Dialect test

Have any of you'ns taken this yet. (I actually say y'all but people in my family say you'ns). I think I took it back about 5 years ago. Anyway, here are my southern bona fides.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...240100011201010204008401004080020002002020008

 

I'm interested in how people say lawyer (I pronounce the "law" part clearly. it's not a loyer) and crayon (Again two clear syllables here).

I'm also interested in what you call a traffic circle, something that is diagonal (I say catty-corner usually), and the difference in supper and dinner (for me dinner can be noon meal --I say lunch too-- or formal like Thanksgiving, Easter, etc.).

 

If you differ on any of these from me, you are either a carpetbagger or a moron or worse (Californian or Canadian or something). I will allow roundabout.

 

Pretty close. Glad the west Tennessee is still there. I say crayahn and LAWyer and roundabout

 

Mine's going to be off because I spent a lot of time growing up in very different corners of the country: Idaho, Vermont, New Mexico, Alaska, and Tennessee.

You drink a soda, you catch crawdads, those are lightning bugs. The thing kept putting me in wildly different places, but I didn't grow up in one place.

 

That's a respectable map. Agree on lightning bugs and crawdads. Although people in Franklin Kentucky called them crawfish. I grew up calling them soft drinks or cold drinks which is weird. Now I will alternate coke and soda (wife has done this to me and actually it's an improvement). Can't do pop.

 

yall, LAW-yer, catty-corner, roundabout, what kind of coke do you want?

there were some where I say a couple different things(lightning bug/firefly, yard/garage sale, etc) too, but not enough to pick one definitively over the other

I dont have any distinction between dinner/supper though. "Supper" to me is just what older people call dinner

 

I am from where I am from.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...240100011201010204008401004080020002002020008

 

Also, they're isopods, not pill bugs. They didn't give me an option for isopods.

 

My area has different dialect and sayings.

Didn’t know it till heading off to college legit got into it with a fatass from Chattanooga because we call Coke pop.

We got cut off in the Cumberland mountains and didn’t adapt to the changes in time of the language.

 

I am LAWyer, and crayahn, but I am soda or soft drink.

 

My papaw calls them dopes

 

Looks like my map unless that’s just where the link took me.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...85048001020081200000000n021081100802002020008

 

Heavy midwestern accent is not surprising. It being centered in Nebraska is.

 

Yup, we're twinsies.

 

Does this correspond to where you or your parents have lived?

(I am probably too fascinated by this.)

 

Now that's a weird one.

 

It is a noble tongue.