Which American Dialect is Closest to My Own? | AMERICAN DIALECT QUIZ

As a British man living in America, I've often wondered which American dialect most closely resembles my own. Since we are two nations divided by a common language, some American dialects came closer than others.
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[@LostinthePond]

Take the American Dialect quiz yourself: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html

[@Otokichi786]

That requires me to sign on with The New York Times. No thank you, I'm not that interested in seeing if I can be placed "outside the continental United States."

[@justKOZM]

Lost in the Pond I took the quiz and was expecting a mixed result as I grew up as a military brat and lived in CA, CO, FL, and OK. But to my surprise it was very accurate to where I live now. The 3 cities that fit me best we’re Wichita, OKC, and Springfield MO.

[@sandangels73]

I paused your video to go and take the test. I am from Oklahoma, but most of my ancestors are from the deep south...mainly Alabama. My test showed Oklahoma City, Mobile Alabama, and Montgomery Alabama. I would say that test was a dead ringer.

[@mattflatt670]

I've always heard it called devil's night myself

[@mattflatt670]

All the names for the wild cat does infact describe the same cat

[@Oldjohn52]

"what do you call a drive through liquor store?" A bad Idea.

[@themaggattack]

😆👍

[@davidroddini1512]

LOL. We actually have several of them in my area. I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact AA started in my part of the U.S.?

[@mikedaniel1771]

Lol. Only place I've ever seen this is in Florida, where it's called Beverage Barn 😅

[@hayliedlr]

The only time I saw that was when I was in Mexico. 😑

[@a.k.v.3042]

Ha! My feeling exactly the first time I encountered one when I went to college (in Ohio).

[@prichardson623]

When I was in the Netherlands, people kept asking if I was British. They seemed surprised when I told them I was from Alabama. LOL

[@jesseberg3271]

Imagine their confusion if you'd said you were from Birmingham, just not 'that' one.

[@Blade4952]

Very few people k ow that the modern southern accent is a holdover from colonial era England. I tried to tell this to a British friend once and he refused to believe me lol.

[@jwb52z9]

I tell people that a lot and they don't get it either.

[@NunYaO]

@@Blade4952 that's funny; my British friend didn't believe me either. Until she found out common food items between us. For example: we both used malted vinegar as a condiment on batter-fried fish; as opposed to breaded or mealed fish - like catfish - on which we'd both use tartar or cocktail sauce (w/horseradish), that we both made potato-cakes, & several other distinctly British foods...then she was finally convinced.

[@ce461]

Blade4952 the modern accent isn’t as strong as the accent 50 years ago. Back then they would have definitely believed you but at this point it’s evolved so much with a lot more communication between states

[@tobarstep]

I've heard from some linguistic historians that the general "southern" accent is the closest to the accent that the early English settlers had.

[@lionhartd138]

Yes, something about Celts (Scots, Irish, etc.) settling the Appalachias. I've heard this too.

[@hazonku]

I recently learned there's a similar situation with Texas German (which apparently is a thing). There's a whole community that speaks a more traditional version of German than what you'd find in most of Germany today because German settlers settled & the language was different enough from the established west Texan that they never really had much effect on one another. Somehow preserving an older form of German.

[@kbc163]

This also applies to Cajuns, aka Les Acadiens, who migrated from Canada down to Louisiana. Their version of French is very old, although I have been told by a native French speaker from Orleans that he could understand Cajun French quite well.

[@gojewla]

Vowels (and diphthongs) are often somewhat similar to at least some British accents. Also, the lack of r’s in the Boston accent 😂

[@tomeubank3625]

I've always heard that Appalachian was most similar to Elizabethan English.

[@MatthewMcCrady]

My mother grew up in rural West Virginia, and a few years ago, I took her to Edinburgh, Scotland. People there were endlessly fascinated by her accent. In Greyfriar's kirkyard, a tour group from the Netherlands stopped us and asked for directions to Greyfriar's Bobby, and when my mother answered, you'd have thought they were hearing some long lost language. They asked her questions about herself just to hear her speak.

[@margaretstutts4362]

This happened to me in NYC in the 80s and I’m from Mississippi. So, they’d ask me all kind of questions about anything. We were in line to get into Hard Rock. 🤣

[@mavahuth5044]

​@@margaretstutts4362 long time ago I was visiting my cousins in New York. They asking me to different words. They said I sounded really southern. Most in the south either can't figure out where I am from. Or they think I am from the North. Well I was born and raised in the south. 😊

[@picmajik]

That happened to me when I was 9 visiting friends who had moved from Georgia to New York. The other kids kept following me around just to hear me speak and my accent isn't that strong as other relatives. It definitely comes out when I least expect it to.

[@anndeecosita3586]

Not going to lie. I struggle to understand some people from West Virginia and I’m American.

[@lorih6514]

My mother grew up in the coal camps of Mingo County. I grew up in the Ohio River section of WV. I worked with a Scottish doctor for 15 years who laughed all the time at things I said that she swore were Scots slang.

[@sststr]

You can't be a southerner unless you say "y'all!" Even more importantly, you must understand the proper usage of "all y'all".

[@Scott65J]

truth!

[@StaveEntertainment]

Bless those little hearts of those that cant understand all y,all but they try

[@iloveyourunclebob]

I wish you guys and y'all interchangeably was an option.

[@uhohhotdog]

Jaded Wonderland that’s me

[@GZQ9]

strave victourous all y’all is just the plural of y’all

[@ebonyblack4563]

Actually all of those names do refer to the same big cat. The Puma/Cougar/Catamont/Mountian Lion holds the most regional names for the same animal on the continent. That makes it an excellent question for this type of quiz.

[@thnecromaniac]

It will always drive me nuts that peps on the gulf call them Panther, cause they ain't actualy panthers...

[@copo2835]

I feel like the "least similar" on that one may be wrong. I'm from upstate New York, and have lived in the Midwest for 20 years, amd almost exclusively hear "cougar". Occasionally I'll hear "mountain lion" or "puma", but not often. Amd the only time I've heard "catamount" is old books and westerns

[@ShiningSakura]

I live in Utah and we use mountain lion and cougar equally. Puma occationally.

[@TuhljinTampergauge]

@@ShiningSakuraKinda strange that the map indicated that cougar wasn't that common in Utah. I mean, BYU Cougars is a thing. C'mon!

[@ShiningSakura]

@@TuhljinTampergauge I thought the very same thing. I guess it comes down to you have to pick 1 option as well as who they polled for this to compare to.

