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Hey, Youse Guys! Goof Off and Take This Quiz!
Sneakers? Or tennis shoes? Quiz accurately pinpoints dialects from around the U.S.
A quiz in Sunday's The New York Times has gone viral as participants are repeatedly floored at the accuracy of IDing a person's place of upbringing based on such questions as: "Fireflies?" or "Lightning bugs?"
The quiz is so popular, in fact, the Times page now warns that the end-result map is slowed due to an overwhelming numbers of readers.
To see if you have a distinctive regional way of speaking, follow this link:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?r=8212408j040011200jj0000008020006040l02002008010400&_r=0
According to the Times story: "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."
