Where are you from: NYT Dialect Quiz

English, please – I didn’t understand a word you just said!

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LOL. Well, yes, kitty-corner is certainly what I grew up saying! I drink pop, I let my dog sniff her way along the parking strip, I eat dinner, I have some vowel quirks (pin is not pen, but marry, merry, and Mary are all the same).

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With extensive test preparation, respondents can be from wherever they want. This may suggest a socioeconomic bias to the results.

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Here is a North American English dialect map based more on pronunciation than on choice of words:
https://aschmann.net/AmEng/

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Selecting “feeder road” clearly identified me as living in Houston.

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