[@Joe_for_real]

When I took the quiz using only the words that I grew up using and not the ones that entered my vocabulary as an adult, it nailed my home city exactly.

[@linkly9272]

I just did the same thing, and yeah it completely nailed it. Really surprised me, haha.

[@SikenServent]

As a Pittsburgher hearing you say "yinz" puts a smile on my face 🤣

[@emminet]

Same!!

[@Hellheart]

Wow... You're a woman, in my state (Philly boy here), and most importantly, a Loyalist!? (I personally identify as a Space Wolf Adeptus Astartes 😂) You have given me so much hope... Lol Be safe, fellow citizen of the Imperium. For Russ! For the Allfather!

[@morguenmorguen6862]

Yinz is also used in Appalachia, and before today, I would have guessed that it's the only place in the US where it's said.

[@schmeckiez4540]

That's the whole reason I clicked on this :D

[@kathygolonka6944]

Im from New Castle Pa right between Pittsburgh and well Youngstown Ohio. Yinz is such a Western Pa word. But I do really cringe when people say "warsh" instead of "wash" . I know we got our language around here but that is awful on the ears.

[@themathhatter5290]

13:28 "They don't, surely, describe the same type of cat though." Um, about that.

[@debigarland7313]

The Math Hatter yes, they do, don’t they?

[@cormyat07]

@@debigarland7313 Mountain lion is most common, in my experience, though you do hear cougar and puma on occasion. They're like jaguars without the spots.

[@Cadwaladr]

@@debigarland7313 Yes, Puma concolor, they live all through the Americas from the Yukon to the southern Andes.

[@iceynova]

In the south, where I went to school our mascot was the cougar, but once I moved to Colorado the schools used Mountain Lion. Personally I use Mountain Lion.

[@marshallscott4216]

“Painter” is a specifically Appalachian turn of “panther.” Growing up in Tennessee, we heard the word “panther” most often and sometimes pronounced as “painter” but always knowing it was the same cat as cougar and mountain lion.

[@alanr4447a]

10:30 I think you wanted the third option, "cray-awn".

[@MichaelScheele]

The "sub" in sub sandwich is short for submarine. Some breads used for them resemble the hull shape of a submarine. Plus, they were popular as a lunch item for workers at shipyards that built submarines during WW II.

[@hylianarcher4531]

And then a poboys (or poor boy, as some call it), is a distinct type of sandwich from down here in the South where it's made using french bread. The best type specifically uses New Orleans style french bread. Also, while poboys, like subs, have a roast beef option or even stuff like a hamburger or steak option sometimes, most meat options for poboys are seafood based rather than farm meat based, primarily: catfish, shrimp, crab, and fried oysters.

[@karnerbutterfly]

And breads with the same basic shape - only smaller - are called torpedo rolls.

[@vintagehockeygear6769]

my result was very accurate, mainly because the question about the night before Halloween is called "Devil's Night" and is specific to the Detroit/Michigan area, also we say "pop" instead of "soda" in Michigan.

[@JBG1968]

The Pittsbugh area always called it Devils night to , and we famously always called it pop .

[@Lorrainecats]

Michigan here. It's devil's night because bad people set fires, vandalize. And commit general mayhem. And we say pop. Soda is the white stuff that comes in a yellow box.

[@monicawitt9368]

​@@JBG1968 Pittsburgh and Detroit have some interesting dialect overlap.

[@RR-on4sk]

Rust belt -- we all use similar terms I'm thinking.

[@rneumeye]

I listened to an interview with the people who came up with the survey. There is a question like that for almost every city, where that one answer is like a bullseye, BAM, "you're from here cause they're the only ones who say that". 😅 They can figure out where you grew up with two or three random questions. It's really cool. 😅

[@scot60]

In the south we used to say “you reckon”? Imagine my surprise when in the Harry Potter books and movies Ron often said “ What do you reckon”?

[@muscleslave9606]

Yeah, the Brits are really flailing in the darkness right now. Empire is a hell of a drug to quit.

[@carschmn]

Pretty much tracks with the fact that southern and east coast English is closer to British English

[@Author.Noelle.Alexandria]

I grew up saying "Ya reckon."

[@rhondaprice5202]

Yes I'm in NC. The word is a part of us..lol

[@rachaelbean1439]

I am a New Zealander we say reckon which surprised my Californian sister in law

[@madmanmapper]

I'm pretty sure the 'boot sale' answer is a plant to find British spies.

[@ChrisHolman]

🤣😂🤣😂

[@johnalden5821]

Unless you are actually trying to sell a bunch of boots. Could indicate some place up north?

[@hayliedlr]

@@johnalden5821 I'm in the Midwest and we call a trunk sale when people sell things from the trunk of their car. Kind of like second had things, handmade things or even at a craft fair

[@aaronjackson1875]

We don’t need to spy on you.

[@ohyeahgamer3736]

Aaron Jackson are you sure about that?

[@Narrowgaugefilms]

Years ago I had a friend from East Anglia, with whom I e-mailed quite often. We exchanged recordings of our voices, and were both impressed by how "unaccented" we seemed. Years later I read a Bill Bryson book on American English and he wrote that many original settlers of what is now the Eastern US came from this region are are still an influence on our accent.

[@zoilacurtis7112]

As a retired English teacher from Georgia, I bet myself that your dialect would be close to that of the South. I have always been fascinated with the idea that the Southern dialect is derived from Elizabethan English.

[@Blondie42]

Irish has a huge influence on it

[@billnye7323]

@@Blondie42 No, the South has a relatively low irish, especially compared to the Northeast. If you mean "Scots-Irish" then perhaps, even though those people are actually Scottish and Northern English. Also, the English were the first to settle the south.

[@Blondie42]

@billnye7323 Yes. Why do you think that they can easily fake a southern accent? Had the great famine never happened, with 1.5 million fleeing to NA, we likely wouldn't have that dialect nor two holidays

[@billnye7323]

@@Blondie42 What dialect are you referring to, and what state is NA?

[@wilklikesmilk5371]

I’ve always called them fireflies and lighting bugs interchangeably as well.

[@catherinerobilliard7662]

In Britain they're called glow Worms, and abundant where I live in Somerset, though I doubt they're prevalent in Grimsby.

[@riada4996]

I remember them being called both interchangeably in Indiana.

[@brianbuchmeier]

Chad Fisher Yeah, I was a little surprised about the map on that one. I used lightning bug more as a kid and firefly as an adult and I’ve always lived in Indiana.

