How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk: Your Personal Dialect as a Heat Map

So this one is confined to US dialects and is based on word use and pronunciation. Apparently my Aussie affectation is most similar to New York and Jersey City, and least similar to Salt Lake City and Spokane.
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	Submitted by ThePrincesTale over a year ago

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I remember visiting this website once...

It was called How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com

Here's some stuff I remembered seeing:

What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer all the questions below to see your personal dialect map.

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See the pattern of your dialect in the map below. Three of the most similar cities are shown.

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These maps show your most distinctive answer for each of these cities.

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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. The original questions and results for that survey can be found on Dr. Vaux\'s current website.

The data for the quiz and maps shown here come from over 350,000 survey responses collected from August to October 2013 by Josh Katz, a graphics editor for the New York Times who developed this quiz. The colors on the large heat map correspond to the probability that a randomly selected person in that location would respond to a randomly selected survey question the same way that you did. The three smaller maps show which answer most contributed to those cities being named the most (or least) similar to you.

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	ThePrincesTale said: I KNOW I SPAMMED QUIZZES but they all serve different purposes >.> Anyway this is the best one IMO posted over a year ago. last edited over a year ago

	TheLefteris24 said: The three most similar Cities seem to be Pembroke Pines, Fort Lauderdale and Miami/Hialeah while the least similar are Grand Rapids, Rockford and Milwaukee for me. Nice to know !!!! posted over a year ago.

	zanhar1 said: I'm gonna have to take some of these. posted over a year ago.

	zanhar1 said: Santa Clarita, Santa Ana, and Oceanside are most similar for me. Jackson, New Orleans, and Chattanooga are the least similar. posted over a year ago.

	ThePrincesTale said: I'm curious: How easy is it for Americans to work out which state or region another American is from just by their accent? I mean, even non-Americans can distinguish between General American/ Southern American/ Boston accents. But I'm guessing native speakers can narrow it down more. Can you tell what state or city someone is from? posted over a year ago.

	zanhar1 said: Me personally, kind of. Like I know Boston, Jersey, a bit of Cali and Southern. I know Boston from reality TV (if that counts). Jersey because I have a friend who moved from there. Etc. But at the same time people constantly tell me that they think I'm from the south...at the same time I also hear 'are you from way up north?' More than anything people are like, 'you have an accent but idk wtf it is.' In other words I think many people have at least a general idea. posted over a year ago.

	ThePrincesTale said: Interesting, thanks. Wait lol California has a specific accent? Confession: I can't tell the difference between a General American accent and a Canadian accent. Like maybe when I know that someone is Canadian I'll pick out differences. But when I hear a Canadian person speak, my brain defaults to "they're from the the US". I'm sure Canadians hate it, lel. posted over a year ago.

	Zeppie said: Apparently my NZ accent is most similar to LA, Oceanside and Santa Ana / Irvine. It is least similar to Pittsburgh, Little Rock and Shreveport. posted over a year ago.

	BlindBandit92 said: @Left I am actually from Miami/Ft Lauderdale and I have that accent. @ThePrincesTale and generally yes people from the US can definitely narrow it down more. Someone from the state of Georgia sound different from someone from Texas despite having a southern accent just the same. posted over a year ago. last edited over a year ago

	BlindBandit92 said: Weird I got Raleigh,Richmond and Boston tho I am from Miami/Ft Lauderdale. I might take the test again to see honestly but my hometowns were close in most similar percentage. posted over a year ago.

	BlindBandit92 said: I took it again and apparently I made some errors with my testing the first time but this time I got Ft.Lauderdale,Fl,Pembroke Pines,FL and Rochester,NY which makes more sense honestly lol posted over a year ago.

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