How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk
What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer all the questions below to see your personal dialect map.
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Your Map
See the pattern of your dialect in the map below. Three of the most similar cities are shown.
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Jacksonville
Orlando
San Antonio
These maps show your most distinctive answer for each of these cities.
Jacksonville
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
sunshower
Orlando
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
sunshower
San Antonio
How would you address a group of two or more people?
y’all
About This Quiz
The data for the quiz and maps shown here come from over 350,000 survey responses collected from August to October 2013 by Josh Katz, a graphics editor for the New York Times who developed this quiz and has since written “Speaking American,” a visual exploration of American regional dialects.
Most of the questions used in this quiz are based on those in the Harvard Dialect Survey, a linguistics project begun in 2002 by Bert Vaux and Scott Golder. The original questions and results for that survey can be found on Dr. Vaux’s current website.
The colors on the large heat map correspond to the probability that a randomly selected person in that location would respond to a randomly selected survey question the same way that you did. The three smaller maps show which answer most contributed to those cities being named the most (or least) similar to you.