[@ainekellan6295]

Same here

[@ivetterodriguez1994]

I would understand them interchangeably but I've never said "lightning bug" unless I was reading it from a book.

[@randelbrooks]

I can tell you as A film historian and filmmaker myself, that British actors were chosen for the leading roles in gone with the wind because it was found that when they slowed down their speech they sounded more like southerners from the 19th century!

[@teresamanley7154]

Totally Agree with you on that.....British actors are very good with Southern accents.......

[@BOT-qg4lq]

I slowed down the video, and indeed, he turned to a southerner! in a bliiink

[@KRYMauL]

@@teresamanley7154 Except for Daniel Craig for some reason

[@theknightswhosay]

@@BOT-qg4lq he sounds like a drunk southerner

[@MostlyInteresting]

I do declare!

[@jennifercarriger6168]

When I worked at the Great Escape which was in Lake George NY, USA, I regularly hung out with some people from Poland who where taught English in England and were hired in. Apparently one person encountered someone at the airport with a deep southern drawl. He literally thought the guy was not speaking English, but an entirely different language and he asked him what country he was from. 😂

[@rinatail7248]

I've met a foreigner who couldn't understand a southern accent, too!

[@TennesseeMelanie]

I wasn't surprised at all that you came out "Southern!" We are happy to have you amongst our linguistic midst.

[@spookyblush-speedruns]

"neutral ground" makes it sound like you go into the middle of the road grassy strip to discuss parlay.

[@gregcrabb3497]

Neutral ground makes me think of New Orleans, Louisiana.

[@mattelder1971]

@@gregcrabb3497 Yeah, New Orleans is one of the main places that uses that term.

[@sferg9582]

If you're an electrician, these words are NOT interchangeable.

[@billvill61]

...or the DMZ

[@theknave4415]

There is also a huge Scots-Irish influence in the Appalachians and the Southern U.S., as well as English.

[@jwb52z9]

That's exactly why Texans speak the way we do. It's a dialect from the Appalachians and British and Scots-Irish unless you're in some parts of the Panhandle and they sound like Yankees with a flat accent.

[@daffy8995]

Yeah, I kind of expected North Carolina

[@wb6wsn]

@@jwb52z9 I spent some time in Guymon, OK, in the Oklahoma panhandle right above the Texas panhandle, and they sure didn't sound like Yankees to me. Of course, I will admit that they didn't sound like Sanderson or Uvalde either.

[@OfficiallySanctionedKATG]

There are parts of the Appalachian mountain region where they still speak almost identically to their ancestors from the south west of england (cornish/bristolian) the accent is almost identical, the dialect/phrases etc line up very well too. You could put the two peoples together and it would be hard to tell the two apart.

[@gizmogoose.2486]

Ulster-Irish

[@claradaniels1472]

i did this quiz and the three cities they gave me were all within 50 miles of where i grew up. scarily accurate!

[@janet91973gm]

Took several different quizzes, including the one you did. Yours said Salt Lake, Phionex & Tucson. I've lived in Denver Colorado since 1962. My parents are from eastern Kansas. I thought I'd have a Midwest or southern dialect. The closest any quiz came said "Your accent is actually an amalgamation of a lot of different regional dialects, so no one can ever really pinpoint where you come from" I'm happy with that!

[@taynet64]

as a southerner, I've heard my entire life "the devil's beatin' his wife"

[@davidpatterson4646]

from middle tennessee this is what was always said am close to 60 yrs old

[@MegaCakeFan]

Being a southerner as well (Louisiana, never heard of the place yats he mentioned. ), I VAGUELY remember/know the term but for me it's just a "sun shower". Like for crawfish, Know/heard of the term mudbug, but it's never really called that here unless in a joking manner with/between kids. Mainly since its a fairly big export from our state, would be foolish to call em that lol

[@aengusdedanann181]

i live in east Tennessee and am raised by someone from Indiana so I have a mix. Crawdad, sun shower, mountain lion, pop. My brother is asked a lot if he is from New York weirdly enough.

[@nancyjanzen5676]

Living on the coast of Texas we tend to call that the seabreeze. Usually happens in the early afternoon.

[@rekietabeatslc9980]

I'm gonna have to use that one. In Ireland, so I'll get some miles out of it lol

[@tiredallthetime1636]

Ok where in the us are fireflies called peenie wallie’s

[@AsaTJ522]

It's one tiny island off the coast of the Carolinas that uses an African-influenced pidgin English called Gullah! Very interesting, and I had never heard of it before taking this quiz.

[@jamesonrosen1773]

@@AsaTJ522 i heard about the origin of this. Very cool. Truly the american spirit shinning through with ingenuity. The conditions in which this was made necessary are a blight on american history, yet if they were ignored it would be a disgrace(at the very least) Having time between these events allows us to appreciate these cultural differences but why they came about is still uncool.

[@mysticmama_3692]

Mostly in the Gullah island areas off the coast of South Carolina.

[@rhondaprice5202]

I'm in NC and never heard of it.

[@redboy09100]

@@rhondaprice5202 I’m from NC and Gullah used to be here too. I’m surprised you never heard of them. They’re pretty well known here

[@musicwarrior3755]

As someone from southeast Michigan, the day before Halloween was historically called Devil's Night. Although I remember there was a push by a mayor in the 90s to make things safer during Halloween with neighborhood watches and even tried to coin the term Angel's Night. Also, for what I call something diagonal from me at an intersection, I say kitty-corner.

[@Lorrainecats]

Yes, here in Michigan

[@lon3don]

I've never heard any term in Southern England. Time to adopt Kitty Corner.

[@Bozeema]

That was definitely an interesting quiz; I'm a kiwi living in Australia. It put me firmly in the New England area (Top 3 cities were New York, New Jersey and Yonkers), with a few splashes of orange in Miami, San Francisco. Los Angeles and Hawaii.

[@gavinparks5386]

I thought he missed the option , in the pronunciation of "crayon " with second syllable rhyming with "dawn "

[@cirrustate8674]

I agree, he did miss that.

[@bkane573]

@@cirrustate8674 agreed

[@trajectoryunown]

This drove me nuts from kindergarten. CRAY-ON! That's how it's spelled. It's not an effing CROWN! >:( I can look past variations for most words but this one still gets to me. ahn has the exact same pronunciation as awn. Both sound like on. Am I missing something?

[@paulwebbiweb]

He may have missed it, but it didn't match his pronunciation anyway - not in British terms. His O in CRAYON is the O sound in (British) DON, not the one in (British) DAWN.

