Interactive dialect maps - soda/pop etc.

Unarmed Gunman

Unarmed Gunman

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Thought this was pretty cool, you can take a quick 25 question survey and based on your pronunciation of certain words it shows you how similar/dissimilar your dialect is to other parts of the US.

Survey here: http://spark.rstudio.com/jkatz/DialectQuiz/

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What's funny is I forgot that I'm not supposed to call it soda and the map picked up on that. At some point when I was a kid I decided I liked the word soda more, and have used it ever since. But since pop is used more frequently in Michigan my dialect actually matches Wisconsin or Upstate New York more.

Also, I never realized there were so many unusual phrases to describe a sunshower (The Devil is beating his wife lolwut?).
 


Neat website. It didn't get the city that I'm from, but it nailed the city that my mom is from. Makes sense. Wish it allowed to you drill down more on sayings. Curious as to exactly why I got the result I did.
 
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Pretty much spot on since I've spent most of my life in the concentrated areas, including both colleges I attended. It is a little weird that the NE is my least similar dialect though since I spent about half of every summer along Mass. coast for much of childhood.

Side note, I took this a month or two ago when one of my linguist friends sent it to me. Got a few different questions this time around, but the results are fairly similar. Last time I had more in common with the NE though, but the primary concentration was about the same as it is now. A little more Chicago and a little less northern Michigan.
 
Most Similar Cities
1 Independence MO 51.7
2 Indianapolis IN 51.5
3 Olathe KS 50.9
4 Overland Park KS 50.8
5 Fort Wayne IN 50.8

I'm from Fort Wayne so it got me. Pretty much the whole midwest was red for me though.
 
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Most Similar Cities
1 Reno NV 52.6
2 Roseville CA 52.1
3 Sacramento CA 51.5
4 Modesto CA 51.0
5 Eugene OR 50.9

Least Similar Cities
1 New Orleans LA 20.8
2 Metairie LA 20.8
3 Baton Rouge LA 22.0
4 Lafayette LA 22.8
5 Jackson MS 26.0

Funny, I grew up right outside of Reno, NV.
 
I've been trying to take the quiz all morning, it's super lagged. Wondered if someone posted it on SOCIAL MEDIA and now their server is crashing. Or is it just WF traffik?
 
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