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taylorhughes
60 days ago
Reminds me of the awesome (old) New York Times dialect quiz, which was weirdly accurate:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz...
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neaden
60 days ago
If you liked that the person who made it wrote a book called Speaking American that I enjoyed:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/speaking-american-how-y-all-you...
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JKCalhoun
60 days ago
Paywalled, but I am reminded of people who study dialects being able to discern where someone is from using a kind of binary tree approach. In some cases a single word differentiating which side of a specific hill they were born.
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hoppyhoppy2
60 days ago
You could try this gift link:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz...
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