What Cities Do You Sound Like You're From? (2022 Edition)

[OlDog75]

On 5/4/2022 at 3:28 PM, Colonels_Wear_Blue said:

This quiz was released by the NY Times back in late 2013 and it immediately made the rounds on social media. There was a discussion thread about the quiz here on BGP as well.

25 questions about "do you use this phrase or that phrase," with a visual map after each individual question that shows which US vicinities each answer aligns most with.

Once you've answered all 25 questions (they don't take long), you're shown a map with a likely region for where you live, including 3 cities that you are more than likely from.

How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk | nytimes.com

Louisville/Lexington/Winston-Salem

 

[Jaysie]

This time my answers cut a red swath from California to Indiana. Last time more southern. This time is more accurate. Wonder if I cheated!

[Jaysie]

1 minute ago, Jaysie said:

This time my answers cut a red swath from California to Indiana. Last time more southern. This time is more accurate. Wonder if I cheated!

Looking at all the participants names make me nostalgic (sp) for the old days. 

[kygirl]

Last time - Minneapolis, Saint Paul/Detroit/Buffalo,NY

This time - Louisville, Lexington, Chattanooga which is definitely more accurate.

[The Professor]

Chattanooga, Memphis and Birmingham for me. I suppose it moved me more southward when I answered “ya’ll” instead of “you’uns”. A lot of people in my county do say you’uns but I have always said ya’ll. 

[The Professor]

I took it a second time about 10 minutes later and it had a few different questions mixed in with some of the earlier ones and this time my cities were Lexington, Winston-Salem and Chattanooga. 

[Bluegrasscard]

Louisville, Lexington and Toledo. 

Interesting quiz. 

It seems not having a specific term for a brew-thru is one of the kickers for Kentucky. 

 

[Bluegrasscard]

Wife just took it. 

Louisville, Lexington and Overland Park. 

Native of Western side of state - so maybe that drove the last one there. 

[oldgrappler]

Springfield, MO; Indianapolis; Fort Wayne.  These guesses are between 200-300 miles too far west.  

[Voice of Reason]

Lexington, Nashville, Wichita

I have lived in Cincinnati area my whole life.

Pop caused the Wichita link. I use both pop and soft drink. I wonder what would have changed if I selected soft drink.

 As I was taking the quiz, I had to cover up the answers and try to think of the term before answering. On a lot of the questions I use more than one term that was listed so I had to start trying to think of the term I use first and then see what options were listed. I had several that I did not have a term that I use.