Posted on 12/23/2013 10:13:31 PM PST by eastforker
What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer all the questions below to see your personal dialect map.
Take the test, it's fun.
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Lol.. won’t deny that I do NOT like Coka-cola ;^)
(Speaking of DP.. reminded me of what my dad would get me on long trips for a snack... DP and peanuts to put with it in a bottle :^D)
So, I got Cincinnati, Akron and Salt Lake City.
Pretty darn close
Augusta-Richmond, Columbus GA, Tallahassee
It's amazing how quickly the accent fades once you get outside the 495 loop, unless you're going north, of course.
“espinades” ????????????
I have no clue what that is...so I guess, no we don’t!
Although Boston has an outdoor theater called the Esplanade where they hold Fourth of July Fireworks. Is that what you meant?
I'm Fix'n to go make me another cup of coffee.
One of the mechanics at our coal mine had a unique verbal signature.
He would say, “Well, I got the oil changed in the dragline. What I did.”
He was from north Missouri but I’ve never heard that line from anyone else in the Show-Me...
An esplinade is a grass strip barrier between two trafficways. It might be a grass strip between a road and a canal, or a road and a sidewalk or in between 2 roads such as a median area. Used in the Southwest, probably Spanish in origin.
Me too.
Reno Stockton Modesto. Have lived in the Central Valley most of my life.
My hubby calls them berms but I personally have never had a word for them. He is a retired firefighter though and they have a descriptive term for everything.
Well, at least there’s only one father. That’s better than “Caitlin’s baby daddy, Aidan’s baby daddy and Connor’s baby daddy”!
TMI!
There is that.
But in conversation in this area that is not readily apparent.
The usage is usually along the lines of, “Well, I spoke to the kidses fathers today.”
Sometimes the word is “speaked” as well.
*groan*
Interesting. The map shows me as western, strongly Californian, but it also shows a warm spot in PA/MD. I grew up in CA, but have lived in MD most of my adult life.
Many of the questions had multiple answers that worked. However, at the end, the “defining answer” for me was to the question, “What do you call a drive-through liquor store?” I answered “I have never heard of such a thing,” which is apparently a common answer in San Francisco, Fresno, and Bakersfield.
This test was exactly right.
Thanks, I think that was one of the choices. I think I think of a berm as more a raised up thing.
I’m going to ask my brother-in-law, he used to be a landscaper.
Sorry
Pegged me for NYC.
Pretty cool test
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