[@gavinparks5386]

@@paulwebbiweb You've confused me now . I'm Scottish , and I say both don and dawn exactly the same.

[@morgainnetaar]

I've always heard that the south is close to many of the British accents. I'm twenty minutes from Birmingham. Y'all come!

[@osuasheuatl]

which one??

[@morgainnetaar]

@@osuasheuatl lol Birmingham, Alabama. The one that his results showed.

[@pm5206]

Hence the name Birmingham.

[@nunliski]

@Kathleen Henson No, you really don't. The US and the UK each have a single Birmingham that everyone other than you immediately understands is the one being talked about unless further clarified.

[@billstokes6740]

I'm from Arkansas. It's all Scotch-Irish English and German.

[@scoxocs]

In Philly we use "all youse" as in "All youse better bundle up, it's cold."

[@silverysparkles]

The quiz was very accurate. My top two cities are the two major cities that I've lived between most of my life.

[@beholder8467]

I grew up outside of Pittsburgh PA so when I saw "yinz" in the title, I just had to like automatically.

[@kamX-rz4uy]

If you answer that to question number one the quiz should just stop and pinpoint you at Pittsburgh.

[@conniecrawford5231]

kam2244 X Pittsburgh rocks !

[@twocosmic2982]

Being a pennsylvanian I've heard alot of times that we definitely have an accent. I never understood that, cause I no materfactly we talk same as y'all

[@billvill61]

@@kamX-rz4uy Exactly! I grew up there but haven't lived there for 35 years, but I can still pick out w SW PA accent a mile away. I mean, where else can yinz go Dahn tahn and have a jumbo sandwich at Isleys then worsh up afterwards?

[@AustinsMind]

I’m from Pittsburgh and I don’t really use yinz unless I’m back home, but the thing that gives me away is when I say pop instead of soda.

[@fadnama]

I’ve always called easy school courses, “bullish!t courses”.

[@cannedyams9977]

Oh wow, the first thing to came to my mind was a crap class. Not sure if your joking or not but it’s eerily similar

[@talemaster4431]

We called them "pud" classes.

[@amywright2243]

I called them bunny classes.

[@thesnowmonkeyhaslanded3513]

Suburban Chicago from the 70s and 80s we called them blow-offs. Blowoff classes, not courses. Class is used frequently when meaning course. And you could skip a blowoff class, or a hard class, by "blowoff", as in "let's blowoff Calculus today and go to Taco Bell."

[@Mobliz]

I called them Electives.

[@SixofQueens]

I only use the term caty-corner because I heard a woman use it in a military base in Germany one time when I was a teenager, and had never before come across a word to describe such a location.

[@annedwyer797]

I've taken the NY Times dialect quiz several times over the years, and it's fun and pretty accurate. Lawrence sounds very "BBC news reader" to me; ie, no identifiable regional UK dialect sound. Having been a regular viewer of lots of British telly productions/Masterpiece theater for decades, I appreciate the number of regional dialects in the UK!

[@xnonsuchx]

I didn't go researching it, but I had heard from casually reading a few articles online over the years that the southern drawl is derived from British accents.

[@theyoshi202]

drawwwwwwl

[@mattkomar7622]

yeah, I've heard this too. Apparently if you slow down a British accent, it begins to sound more like a Southern accent.

[@johnalden5821]

Probably all of the American accents are derived from British accents -- just from different parts of Britain. Four hundred years ago, British accents were even more dissimilar than they are now. So if you had a preponderance of East Anglians going into New England, for example, that would influence the development of that accent, etc.

[@greyblob1101]

@Mike Girard I don't get that, Boomhauer talk really fast and still sound southern

[@mokuseinoosa]

In Japan, when rain falls while the sun is shining, we call it "kitsune no yome-iri (狐の嫁入り)", which literally means "fox's wedding" too.

[@elijahtomaquin3160]

In the philippines if that event happens, we link it to a tikbalang's (half human half horse creature) wedding.

[@Koutouhara]

Yep! and Japanese Americans (like myself) say that too! Though I was also raised in the south so I've heard 'devil beating his wife'. If I'm trying to hid my accent or blend in at least, I just go with sunshower since it's the most neutral.

[@ranjanbiswas3233]

IT'S SAME IN SOUTH ASIA TOO WTF.

[@meridien52681]

@@elijahtomaquin3160 I grew up in the Midwest but parent were from the South. It was "devil's beating his wife," here too. Boy wasn't he mean af!

[@DavidDayTravels]

I was at a bar in NYC just casually chatting with two local women who asked if I was Irish or British. I’m from Mississippi.

[@Grizlah12]

Some fun ones they miss include my Texan family's accent which actually pronounces "liar" as "lawr," rhyming with far, and "fire," also pronounced as "far." As well as if you're gonna say "him" in the middle of a sentence kinda becomes "eem" but with the e pronounced really quickly. So "do you see him near the fire" would be "see'em by th'fawrr?"

[@GregInHouston2]

I'll put in an interesting story. My daughter is in her 30s and was born and raised in Texas. Her mother was born and raised in Taiwan [chinese]. She went on a business trip to Wisconsin. When she was returning, she found someone sitting in her seat. The person was obviously part of a couple that wanted to sit together. She was okay with changing seats so she asked the one sitting in her seat where she should sit. They just stared at her. She had to repeat the question twice before she got an answer. She later figured out that the couple was staring at her when a little Chinese girl came up and asked them a question with a Texas accent.

[@patricialavery8270]

There were two lovely Asian ladies with drawls and big hair running a Chinese restaurant in Kentucky.lol

[@rosehawke2577]

One of the strangest experiences I ever had was being checked out from a Mexican restaurant by an East Asian cashier who had a stroooooong Southern accent.

[@sassygrammy1258]

Growing up in the south, we said dinner for the noon meal and supper for the evening meal. The dinner meal was the larger meal. I think TV has played a big part in changing how people relate to terms.

[@virginiaandsarah]

In our house dinner was the evening meal and lunch was at noon.

[@Aztec339]

My mom was from Montreal Canada so we said supper for the evening meal. As a grownup I always use dinner.

[@SixofQueens]

Yeah, for me growing up the larger, more formal meal was the evening meal and it was called dinner, lunch was a smaller, often less formal meal that was usually whatever you could make or reheat quickly in the microwave and didn't necessarily involve the entire family, even on weekends or during holidays. I can't comment on how much it might have been influenced by media, it was just always the case. For reference, my parents grew up in Ohio in the 60s through 70s.

