noodle arms sizemo: Well goddamn if they didn't have me pinned. Gift link if you want to do yours. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Well goddamn if they didn't have me pinned. Gift link if you want to do yours. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I've taken this thing probably once a year since it was published, my own accent and dialect continues to evolve, and yet it still pegs me

I’m wearing my Ohio University shirt today but it didn’t throw the test off 😡

I have lived most of my life in OH. My grandparents are from CT & KY, parents grew up in Appalachia. Dunno how I got these cities....

Same--Ohioan with grandparents from Ohio and Kentucky. It is dark red for where I'm actually from (Cincinnati) but I guess those cities are more central in the red area? Idk

I grew up near Cincinnati too, out in Morrow, near Kings Island. Lived 2 years in Muncie, then 8 years in Cleveland. Have now lived in California for 22 years. My vocab is all over the place!

Ayuh.

eyyy

When I first did this 10 years ago, I was only a few years removed from living with my Detroit raised dad. But now that he's been moved away for 15 years...

TFW you’re from everywhere

My results cited Detroit as a city the least like my dialect. North Texas here, so maybe that's accurate (never been to Mich.).

there are things in my vernacular that i picked up years ago FROM THIS QUIZ (i now say the devil’s beating his wife when i definitely had no word for that before) but it still nails me

Triangulated between NOLA, Baton Rouge, and Mobile. I am nothing if not a caricature of myself.

hilarious.

cold front comin

i got the same

the only thing it knows about my mixed up accent is that i’m not from the northeast

i did the quiz once and got the drive thru liquor store question, and because i know the brew thru chain from undergrad it put me 100% in newport news. take that question out, MOB. lol.

I didn't remember what I got last time I took it and now it feels more accurate than what it was

mine's very alabama apparently

even when i try to answer it like before i left kansas city, it’s trying to put me in michigan and i would NEVER say pop!

That’s what I got and uh, that’s not it.

I broke it

please tell me you’re from shreveport

No I was born in New Orleans and lived down there until I was 11

how’s ya mama and them

Noooooooope

I checked below the main map where it shows your most distinctive answer and I suspect one word in particular threw things off for me. That’s what I get for reading and picking up vocabulary I guess.

Same here. Frontage rd? (I have been to the SW maybe three days in my life.)

I have lived in, in order of longest to least, Michigan, North Carolina, Chicago, Virginia, and Hawai’i.

I suspect that frontage road was what did it for me too. We don’t actually have those kind of roads where I grew up, so the name I have for it is when I picked up elsewhere.

is *one I picked up

Frontage may have thrown mine off as well. Sunshower definitely threw it off. I heard the word and really liked it, ok?

Same with pineapple rain (Hawaii), and I lost pop and gained soda/soft drink along the way.

Dancin in the streets, baby

Despite my Army brattness, it's a fair cop

Hey, fellow linguistic Greensborian!

I'm originally from Winston-Salem, so that's pretty spot on, and my grandmother doesn't use "lunch." I didn't think most people realize what a recent addition to the vernacular it is

Considering NC's one of the y'alliest places around I think people from other places miss that there are at least a dozen different y'alls depending on context. For instance, there is possibly singular y'all, when you want to know if someone is single, small group y'all, medium y'all, large y'all...

It's funny, my mother's family pronounces "tire shop" more like "tar shahp" but used "you all" and never "y'all"

Except my cousin's family, the only family members @wrenispinkle.bsky.social has met so far, so she can't back me up on the previous claim... They "y'all" more than anyone

That's true def had relatives like that, and plenty of people use you all/y'all, depending. The survey ends up asking us if we favor formal vs. informal speech.

My wife moved around a lot too (UPS exec dad), and it nailed multiple of her landing spots

They've got me cooked on Question 1.

lmao yep. 😂

All it can get for me is "not New York".

Here we go.

I'm surprised it doesn't know what street I grew up on

LMAO that is intense

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