Fun NY Times Dialect Test (Newark, Jersey City: 2013, live, accent)

[EBWick]

Answer the questions and see if it can figure out where you're from. I got Newark/NY:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...-quiz-map.html

[HubCityMadMan]

Originally Posted by EBWick

Answer the questions and see if it can figure out where you're from. I got Newark/NY:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...-quiz-map.html

I got Newark/Paterson, New York and Jersey City. They said Sneakers is my most distinctive answer!

[JerseyGirl415]

Newark/Paterson, Yonkers, and Jersey City for me.

[PatriciaElizabeth]

Newark, Jersey City and Philly. That was an interesting quiz.

[camaro69]

I got NY, Yonkers, Newark/Paterson.

[Retriever]

Originally Posted by camaro69

I got NY, Yonkers, Newark/Paterson.

My result was the same as yours.

In my case, NY makes sense, as I was born there and lived there for the first 7 years of my life.
Newark makes sense, as I lived in Bayonne--reasonably close to Newark--for the next 17 years.

Where the Yonkers & Paterson connections come from, I don't know, but this test does seem to be reasonably accurate.

[EBWick]

Some of the options are funny. They say "Coke" down south. Probably because Coke was founded in Atlanta.

A "bubbler" for a water fountain in Providence.

And of course it's Goosey Night in Bergen/Passaic.

[Retriever]

Originally Posted by EBWick

They say "Coke" down south.

I thought that, in the southern states, it is pronounced, "Co-cola".

[doc1]

St Louis, NY and Winston-Salem

[Sage 80]

I got Jersey City, New York, and Yonkers.

I have no idea what a Yonkers accent is like.