[@CeeJayThe13th]

Grew up in the south. For my grandparents it went breakfast, dinner, supper. At my house, there was no lunch as that's something you'd eat at work or school since nobody would be home at that time and dinner /supper was used interchangeably.

[@MoogieB]

Breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper. We only had dinner on special days like Christmas, New Years, Easter & Thanksgiving. From South Louisiana.

[@christopherpearson5887]

That makes sense. It's believed that the deep South's accent is very similar to the original British accent.

[@senoreg]

"I don't see my option here" He missed the only part that specifically had his option

[@jordanwilliams9300]

What's most fascinating to me is how we all KNOW of these alternative regional words for these items, but we still don't use them.

[@joecerone]

Its our country dude, it'd be weird if we didn't pick these sorts of things up, no?

[@willkittwk]

@@joecerone true and there's no rhyme or reason what kind of phraseology we'll use in California. Southern Cal you can hear sort of a surfer sound and lingo and in the Central Cal it's a hick dialect when you get out of the cities. One of the guys I worked with was from Arkansas and he told the boss man he liked to work with me cause I'm country. I said I know whatcha mean. He'd say stuff like that dadgum this or that or the other and I'd just throw them country phrases back at him. We could talk proper when we talked to customers. But when we talked among ourselves it was a lot of country clownin. Never taking life seriously. That guy could sell a deep freezer to an Eskimo. We actually sold Eskimo outposts sometimes cause the government gives them money they don't know what to do with. He'd promise them he'd throw a case of vodka in the shipment cause they're not allowed to by liquor. Never did😹😂🤣

[@SelfPropelledDestiny]

They are ALL the same species of cat!

[@horsenuts1831]

I'm British, where we don't have any dangerous animals, and if I saw one I would probably call it, "Oh shit"

[@kamX-rz4uy]

Panthers are related to Jaguars and Leopards but in America the misnamed Florida panther is really a cougar that can also play hockey.

[@sledjenkins5]

@@horsenuts1831 and I was under the impression that they were literally all different species

[@hbgplayer7203]

Living in California, I use Mountain lion, cougar, and puma interchangeably, but a panther is not a cougar. A panther as I've always heard it is another word for, or perhaps a subspecies of, Jaguar.

[@SelfPropelledDestiny]

I Got That PMA I’d love to hear how you figured that out when all sources I can find say it is the same cat, by many names.

[@kcb1784]

Michigander here. October 30th is "Devil's Night" here. Deroit's (major city) police department started an "Angel's Night" initiative about 20ish years ago to promote good behavior.

[@billg3356]

I was waiting on a woman one day at work and distinctly heard an English accent in her voice. As we kept talking though, her voice became obviously Southern. I thought i was going crazy until i stumbled upon a KZbin video one day of rural English accents, and i swear to God the woman on the video sounded like she was from the American South. I was floored

[@charlesgallagher1376]

I’m from Buffalo but I picked up saying “ Y’all “ and dropping “youse guys” without a second thought.

[@dale3404]

It makes sense, right

[@marcwheeler4406]

Also from ny area I say you all but I also say "a" because were so closely aligned near Canada I've picked up a few of their sayings also....shout out to my Canada neighbors who I miss so much ....

[@johntheherbalistg8756]

"Mountain screamer?! Are you sure that's the name of a cat?!" Says the guy who has (obviously) never heard one calling out in the night 😱

[@rootbeershelf4406]

when i first moved to America from the UK as a kid, I said “been” the british way for quite awhile after I lost my accent, I only stopped because I got bullied for it and became self conscious

[@geeksdo1tbetter]

Woah! Your delivery has changed drastically since this video! Please take the quiz again!!

[@lancep2002]

Anybody else use y'all'd've? As a contraction of you all would have

[@llamasugar5478]

Dangerous_stranger That and “ommunna “ as in “Ommunna finish this up then go wash my hands.” (I’m gonna)

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

Yes...but I say it more like "y'all da" as in... Y'all da finished that if you'd a tried.😊

[@troyroberts9076]

Or y’all’er. as in in y’all’er gonna y’all’s ass kicked

[@markscruggs8346]

I did once and everybody started looking at me

[@christancoding4424]

@@llamasugar5478 I use imma, never heard of ommonna

[@kyliecrown533]

He used yinz on the thumbnail and yet it’s such an isolated part of US dialect in Pittsburgh

[@johnleeson6946]

I'm from Youngstown and heard "yinz" a lot. I don't say that because it's from Pittsburgh. I'm a Browns fan, sooooo that's not gonna happen!

[@sophierobinson2738]

Bylie Brown evolved from "you ones"

[@danmorrison8194]

Yeah, as a native yinzer that really surprised me. I thought KZbin’s algorithm was getting really specific.

[@steveonmareisland5268]

My wife is from Pittsburgh (PA) and from the way she pronounces it (though she never uses it), I would spell it "yunz," or even "yuhnz," the latter so that no one would think the "u" was pronounced as "oo" in "moon." I'm from California but went to college in Maryland, so I have happily acquired the habit of saying "y'all."

[@Egilhelmson]

Sophie Robinson Evolved from yunz or you’enz, which supposedly the Germany weak plural added on to “you”, then the English weak plural ‘s’ added at the end.

[@susanpeterson9947]

Thanks for sharing the link to the quiz. I’m a fourth generation Floridian and it shows in my vocabulary. My cities are Tampa (I grew up just north of there), Tallahassee (I went to college there), and Jackson, Mississippi (apparently my penalty for using the term frontage road). My Mom’s people were English and my Dad’s were Scottish.

[@ChanceDeath]

For meals, my grandparents always taught that the three meals were breakfast, lunch, and supper. Dinner was the biggest meal and replaced one of the mains.

[@buckturgidson1448]

Don’t know if this is relevant or not but I believe most southerners would tell you that British actors do a southern accent ten times better than American yankee actors.

[@hayliedlr]

You mean a Northerner? Or a Midwesterner?

[@buckturgidson1448]

JoJo Bean Non-southerner.

[@TheSuzberry]

As a Southerner, I strongly disagree. Most “southern” accents whether from US or British actors are generic and grating. Just as if an American used a “generic” British accent other than RP.

[@michaelanthony4750]

I say I say I resemble that remark!

[@traj07]

The thing is there is not really a 'Southern accent'. Alabama sounds different than Louisiana which sounds different than Texas. Most actors use a mix of all of them which just sounds weird to us.

