Also, you have drive-through liquor stores?Yeah, but they're not hugely popular (at least where I'm at). I didn't know some folks had a special name for them, though.
Also, you have drive-through liquor stores?Yeah, but they're not hugely popular (at least where I'm at). I didn't know some folks had a special name for them, though.
I have never seen a drive-through liquor store in my life, but its special name should be, "The shittiest idea ever thought."Where'd I get the Jersey accent from? Like Newark, really? I also got Glendale and Long Beach which makes total sense since I live in the Greater Los Angeles Area.
I think the test is flawed for a couple of reasons:
1. It doesn't let you select multiple responses on the same question. For instance, I use "roly poly" and "potato bug" interchangeably, as well as "highway" and "freeway," etc. This forces me to pick one and can skew the results in a certain direction.
2. It suggests answers to the test-takers rather than soliciting answers themselves. I know this is sort of inevitable when you're using this "quiz" format, but I think it might influence the test-takers' answers somewhat. Like in the bug question, my first thought when reading it was "roly poly," but when I read "potato bug" I remembered that I use the same word to refer to the same creature as well.
Also, you have drive-through liquor stores?Yeah, but they're not hugely popular (at least where I'm at). I didn't know some folks had a special name for them, though.
I have never seen a drive-through liquor store in my life, but its special name should be, "The shittiest idea ever thought."
I'd like to see an accent/dialect test that covers all English speaking regions, not just the US.
I'm hoping for one that uses a spoken sample, but that's like orders of magnitude more sophisticated and a lot to want, really.
Apparently my dialect comes from Boston, or somewhere in the vicinity. I've taken it three times and always get Boston, plus two other cities right next.
Which is weird, because I've never been to Boston. Or the East Coast. Or anywhere else in the US, for that matter.
My British accent is 77% Normal.
Apparently Honolulu, Atlanta and Glendale are the most Australian-sounding cities in the US. Though according to some of the various options the quiz presented, you guys have some really weird names for things.
It would be kind of neat if everyone here uploaded an audio sample of them saying some of the words from the test, so we could compare. I'm curious to hear some of your accents.
It would be kind of neat if everyone here uploaded an audio sample of them saying some of the words from the test, so we could compare. I'm curious to hear some of your accents.
It would be kind of neat if everyone here uploaded an audio sample of them saying some of the words from the test, so we could compare. I'm curious to hear some of your accents.
Tempted, but I really, really fucking hate the sound of my own voice. I coud just not listen to my own sample, but I know morbid curiosity would get the better of me, always does.
Didn't someone(s) somewhere do a study or something that said the vast majority of people hate their own voice when it's played back to them?
I did it again (and they asked about different words this time I actually had a word for) and got Pembroke Pines, Ft. Lauderdale, and Newark. Um. Outside of Florida, I am not very similar at all to the other Southern states. My dialect comes from the North.
I've heard of "The Devil is beating his wife", but I always heard it to refer to thunder, not the rain itself, nor it happening on a sunny day.My dad calls it a "Creedence baptism", though I've never heard anyone else use that term. I assume it refers to the old CCR song asking "have you ev-aar, seen, the rain? Coming down, on a sun-ny daaay?"
EDIT: Brought to mind what my grandma used to call chicken eggs. "Henapples" or "Cackleberries".
I did it again (and they asked about different words this time I actually had a word for) and got Pembroke Pines, Ft. Lauderdale, and Newark. Um. Outside of Florida, I am not very similar at all to the other Southern states. My dialect comes from the North.
All in Broward County, which is chock full of former New Jersey-ites, for some reason. I grew up a bit down the interstate from there in Miami, so I remember that Broward County accent thing.