Your diction and your location

[Lauren5]

Saw this on a friend's facebook page and thought I'd share

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?r=0j01284j0400222008002040004008050200112000020b000j&_r=0

The quiz says I speak like someone from the St. Louis/Kansas City "belt." I find this very strange, as I've never been to Kansas City, and only once went to St. Louis, and never left the airport.

So, who's willing to give it a try?

[Cindy]

I'm from New York.

I'm Australian!

[Lauren5]

Well, it doesn't quite work on you then

[Mx Pippa]

Couldn't answer the Mountain lion question, but based on the rest it would seem that Madison, Grand Rapids, Providence all have English Dorset accents so I hope they have, Pubs, Cider, Cheese, Cows, Sheep, Steam Traction Engines, In Flight Refueling, Sunseeker boats, Folk Dancing, Sunny Beaches, and Wimborne Market to go with it.

[LordKAT]

It has me pegged pretty well.

[big kim]

I'm from Fremont,Corona and Spokane.Kind of right I'm from the West coast(of Lancashire!)

[Ms. OBrien CVT]

Boise, Spokane, Salt Lake City.  Hey Pacific Northwest.  Close enough.

[JRD]

One of my nieces had posted this on her facebook earlier, so I did it then. It says I'm from either Mobile, Tallahassee or Jacksonville, Florida.  Oddly enough, when I was three and four, we did live near Jacksonville, Florida, but I'm from Alaska, just happen to have grown up in mostly North Carolina and Georgia with time spent in Florida and South Carolina for good measure. And I've been in the coastal area of NC for the last 18 years, where they definitely talk funny.

[Catherine Sarah]

LA, Minnieapolis/St Paul, Orlando

And I come from Australia. ha ha 

The Land Down Under.

[Hikari]

http://nyti.ms/1eHMvwY - Results

I live right outside of DC, the thing is, I do talk like people from Baltimore, but people in most of North Carolina sound really southern to me. They also say Y'all all of the time, when it is TWO FREAKING WORDS You all, it just isn't a valid contractions [rant over] but, they do say soda just like me, so perhaps it is fair to have them in red if this is only diction, not like general speech.

[amZo]

This test says I speak most like Little Rock AR, Springfield MO, and Lexington KY. I grew up in OK, those seem like similar places I RECKON!

[K Style Addiction]

I got Honnolulu, Seattle & San Jose...pretty close i guess i live in San Francisco lol.

[Eris]

Sacramento, Oceanside, Reno.

Apparently this Scot sounds Californian XD

[LivingTheDream]

I'm from Michigan and my three cities where Grand Rapids, Detroit and Toledo, pretty close...

[alabamagirl]

Apparently I'm from somewhere between New York and Boston. I've never left Alabama in my entire life.

[xponentialshift]

I got Santa Rosa, Bakersfield and Fresno. Considering my part of Monterey County where i grew up is right in the middle of the triangle it is pretty accurate. Also I now live 30 minutes from Santa Rosa...