[@moxiedawn4370]

I'm not surprised at all. It was my automatic guess. In a lot of quizzes about American/English word choices, many words I would routinely use as a southern person are common in England.

[@steve25782]

We call sunshine and rain at the same time Ithacating. Ithaca, NY is known for bad/weird weather. :-)

[@stevedupre8779]

My grandmother was a professional cake maker and made "icing" from scratch. When I decided to bake my own cakes, read burn down my kitchen, I bought "frosting" in a store.

[@libbytaylor2358]

I had always heard that our Southern drawl came from England!

[@JohnStark72]

Had heard in my youth that many English claimed the South was most aligned with the general British dialect, so your results don't surprise me.

[@Kargach]

Grew up in Michigan and still live there, can confirm that around Detroit, we call October 30th "Devil's Night".

[@feralbluee]

i am definitely a New Yorker ( which includes NYC, Westchester County and closely surrounding counties. although, i have begun using the idiom y’all cause it seems to fit better in some uses. i would like to begin saying ‘you lot’. i love that idiom. i do say car park now. i watch and listen to a lot of British audio and video shows :) 😋

[@brianburns7211]

My grandmother who recently passed was very interested in the history of the English language. I inherited a book on the subject. Amongst the reading, it noted that the eastern Massachusetts accent was an offshoot of the East Anglia accent. This was because most of the Puritan Migration consisted of families from East Anglia, who settled in Massachusetts. My family comes from the border of Essex and Suffolk, and moved to Boston in 1634. I’ve noticed that my grandparents and great grandparents used lots of what would now be considered the British term for something.

[@quinn2002]

I'm convinced the person who made this quiz has never been to the south

[@nthgth]

It's the NY Times, major elitists.

[@deborahsanders6762]

I agree. Or ever known or had family from the south.

[@aidenbustos8625]

Exactly I’m from Texas and have never heard of a drive through alcohol store

[@RonJohn63]

@@aidenbustos8625 the quiz must have changed, or the questions are randomly chosen, because I just took the quiz, and there was no such question. (However... I live in South Louisiana, and well remember when drive-through daiquiri stores were so popular they caused traffic jams, and necessitated passing a "no drinking while driving" law.)

[@RonJohn63]

Having just taken the quiz, and seen some questions which directly pinpointed where in the South that I live, it's pretty obvious that they've done enough research to pinpoint *exactly* where I live.

[@hannahrobertson31]

I actually took that quiz. It was weirdly accurate! I don't speak like anyone else who grew up in the same area as me, so a friend sent it to me, but my three cities were my father's hometown, the city nearest the tiny town where my mother grew up, and my current city of residence.

[@kischr8230]

Concerning the question about the night before Halloween, you'll notice a void in centeral Iowa. Way back in the day, they decided to move the typical trick or treat night a day earlier to keep children safe from the rambunctious Halloween troublemakers. Even today, we still trick or treat a day earlier, and so the night is reffered to as "beggar's night", which you'll notice was not a given option.

[@lynnebattaglia-triggs1042]

It was Beggar’s Night in western NY too.

[@mandapanda1701]

I thought for a second you said “drive-through knickers store”. I was wondering where in the US would someone need some pants so desperately!

[@fogweaver5633]

Knickers are pants, often leather, that buckle below the knee, commonly seen in 18th century illustrations. Pants are the midground between jeans and trousers. I believe what you are referring to is what we, properly, call underpants. After all, they are worn under your trousers, pants, or jeans.

[@Superdm64]

As a born and raised Southerner I welcome you to the fold

[@thesnowmonkeyhaslanded3513]

Not to be provocative, but I always thought the titles in the Klan were kinda English, what with Knights and Wizards and such. I've also had a theory that the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was actually intentionally set by Southern malcontents as a form of sabotage and terrorism or payback for severe mistreatment of Confederate POWs in Chicago during the Civil War.

[@jimthecactus7425]

@@thesnowmonkeyhaslanded3513 okay?

[@steevenfrost]

I say slip road is the one that is used when joining a Motorway.

[@davidh.4944]

Having lived outside the US for close to half of my life, and around other expats from all over the English-speaking world, the language I used has become quite hybridized. So interestingly, my first run-through put me square in the Bay Area of California, a place I've never been to, outside of the SF airport. But when I re-took it, thinking more carefully about how I _used_ to say things, it came back almost spot-on. It centered me in eastern Oklahoma, just north of my native Dallas (but with most of my teen years spent in Colorado). Very impressive.

[@anna-katehowell9852]

frosting and icing are different things.

[@bcatypical]

Please describe both.

[@anna-katehowell9852]

@@bcatypical Frosting is thick and fluffy; icing is thin and sometimes glossy.

[@dirtroadie5747]

Agree with Anna. Frosting would be like on a birthday cake and icing would be like on a cinnamon roll.

[@SangosEvilTwin]

and icing is marginally thicker than a glaze

[@anna-katehowell9852]

@@SangosEvilTwin Right, exactly. Although you could almost use those two interchangeably. Never frosting, though.

[@nancystone3793]

My second generation German-American grandma told me when it rains with the sun out that the devil is beating his wife. We grew up in central Missouri.

[@libertinadarbini]

My mother was first generation Slovakian and she said the same thing. We lived in St Louis City.

[@robertlong3561]

Born in southern Texas, of German and various Western European ancestry. I also learned that phase as the Devil beating his wife.

[@suziecollector5293]

My ancestors have been here for over four hundred years. I am surprised how much British has survived in my family. I was born near Winston-Salem and moved to Georgia when I was 4 years. Your channel always gives me a laugh!

[@SBchannel62]

Took the quiz. The cities selected are all within an 8 hour drive of the town where I was raised.

[@jgsmith4957]

You have all the charm of a true southern gentleman. Bless your heart.

[@Bushwhacker-so4yk]

I say diagonal, and the first time I heard someone say "kitty corner", I stared at them like they had two heads.

[@kevinhamilton6256]

Hmm. Have you ever heard "catty wampus" to describe something "kitty corner" diagonal to something else?

[@kirbyhill3411]

I say cata-corner. I have never heard kitty corner.

[@Anonymouse428]

@@kirbyhill3411 I grew up in Seattle, and I say kitty-corner. When I took the quiz, I got Seattle, Spokane and Portland as my cities - and kitty-corner was listed as the most “regionally unique” answer I put for all three cities.

[@palecorpse]

catty corner is used in oklahoma, often.

