Dialect Survey Login The map will show your three least and most similar cities. See the pattern of your dialect in the map below. The map shows my dialect as being most similar to Boston, Providence and New York. the "s" in the last name of Elvis Presley. pegged me 10 miles away, northern nj. I ran through the whole thing and got no final map. Tried three times, both when logged in and not, and a map never came up. Lets use k-Nearest Neighbors. Most of the questions used in this quiz are based on those in the Harvard Dialect Survey, a linguistics project begun in 2002 by Bert Vaux and Scott Golder. What do you call item of clothing worn on the lower part of the body from the waist to the ankles, covering both legs separately? What do you call the box you bury a dead person in? The numbers next to the most/least similar cities (which correspond to the colors displayed in the heatmap) are estimates of the probability that a randomly-selected person in that city would respond to a randomly-selected survey question the same way that you did. I've never ever watched even any part of any episode of The Sopranos, not even on advertisements or discussions about the show. Please upgrade your browser. The three smaller maps show which answer most contributed to those cities being named the most (or least) similar to you. Language Log Interactive dialect map - University of Pennsylvania That doesn't make me southern, does it? This put me where I live now (and have lived for the last two-decades-plus) not where I grew up, but I answered the questions in present-tense and (to take the one which was pretty obviously supposed to be a "tell" for those of us who grew up in the Delaware valley) I don't present-tense say "hoagie" because I assume I wouldn't be understood. (I tried posting this comment a few days ago, when the post was fresh, but it never showed up). my daughter, born in florida, was placed in orlando. Came out as Alabama. and see your own. So I wanted to see if I could take some of the data collected from these surveys and try to guess where YOU live. And I second what Mike Fahie said, "-ahn" and "dawn" rhyme for me, so the crayon question is ambiguous for me. Similarly, I was torn between "traffic circle" and "rotary" since I rarely encounter these road features near my home in New York (where I think "traffic circle" is used) but often do when vacationing in Cape Cod (where they are called "rotaries"). For some of you, it's an amazing thing that pinpoints your hometown exactly. RP-ish Brit living in California for 10 years. How do you pronounce the vowel sound in the word
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