestingly enough, I have felt this way about stereotypical Minnesotan speech and try very hard not to fall into the stereotype by saying things like "soda" instead of "pop" and softening the "a" in words like bag instead of saying "bayyyg." I think this is probably why my results appeared as they did. And yet, anytime I am out of state speaking with someone they always comment, "You're from Minnesoooota, aren't you?"

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I was born and raised in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, which is where the survey guessed I was from. I was surprised to see how many similarities I have with west coasters and how differently I speak from east coasters. The region with the most differences I had was New Jersey, which surprised me because it was more different than the south! I love these kinds  of surveys and I also love reading about how others speak different than I do!

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I'm not surprised, because I've taken it about 3 times now, every couple of years it seems, and each time I get the same result: I may be from 3 possible regions: Arlington, VA; Newark/Patterson, NJ, or Boston.  I actually live in Rockville, MD, a suburb of DC, which is a transient area, full of transplants, mostly from the Northeast. My father was born and raised near Pittsburgh and my mother from a small town near Richmond, VA.
--Caroline

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I was a little shocked that I didn't get a city in Minnesota since I've spent the majority of my life here. However, I got Nebraska which is where I was born! I spent summers going back there but I didn't think that I would pick up on anything while I was there. It was interesting to see!

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This was a phenomenal survey and its accuracy blew me away, my identity as a Minnesotan has never felt so on display. One of my most distinctive responses was that I call the corner diagonal to mine a kitty-corner. This question made me laugh because I was just talking about kitty-corners with my brother last week. I had never realized that the name kitty-corner wasn't the global term, and I should have realized this was just another example of crazy Midwestern lingo. I really hope someone can tell me the history as to how we came to name the kitty-corner. This NY Times survey has inspired me to travel and observe regionalisms more within the United States!

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This is probably the 4th or 5th time that I've taken a US dialect quiz, and at least my 2nd time taking the NYT one. I know which areas of the country a lot of the answers belong to, but regardless I still answer authentically for me and it seems to be mostly accurate. Mpls was my top city, but I also expected to see Chicago because both of my parents and all of my extended family are from there. Instead, the next two top cities for me were Grand Rapids, MI and Des Moines, IA. I have not spent any time in either of those places however.

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My results and what I found interesting and surprising

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I've taken this so many times that I forget which answers are authentic to me and which ones I adopted because I thought one of the other answers was clever and then adopted it! I used to get a Minneapolis/Madison dialect, and now I am getting a Minneapolis/Michigan dialect. I wonder if that's due to being around my husband's father, who is a Michigan native.

I love talking about dialectal differences, but those conversations so easily get defensive. I am not interested in what is "right," I'm interested in what is different!

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A "Pop" by Any Other Name Would Taste as Sweet