[@conniecrawford5231]

Lizzie Baggins I grew up in Pittsburgh PA and we say “ kitty corner”, too!

[@flyingsodwai1382]

I loved this test. When I took it I had been living in Indiana for a decade after growing up in the west. The test recognized both areas and even pinpointed the area of the state I was raised in. Wild!

[@sciverzero8197]

As an american, I agree with the dinner-supper choice given here, though I have frequently heard "they're the same" "it doesn't matter" and "you have them reversed" in my own area. I have also heard both "dinner is a plain meal and supper is a fancy meal" and "dinner is a fancy meal and supper is a plain meal"

[@Conflictinator]

I didn't know anyone had a name for the night before Halloween.

[@mrto0tsboi]

It's a Detroit term. We call it Devils night because between the 70s and 80s there was mass vandalism on October 30th, and was thus named Devils night. The term stuck even though that kind of thing doesn't happen anymore.

[@rowynnecrowley1689]

I'd heard of "Devil's Night" because of Hocus Pocus, but never heard it in real life.

[@foobear1920]

I've heard devil's night but only on documentaries or movies. But how many call Halloween St. Hollows Eve? I've heard that even more. Followed by all saints day (Nov 1).

[@Conflictinator]

@@foobear1920 People who practice witchcraft call it All Hallows Eve.

[@foobear1920]

@@Conflictinator oops. That's totally what I meant. I had a mix of the all saints day and the fact that I had just commented on another that I live near "Cougar" Washington at the foot of Mt "St" Helen still stuck in my head. Lol so that's the jumble that came out. 😆 Yes all hollows eve. 👍

[@Scott65J]

the South has quite strong linguistic ties to England still...but also the Appalaichans

[@nunliski]

Dude, all English speakers have strong linguistic ties to England. You people don't even listen to yourselves when you bullshit about your supposed language knowledge.

[@sharkfinbite]

@@nunliski You don't understand and actually quite rude. Some places have more than others. You go to California and some other states near the Mexican boarder and you'll find more Spanish, Mexican, and Hispanic influence more linguistically, culturally, and even in the architecture style. It means there is a decline of the influence over time to make way for others to dilute it out and whatever there is has evolved into a different path from the origin. It isn't all evenly strong English here. You go to other former colony nations you will see stronger long lasting influences than the U.S. has. It is because it split of and literally evolved in another direction with various areas becoming more heavily French, Spanish, German, Nordic, Asian, or Indian influence in the regional culture. You go to Canada you'll literally feel like everything is more.... European... and British... You don't feel the same in the U.S. In fact most Americans in a video mentioning ethnic backgrounds people say they have or focus on don't even list English... at all. I am not joking. They literally mention everyone else and have a disinterest in England as their ancestry. Irish, Scottish, and Welsh get mentioned much more than England and people from there. You go to other former colonies you'll notice an increase in the English area and influence and Anglophiles too. It is an example of how America has culturally, linguistically, and ethically evolved away from the U.K. to be something different by now. Most people in the world, and in fact particularly the people in the U.K., just completely stubborn and so disinterested to care to realize this so they are usually unaware of this. So they have a habit of ignorantly and idiotically misjudging the amount of how, "English," or, "British," to be higher than it actually is. They are still stuck in the 1700s thinking everything is heavily English and still thinking, "That is my child," and everyone. Then comes here and gets a reality check when he sees the "children of Britain," have literally become Japanese weebos, extremely ethnically mixed to a point many people are not often identifying themselves as, "I don't know,",and speaking and acting nothing like the people in the U.K. You see there is a limit to how much of the influence. It is the type of thing many in the U.K. don't bother paying attention too enough. They don't care. They only care about talking about what is related to them in our culture more and the others get neglected or shafted in attention. As a result often you will find a large portion of the U.K.'s populous still thinking their influence is still big despite it has been over 200 years now and the culture had many others jumping in and having a longer impact by them by now. Of course they would not know this because they are too busy focusing on their culturally impact and not the others. Oh sure. They'll tell you, "No. We are taught about the others too," and I am going to point out to them they spent more time talking about their own influencing us than the others in conversation and written posted paragraphs. Actions speak louder than words. They are told we have other influences and how we evolved culturally and linguistically.... but they don't really.... still fathom it. They are still stuck in the, "That is my child," mode despite it being 100 generations now. What I am saying is there is a limit until a culture can keep having ___ ( insert name of another culture considered to create it) applied to it. At some point they evolve and have so much mixing and diffusing they are something completely different. The U.S. is literally reaching that point now and most people are in denial they can't keep having the English influence kept slapped on it anymore at some point.

[@NorthCamZ]

@@sharkfinbite Im from the UK. Dont worry not all of us are like that guy, haha

[@Scott65J]

OOOoooOO ...I'm internet famous hmmm

[@Scott65J]

...not what I was referring to...

[@Prof_Jeff]

I've taken this quiz a few times and it had been fairly accurate. I grew up it the Northern Tier of PA, and this quiz identifies me with Rochester, NY, and Philadelphia (I can't recall the third city). Something that bothers me about this quiz is not every question has the options of "other" and "I don't have a word for that" (or "I don't know what this is"). There are some questions that don't have these options but they truly would be my response. I feel that alters the analysis. Fortunately for me, "other" is an option for "What do you call an easy class?" I (and people I took classes with) called them "cake classes." Couldn't believe that wasn't a choice; I only ever had heard of "blow off" of all these choices, and that wasn't common. 🤷‍♂️

[@nativetexan9776]

Dinner is equivalent to a formal lunch, around noon, after Church on Sunday with family. Lunch is grab it as you go. Supper is the evening meal and is typically a family formal at the table.This is usually the southern way to describe it

[@donvineyard8654]

In rural Texas it was all about the size. Sunday dinner was at noon and the largest meal of the day. Supper was the evening meal, but dinner was also used if it was going to be the big meal of the day. Lunch was usually the noon meal unless it was the big Sunday meal, then dinner. But I encountered varied uses so I adapt to go with about anything and just listen to the context more than the word itself.

