It's official: Maryland is a NORTHEASTERN state! (Baltimore, Clinton: elementary school, pool)

[Tezcatlipoca]

Also i'm curious what other Marylanders get in the New York Times dialect quiz
I think it placed me pretty well (I grew up in northern Calvert)

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[westsideboy]

Good idea. The map nails me pretty good. Sorry I can't get the image to post.

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http://nyti.ms/23KSKWQ

[MidValleyDad]

Pretty much dead on

[sniffablecow]

Originally Posted by Tezcatlipoca

You'll notice in most dialect studies or maps they have no samples from SoMD, and generally few to none from the eastern shore. There's often a lack of samples from the Tidewater area outside of Hampton Roads too. So the mappers will tend to put these areas where they 'think they belong', due to bias or their idea of common knowledge or whatever. Labov (4th Map) had NO samples from SoMD or the Eastern Shore, and the closest Aschmann (1st Map) has to SoMD is Clinton, PG County, which is at the edge of SoMD at best. For the Eastern Shore he has Frank Perdue, and Jeannie Haddaway-Riccio who to me sounds like she just has your educated General American accent with the Maryland pronunciation of "on" as "awn" tacked on.

To be honest, I have only heard people pronounce on weirdly on the east coast. I looked at some other mid-atlantic, northern, and southern accents, and most of them pronounced on as awn. I have only heard people from MD pronounce on weirdly that is not anywhere else. I cant put it in speech, but it sounds slightly like how a new yorker would say it, but without the new yorkish feeling if you know what I mean.

[westsideboy]

Originally Posted by sniffablecow

To be honest, I have only heard people pronounce on weirdly on the east coast. I looked at some other mid-atlantic, northern, and southern accents, and most of them pronounced on as awn. I have only heard people from MD pronounce on weirdly that is not anywhere else. I cant put it in speech, but it sounds slightly like how a new yorker would say it, but without the new yorkish feeling if you know what I mean.

Take the quiz cow I want to see if the test can place you. It's tends to be pretty accurate so long as you answer the questions with the way you actually speak and the terms you actually use, not the way you "know" the word should be pronounced or the lexical term you know is most commonly used.

[sniffablecow]

Originally Posted by westsideboy

Take the quiz cow I want to see if the test can place you. It's tends to be pretty accurate so long as you answer the questions with the way you actually speak and the terms you actually use, not the way you "know" the word should be pronounced or the lexical term you know is most commonly used.

Taking it right now, I guess it would be nice to see where i place

[sniffablecow]

Originally Posted by sniffablecow

Taking it right now, I guess it would be nice to see where i place

Although, I have never heard of some of the questions. For example,

What do you call an easy high school or college class?

No idea...

[sniffablecow]

Originally Posted by westsideboy

Take the quiz cow I want to see if the test can place you. It's tends to be pretty accurate so long as you answer the questions with the way you actually speak and the terms you actually use, not the way you "know" the word should be pronounced or the lexical term you know is most commonly used.

Did the quiz, and I find the quiz quite accurate! I do not know how I was placed in yonkers new york, but besides that, pretty nice!

Here is the

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http://nyti.ms/23LiH8B

[Tezcatlipoca]

Originally Posted by sniffablecow

Although, I have never heard of some of the questions. For example,

What do you call an easy high school or college class?

No idea...

Me neither. The quiz is partially randomized (It picks 25 out of 30 or something like that) so I didn't get that question when I took it this afternoon though.

It seems to strongly associate the Caught-Cot / Don-Dawn distinction with Baltimore. Curious, it seems the distinction is heavily restricted to the North, Mid-Atlantic, and Coastal South which is less than I remember.
I did undergrad in Central PA, so most of my class had the merger. My Intro professor's attempts to explain the merger proved futile as over half the class not only were convinced Caught and Cot had the same vowel, but they also couldn't hear the difference when the professor pronounced those words.

[Tezcatlipoca]

Originally Posted by sniffablecow

Did the quiz, and I find the quiz quite accurate! I do not know how I was placed in yonkers new york, but besides that, pretty nice!

Here is the

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http://nyti.ms/23LiH8B

Looks like calling it a "Sunshower" is a very NYC area thing to do, and is probably responsible for the Yonkers placement. I'm curious what set off that huge spike around Albany.