This quiz and its maps draw upon over 350,000 survey responses collected between August and October 2013 by Josh Katz, a graphics editor for The New York Times who designed it and wrote “Speaking American”, an examination of American regional dialects.
This quiz uses many questions taken directly from the Harvard Dialect Survey, an ongoing linguistics project started by Bert Vaux and Scott Golder in 2002.
You can view its original questions and results on Dr. Vaux’s current website.
The colors on the large heat map reflect the probability that someone in that location would respond in the same manner to an anonymous survey question as you.
Meanwhile, three smaller maps display which answers contributed most (or least) towards those cities being designated most or least similar to you.
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