[@BengtBagels]

Raised n Stayed in TX 1 I heard the term Supper only once outside of a religious setting from a girl from Memphis. Lol never heard it again. We always had Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. Otherwise it was a snack. We never use Brunch or Linner use Supper, at all. Tho we might eat a traditional dinner for breakfast and breakfast for an evening meal. So we never really swung hard and true at any specifications for that thing on a plate that we are all consuming at this hour. Tho... I never heard anyone else call things meals. We might say... "Hey, I gotta head back home to wash up before our evening meal" that used to bother people lol idky. It was gonna be our last meal of the day. Also what is considered evening means very different things to me and my family and other locals. We would say: The Wee Hrs 12³⁰a - 2a Early Morning 3a - 5a Morning 6a-11a Noon 12p Afternoon 1p - 5p Evening 6p - 8p Night 8:³⁰p - 5a Midnight 12a So when ppl would day can we meet up in thr afternoon that is legit anywhere in that specified 5 hour period of 1p to right before 6p

[@BengtBagels]

The above is a bit of a long comment Proceed at own risk 🫠

[@LoriPeace]

My parents were from Oklahoma and Arkansas, and I was born in Texas, so dinner was almost always just Sunday at noon when we got home from church (as you said), and rarely ever any other day of the week. Except of course for Christmas dinner and Thanksgiving dinner, which are big meals in the middle of the afternoon, where you have a light breakfast and no lunch to make sure you have plenty of space! LOL

[@LoriPeace]

@@BengtBagels I don't know that I ever thought about it that specifically, but when I read your time descriptions, that lined up very closely with what I understand those terms to mean. (Born in Texas, raised all over the place.)

[@SHADOW1414]

"They don't surely describe the same kind of cat!!!!"

[@janmelantu7490]

Narrator: “they all referred to the same kind of cat”

[@kilngoddess424]

I did laugh when he said that cause i knew they were the same cat…in my neck of the woods they are panthers, i'm betting that one answer pinpointed my state.

[@scotty3114]

I too have heard all the names, but to us, they are mountain lions.

[@AbyssalDrake88]

Three years late, but in Michigan, it used to be called Devil's Night, but in an attempt to bring down crime, the mayor of Detroit at the time tried rebranding it as "Angel's Night," a practice my family took to religiously.

[@maryr7800]

I wasn't at all surprised that your speech is most aligned with the South. I'm from the upper South, descendant of many English ancestors, and I chose many of the same words you chose.

[@MICHST1978]

Oct 30 in Michigan, particularly in Detroit, is Devil's Night

[@JanetSilversides]

MICHST1978 Hi. I’m from Detroit.

[@jeffshannon3627]

Confirmed

[@ashesuponashes6090]

We call it Devil's Eve in Lansing

[@timothytruman123]

Shi that's my birthday lol

[@Mark-zv7jl]

Most definitely

[@lizzalkula376]

The cougar one should have had an "I use all these" option. Plus they missed one name : Florida panther.

[@BleachBasket108]

Florida Panthers are a different species though. Edit: correction, same species but are a distinct population with limited range that doesn't mingle with other mountain lion populations. Given enough time, they'd become their own separate subspecies

[@lizzalkula376]

@BleachBasket108 - No. It's a subspecies, yes, but they still use the other terms interchangeably.

[@cptjeff1]

@@BleachBasket108 They're the racist hicks of mountain lions.

[@posey1982]

And now I have more depth for the " you aren't from around here, are ya?"

[@jennp1386]

I have lived most of my life in Rhode Island and this quiz was right on the money. I got Providence, Boston, and Worcester

[@aliceleishman5596]

I’m a yank married to a scotsguy here in the US. You want to know what accent he has? Mostly mine, now.

[@RudestJade]

Michigander here, and we call it Devil's Night

[@davidstojkovski9402]

JT weird, I have never heard that term Despite being a Michigander (midland Michigan)

[@jilliangeisel2585]

I've never heard a word for this, and I'm from west michigan

[@ramonaopp]

Grew up in Detroit suburb. Devil's Night

[@TheEtherealwolf]

Agreed grew up between Lansing and Detroit. It's Devils Night.

[@bobismom7]

I grew up in Holland MI but we never called it anything. Of course, I'm over the hill and we moved to Arizona when I was twelve.

[@MrBulky992]

As someone from the UK, a "water fountain" is an ornamental feature you would find in a park. I would have called the place where water is svailable for rehydration in school, gym or a park a "drinking fountain". Lawrence must have been away from the UK for a very long time if he failed to realise that we stopped calling soft, exercise shoes "plimsolls" in the 1970s and have called them "trainers" ever since.

[@KalkiAvatar7]

You see "crawfish" on menus because it's the areas that refer to them as "crawfish" that have incorporated them into the local cuisine, which is then exported as, among other things, written recipes.

[@bubbaclemson5566]

Here in the Southeast Apalachian / Blue Ridge mountains and the foothills, we tend to have more Irish/Scott/Welsh linguistic similarities.. but that is evident by the early settlers to the region

[@jagdpanther1944]

The south western accents of England sound similar, the drawl in Devon/Somerset is the same today as Virginia, where they first settled (but disappearing fast unfortunately, as everyone speaks a monotone trans-Atlantic voice now)

[@bubbaclemson5566]

@@jagdpanther1944 went to broadcast journalism school, first thing they did was get rid of our accents, wanted a neutral Midwest sound.

[@robertpayne2717]

In the early 70s my sister was on an international flight and engaged in a conversation with a 60ish man they went through the usual pleasantries and asked her share she was from she and my BIL. were living in Lincoln Nebraska and he told her yes but you weren't raised there and she said no I wasnt. He asked her if she'd ever heard of a town called Tyronza Ark. She said yes it was about 5miles from where she went to school. He said he thought so because during the war he'd made a friends with an American Servicemen and in the 1960s he'd traveled to Tyronza to visit, come to find out he was a linguist Professor from the UK and his knowledge of Dialects was so precise he was able to determine a where a young woman had been raised within just a few miles of a place he had visited probably 10 years prior.

[@c0ronariu5]

Robert Payne real life Henry Higgins

[@MsTwister57]

That's very impressive. I wish I could have met this man. I love linguistics

[@robinchesterfield42]

Huh! That's like the time my mom and two other members of our Star Trek club, which at the time included an English professor and an English as a second language teacher who spoke seven languages, quizzed my mom on "How do you say (blank)?" all the way to a convention in Denver. Because she's lived all over the country so they were trying to trace what was from where. :P

[@brownjatt21]

That's Amazing

[@DomingoDeSantaClara]

This reminds me of a Polish woman I met in London,after chatting for a few minutes she asked "are you from New Zealand"? I said yes then she asked,"are you from Dunedin"? It floored me that she'd picked up on my accent and was able to pinpoint where I grew up. She told me she'd travelled around NZ and that was how she knew.

[@starry7544]

I would love to see more videos like this.