How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk

Noram · Posted Mon 23 Dec, 2013 5:01 AM

Was linked this neat quiz on facebook: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...-quiz-map.html
Obviously, for Americans, it's a test to see how you talk is related to the region you're from, for non-americans...*shrug*

Supergrover · Posted Mon 23 Dec, 2013 5:03 AM

Eh? Whats this then Eh?

Gillion · Posted Mon 23 Dec, 2013 5:26 AM

that was interesting...and at the same time hysterical Some of the available choices where just seriously funny!

Noram · Posted Mon 23 Dec, 2013 5:28 AM

Heres a link to my map. It wasn't perfectly spot-on, but the results were certainly intersting

Code743 · Posted Mon 23 Dec, 2013 6:07 AM

Originally Posted by Supergrover

Eh? Whats this then Eh?

Heh, I just googled the word 'eh' out of interest and the only two countries to get their own paragraph in the wiki page were Canada and New Zealand.

It may have had origins elsewhere, but it seems our two nations have turned its use into an art form.

Mikester92 · Posted Mon 23 Dec, 2013 6:28 AM

Wow mine got south Florida.

Noram · Posted Mon 23 Dec, 2013 6:55 AM

Originally Posted by Mikester92

Wow mine got south Florida.

Imagine that...

Tomak · Posted Mon 23 Dec, 2013 7:10 AM

I was born in the UK and raised in Pennsylvania, yet somehow I got southern Florida as well.

Hermanator · Posted Mon 23 Dec, 2013 8:29 AM

Bare in mind I'm a European who has never been to the States. From my knowledge of American language and pronunciation I think I'm a paradox since it states that i'm most similar to New York, New Orleans and Honolulu.

This was based on the questions
1. "How do you pronounce the words Mary, merry and marry?
all three are pronounced differently"

2. "What do you call the small freshwater lobster often found in lakes and streams?
crayfish"

3. "Do you pronounce cot and caught the same?
different"

It states that i'm definitely not a texan due to me never hearing of a "Drive Through Liquor store", though they sound like beautiful things. I am afterall a big advocate for drink driving.

Connor · Posted Mon 23 Dec, 2013 9:59 AM

Was interesting seeing what other people... apparently say for things. That's the result I got, anyway.

CallMeTheRev · Posted Mon 23 Dec, 2013 1:55 PM

I think because Southern Florida might have more native northeasterners than Floridians now, with all the old retired people living there.

Originally Posted by Tomak

I was born in the UK and raised in Pennsylvania, yet somehow I got southern Florida as well.

Caymen Greener · Posted Mon 23 Dec, 2013 1:59 PM

So glad mine failed to load the image and wanted me to take the quiz again... twice.</sarcasm> And I am NOT loading IE/Chrome to test. My guess is midwest or upper-south. I have enough Indiana "drawl" to end up there. Or Florida, as is trending here...

Three of Seven · Posted Mon 23 Dec, 2013 2:04 PM

I am from the UK and I got this:

No idea what it means, I don't know my US geography, nor do I know how to compare it

CallMeTheRev · Posted Mon 23 Dec, 2013 2:20 PM

The link didn't work for me, I'll try again later.... but I'm pretty sure it will be a quintessential New England/Boston accent...

Seeker · Posted Mon 23 Dec, 2013 5:24 PM

As a Northerner I don't think I should try this oh what the hell, what could possibly go wrong? -

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