![]() ![]() If you are interested in taking the quiz, it can be located at. A guy in my class also took it, and it told him that his influence came from Raleigh, North Carolina, which was where his mother lived before she moved here. When I took it, one of my cities pinpointed was Overland Park, Kan. After every question is complete, the quiz provides a map with three cities to show where the influence of your words came from. Other questions are what word is used for a road with a high speed limit or a bug that flashes light during the night. Some questions include how to pronounce the words lawyer, caramel, and pajamas. The quiz is twenty five questions long, with questions ranging from pronunciation to certain words. Depending on the answer, the map is highlighted with red for the region that pronounces a word the same way, and it is highlighted in blue for the region that differs the most in pronunciation. (If for a given question you are confident that you learned your response in an area other. After each question is answered, a map pops up on the left side of the screen highlighted in different colors. This usually means that you should answer the questions below based on where you were raised, but if you have acquired your dialect features from more than one place, please answer with the place where you feel you acquired the majority of these features. The quiz asks questions about what words are used for certain concepts or how different regions pronounce different words. The New York Times created a dialect quiz intended to help people pinpoint where they learned the pronunciation of words. Im not British or Irish, and judging from my map theres no way Im passing for one. Im guessing this is what happens when they think my accent is general american. ![]() The original questions and results for that survey can be found on Dr. Raised in NYC, and my dialect map spans from the northeast to midwest and western half of the US and then Florida and Nova. ![]() The New York Dialect Quiz pinpoints where the influence in your speech comes from. 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. ![]()
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