NY Times Dialect Quiz

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I feel that it ought to be updated. I recently read a different article that pointed out certain words that only certain areas use. (For instance, tolo, or in most of the country, a Sadie Hawkin's dance.)
"I've got dreams like you--no really!--just much less, touchy-feeley.
They mainly happen somewhere warm and sunny
on an island that I own, tanned and rested and alone
surrounded by enormous piles of money." -Flynn Rider, Tangled




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Apparently I speak most like those from Indianapolis, Springfield in Missouri and Honolulu! But I'd never say highway - we use motorways in the UK ;)




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Yonkers, Jersey City, and New York.

I didn't know "sneakers" was an Ny-thing. But I'd say that's accurate xD Funny though, I was hoping I'd get some Southern states since y'know...I've been living here for 10 years, guess not!




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This is accurate!
My name is Katherine Storm!



I was flummoxed by fractious Franny's decision to abrogate analgesics for the moribund victims of the recent conflagration. Of course, to display histrionics was discretionary, but I did so anyways, implicating a friend in my drama to make the effect cumulative. I think a misanthrope would have a prosaic appellation, perhaps one related to autonomy and the rejection of anthropocentrism. I think they wouldn't think much of the prominence of watching the coagulation of tea to prognosticate future malevolent events, not even if those events were related to jurisprudence.
— Spearmint